Always Growing Wellness, 6161 W 44th Avenue, Suite 100, Wheat Ridge, CO (2025)

10/29/2025

We’re always on our clients’ butts about eating enough protein 😅 and it’s not just because of blood sugar

Yes, protein helps stabilize glucose and prevent those post-meal crashes, which is essential for supporting the hypothalamic–pituitary axis (the control center for all hormonal signaling). But protein’s role in fertility goes far beyond that 👇🏼

🧠Protein provides the amino acids needed to make estrogen, progesterone, FSH, and LH. Without enough dietary protein, the body prioritizes survival pathways (like maintaining blood sugar) over reproduction. This means ovulation can be delayed or even shut down when protein intake is inadequate.

🥚Amino acids such as glycine, cysteine, and arginine are vital for mitochondrial health and antioxidant production inside the egg. These determine how well the egg matures, how resistant it is to oxidative stress, and ultimately the quality of your ovulation and embryo development.

🩸Protein supports tissue regeneration and collagen synthesis, both crucial for a healthy uterine lining. The endometrium needs a steady supply of amino acids to thicken properly and to create the right environment for implantation. Low protein intake can mean a thinner lining and less receptive uterus.

♻️The liver’s detoxification system depends on amino acids like glycine, taurine, methionine, and glutamine. Without enough, your liver can’t efficiently clear excess estrogen, environmental toxins, or metabolic waste, leading to hormone imbalances and impaired fertility terrain.

🦋Tyrosine (from protein) is the building block for thyroid hormones T3 and T4, while tryptophan supports serotonin and melatonin production. Adequate protein helps regulate mood, stress response, and menstrual cycle rhythm, all of which feed back into fertility signaling.

🌿Protein is foundational for building a metabolically stable, low-inflammatory, detox-capable terrain 👋🏼 So yeah… we’ll keep reminding you to eat your protein. Because in fertility work, it’s not just a macronutrient 👉🏼it’s the message that tells your body it’s safe, supported, and ready to create life 💛

10/16/2025

This is the perfect example of how toxicity changes terrain

When the body is exposed to something like T-2 toxin, it doesn’t just “add another toxin to the bucket.” It alters the entire environment of the gut, changing which microbes thrive, which die off, and how your immune system responds

🧬 Pathogenic microbes become opportunistic
🌿 Beneficial bacteria lose their protective influence
🔥 Inflammation rises
💥 The gut barrier weakens
🧫 And the liver takes the hit

Because mycotoxins are hepatotoxic, they directly damage liver tissue and impair bile flow. And when bile slows down, toxins can’t be conjugated and excreted effectively. That means more recirculation, more inflammation, more constipation, and the very digestive symptoms that most people try to “treat” with antimicrobials.

But the microbes aren’t the root cause
👉🏼The mycotoxins are

Until you address the toxic terrain, killing bacteria is just noise and the imbalance will keep returning.

If you want to explore whether mold or mycotoxins could be part of your health picture, comment ROOTS below 👇🏼 and I’ll send you the link to order a home toxin test.

10/03/2025

If basic advice worked, you’d already be pregnant

That’s the problem with the fertility space right now. Too many women are being handed watered-down, copy-and-paste recommendations. We’ve all heard them

✨ Take a quality prenatal
✨ Cut out gluten, dairy, alcohol
✨ Eat “clean”
✨ Grab this supplement bundle
✨ Reduce stress
✨ Get 8 hours of sleep
✨ Go outside first thing in the morning

And while those things might help someone, they aren’t solving the deeper reasons women are struggling with sub-fertility

Your fertility isn’t just about your ovaries and uterus. It’s about your whole human experience

💥 Your immune system
💥 Your toxin burden
💥 Your nutrient reserves
💥 Your gut and liver health
💥 Youe thyroid output
💥 Your stress resilience and nervous system

When did we decide women were only worth investigating as a set of reproductive organs? When did we forget that the terrain of the body is what makes conception possible?

You don’t need another practitioner giving you surface-level tips. You need someone who will actually listen to your story, run advanced testing, and connect the dots between your symptoms, your labs, and your lived experience

Because fertility isn’t something you “hack.” It’s something you create by restoring balance and removing what blocks the body’s natural design

Comment READY if you’re done with the basic BS and want to dive deep with us

09/29/2025

Let’s break down a truth bomb most women were never told…

If you were put on birth control at a young age for heavy periods, painful cycles, or acne but you weren’t actually given a solution. You were given a hormonal band-aid that shut down the communication between your brain and ovaries.

👉🏼And now? That same band-aid might be making it way harder to get pregnant

From a functional perspective, heavy or painful periods in your teens are a symptom, not a deficiency in synthetic hormones. They often point to deeper imbalances 🙀 think estrogen dominance, sluggish detox pathways, gut dysbiosis, mold or toxin overload, or nutrient depletion.

But birth control doesn’t fix those root causes. It just silences the symptoms… until you come off and everything comes roaring back and sometimes worse.

