Pre & Postnatal Blueprint for Pregnancy & Postpartum

In my own pregnancy & postpartum journey, I wished for a way to optimize my health & my baby’s health.

Was I getting enough vitamins & minerals?
How much did I really need?
What about my MTHFR mutations?
How does that change my nutrient requirements?
I heard methylation is important for baby development but how do I know if I’m methylating well?

These were all questions I had that never got answered until much later in my own postpartum journey. I’m hoping that many more women now can understand & optimize this for themselves in this wildly important season of development & creation.

My midwife & doc did the standard bloodwork & “everything was fine” but it just didn’t feel like I was doing everything I could to enhance my pregnancy & postpartum period.

It’s time for women to have access to a custom nutritional protocol to follow through pregnancy & the postpartum period. No more guessing what you need supplement-wise or confusion about what foods are best for your blood sugar in this season.

Benefits of Optimizing Methylation

Methylation is a process that happens every second of every day throughout your body. It is important for gene regulation, detoxification, & cellular adaptability. Your organs, tissues & fetus development are dependent on these processes happening well & to their fullest potential.

With more specific blood testing, we can now see what is happening inside your cells over the past 6 months of time & how much of each vital vitamin, mineral, amino acid & antioxidant is getting inside the cells to do their job. (Regular bloodwork looks at what is happening outside the cell in a single instant.)

You’ll even get a printout of your own methylation cycle like the one shown here. You’ll know precisely what areas of methylation need support & specifically how to support them. No more guessing!

Customize your nutrition & know exactly what will fuel your body best

We’ll also examine your Metabolic Type & Food Sensitivities that lead to a lowered immune system. These two screenings will give you a customized nutrition plan that’s designed to give you energy, optimize your metabolic rate, fuel yourself at a cellular level & keep your blood sugar balanced.

Ability to Create a Custom Multi-Vitamin

We’ll use this information to craft your own custom prenatal vitamin based on exactly what you need & precisely what you DO NOT need. We don’t want to consume things we don’t need, as that can cause overloads & disrupt the balance of other vitamins/minerals. It’s clear that everyone is different & everyone needs different levels of certain foods & certain micronutrients.

With this package, you’ll have access to a custom compounded 90-day supplement in either capsule or powdered form. This makes it super simple to get all the nutrition you need!

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In my experience, it’s easiest and fastest to TEST & NOT GUESS.

Having a plan that is custom to you & designed to get you optimal results is the future of personalized healthcare. You & your baby are worth the extra investigation to make sure you’re both getting what you need.

If that’s something you think you’d benefit from, you can access those lab screenings &
coaching support with the button above.

Easy Organic Grocery Ordering

Years ago, our family learned about the dangers of glyphosate & the pesticides companies use in food production. We have since committed to buying the majority of our groceries organic- which not only helps our health but also helps the planet by voting with our dollars & encouraging more farmers to use poison-free farming practices.

What do we need to buy organically?

At a minimum, I recommend following the Environmental Working Groups Clean 15 & Dirty Dozen Guide. They have investigated & determined which produce is most sprayed & which is safest to consume non-organically. You can read more about the EWG list here.

DIRTY DOZEN

  1. Strawberries

  2. Spinach

  3. Kale, Collard & Mustard Greens

  4. Peaches

  5. Pears

  6. Nectarines

  7. Apples

  8. Grapes

  9. Bell & Hot Peppers

  10. Cherries

  11. Blueberries

  12. Green Beans

GMO Crops - Also Dirty!

  1. Corn

  2. Papaya

  3. Summer Squash

  4. Soybeans

  5. Pineapple

  6. Potatos

  7. Beets

The foods above are known to be grown using genetically modified seeds. I would personally recommend staying away from anything labeled GMO or anything listed as “bioengineered” or “derived from bioengineering.”

The Clean Fifteen

  1. Avocadoes

  2. Onions

  3. Sweet Peas

  4. Asparagus

  5. Honeydew melon

  6. Kiwi

  7. Cabbage

  8. Mushrooms

  9. Mangos

  10. Sweet Potato

  11. Watermelon

  12. Carrots

(#’s 13-15 are common GMO crops so I’ve excluded them from my list of foods that are “clean”)

With Azure Standard, we like to order our bulk cooking & baking supplies here. Some things we reorder frequently are their organic butter, flours, frozen fruits & veggies, healthcare/homeopathic items, dried fruits, chocolate chips, coconut cream, pasta noodles, tortillas, vanilla extract & cheddar cheese powder. Check out the video above for our full grocery haul!

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Misfit Market Delivery

We’ve used this delivery system for almost 2 years now & just love how easy it is. Not everything is organic on this site, but the majority is & the categories makes it really easy to shop for exactly what you need. We get a lot of our meat, cheese, & fruits/veggies from them weekly!

I get a major savings with them as not every piece of produce is “pretty”. They carry a lot of stuff that the main stream stores reject, which makes it super affordable for us here! Usually our grocery store has organic red peppers 2/$5 but from Misfit, I’ve been known to get the same organic 2 peppers for $2.50. That adds up over time!

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Brain Retraining With PRIMAL TRUST

For the past couple of months, I’ve been going through the Primal Trust program to help rewire my brain, control my cell danger response, & ultimately improve my nervous system’s response to stress.

After a car accident over a decade ago that resulted in an untreated concussion, I’ve had issues & imbalances with my nervous system. Especially after having children, the level of noise & stress exponentially went up- which was very triggering to my body.

