Optimum Wellness Solutions

Optimum Wellness Solutions Helping people find better health, naturally.

05/08/2026

When people talk about healthy choices, they often are talking about the choices they make inside their own home. But what about the kind of health impacts that affect all of us, and we don’t even always know it?

If we actually care about public health in Iowa, we have to be willing to talk about the things shaping people’s health long before they end up in my office.

Things like water quality, environmental exposures, air quality, cancer rates, food access, rural healthcare shortages, and preventive health gaps.

These are very real-world factors that affect families in our state every day. And they are the reason a lot of people don’t feel well long before an illness shows up clearly on paper.

They are the reason why people feel exhausted, inflamed, overwhelmed, and are struggling with symptoms that keep getting brushed off as “normal.”

I don’t share this information to create fear, but to create awareness. Communities deserve conversations about health that go deeper than “eat better and exercise more.”

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05/06/2026

My practice is built for the woman I was.

She has been to every specialist, run every lab, and walked out of more appointments than she can count without an answer.

My whole clinic exists because no one figured it out for me, and I know what it is like to be the woman in that chair.

If that is you, I built this practice because of women exactly like you.

Comment “ME” and I will DM you because I can help.

05/05/2026

It’s always interesting to me when the results are undeniable… but the method gets questioned.

When someone starts sleeping better, thinking clearer, having more stable energy, fewer symptoms, and finally feeling like themselves again… that didn’t happen out of nowhere. That’s a pattern shifting.

But when the approach doesn’t look like what people are used to, it can feel uncomfortable from the outside. Different doesn’t automatically mean wrong. It usually just means unfamiliar.

I never expect the people around my practice members to fully understand what we do right away. But I do think it’s worth paying attention to what’s actually changing. Because at the end of the day, progress speaks louder than opinions.

If you’re the one in it, improving, feeling better, finally getting answers… don’t lose sight of that. You’re allowed to trust what your body is showing you, and we’re here to support you.

05/05/2026

BREAKING: Iowa has some of the worst water quality in the country… and it’s not getting any better.

Unfortunately, this isn’t one of those things you can afford to ignore.
Water is essential and it’s either supporting your body… or adding to the load it already has to deal with. If you live here, you need to be paying attention to it.

Here are a few ways to start improving it:

• Immediately: switch to bottled water. My family drinks distilled, but any bottled option is going to be better than most tap water here.�• Start researching filtration. Countertop distillers and Berkey-style filters are a solid step up. A Brita filter is not enough—but it’s still better than nothing.�• Long term: look into a whole-house filtration system when your budget allows. This is where you create consistency across everything—drinking, cooking, showering.

You don’t have to do everything overnight. But doing nothing is not the move.
Your environment matters more than most people realize… and water is a big part of that.

05/05/2026

Weight can be part of the picture, but it’s rarely the explanation for everything. When every symptom gets blamed on weight, the actual pattern gets missed. Hormones, digestion, metabolism, stress response, toxic burden… these are the things that determine how your body functions. If no one is looking at that level, you’re not getting answers, you’re getting dismissed, and you deserve better.

If you want help figuring out your pattern, comment “ME” and I’ll send you the next steps.

05/04/2026

$40 probiotic sitting on your counter still not doing anything? I’m not surprised.

Ten to one in my office, I recommend digestive enzymes over probiotics, because digestive enzymes help you break down and process your food, which is the support almost every woman actually needs.

The biggest lie in gut health is that every woman with digestive issues needs a probiotic.

Probiotics are the long game, and they only work if you already have a real gut imbalance and have confirmed it. Most women with bloating, cramping, and weird food reactions don’t have a gut imbalance at all, they have low digestive enzyme output, or a stressor their last provider was never testing for.

If you’ve tried three different probiotics in the last year and your digestion still feels off, comment ME and I’ll DM you about getting the right testing done to figure out what is actually going on.

Most women get stuck in their health because they are given too many pieces of information that were never meant to stan...
05/04/2026

Most women get stuck in their health because they are given too many pieces of information that were never meant to stand on their own.

You are told that everything is “normal,” and that your chronic symptoms are just age, stress, or hormones. So you try the supplements, the diet changes, and the workouts. Maybe some of it helps, maybe some of it doesn’t, but none of it really explains why you feel the way that you do.

After a while you start wondering if you really have a bunch of separate issues or if something deeper is being overlooked.

I’m here to tell you that your symptoms aren’t islands existing in isolation. They’re connected, and once you start looking at what’s really driving them, things start to make sense in a way they never have before.

This is where I spend my time, helping women connect the dots, understand what’s really going on, and make decisions that actually move things forward. If that’s what you have been looking for, you’re in the right place.

05/04/2026

98% of what I use in my office is whole-food concentrated supplements, which means each dose is concentrated from real food instead of being a synthetic, isolated nutrient.

If I use a supplement that has beets in it, one dose can contain more beets than you could every actually eat in a day. That is more nutrition than you could ever get from a diet, which is why it works faster than any elimination plan would.

The method itself is specific. I muscle test every major organ in your body to find which ones are not working well, and then I find the specific whole food supplement your body actually responds to, by having you hold a vial of that supplement while we muscle test your reflex points.

If your body does not respond to it, it does not go home with you. The plan is specific to you.

Most women come in expecting either a restrictive diet or a stack of twenty supplements, and neither is what we actually do here.

A whole food supplement that muscle tests positive for your specific body is more targeted than any diet could ever be, and you only need the four to six things we find on your case, not the sixteen your last provider sent home with you.

There is no new miracle supplement from the internet that is going to save any of us.

We heal the way women have always healed, with food, just in a more concentrated form than a diet can deliver.

Use this method exactly as we lay it out, and you can expect to see shifts in your sleep, your energy, and your stress tolerance inside the first six weeks.

Comment FIRST and I’ll send you what we actually assess on the first visit.

05/02/2026

If you are tired of being written off by providers who don’t know how to run the right tests, comment ME and I will DM you.

05/02/2026

Seasonal allergies get treated like a sinus issue.

Right alongside “just take something for it” and “it’s that time of year again,” which are subtle ways of telling you this is something you manage, not something you figure out.

But your body is not randomly overreacting to pollen every spring, it is responding the best it can with the capacity it has.

The fatigue that hits harder this time of year, the brain fog that makes you feel slower than usual, the afternoons where your energy just disappears, the sense that everything feels a little more inflamed, a little more off… those are not separate problems, that is one pattern showing up in multiple places.

Seasonal allergies have never been just about sinuses. They are an immune response, and that response is influenced by how well your body is processing and clearing what it is exposed to.

In this case, the allergens were putting stress on her liver, her adrenals, and her spleen. So instead of just seeing sinus symptoms, she felt like everything was getting worse everywhere, without explanation.

When we tested her, we didn’t chase the symptoms, we looked at which systems were under stress, and then tested for what was actually driving that stress underneath. THEN we supported those systems directly.

When the systems started working better, the response changes.
Only this time it’s not because we suppressed the symptoms, it’s because we changed what was creating them.

If your allergies feel like more than just allergies, there is usually a reason.
You just need to look where most people aren’t.

05/01/2026

If this is you, comment PATTERNS and I will send you what we actually look at when labs come back “normal” and your body is still telling you something is wrong.

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