Then you’re trying to conceive and surprise!
🔄 Your natural hormone rhythm? Disrupted.
🦠 Gut health? Altered.
💊 Nutrient levels (like B vitamins, zinc, magnesium)? Depleted.
♻️ Detox pathways? Still burdened.
🔥 Inflammation? Often still brewing.

So when your body finally tries to cycle again, it’s confused, undernourished, and inflamed and often not ready to support pregnancy.

But you CAN reverse it by getting down tot he issue that caused the issues in the first place. Comment QUIZ to see if toxins have been part of your root cause all along by looking at the symptoms (clues) your body is already telling you

09/24/2025

We’ve strayed so far from the way we were designed to live, and it’s no wonder fertility struggles are rising.

The list of ways we are out of alignment with nature is truly endless…
🌪️ Constant stress, busyness, and overstimulation
📺 Hours in front of screens instead of sunlight and fresh air
🥤 Ultra-processed foods and toxic exposures replacing nutrient-dense whole foods
🏙️ Sedentary lifestyles with little connection to the land or movement
🛑 Disconnection from community and meaningful relationships
💊 A quick-fix, pill-for-every-problem mindset that overlooks root causes

But there are options to restore fertility, options that go far beyond diet tweaks and a prenatal vitamin 👇🏼
🌱 Identifying and addressing toxin burden (mold, metals, chemicals, pesticides)
🥦 Rebuilding nutrient reserves and supporting digestion so the body can actually absorb and use food
💤 Prioritizing restorative sleep and circadian rhythm balance
🧘 Supporting the nervous system, because regulation is the foundation of hormonal health
💧 Opening drainage and detox pathways to support the body’s natural resilience
🤝Root-cause functional testing and a personalized plan, rather than generic protocols

The fertility system may be broken, but your body isn’t. When we bring ourselves back into alignment with the way we were designed to live, healing and fertility are possible.

✨ You deserve better✨

09/10/2025

No neat bow. Just the truth 🫳🎤

Got questions? Want clarification? Let’s chat in the comment 🫶🏼

09/09/2025

In case you didn’t know, we have a huge pediatric practice. And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sat across from parents in tears because their child can’t eat without reacting, can’t grow the way they should, or spends their early years in constant flares and suffering.

We see babies with massive toxin burden who are malnourished, failing to thrive, allergic to everything, struggling with digestion, robbed of the carefree childhood they deserve. And it’s not their fault. They inherited what was never dealt with before conception.

I know this pain personally, and I see it in family after family who were never told there was another way. Nothing steals your breath like realizing your child’s first years were taken by something you could have prevented if only you’d been given the truth.

This is why I talk so much about transgenerational health. Because yes, we want to help couples become parents. But it’s just as important that they have healthy pregnancies, safe births, and children who can thrive, not merely survive.

Preconception detox isn’t about perfection. It’s about ending the cycle of passing down toxic burdens and giving the next generation the strong, vibrant start they deserve. I promise you every mom would go back and do this before having their babies if they would have known what they know now ❤️‍🩹

09/04/2025

“You’re 35. Your clock is ticking.”

🙄 If I had a dollar for every time I heard this…

Fertility isn’t a countdown timer. It’s a reflection of your terrain.

Egg quantity naturally declines with age. But egg quality? That’s what matters most. And egg quality is shaped daily by how well your body can handle stress, nutrients, and toxins.

🚫 Things that silently sabotage egg quality:
👉🏼Liver overload (struggling to clear estrogen, pesticides, alcohol, plastics)
👉🏼Gut dysbiosis (poor nutrient absorption + more recirculating toxins)
👉🏼Mold + mycotoxins (DNA damage + mitochondrial burnout)
👉🏼Heavy metals (mercury, lead, arsenic that interfere with hormones + egg maturation)
👉🏼Plastics + endocrine disruptors (BPA, phthalates, PFAS disrupting hormone signaling)
👉🏼Chronic inflammation (from infections, poor detox, or hidden food triggers)

💡 On the flip side, when we support these systems eggs stay healthier, longer. Nutrition, antioxidants, and gentle detox strategies (like sweating, binders, hydration, and lowering daily exposures) preserve egg quality and improve fertility.

This is why we run toxin testing and go beyond surface-level labs. Because your eggs don’t thrive in a toxic swamp, they thrive in a supported terrain.

Our clients in their late 30s and 40s ✨DO✨ conceive naturally. Not because they beat the clock, but because they stopped obsessing over their age and started addressing the real root causes.

👉🏼 Ready to shift the focus from your birthdate to your terrain? Comment READY and I’ll send you details about our Reversing Infertility Program

09/02/2025

You’ve been told your AMH is too low. You sat in that doctor’s office, heard the number, and suddenly everything changed

✨ Hope turned into urgency
✨ IVF was pushed as your only option
✨ And you left feeling like your body was broken

But this isn’t the whole truth and one that not even many fertility specialists want you to know

👉🏼AMH is not a measure of egg quality
👉🏼Low AMH often predicts a poor response to IVF meds
👉🏼Many women with low AMH can and do conceive naturally when the root causes are supported

I went deep on this to cover the myths, the truth, and the real strategies you won’t hear in the doctor’s office

✨ Want it all in one place? DM me the word TRUTH and I’ll send you both the Substack article + the podcast episode link so you can learn more (🤫pssst the Substack goes into way more depth and gives you action items you can do at home without a practitioner)

Because your fertility story is so much more than a lab slip.”

