Christie Brooks, Functional Medicine Dietitian

01/17/2026

The Infrared Sauna & Salt therapy is popular right now at Holistic Health Collective.
Respiration/congestion issues? Our Halo Therapy (salt therapy) with the infrared sauna will break that mess up & get you to breathing again! 🙌🏻

The massive list of health benefits by using the sauna… priceless.
-Holistic Health Collective

01/17/2026

🌕 February Full Moon Parasite Cleanse 🌕

Our upcoming February Full Moon Parasite Cleanse aligns with the full moon on February 1 🌝
To fully support the body, we start the cleanse 5 days prior — beginning January 27.

✨ Pre-orders for the Parasite Cleanse Kit are OPEN
🗓 Today through Monday only

If you’d like to participate, be sure to reserve your kit early — quantities are limited.

📩 To get your name on the list:
Email: HHCreceptionist1@gmail.com
📞 Call: 501-232-7199

This cleanse is a powerful way to support detox pathways, digestion, energy, and immune health — especially when done in rhythm with the full moon.

🌿 Comment or message us if you have questions, and don’t wait to secure your kit!

01/15/2026

Book an appointment to gain all the health benefits from our Infrared Sauna at Holistic Health Collective!

01/11/2026

Waking up multiple times at night to p*e? 🚨

That’s not just annoying — it’s disrupting your deep sleep… and it can be an early warning sign of insulin resistance and a future diabetes diagnosis.

Deep sleep is where the magic happens ✨
It impacts:
• Mood
• Insulin sensitivity
• Appetite regulation
• Recovery & inflammation
• Training performance
• Brain health & cognition

⚠️ Nocturnal urination is COMMON in people on the path toward diabetes.

Here’s the part most people don’t know 👇
Insulin resistance and blood sugar dysregulation can show up 7–11 YEARS before your P*P diagnoses diabetes and prescribes metformin.
Yes — 7 to 11 years.

Your body whispers before it screams.
If you listen early, this trajectory can be reversed.
👉 Prevention is everything.

What you can start doing now:
1️⃣ Stop fluids 3 hours before bed
2️⃣ Cut caffeine by 10–11am (it’s a diuretic — and many of us are slow caffeine metabolizers)
3️⃣ Get a baseline: fasting insulin + hemoglobin A1c
4️⃣ Eat carbs last — and never alone
Protein, healthy fats, and low-carb veggies before carbs
5️⃣ Move your body daily — especially a brisk walk after dinner if possible 🚶‍♀️

Your symptoms are information.
Let’s use them — not ignore them.

—
Christie Brooks, AFMC, FM, MS, RD
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Holistic Health Collective | Searcy

01/09/2026

Well, if there’s one thing I’ve done right in raising 2 precious children without a “Raising Kids 101” class, is that I instilled in them to nurture & take care of their body, mind, & spirit. We are only given ONE in life. It’s essential we be good stewards of it.

Yes, this is my now grown adult daughter, Lexi. “ Being able-bodied is a privilege. Treat it like one.”d

01/09/2026

You don't have to agree on politics to agree on this: People deserve the right to seek justice when they're harmed.

This Friday, the Supreme Court decides whether to hear a case that could reshape corporate liability, pesticide regulation, and the public's ability to seek justice.

01/08/2026

Shouting from the mountaintops over here! It's about time!

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced new dietary guidelines for Americans focused on promoting whole foods, healthy proteins and fats. And he has "declare[d] war" on added sugar.

01/08/2026

I posted a pic in 2024 of a book by Dr William Seeds on Peptides that I had read. Peptides are chains of amino acids. Amino acids are broken down proteins. I've thoroughly enjoyed my deep dives on peptides in the past 1.5 years and I've said it before and I will say it again...Peptides are the medicine of the FUTURE and more recently the future is NOW, if and only IF they are done right!

