Julie Balsamo, MS, RDN - Nutrition By Julie

Julie Balsamo, MS, RDN - Nutrition By Julie registered gut health dietitians helping you heal from IBS, reflux, constipation, SIBO + more! Hello!

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brands: [email protected] Let me introduce myself - I’m Julie, a registered dietitian, dog mom, outdoor enthusiast and food lover. Born and raised in New York, I now reside in beautiful Jackson, Wyoming where I spend my free time adventuring in the mountains. I take a functional, whole body approach towards nutrition,

focusing on identifying the root cause of your struggles through functional testing and personalized nutrition. My mission is to provide you the with the knowledge and understanding needed to help guide you on your path to restoring metabolic and gut health. I’ll say it now, and you’re likely to hear me say it again, I believe healthy eating should be simple. If you’re you're feeling overwhelmed, confused or stressed about your diet, then you've come to the right place!

06/18/2026

IBS affects an estimated 1 in 10 adults globally. (Lovell & Ford, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2012)

The vast majority have entirely normal imaging and endoscopy.

And most of them are told the same thing. Learn to manage it. Avoid your triggers. Here is a low FODMAP pamphlet 🫠

The reason IBS feels unresolvable is not because it is.

It is because the testing used to diagnose it was never designed to find its cause. Standard GI testing rules out serious structural disease. It does not evaluate the microbiome, test for bacterial overgrowth, assess digestive enzyme output, or check whether the gut lining is intact.

Those are exactly the things driving symptoms in most people.

Here is what actually identifying a root cause requires 👇🏻

• SIBO will never show on a colonoscopy or blood panel. It requires a specific breath test or functional stool testing to detect

• Parasitic infections are frequently missed by single standard stool tests. DNA-based testing catches what standard cultures consistently cannot

• Intestinal permeability requires functional markers like zonulin and secretory IgA. Neither appears on standard labs

• Dysbiosis requires microbiome assessment. A standard blood test tells you nothing about what is actually living in your gut

Finding the root cause requires a different kind of test.

Not another symptom management strategy.

Comment IBS and we will send you our free Ease Your IBS Discomfort Guide to help you understand what your next step actually looks like 👇🏻

[IBS, SIBO, gut dysbiosis, intestinal permeability, parasites, functional testing, root cause nutrition]

06/17/2026

Yaaaay fiber! The word FIBER & I’ll send you my free fiber guide!🤍🫶🏼

06/17/2026

That heavy, foggy, exhausted feeling after eating is not normal.

And it is not in your head 🫠

Most people blame the food. But the real question is what your body is doing with it.

Three things that commonly drive this 👇🏻

🔬 Digestive enzyme insufficiency
Not enough enzymes to break food down properly means your gut works overtime after every meal. That extra effort shows up as fatigue. The undigested food ferments and bloating follows.

🔬 Blood sugar dysregulation
A rapid spike followed by a sharp drop creates the crash and brain fog that hits within the hour. It is not about eating too much sugar. It is about how your body is processing the meal.

🔬 Immune activation
A compromised gut lining allows food particles to cross into the bloodstream and trigger an immune response after eating. Your immune system activating after every single meal is one of the most draining things your body can experience.

Feeling relaxed after eating is normal.

Feeling completely wiped out, foggy, and bloated within an hour is your gut asking for help.

Comment COACH and we will help you figure out exactly what is happening and where to start 👇🏻

[post meal fatigue, digestive enzymes, blood sugar and gut health, intestinal permeability, brain fog after eating, gut health, root cause nutrition]

06/15/2026

If you’ve ever gotten to 5 PM and realized that you have absolutely nothing to eat OR just zero motivation to cook, this one’s for you 🫶🏼

if I don’t have something at least prepped, there’s a 97% chance we’re going out 😂

06/15/2026

My daughter went crazy for these, and now requests “fudgy pops” all day😍

AND I can feel great giving them to her 👇🏼

• Bananas provide potassium, fiber, and natural sweetness!

• Cocoa powder adds antioxidants and a little iron!

• Whole milk (or full-fat coconut milk for dairy-free) gives healthy fats toddlers need for brain development!

Come the word FUDGE and I’ll send you the recipe🫶🏼

06/14/2026

Haaaappy Sunday friends 🫶🏼

06/14/2026

Here is something the elimination diet approach almost never accounts for 🫠

The anxiety and stress that comes from constantly monitoring what you eat is itself a gut trigger.

When every meal feels like a potential threat, your nervous system is on alert before the food even arrives. Stomach acid drops. Digestive enzymes do not release properly. Motility slows.

Almost anything will cause a reaction. Not because the food is the problem, but because the nervous system never got the signal that eating is safe.

What restriction is quietly doing over time 👇🏻

🔬 Creating the sensitivity it is trying to solve
Less food variety means less microbiome diversity, less butyrate, and a more permeable gut lining that reacts to more foods, not fewer.

🔬 Depleting the nutrients your gut needs to heal
Zinc, vitamin D, and magnesium directly support gut lining repair. Years of restriction quietly depletes all three.

🔬 Weakening your digestive capacity
Stop eating a food consistently and your gut reduces the enzymes it produces to break it down. Reintroduction gets harder over time.

🔬 Keeping your nervous system in fight or flight
Food fear has a direct physiological effect on digestion. A gut that never feels safe eating cannot heal.

The question was never which foods to remove.

It was always what is driving the reactivity in the first place.

Comment COACH and we will walk you through exactly how our team approaches this. Most of our 1:1 clients work with us completely free through insurance 👇🏻

[elimination diet, food sensitivity, gut healing, nervous system and digestion, microbiome diversity, butyrate, root cause nutrition]

06/12/2026

POV: you’re a working mom, so this is what your realistic “what I eat in a day” videos look like😂

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