09/01/2025

🌱 Vitamin D + Vitamin A are not just “supportive” nutrients, they’re root-level regulators of fertility. In Toxic Infertility, I break down how environmental exposures + immune dysfunction deplete these essentials and why simply supplementing is often not enough.

✨ Low Vitamin D & A are actually linked to 👇🏼
🥚 Poor egg maturation + reduced ovarian reserve
💥 Higher rates of miscarriage + recurrent pregnancy loss
🌡️ Increased risk of immune-mediated rejection of the embryo
🩸 Impaired endometrial receptivity + implantation failure
🧬 Poor s***m count, motility, and DNA fragmentation
🪧 Disrupted hormone signaling (progesterone + estrogen balance)
🫁 Reduced placental development + oxygen delivery to baby
🔥 Exacerbation of autoimmune conditions + chronic inflammation

And here’s the kicker👉🏼toxins like mold, pesticides, heavy metals, and plastics accelerate the burn-through of these vitamins. That’s why just adding a supplement doesn’t solve the deeper problem.

📗In Toxic Infertility, I walk you through:
👉🏼How toxins interfere with vitamin A & D receptors
👉🏼Why these deficiencies are a sign of deeper immune and detox stress
👉🏼How to address root causes so these nutrients can finally do their job

💡 Your fertility is not failing you. It’s fighting through depletion.

☝🏼Comment READY if you want to uncover why your body is staying depleted + see how we can piece together your fertility puzzle.
✌🏼Comment BOOK if you want my step-by-step roadmap in Toxic Infertility 📖

08/27/2025

Just because he can get you pregnant doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with her fertility health 💥

Here’s how dad’s toxin load can impact pregnancy and baby’s development 👇🏼

🧠 Impacts baby’s brain development: Toxins like heavy metals and solvents in dad’s body can damage s***m quality and interfere with the epigenetic instructions passed at conception, impacting how baby’s brain wires and grows.

🧫 Shapes baby’s immune system: Dad’s exposures influence the s***m microbiome and immune-related gene expression, which helps determine how baby responds to the outside world & whether their immune system becomes resilient or reactive.

🧍🏼‍♀️ Affects placental function: The placenta is formed from both maternal and paternal DNA. If dad’s DNA is carrying oxidative stress or epigenetic disruptions from toxins, it can lead to poor placental development and reduced nutrient and oxygen delivery.

⚠️ Influences risk of preeclampsia: Toxins that affect s***m can increase inflammation and immune dysregulation at implantation, and that can play a surprising role in whether or not mom develops preeclampsia later in pregnancy.

🥦 Determines nutrient availability: S***m health is directly tied to antioxidant status, nutrient storage, and mitochondrial function. A toxic burden in dad’s system can deplete or block essential nutrients that are meant to be passed on at conception.

💥 This is why we always recommend toxin testing and preconception detox for both partners (not just mom)

📞 Ready to get ahead of it? Comment READY to book a free call to talk about our preconception detox protocol and why 4 months can change everything.

08/26/2025

Let’s be real, hormone testing is kind of a scam🙃
You already know there’s a hormone imbalance if you’re not getting pregnant (or staying pregnant).

Do you really need a piece of paper to tell you that? The problem isn’t the number, it’s that no one is asking why it’s happening.

✨Progesterone can’t thrive if your body doesn’t feel safe. And “safety” isn’t about bubble baths and journaling, it’s about whether your biology has enough capacity to prioritize fertility instead of survival.

⚡ Things that signal unsafety and lower progesterone include
🦠 Gut imbalances + infections
🧬 High toxin burden (mold, metals, chemicals, pesticides, plastics)
🩸 Blood sugar instability + insulin resistance
🧠 Chronic stress, trauma patterns, nervous system dysregulation
🛌 Poor sleep + circadian rhythm disruption
🥩 Nutrient deficiencies (zinc, B6, magnesium, copper, vitamin C, cholesterol)
🧪 Thyroid dysfunction or sluggish metabolism
🩺 Chronic inflammation + autoimmunity
🌡️ Overexercise or under-fueling
🧃 Liver congestion + impaired detox pathways

Low progesterone is the symptom, not the cause. Until we address the upstream triggers, “progesterone support” (whether supplements, creams, or meds) is just a band-aid.

Your body isn’t broken, it’s protecting you! The key is restoring safety so progesterone can do its job. 💛

✨ This is the difference between chasing numbers on a lab test and actually reversing infertility. Ready to restore balance to your hormones at the deepest level? Comment NEXT to get started

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