Start Here: A Different Way to Understand Your Health
If your health feels confusing, layered, or stuck, it can be difficult to know what actually deserves your attention next.
Maybe you've already made significant changes. Maybe some things have improved while others keep resurfacing. Maybe you tolerate less than you used to, recover slowly when life gets demanding, or have accumulated enough symptoms that another isolated explanation doesn't feel particularly useful.
My work begins by looking at the larger pattern.
Through Minerals & Microbes, I combine functional testing with ongoing observation to better understand how your mineral patterns, gut ecology, stress physiology, environment, lifestyle, and lived experience are shaping the body you're in today.
Because your health isn't happening in isolated systems.
And neither should the work we do with it.
The Body Tells a Story
Hi, I'm Lydia. For more than a decade, HTMA has been one of the primary tools I've used to understand how the body adapts.
Mineral patterns can give us a fascinating window into stress physiology, metabolic patterns, mineral relationships, and the ways a body may be compensating under demand.
But I've learned that minerals are only part of the story.
The microbiome adds another entire ecosystem.
Your symptoms add context.
Your history matters.
Your food, sleep, movement, environment, relationships, stressors, exposures, and current season of life matter.
And perhaps most importantly, how your body responds over time matters.
That's why my work has evolved beyond interpreting a test and handing someone a protocol.
I want to understand the human being whose data I'm looking at.
What Makes This Different
I use HTMA and BiomeFX microbiome testing as two primary objective lenses into your current terrain.
HTMA helps us explore mineral patterns, metabolic relationships, and the physiological adaptations your body may be making.
BiomeFX gives us a deeper look into your gut ecology — including microbial balance, digestive function, inflammatory patterns, intestinal barrier health, and the metabolites your microbes are producing.
When appropriate, genetic data can be added as another layer, helping us understand certain inherited tendencies and individual differences that may influence how we approach the work.
But none of these tests exists in isolation.
We continually put the data back into the context of you.
What are you experiencing?
What has changed?
What are you tolerating now that you couldn't tolerate before?
What keeps setting you back?
What is improving?
What is still consuming your capacity?
What is your body ready for next?
That is where testing becomes useful.
How I Work With You
Health rarely changes in a perfectly linear progression.
You can make meaningful progress and still have a flare.
You can feel substantially better and discover that your body still doesn't have much reserve for additional stress.
Something that wasn't tolerated three months ago may become completely manageable — while another area suddenly becomes the thing asking for attention.
A setback doesn't necessarily erase your progress. Sometimes it reveals the current edge of your capacity.
This is why I work with people over time.
My role is to help you:
- Understand the patterns emerging across your testing, symptoms, and lived experience
- Identify what seems most important now, rather than trying to address everything at once
- Stabilize areas that need more support
- Build greater capacity and resilience over time
- Recognize progress that can be difficult to see when you're living inside the day-to-day experience
- Recalibrate when your body or life circumstances change
I bring the testing, education, pattern recognition, guidance, and outside perspective.
You bring the lived experience of your body.
This is collaborative, relational work.
The Rewilded Approach
Rewilded Wellness is the larger philosophy underneath everything I do. I don't believe human health can be separated from the environment in which a human being is living. Our biology is continually interacting with all of it.
So while we may use sophisticated testing, the goal isn't to make your life increasingly dependent on tests, supplements, and complicated protocols.
It's to use the information we have to help you better understand your body, support what it needs now, and gradually rebuild the conditions that allow greater resilience.
You can only go as fast as the slowest part of you wants to go.
Honoring that capacity doesn't mean accepting that it will always be your capacity.
We work from where you actually are — and build from there.
Who This Work Is For
Minerals & Microbes may be a good fit if your health feels layered rather than singular.
You may have digestive issues alongside changes in energy, sleep, stress tolerance, hormones, inflammation, food tolerance, mood, or recovery.
You may have already done considerable work on your health and still feel as though there are pieces that haven't fully come together.
Or you may simply know that you don't want another generic protocol aimed at one symptom.
You're looking for someone who can help you connect the dots, understand the larger pattern, and stay with the process long enough to see how it evolves.
Work With Me: Minerals & Microbes
Minerals & Microbes is my primary private coaching experience and is available in two formats:
Minerals & Microbes
4 Months
A focused four-month container including HTMA, BiomeFX, four private sessions, weekly check-ins, and ongoing support.
Minerals & Microbes
8 Months
A longer runway including BiomeFX, two HTMAs, eight private sessions, weekly check-ins, and ongoing support — giving us more time to observe how your patterns change and continue building from what emerges.
Lydia Joy has 12+ years of experience in mineral analysis and holistic health.
