Most people come to my work, Minerals & Microbes, when they're at an impasse.

They’ve exhausted many other approaches: diet changes, practitioners, lab tests, protocols. Maybe years of it. And while some things helped, the approach has been wildly incoherent. They’ve been reacting to symptoms as they arise and chasing causes, but nothing has actually rebuilt the body in a way that feels stable or sustainable.

If you’re here, you’ve probably already tried a lot.

I know this because I’ve watched people arrive having been run through the same few loops the functional health world keeps people cycling through.

Some show up with 15+ bottles of supplements, taken with religious precision, hoping that if they just get the stack right, their body will finally organize.

Others arrive with a supplement graveyard in their cabinets and a nervous system that flinches at the thought of adding one more thing. They’ve been burned by the industry, overwhelmed by conflicting advice, and exhausted b...

We’re living in a time where people have access to more health information than ever — and yet feel less clarity, confidence, and trust in their bodies than ever before.

That contradiction is not accidental.

In modern wellness culture, science has quietly shifted roles. What was meant to be a tool for exploration has started acting like authority — and when that happens, the body often gets lost in the process.

This episode continues a conversation I’ve been unfolding over the last few weeks. First, we talked about the shadow side of wellness culture: over-treatment, information overload, and the loss of containment. Then we looked at how oversimplified wellness narratives backfire in real bodies. Here, I’m pulling on the next thread underneath all of it: study obsession — and how it disconnects people from their own biology.

This isn’t an anti-science conversation.
It’s about misuse.

Studies were never designed to replace lived experience. They isolate variables on purpose. They r...

Let's sit with something that might be uncomfortable for a minute.

What if the thing you call anxiety isn't a mental disorder at all? What if depression isn't a serotonin deficiency? What if the reason you can't seem to regulate your emotions has absolutely nothing to do with your childhood trauma or your resilience or your meditation practice and everything to do with the fact that your internal ecosystem has shifted into survival mode?

Stay with me.

Because here's what nobody wants to say out loud: we've been calling environmental poisoning "mental illness" for decades.

Your nervous system isn't overreacting. It's responding perfectly to a toxic internal and external environment that you didn't even know existed.

The Lie We've All Been Sold

You know what's genius about the mental health industrial complex? They convinced an entire generation that the problem is in their head. Chemical imbalance. Genetic predisposition. Negative thought patterns. Trauma responses.

And yes, envi...

When Health Information Stops Being Nourishing

We are living in an Information Age where wellness advice is everywhere — constant, confident, and often oversimplified. What looks like education is frequently something else entirely: processed information that sounds scientific but lacks context, discernment, and respect for how real bodies actually function.

People ask me all the time to “review” posts they see online or confirm whether a claim they encountered on Instagram is true. I don’t fact-check the internet. What I do care about is helping people develop their own filter — because when you don’t have one, your nervous system becomes the filter. And that’s how overwhelm, second-guessing, and loss of bodily trust take root.

In this episode, I walk through a specific example of how misinformation spreads so easily in modern wellness culture. I use a real Instagram carousel as a case study — not to attack a person or question their intent — but to show how quickly something ca...

As we step into 2026, I want to name something that’s been building beneath the wellness space for a long time — and has now reached a tipping point.

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We’re living inside a wellness culture that has become excessive, incoherent, and fundamentally disconnected from how bodies actually heal.

This didn’t start with wellness.
It’s cultural.

Modern life trained us to distrust our bodies long before most people ever questioned pharmaceuticals. So when many turned toward “wellness,” they unknowingly carried the same mindset into a different marketplace: more inputs, more tracking, more interventions, more pressure to fix, optimize, and override.

Different language.
Same paradigm.

What I see again and again isn’t a lack of effort. It’s incoherence.

People are flooding their systems with information, stacking protocols, cherry-picking ideas, and trying to heal from inside the same urgency and hyper-vigilan...

Healing Happens in Order — Safety Comes First

If you’ve been trying to heal — doing all the tests, chasing protocols, supplementing diligently — and yet feel stuck, reactive, or like nothing is working, you’re not imagining it. Your body is responding exactly as it should: with survival, not repair. The missing piece? Safety.

