Tiffany Themas DC, BSN, RN

11/11/2025

💙🇺🇸Honoring Veterans Day❤️🇺🇸

Today, we pause to honor the brave men and women who have served our country with courage, sacrifice, and strength.
Your dedication protects the freedom we enjoy every day — and we are deeply grateful.

To all our veterans and active service members: thank you for your service, your resilience, and your commitment.
You inspire us to serve others with the same heart and integrity you’ve shown to our nation.

🇺🇸 Happy Veterans Day from all of us at Local Wellness!

11/11/2025

🌸 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒑𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒑𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕-𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒑𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆? 🌸

If you're dealing with hot flashes, mood swings, night sweats, or just feeling “off,” you’re not alone—and you don’t have to push through it without support. Menopause Relief by ChiroNutraceutical is a powerful blend of botanicals designed to help your body feel more balanced through every stage of the transition.

This formula includes research-backed ingredients like Black Cohosh, D**g Quai, Red Clover, Sage Leaf, and Chasteberry, which are known for supporting hormone balance, easing temperature swings, improving mood, and promoting overall comfort. Combined with soothing herbs like Licorice Root, Blessed Thistle, Wild Yam, and Red Raspberry Fruit, it offers a comprehensive approach to helping you feel more like yourself again.

Whether your symptoms are mild or intense, this thoughtful blend can help restore balance, support emotional well-being, and give your body the natural support it needs during this significant phase of life.

💗 Ready to feel more in control of your day—and your body?
Reach out to us at Local Wellness and pic up some Menopause Relief.

Not sure where the closest office is?

👉 Visit www.localwellnessqc.com

09/06/2025

Cortisol: Your Body’s Stress Hormone

Cortisol often gets labeled as “bad,” but the truth is—it’s essential for survival. This hormone, produced by your adrenal glands, helps regulate blood sugar, manage inflammation, control your sleep-wake cycle, and gives you the extra energy boost you need in moments of stress.

The problem isn’t cortisol itself—it’s when cortisol stays too high for too long. Chronic elevation can lead to:
• Weight gain (especially around the midsection)
• Blood sugar imbalances
• Weakened immune function
• Disrupted sleep
• Hormonal imbalances
• Brain fog and mood swings

Your body is designed to handle short bursts of cortisol (like running late, tough workouts, or sudden stress). But today’s world often keeps us in “always on” mode, which means cortisol never really gets the chance to come back down.

That’s where these 9 hidden triggers come in (swipe to see!). Poor sleep, high sugar, excess caffeine, skipping meals, chronic stress, and more can all keep your cortisol elevated.

The good news? Small, intentional changes in your daily habits can help bring cortisol back into balance—so your body feels calmer, stronger, and more resilient.

✨ Start by picking ONE trigger to focus on this week and notice how your energy, sleep, or mood shifts.

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09/01/2025

For the love of Herbs!🪴 💕🙌🏻

08/25/2025

✨ Your thyroid does so much more than just regulate metabolism — it influences energy, mood, focus, weight, and even your immune system.

In functional medicine, we look beyond just TSH. While traditional testing often stops there, we dive deeper into T3, T4, Reverse T3, and thyroid antibodies to see the whole picture.

👩‍⚕️ Why? Because low energy, brain fog, or weight changes can still happen even if your “labs are normal.” Functional medicine asks why the imbalance is happening, not just how to cover it up.

By understanding your unique thyroid patterns, we can:
✅ Identify nutrient deficiencies
✅ Support gut and liver health (where conversion happens!)
✅ Calm immune triggers driving autoimmunity
✅ Balance stress + adrenal function that impacts Reverse T3

When we treat the root cause, your body can finally get back into balance. 💛

08/20/2025

Cholesterol often gets a bad reputation, but it actually plays many essential roles in your body. Here’s what it does:

✅ What Cholesterol Does

1. Builds Cell Membranes
Cholesterol is a structural component of every cell membrane, keeping them strong and flexible. Without it, your cells couldn’t hold their shape or function properly.
2. Makes Hormones
It’s the raw material for important hormones such as estrogen, testosterone, cortisol, and vitamin D.
3. Supports Digestion
Your liver uses cholesterol to make bile acids, which help break down and absorb fats and fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K).
4. Protects the Brain
The brain is rich in cholesterol, which is crucial for making neurotransmitters and protecting nerve cells (myelin sheaths).
5. Acts as a Repair Substance
Cholesterol can move to sites of inflammation or damage in blood vessels to help with repair, which is why it’s often found in plaque—it’s there to protect, not cause the damage itself.

⚖️ Balance Matters

The issue isn’t cholesterol itself, but how it’s transported in the blood.
LDL (Low-Density Lipoprotein): Moves cholesterol to tissues; can contribute to buildup if oxidation and inflammation are present.
HDL (High-Density Lipoprotein): Helps carry cholesterol back to the liver for recycling or removal.

👉 In short: Cholesterol is not the enemy. It’s VITAL for life—problems only occur when there’s chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and imbalances in cholesterol transport.

🧪 We test to find the core reason why your Cholesterol maybe too high!

⏭️ Then we try to naturally correct the Core issue to help the body return to homeostasis!
Call us today! 563-499-1507

08/19/2025