When Stephanie first came to me in 2022, she was carrying a heavy load: a Hashimoto's diagnosis, high cholesterol, pre-diabetes, a strong likelihood of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and severe migraines that had stolen 3–5 days of her life, once or twice a month, since she was a pre-teen. She ate clean, tracked everything, and exercised up to two hours a day — and still couldn't lose weight or escape her IBS symptoms. In her words, she'd "lost hope" of feeling well.
Standard workups had never explained the full picture, so I ran a GI-MAP stool analysis — and it did: an H. pylori overgrowth, an overgrowth of opportunistic Pseudomonas bacteria, and depleted keystone beneficial bacteria (her Akkermansia and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii were undetectable) — alongside toxic mold exposure. Together, a gut environment quietly fueling inflammation, her metabolic markers, and her symptoms.
We started with the foundations — making sure she was actually eating enough to support her body, plus real stress management and movement. From there I treated the gut infections her testing uncovered, corrected her nutrient deficiencies, and cleared the mold exposure with targeted supplements — nutrition, lifestyle, and supplements all working together. One detail I'm especially glad we sorted out: her H. pylori kept coming back — which is common when a partner carries it, too. So we had her husband tested, he came back positive, and once we cleared it for both of them, it finally stayed gone.
Two years of root-cause work added up to a genuinely different life:
"I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's and struggled with high cholesterol, severe migraines, pre-diabetes and likely fatty liver disease. Two years later, my thyroid levels are optimal — I went from a TSH of 5.29 to 1.18 and no longer lose clumps of my hair. My cholesterol went from 260 to 238 without medication. By addressing gut infections and mold exposure, I eased my IBS symptoms and lost 20 pounds. I'm officially no longer pre-diabetic, and a recent liver ultrasound came back normal. Working with Gina was the best investment and most important decision I've ever made for my health."
If you've been told your labs are "normal" but you still feel off, let's find what they missed.
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