Optimum Wellness Solutions

Optimum Wellness Solutions Helping people find better health, naturally.

06/18/2026

People come into my office with a list of a ton of different symptoms.

Migraines. Acne. Eczema. Bloating. Brain fog. Anxiety. A cycle that is off. Joint pain.

They are bracing to hear that they have twelve different things wrong with them, because that is what every appointment for the last five years has implied.

That is almost never what we find.

Let me give you an example.

A woman comes in with that exact kind of list.

Using muscle testing, I figure out that her liver is not working, which means her body is not detoxing well.

So we go through and actually do real detox (not whatever random detox supplements the influencer of the week is recommending on TikTok).

We support her liver. And the chronic migraines, the acne, the eczema, all of it starts to clear up, because they were downstream effects of that one system not working.

When we find the one or two underlying issues, the other symptoms start coming off the list on their own.

Not all at once. But the list gets shorter without you having to chase every item on it.

And when people leave that first session, the thing they say is, “Oh my gosh, I thought I had twelve problems. I really only had two problems that were giving me my twelve problems.”

If you have been managing a list of symptoms that keeps getting longer instead of shorter, the next step is to run the right test so we know exactly what the underlying issue is in your body so that we can create a custom protocol to fix it.

06/16/2026

Everyone talks about stress like it’s the problem.

Most of the women who end up in our office already know they’re stressed.

What they don’t know is why their body stopped bouncing back from it.

The afternoon crashes.
The wired-but-tired feeling.
The brain fog.
The sleep that doesn’t feel restorative.
The symptoms that seem unrelated until you step back and look at the bigger picture.

Stress can be the trigger.

But when symptoms stick around, there’s usually more to the story.

That’s the work we do every day: looking for the patterns underneath the symptoms so you can finally understand what your body has been trying to tell you all along.

Want to learn more? Comment PATTERNS and I’ll tell you how we do it.

06/15/2026

1. You hit a wall around 2 p.m. every single day that coffee, a snack, and willpower cannot push through. By 3 p.m. you have sent the email you were going to send from memory because you could not find the file, you have told your coworker you will get back to him tomorrow about the thing he just asked you about, and you are making eye contact with the chair in your office the way a person makes eye contact with a bed.

2. Wired but tired has become your normal. You feel exhausted enough to cry by evening, too activated to actually fall asleep at night, and too depleted to handle anything demanding during the day. For a year you have been telling yourself it is screen time or too much caffeine. Wired but tired is the nervous system stuck in fight or flight, which is the state your adrenals have been running in for so long they cannot come down out of it on command.

3. Your cycle has gotten shorter, or more unpredictable, or heavier, or lighter, over the last two years. You have been told this is just perimenopause, or just stress, or just your age. Adrenal dysfunction shifts the hormones responsible for the cycle, and the cycle change is often the first visible sign that the adrenals have been under stress for a long time.

4. Every symptom you have gets worse in the week before your period, including the ones that have nothing to do with your cycle. Your anxiety spikes, your sleep falls apart, your joints hurt, your inflammation flares, and you feel like a different person for seven days. That window is the adrenals failing to buffer a normal hormonal shift, because they have nothing left to buffer with.

If you are tired of having every symptom written off as perimenopause, the standard blood panel you keep being told looks normal isn’t going to help you because it’s not the right test.

Blood work can only assess major issues. Underlying problems can only be uncovered with muscle testing

We see the same pattern with so many of the women that we work with. When you test for the right things in the right way, we can give you the right protocol to help eliminate your symptoms.

Comment the word PATTERNS and I’ll DM you.

06/09/2026

One of the things I hear all the time from new patients is:

“This might sound weird…”

And honestly? Sometimes what we do probably does sound a little weird.

Using muscle testing.
Looking for patterns instead of diagnoses.
Talking about food, stress, digestion, hormones, and the nervous system as parts of the same conversation.

It’s definitely different from what most people expect.

But after years of working with people who have been told their labs are normal, their symptoms don’t make sense, or everything looks fine on paper, I’ve learned something:

Different doesn’t automatically mean wrong.

Sometimes it just means you’re asking different questions.

And different questions tend to uncover different answers.

If you’ve ever felt like there was more to the story than your test results could explain, that’s the story I hear over and over from the women who walk through our doors.

Sometimes the “weird” thing that helps isn’t weird at all.

It’s just looking where no one else thought to look.

