08/30/2026
PART 4: food & testing 🥗🩸
🗓️ So it’s been a month since I first met with my practitioner & although 1 month may sound like a long time, in the functional medicine world, we’re really just at the beginning!
⏳ Working on the body holistically can take time
⌚️ Not just time in terms of physiological healing, but also the time it takes to actually DO all of these things:
- Waiting for specialty tests to come in the mail 🩸
- Completing them & shipping them back to the lab 📫
- Going through the products in your home 🧴
- Ordering new products 💻
- Grocery shopping 🛒
- Learning how to cook veggies & meats you don’t normally cook 🥦
- Creating new routines, etc. 🌅
📅 It’s a process!!
😌 The benefit of taking this holistic/slower approach is that I can hopefully get to the root cause of what’s going on and actually resolve it (rather than managing my symptoms with “bandaids” indefinitely)
🙏🏻 Of course, there’s absolutely a time & place for symptom relief, but for the acne & hormonal issues I’m dealing with, I’m SO ready to finally understand what’s causing them & resolve them for good