I knew I needed some daily practices to increase my capacity for stressful situations & wanted to also have something to teach my children how to regulate their own bodies as they grow into adults.

Enter: Primal Trust

Primal Trust essentially has 3 levels which is designed to give you long-term access to support & mentoring through this healing process. So far I’ve only gone through Step 1.

Step 1 can take several months to get through & is all about Regulation- giving you tools for emotional processing, brain retraining, somatic movements, vagus nerve toning & so much more. You can see the details about it here!

The content, education & exercises are top-notch. I’ve had a great time learning about these simple tools to better my body.

People who could benefit from this program:

  • those with high histamine responses

  • people with low tolerance to supplements

  • those with post-traumatic stress or unhealed trauma

  • people with chronic conditions; Lyme, long haul covid, chronic pain, mold & chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue, anxiety, depression, POTS, IBD, etc.

  • those who have “tried everything” & still don’t feel their best

I’ve heard phenomenal things from clients & co-practitioners who have integrated this into their practices.

It’s a simple monthly membership that can be canceled at any time! It’s like the Netflix of nervous system healing. Highly recommend.

If you’re struggling with unhealed trauma or any of the issues listed above, it’s worth a shot to start getting your nervous system in optimal shape - which will directly fast-track cellular healing in the body.

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If you give it a try, let me know how you like it!

What is Your Free Copper Percentage?

With hormonal, behavioral & mental misalignments on the rise, I find the Free Copper Percentage (FCP) to be an important evaluation of the inner oxidative health of a person.

FCP is an indicator of the amount of copper that is not bound to the protein ceruloplasmin. When copper is not bound to its carrier proteins, it acts like an oxidative element (which essentially ages us & stresses us on a cellular level).

If the bile & liver aren’t working well to excrete it from the body, it gets transported to tissues for storage since it cannot stay circulating in the blood. This directly can affect the brain, liver, reproductive organs, adrenals, thyroid & much more.

How Does One Get High Free Copper?

  • Lowered Adrenal Activity

  • Impaired Liver Function

  • Sludgy Bile & Gallstones

  • Environmental Exposure: organic pesticides, pool water, copper pipes

  • Vegetarian/Vegan Diets: avocados, chocolate, nuts/seeds, spirulina, mushrooms, leafy greens,

  • Organ Meats, Lobster, Oysters

  • Supplements

  • Pyrolle Disorder

  • Micronutrient Deficiencies

  • Birth Control

  • Inheriting From Mother

Common Symptoms of High Free Copper Percentage

●  anxiety

●  tired & wired

●  easily upset and emotional

●  mood swings

●  mania/depression

●  anger and violence

●  mental illnesses (bi-polar, ADHD, schizophrenia, depression)

●  concentration & memory problems

●  strong self-criticism

●  headache/migraine

●  tiredness and exhaustion

●  insomnia

●  poor immune response

●  skin problems

●  hair loss

●  yeast infection

●  high estrogen (bloating, low libido, PMT)

●  joint aches and pains

Testing For Free Copper Percentage

The minimum testing requirements from a standard bloodwork perspective are copper serum, zinc, & ceruloplasmin. I also personally recommend a full iron panel & evaluating additional micronutrients. You can see my Add On Vitamin Panel & Comprehensive Panel here, which includes the copper evaluation basics.

With these measurements, FCP can be calculated, which commonly explains why those struggling are having such symptoms.

Lowing this FCP to a healthy place (8-15%) is a multifaceted task. Detoxing this additional stored copper needs to happen at a gentle pace in order to avoid copper “dumping” symptoms (which is pretty much all the symptoms listed above).

Detoxing an overload is one thing, it’s another to make sure copper is getting into the cells & is not actually a bioavailability issue at a cellular level. Again, we can tell how this is happening by looking at an intracellular micronutrient panel & comparing it to extracellular blood work & the Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.

Learn how to work together

If this is something you think you might be struggling with & would like support, click the button above to see my process of looking at the full status of the health of your body.

You can also access getting regular blood work (that you can do from any Labcorp across the country!) by checking out my shop page. I recommend the Comprehensive Profile & the Add-On Vitamins/Minerals panel to understand your Free Copper Percentage.

Chemical Free Alternative to Botox

First of all, embrace whatever lifelines & expression lines you have - you look beautiful just the way you are!

At some point, most women notice their skin beginning to have wrinkles, smile lines & lack of elasticity. While there are unlimited skincare treatments out there, not many are non-toxic & chemical free (which is important when it comes to lymphatic & organ health!)

When I came across Frownies, I was so intrigued! It looked like a really fun clean beauty item that seemed to give some pretty amazing results - at a fraction of the price of other toxic skincare treatments - PLUS it was pregnancy safe!

After one night of use, I was truly hooked. I could see & feel a difference when I took them off for the first time.

The biggest change was the way the muscles in my face felt. They were calm & controlled and honestly my face felt very peaceful. It made me very aware of how often I scrunched my eyebrows during the day & how often I made funny faces when I was speaking. Learning to tone down my muscle use translated to a more state during the day, even when not using them! I belive they helped settle my nervous system to relax & stay longer in a parasympathetic state.

Family members who have tried them have gotten daily comments about what changes they must be making to their skincare routine. They really provide a more youthful facial expression & skin change for the better.

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Frownies are a great alternative to injections & fillers if you’re trying to lower toxin exposure in your beauty routine.

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Have you tried these before? Let me know what you think in the comments.