Julie Balsamo, MS, RDN - Nutrition By Julie

Julie Balsamo, MS, RDN - Nutrition By Julie Hello! Let me introduce myself - I’m Julie, a registered dietitian, dog mom, outdoor enthusiast and food lover.

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🎀 with a sprinkle of mom life
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brands: [email protected] 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 approa

ch 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!

09/09/2026

Most constipation advice is not wrong exactly.

It is just incomplete in ways that matter

The result is spending money on things that work for a few days, stop, or never quite address why your gut is stuck in the first place.

Here is what most of it has in common 👇🏻

The advice targets the output without ever asking what is driving the slowdown. A footstool improves your position but does not change your motility. A stimulant laxative forces a movement but does not ask why one did not happen on its own. A magnesium supplement can help but the form completely changes what it actually does in your body.

Well-meaning advice given without context is still a guess.

And guessing is exactly what keeps people cycling through the same products for years.

Swipe through for our honest ratings on some of the most common constipation advice out there 👆🏻

Comment CONSTIPATION and we will send you our free Constipation Support Guide to help you figure out what your gut actually needs 👇🏻

[constipation advice, Squatty Potty, senna tea, kiwi for constipation, magnesium for constipation, gut motility, root cause nutrition]

09/08/2026

Sorrrry, I don’t make the rules 👀

09/08/2026

“Chew your food!!”

I know. I KNOW. You’ve cut gluten, done the elimination diet, spent $60 on probiotics that did nothing, and now some dietitian on the internet is telling you to chew😉

Stay with me for ten seconds….👇🏼

Chewing is not a wellness tip. It’s step ONE of digestion. It physically breaks food apart and it triggers the enzymes and stomach acid that handle everything after! Rush it and your gut is playing catch-up the whole meal😅

Send this video to someone who needs the reminder (brb sending it to my husband😜) ✉️

Bloating is not just about what you ate. But the right foods can absolutely calm a reactive gut from the inside out 🌿A f...
09/07/2026

Bloating is not just about what you ate. But the right foods can absolutely calm a reactive gut from the inside out 🌿

A few things worth knowing before you swipe through 👇🏻

Cooking your vegetables is not the less healthy option. For a sensitive or inflamed gut, cooked vegetables place significantly less digestive demand on the system than raw ones. Less work for your gut means less gas and less pressure building through the day.

Potassium-rich foods help regulate the sodium-fluid balance that drives water retention and abdominal pressure. Most people never connect the two.

And fermented foods support microbiome diversity over time, which is one of the most consistent predictors of how efficiently your gut processes food overall.

Food helps. Daily bloating is still a signal worth paying attention to.

Save this before your next grocery run 👇🏻

Comment GUT and we will talk about working together to get to the root of it 🌿

[anti-bloat foods, gut microbiome, cooked vegetables and gut health, fermented foods, potassium and bloating, digestive health, root cause nutrition]

09/05/2026

Constipation is one of the most normalized symptoms in gut health.

And one of the most misunderstood

Most people measure it by frequency alone. But how you go matters just as much as how often. Straining, incomplete evacuation, and stool form are all part of the picture most people are never taught to pay attention to.

Before adding another supplement or laxative, the first step is understanding what is actually slowing things down for you specifically.

Comment CONSTIPATION for our free Constipation Support Guide 👇🏻

[constipation, gut motility, bowel habits, constipation signs, digestive health, root cause nutrition]

09/04/2026

Most people have been through that loop more than once 🫠

The appointment that took three months to get.

The labs that came back normal.

The follow up that never happened because nothing flagged as urgent enough.

And then going home to the same bloating, the same constipation, the same unpredictable digestion that brought you there in the first place.

That loop exists because standard GI care and root cause investigation are two completely different things.

One is designed to rule out disease.
The other is designed to find what is actually driving your symptoms.

Most people never get access to the second one because they do not know it exists, or they assume it is out of reach financially.

It is not.

Most of our 1:1 clients work with our team through their insurance, paying nothing out of pocket, and finally get the kind of investigation that standard appointments were never built to provide.

Comment COACH and we will show you what root cause care actually looks like for you 👇🏻

[root cause gut health, GI doctor, normal labs, functional testing, insurance covered dietitian, IBS, digestive health]

09/03/2026

The advice was not wrong. The ex*****on was 🫠

Fiber is one of the most powerful tools for gut health. But doubling your intake overnight is one of the fastest ways to make your symptoms significantly worse before they get better.

Here is what actually happens when you increase too fast 👇🏻

1. Bacterial fermentation spikes before your microbiome adapts
Your gut bacteria need time to adjust to a higher fiber load. Add too much too fast and they ferment it faster than your system can handle, producing excess gas and bloating in the process.

2. The type of fiber determines how your gut responds
Soluble fiber dissolves and forms a gel, generally gentler and better tolerated. Insoluble fiber adds bulk and moves through largely intact, significantly harder on a sensitive or compromised gut. Most people increasing fiber are eating more of both without realising it.

3. Raw preparation amplifies the problem
The same vegetable cooked versus raw places a completely different digestive demand on your gut. Starting with cooked and building toward raw gives your system time to catch up.

4. Without enough water fiber can make things worse
Fiber needs adequate hydration to do its job. Without it, it can slow transit and worsen the constipation it was supposed to help.

More fiber is not always better. The right fiber, introduced the right way, for where your gut actually is right now.

Comment FIBER and we will send you our free Fiber 101 Guide 🌿

[fiber and gut health, bloating from fiber, soluble vs insoluble fiber, gut microbiome, fiber and constipation, digestive health, root cause nutrition]

09/02/2026

My current obsession, and it’s toddler approved!

350 calories, 3 grams carbs & 38 grams proteins PER SERRRVIINNGG😍

Comment PIZZA & I’ll send you the recipe 🤍

09/01/2026

Taking a probiotic for constipation and seeing zero results is not because probiotics do not work 🫠

It is because the strain you picked was never studied for what you are dealing with.

Picking a probiotic without knowing the strain is like taking a medication without reading what it treats.

The front of the label says probiotic.
The back of the label tells you whether it has anything to do with your constipation.

A few things that actually matter when choosing one 👇🏻

1. The strain name, not just the species
Lactobacillus acidophilus is a species. NCFM is the strain. Two products can share the same species name and have completely different clinical evidence behind them. The strain is what has been studied, not the genus.

2. Survivability through stomach acid
A probiotic that cannot survive the journey to your intestines is not doing anything useful. Spore-based and enteric-coated options are significantly more likely to arrive intact.

3. Whether the strain was actually studied for transit and motility
Some strains have solid clinical evidence specifically for improving gut transit time and stool consistency. Most do not. That distinction is rarely on the front of the bottle.

Comment REGULAR and we will send you our free Constipation Supplement Cheat Sheet with the strains actually worth knowing 👇🏻

[probiotics for constipation, probiotic strains, gut motility, lactobacillus, gut microbiome, constipation support, root cause nutrition]

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