The latest peptide talk is DSIP. It is the "Delta Sleep Inducing Peptide." I have tried it.... My kiddos, whom came home for Christmas, got me off my sleep regimen because they stay up later than me and I wasn't going to miss any time with them... so once they went back to their homes, I needed a major SLEEP RESET. And it was the perfect time to try DSIP out.
Everyone's body responds differently to peptides. I did the recommended dosage and after 12 hours of deep sleep, I realized quickly that was WAY too much for my body! So the next night I cut it way back. Still a slight too much. Then the 3rd night, I cut it back even more.... I think I have almost found my sweet spot. Do I plan on staying on this long? Oh no. It is just a way to reset my circadian rhythm and put my sleep patterns back on optimal GO again. Are there other ways to reset? Sure there are! But this is one I have not tried out and Im loving it! I do not wake up... I don't even think I moved until the next morning!

We now offer multiple MULTIPLE peptides at Holistic Health Collective. Can you feel my giddIness here??!! There's over 7,000 known peptides. Dr William Seeds and several other doctors have been educating people on peptides since 1990 and 2000. The famous peptides that most are familiar with is "Semiglutide" and "Tirzepetide" which are known as the weight loss shot. There's only a few peptides, out of the 7,000, that are for weight loss. There's many benefits other peptides offer:
*healing and repair of injury(BPC-157),
*tissue & blood vessel repair (TB 500, commonly stacked with BPC-157)
*anti-aging (GHK-CU with BPC-157 and TB500, aka the "Glow stack"),
*longevity/telemere repair (Epitalon)
*enhanced libido (Kisspeptin and Oxytocin)
*mental clarity/memory (Semax and cerebrolysin)
*mental clarity/anxiousness (Selank)
*autoimmune issues (Thymalin)
*mitochondria "clean up" (SS-31)... so many many more!

Side note on Semiglutide... it was originally studied for alzheimer's and they noticed that their blood sugars were coming back down to normal (Alzheimer's is also called Type 3 diabetes). Then Big Pharma decided to get their hands on it and market it as a Diabetes medicine to make some money. Then they noticed that those taking it was not only getting blood sugars in range, but was also loosing weight! So then the compounding pharmacies found a way to get their hands on it and make some money as a weight loss shot. If Semiglutide was given in smaller microdoses, there would not be all the gastric issues going on... Peptides are great but NOT meant to be done at high doses! Now I will get off my soap box.

There's so much more info coming out all the time on peptides and their many great benefits in enhancing our health.
If you are interested in some research on the DSIP, here's a few links below.
-Christie (your giddy peptide gal who can't read enough about them! And almost done in getting certified in them!)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6145137/

Characterization, properties and multivariate functions of delta-sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP).
Schoenenberger GA.
Eur Neurol. 1984;23(5):321-45. doi: 10.1159/000115711.
PMID: 6548966

Sleep-wave activity of a delta sleep-inducing peptide analog correlates with its penetrance of the blood-brain barrier.
Miller LH, Turnbull BA, Kastin AJ, Coy DH.
Sleep. 1986;9(1):80-4. doi: 10.1093/sleep/9.1.80.
PMID: 3754348

Reduced sleep in cats after intraperitoneal injection of delta-sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP).
Sommerfelt L.

Neurosci Lett. 1985 Jul 4;58(1):73-7. doi: 10.1016/0304-3940(85)90331-3.
PMID: 3840239

Delta-sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP): an update.
Graf MV, Kastin AJ.
Peptides. 1986 Nov-Dec;7(6):1165-87. doi: 10.1016/0196-9781(86)90148-8.
PMID: 3550726Review.

Since the turn of the century, it has been postulated that humoral factors induce sleep. Many compounds were proposed as sleep-factors, but only two of the sleep-peptides have been purified to homogeneity and characterized, so far. One of them, DSIP, was shown to be a nonapeptide of MW 849 and to in...

01/03/2026

When you are grocery shopping after the local health food stores have closed… it’s a Walmart run.
So yes, planning ahead is always helpful!
But, you can also find some healthy options at a big chain too.
Shop the outside walls to get produce & lean proteins.
Rarely do you find healthy options in the aisles. I did find the organic quinoa though!
I do prefer shopping the local health food stores, that are family owned, because they typically have all organic produce that are locally grown.