Most healing approaches assume: “Do the right thing hard enough, and the body will follow.” But biology doesn’t work that way. Healing unfolds in an order dictated by the nervous system — by safety — not by protocol intensity.

Here’s how it really happens:

1. Safety First

Before you detox, supplement, or chase labs, the nervous system has to feel secure.

This isn’t just a feeling — it’s biological. When the peripheral nervous system is flooded from chronic stress, too many interventions, or trying to “do everything at once,” the body shifts into hypervigilance. Digestion stalls, absorption falters, blood sugar swings, and even “good” interventions feel like a...

If you’ve been navigating chronic health issues for a while, you already know the frustration of chasing fixes that never fully stick. You’ve tried protocols, supplements, elimination diets, functional medicine, allopathic interventions—and yet something still feels off. The energy crashes, the digestive flare-ups, the mood shifts, the sleep disturbances…they don’t follow a simple pattern. Maybe you’ve felt like your body is betraying you, or that you’re failing at health—but here’s the truth: your body isn’t broken. It’s adapting.

That’s why I approach gut health differently. I work with people who are done chasing temporary relief. People who are ready to rebuild their systems slowly, responsibly, and with integrity. People who understand that healing isn’t about eradicating microbes or forcing pathways—it’s about seeing the ecosystem and giving it what it needs to thrive.

This is where BiomeFX comes in. Think of your gut not as just a digestive tube, but as an ecosystem—a living, ...

I’ve been sitting with something that feels important to name, because I don’t think most people realize what they’ve actually been missing — or why so many of us have felt stuck, hesitant, or quietly exhausted on our healing journeys.

For a long time, I thought I was the problem. I wanted support. I sought it out. I read the books, learned the language, followed the advice. And yet, again and again, I couldn’t bring myself to fully step into the help that was offered. Something in me stayed braced. Watching. Calculating. Holding back.

It wasn’t a lack of commitment.

It wasn’t laziness.

And it wasn’t an unwillingness to do the work.

It was discernment in a body that didn’t have the capacity to tolerate one more experience of being rushed, overridden, or asked to perform wellness.

It was because the support itself didn’t feel safe enough to enter.

Most wellness and healing models assume a level of capacity that many people simply don’t have — especially after years of stress, env...

Why the word/term “dysregulated” isn’t helping anymore

I want to name something gently, because language matters — especially in healing spaces.

The word “dysregulated” is starting to lose its usefulness.

It’s become a blunt instrument.

A catch-all.

A label people try to fit themselves into — often at the expense of nuance, context, and dignity.

At this point, “dysregulated” is being used to mean:

-stressed

-tired

-overwhelmed

-reactive

-burned out

-traumatized

-behind

-“not healed enough”

That’s… almost everyone.

When a word means everything, it ends up meaning nothing.

And worse — it can quietly turn into a judgment.

I see people scanning themselves constantly:

→ Am I dysregulated right now?

→ Is this a sign I’m not healed?

→ What do I need to fix next?

That question alone can put the nervous system into more stress.

Here’s what I want to offer instead:

Most people aren’t “broken".

[Another problematic over-used term, but we'll address that one in a minute].

A...

If your healing journey has turned into an endless chase for the next NOVELTY — the next protocol, supplement, gadget, hack, pathogen, idea, or insight — and something in you knows you’re caught in a cycle you can’t seem to exit…

Keep reading. 

There is a reason the most important work on a healing path often feels boring, uninspiring, or even suspiciously underwhelming.

And it has nothing to do with a lack of willpower, discipline, intelligence, or “doing it wrong.”

It has everything to do with how a nervous system shaped by chronic stress, uncertainty, and overstimulation learns to survive.

Modern nervous systems are trained on novelty.

New protocols. New supplements. New theories. New trends. New hacks. New people promising the missing piece. The next thing. The better thing. The faster thing.

Not because these things are inherently bad — but because novelty activates. It lights up dopamine pathways. It creates a sense of movement, hope, and possibility. It gives the system so...