I had every intention of spending today in the garden.Instead, cycle day 1 showed up a week ahead of schedule, my energy...
06/09/2026

I had every intention of spending today in the garden.

Instead, cycle day 1 showed up a week ahead of schedule, my energy disappeared, and my body made it very clear that planting flowers was not on today’s agenda.

A younger version of me would have tried to force it anyway. Push through. Ignore the signals. Get it done no matter what.

These days, I’m learning a different lesson.

Our bodies are constantly communicating with us. Sometimes the message is, “Go for it.” Sometimes the message is, “Not today.”

I’m better than I used to be about not just overriding my body’s signals, and instead learning to listen to them.

The funny thing is that life usually goes a lot smoother when we stop treating our bodies like stubborn employees and start treating them like partners.

The plants will still be there tomorrow. 🌱

06/02/2026

The supplement industry has convinced people that if they just find the right combination of pills, powders, tinctures, gummies, capsules, drops, and mystery Amazon products, they’ll finally feel better.

Meanwhile, some of the sickest people I meet are taking 20+ supplements and have absolutely no idea why they’re taking half of them.

More isn’t what gets you better. More targeted is what does.

Before you buy another supplement, ask yourself:

—> What problem am I actually trying to solve?
—> Do I know why this supplement is supposed to help?
—> Is it addressing the pattern behind my symptoms or am I just hoping for the best?

Your body isn’t a guessing game, and sometimes the next step isn’t another supplement.

Sometimes the next step is understanding the pattern behind your symptoms.

That’s exactly what we help our patients do every day.

Comment ME and I’ll show you how.

06/02/2026

Fully booked, let’s go!

05/30/2026

The phrase “it is just perimenopause” is the second dismissal, right after “your labs are normal,” and both are covert ways of telling you to stop asking questions they don’t know how to find the answers to.

Your body did not break in your forties. Your body has been trying to tell you something for a decade, and perimenopause is just the volume turning up.

The anxiety that made you cancel dinner again last Tuesday, the 3 a.m. wake ups you no longer bother to tell your husband about, the way your afternoon wall now starts at 1 p.m. instead of 3, the supplements from four different providers stacked on your bathroom counter that are not moving any of it, all of those things are the same pattern being read as five separate mysteriously unsolvable issues.

In our office we use muscle testing to assess every major organ at once, find the ones under stress, and then test for what is actually driving the dysfunction underneath, usually an immune challenge, a food sensitivity, a chemical, or a heavy metal that your standard labs would never find.

Then we create a custom protocol to support the organs that actually need support rather than making you buy supplements you don’t need.

If you’re ready to get some real answers, comment PATTERNS and I will send you what that assessment actually looks like on a case like yours.

Healing is not out of reach. You just need someone who knows where to look.

05/29/2026

Before somebody gets mad at me in the comments, no, I’m not saying Iowa is toxic. I live here. I love it here. What I am saying is that your body doesn’t live in a vacuum. It lives in the real world, and the real world comes with things like agricultural runoff, pesticides, plastics, processed food, chronic stress, poor sleep, chemical exposures, and a pace of life that asks more from our bodies than ever before.

Most people don’t think much about any of that when they feel good. But when you’ve spent years exhausted, bloated, inflamed, foggy, anxious, or just feeling like a version of yourself that you barely recognize anymore, you start paying attention. You start asking different questions. Because eventually, “everything looks normal” stops being reassuring when you still feel awful.

I understand that frustration because I lived it. It’s also one of the reasons I’ve become so obsessed with pattern recognition. Not diagnoses. Not labels. Patterns.

The women who end up in our office are rarely making things up. They’re rarely lazy. They’re rarely overreacting. More often, they’re carrying a burden their body has been compensating for far longer than anyone realizes. And at some point, the compensation stops working.

That’s why I spend a lot less time asking, “What’s wrong with this person?” and a lot more time asking, “What pattern am I seeing?”

Because symptoms are clues. They’re your body’s way of waving a flag and trying to get your attention. And when you stop looking at symptoms as isolated problems and start looking at the bigger pattern, things often start making a lot more sense.

If you’ve ever been told you’re fine while feeling anything but fine, you’re exactly who I make this content for. Follow along.

Address

7205 Vista Drive #104
West Des Moines, IA
50266

Telephone

+15156128489

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Optimum Wellness Solutions posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category