01/01/2026

2026….
👉🏻Find your people who support your goals for self-improvement, whatever that may look like. A better version of you!
👉🏻Focus on “Health,” not a number on a scale.
👉🏻Eat REAL food. Clean out your pantry! If the food won’t rot or mold within a few weeks, it is probably not real food. Have I told you about my experiment with fast food? I kept a McDonald’s hamburger and fries for over 11 years. Two years later after I purchased that hamburger and fries, I went to 4 other fast foods & purchased their food. I kept those for nine years. None of them ever rotted and molded. NONE. What does that tell you?! You cut an apple in half, what happens to the apple within 30 minutes? You got it! Real food will decay. Real food offers vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and molecules that support the mitochondria of your cells and helps support your body in detoxification & hormone production.
👉🏻Support your gut health. You aren’t exactly “what you eat” but instead you are “what you digest & absorb.” We encourage real food & we love BPC-157 peptide to heal the gut (at Holistic Health Collective).
👉🏻Get active! Find what you enjoy & create a regimen. Have your support group if you need it!
👉🏻Get at least 7 to 9 hours of sleep. The best hours of sleep for resetting the hormones & preventing cortisol from going crazy is 10 PM to 2 AM, so if you are a late nighter, you are missing your sweet spot! You can retrain your body! Ladies, progesterone can be your best friend. And any gender can take a peptide called DSIP, which we offer at Holistic Health Collective, to help get your body back in flow with the correct circadian rhythm for optimal health.
👉🏻Get labs done to know your baseline! You cannot choose the genes you inherited, but you can determine if you turn on the proper switches or not by lifestyle choices. Your genetics hold the gun but your lifestyle choices are what pulls the trigger… or NOT. Choose wisely. We offer all forms of testing at Holistic Health Collective, which has Searcy’s Walk-In Lab Clinic! The walk-in clinic offers Quest Diagnostics plus ALL types of Functional Medicine Tests! Know your baseline! Test your vitamin D (goal is >60) since it is known by researchers as the “other hormone.“ Get all of your thyroid labs ran, not just TSH and free-T4. Get your s*x hormone panel ran! Test for leaky gut and candida overgrowth, because you can’t digest and absorb when you have these issues!
👉🏻Be Still. Don’t let fearmongering and the chaos of this world to derail you and have your mind going all over the place!
You can’t be in tune with inner Spirit and have Peace when fearmongering has your nervous system in overdrive.
👉🏻Increase your water! One of the biggest signs of dehydration is fatigue between 2 and 4 PM.
👉🏻Don’t Slack on the 4 foundational supplements that most Americans need to be on if not eating properly: omega-3’s, magnesium glycinate/malate/threonate, probiotics, and vitamin D3/K2.
👉🏻Laugh. Do grounding & box breathing. It’s natural medicine for your nervous system and immunity.
👉🏻Pick and choose your battles wisely… do the best you can with your health. Start off slow and gradually increase as you gain confidence and momentum. Drop the internal judgement for “not doing enough.”
Everyone is on their own journey.
👉🏻Let tears flow. That is the body’s natural way to process, feel, and grieve. Suppressing only harms the nervous system which eventually leads to hormone disruption, gut dysbiosis, impaired sleep, and cortisol spikes, which eventually leads to weight gain and disease.
👉🏻Find your SPARK. Add some spice to life. Let your WHY be your motivator.
👉🏻Your journey & vulnerability can be someone’s light in their darkest hours. Be authentically you!

Much love to you all! And may 2026 be your best yet! -Christie

12/30/2025

Im NOT a fan of being the kitchen foreeevvverrrr. Easy, healthy, variety, & flavor are my top priorities.
Don’t overthink it. Being healthy can be simple. Very simple.

Garbanzo beans/chickpeas- I soaked them overnight. Boiled them earlier when doing the dishes. Reheated them for dinner. Great for fiber.

Meatballs…I googled up “award winning recipe for ground turkey.” I had the ingredients already in my pantry so I just went with it. Protein is essential. You hear me ladies in the back?! We need more protein. Period.

Frozen box of veggies from the last Trader Joe’s run. I needed veggies with my meal (I have veggies every meal), so why not?
Just thawed it in the skillet.

It took max of 37min from pulling out the skillet to putting it on my plate.