Haines Healthy Living

26/10/2025

🌿 Let’s Talk Gut Health 🌿

Did you know that your gut health impacts far more than just digestion?

Your gut microbiome — the trillions of bacteria, fungi, and even viruses that live in your digestive tract — plays a key role in your immune system, mood, energy levels, and overall wellness.

When things are out of balance, you might experience symptoms such as:
✨ Bloating
✨ Constipation or irregular bowel movements
✨ Headaches
✨ Fatigue
✨ Anxiety or mood changes

These can be signs of gut dysbiosis — an imbalance in your microbiome — or even the presence of parasites or pathogens disrupting your digestive system.

To truly understand what’s happening inside your gut, you have to look! A comprehensive stool analysis gives us a detailed look at your microbiome, identifying bacteria, yeast, parasites, and markers of inflammation and digestion 🧫

With this information, we can create a personalized plan to help restore balance, support digestion, and improve your overall well-being from the inside out.

🌱 Ready to take a deep dive into your gut health?

16/03/2025

02/03/2023

🦠You have maybe heard the term, "gut microbiome" which refers to the microorganisms living in your gut. We have around 200 different species of viruses, bacteria and fungi living in our digestive system. Some of these are good for us, while others can wreck havoc on our bodies.

✳️What does this mean for you? An imbalance of your gut microbiome (too many bad things) can be the cause for things like: Bloating, constipation, diarrhea and gas. The list does not stop at "stomach issues" rather this can impact all of our body systems. Leading to inflammation, pain, weight gain, chronic fatigue, skin irritation like eczema or psoriasis, auto immune conditions and food intolerances.

🙋🏻‍♀️What can you do? There are many things you can do to help support a heathy gut microbiome. Eating a whole-foods diet, reducing your toxic load, taking a good quality probiotic, reducing stress, getting a restful sleep. There are also tests that can be completed that will pinpoint exactly what is the cause of your imbalance. If you suffer from any of the above things, reach out to me and we can schedule an appointment to talk more! 👩‍💻

17/02/2023

Haines Healthy Living LLC is now partnered with Rupa Health for all your laboratory needs! Your lab tests can now be ordered through our office as we partner with Rupa Health Physician Services! Schedule your appointment today!

10/02/2023

When I think back to my beginning years as a nurse, I remember coming home and feeling like there has to be more we can do to help these people before it gets this bad.

My days spent passing medications, quick discharge, little to no time for patient education left me feeling defeated and searching for more. No one was getting better, they were simply managing their diseases 👎🏼

🌱My mind was opened when I discovered holistic alternatives to health and wellness. Fixing our gut, reducing our toxic load, healing through food and lifestyle changes. This eventually led me to functional medicine , also know as “root cause medicine”

If you are ready to get your health back and experience true healing, I would love to meet with you! 💕

🗓️ I am scheduling appointments for new patients! Click her to request info about scheduling.

http://www.haineshealthyliving.com/book-appointment

25/01/2023

Here’s a question for you as I was pondering my own health goals this morning…

What was your number one priority in life 5 years ago?
What was your priority last year?
What is your number one priority right now?

✨Has it shifted?

What is your health goal for the next 6 months ❓

24/01/2023

✨I have been a nurse for 14 years. My nursing journey started off with a job right out of nursing school on a medical-surgical inpatient floor in a local university hospital. I loved my job, or so I thought. After a few years I realized my patients were getting sicker and sicker.

This started my journey down holistic medicine. As a mother of three amazing children, I knew they deserved the best! Not only am I responsible for their little bodies growing and thriving, but the decisions I make become their normal. I became a wellness research ju**ie.

I started becoming more aware of the food we were eating, and the products my family was using. I knew changes needed to be made. I started researching everything. I soon realized there were so many healthy, more natural options that could replace almost everything in our life! This is where my wellness journey began.

We choose fresh whole foods over processed packaged foods. We replaced our produce with organic. We threw away all our toxic cleaning products. We started using essential oils instead of medication. We truly started to thrive.

As I found simple strategies to take back my family’s health, I decided it was necessary to share those with all of you!

I became certified in Functional Medicine Nursing and opened my own practice this year!

💕Amanda Haines BSN, RN FMN

24/01/2023

Are you tired of not feeling good? Do you want to return to a state of health and wellness that feels like a memory of the past? Do you feel like you have tried everything? Do you feel like no one is listening to you?

Do you suffer from chronic gastrointestinal symptoms, difficulty losing weight, chronic fatigue or pain, asthma, frequent headaches, sleep difficulties, allergies, anxiety, depression, irregular periods or challenging menopause symptoms, or other debilitating physical or mental symptoms?

If you answered YES to any of the above… Are you ready to take control of your health? Looking for real solutions that get to the root of the problem, not just put a bandaid on your symptoms? Are you looking for a healthcare provider that actually listens to you and helps you find a path to healing?

You are at the right place! Send us a message to learn more about scheduling an appointment.