Heidi Toy Functional Medicine/Educated Nutrition

Heidi Toy Functional Medicine/Educated Nutrition Facilitating healing from chronic health issues via functional medicine practices including saliva, stool, MTHFR, Hair Mineral testing,and urine testing.

The link between food and health is well documented but people still struggle to find the right balance between energy intake and energy expenditure. Whether its malnutrition or over-consumption, people are looking for disease preventing and health promoting foods that match their lifestyles, cultures and genetics. Nutritional genomics is a systems approach to understanding the relationship between diet and health and will ensure that everyone benefits from the genomic revolution.

09/05/2026

I spent years fighting doctors.

All the symptoms. Normal labs.
Held hostage to one number on a page while I fell apart around it.

TSH in range, so I was fine. Except I wasn't fine, and I knew it, and no one would listen.

So I need you to hear the thing it took me too long to learn.

When you know something is wrong, believe yourself.

It's your body asking for help.

I see you. Not the version you put together for the appointment.

The real one. The one running on empty and apologizing for it.

You're not lazy. You're not dramatic. You're not asking too much.

You already know something is wrong. Start there.

Follow along. I say the things I wish someone had said to me sooner.

I did everything right for my Thyroid and my Hashimoto's and my body still felt like it was working against me.Bloated b...
08/22/2026

I did everything right for my Thyroid and my Hashimoto's and my body still felt like it was working against me.

Bloated by noon. Exhausted by 2. Gaining weight I didn't earn.

I used to blame myself for it. Like I just wasn't disciplined enough, wasn't trying hard enough, wasn't something enough.

But here's what took me years to see.

I spent a huge chunk of my life in New York. Loved it. The pace, the concrete, the takeout at midnight, the never touching actual dirt. That life is a lot of things but it is not friendly to a microbiome.

No plants. No soil. No variety. Same handful of foods on repeat. Sanitized everything.

And a microbiome that never gets fed variety slowly goes quiet. Fewer species. Less diversity. Less of the exact thing that keeps your gut sealed and your immune system calm.

That's not a small footnote for someone with Hashimoto's. That's the whole game. A quiet, starved gut can't calm an immune system that's already attacking your thyroid. So you stay bloated, stay tired, stay stuck, and every lab still comes back "normal."

Modern life didn't just make us busy. It stripped the diversity out of us. And most women I work with have never once been told that's why they can't get better.

The good news is you can rebuild it. I did. Not by cutting more foods. By feeding it wider.

I'm going deep on all of this in a LIVE intensive "The Thyroid Gut Connecton" and I want you in the room.

Comment LIVE and I'll send you the link to register.

Come find out what actually got quiet in there, and how to bring it back.

A fundamental piece to putting Hashimoto's Autoimmune or any autoimmune into remission is a resilient microbiome. A res...
08/19/2026

A fundamental piece to putting Hashimoto's Autoimmune or any autoimmune into remission is a resilient microbiome.

A resilient microbiome is your gut's ability to bounce back quickly after stress, illness, poor food, or antibiotics without falling into long-term imbalance.

A resilient microbiome protects your health by maintaining steady digestion, keeping your immune system strong, lowering inflammation, and supporting a stable mood.

A resilient microbiome is how you stop reacting to everything and are able to eat food again.

Be around Aunt Martha's perfume again.

Map your pattern. Take the Microbiome Health Assessment. Comment ASSESS

If you'd like to learn some key concepts to building a resilient microbiome comment LIVE and I'll send you the link to register for my next live event. Replay will be made available.

08/18/2026

You got told you have leaky gut.

Maybe another day you got told your antibodies were up.

Another day, a new food stopped agreeing with you.

It all sounds like a pile of separate problems. It isn't.

Your gut has a whole tolerance system, and it has two arms.

One coats what comes through your gut so your body doesn't overreact.

The other keeps your immune system calm enough to leave your own tissue alone.

In Hashimoto's, both tend to be weak. And they're weak for the same reason.

They're built by the diversity in your gut, and when that thins out, you lose both at the same time.

That's actually the good news.

You're not chasing five things.

You're rebuilding one.

But it's not a probiotic problem.

Want to see if your microbiome is what's driving your autoimmune? Comment ASSESS and I'll send you my microbiome assessment.

Want to attend a intensive where we discuss this in more detail and you gain actionable steps to start building.
Comment LIVE and I'll get you a link with details.

08/17/2026

Low Secretory IgA is one of the most missed reasons Hashimoto's women start reacting to food and supplements they used to tolerate.

Secretory IgA works hand in hand with your microbiome.

In a sterile mice study, no microbiome, no SIgA

It's the antibody that lines your gut and keeps your immune system tolerant of what comes in.

When your microbiome shifts, SIgA production drops. And once it's low, your body starts treating normal food like a threat.

That's where the histamine and the growing sensitivity list come from.

Your gut isn't broken. It stopped protecting you, and that can be rebuilt.

Comment ASSESS for the microbiome assessment I use to see where your microbiome diversity stands.

Comment LIVE for the link to register for my interactive workshop on the thyroid gut connection.

Your gut bacteria are the ones making the chemicals your brain runs on. The one for mood. The one for motivation. The on...
08/14/2026

Your gut bacteria are the ones making the chemicals your brain runs on. The one for mood. The one for motivation. The one that finally lets you calm down and sleep. Diversity drops, you make less of all of it.

Then the lining gets leaky, and the stuff that's supposed to stay in your gut gets into your blood.

There's a study that followed people for nine years on exactly this. The strongest predictor of who stayed foggy and anxious and flat wasn't their diet or their stress or their medication.

It was how much of that leak was showing up in their blood.

Stayed high, they stayed stuck. Came down, the fog lifted with it.

A leaky gut becomes a leaky brain. Same inflammation, one floor up.

It's also the exhaustion. Those same bacteria make the fuel your cells burn for energy. Starve them and there's nothing left to burn. That's the tired sleep doesn't touch.

And it feeds itself. Stress wrecks the gut, the wrecked gut cranks the stress signal higher, and around it goes. That's why it never holds steady. It creeps.

So no. You're not slipping, and you're not getting old early. Your gut is inflamed and it's reaching your brain, and nobody ever put that in front of you.

That's what I'm teaching live on August 26.

The Hashimoto's Gut Connection. What's actually driving the fog, why it lives in your gut and not your head, and what moves it.

Comment LIVE and I'll send you the link to register. 📩

08/12/2026

If your Hashimoto's antibodies keep climbing no matter what you do, this is worth reading. 🤍

When your gut barrier wears down, endotoxin from your own bacteria leaks into your blood.

Your immune system spots it and lights up, and it starts pumping out inflammation.

And that inflammation doesn't just make you tired and foggy.

It actually pushes your immune system to make more of the antibodies that attack your thyroid.

So your leaky gut can literally be feeding your Hashimoto's.

And it runs the other way too.

When your thyroid is low, your gut slows down and your stomach acid drops.

That lets even more of the wrong bacteria overgrow, which means more endotoxin, more inflammation, and even more antibodies.

Round and round.
That's the loop.

Your gut feeds your Hashimoto's, and your Hashimoto's feeds your gut. It's why chasing one and ignoring the other never gets you anywhere.

But a loop can be broken. You don't have to fix all of it at once.

You just have to stop feeding it in a couple of places at the same time, and the whole thing starts to settle.

Comment ASSESS and I'll send you the Microbiome Assessment.

Want to do a deeper dive with me?

Comment LIVE and I'll send you the registration link for my Hashimoto's Gut Connection Intensive happening in 2 weeks.

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