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SerenityNP Integrative Health

Promoting Women’s Health through Functional Medicine.

Carolyn Johnson, WHNP-BC
🌱 Restoring vitality with a holistic, integrative approach! 👩‍⚕️

Services:
Functional Medicine
Bioidentical Hormone Replenishment
Women's Wellness
Preventative/Wellness Care

SerenityNP.com | 815-604-6075 Call or Text Combining traditional and functional medicine to help you experience healing and lasting joy in your health.

12/27/2025

If you’ve felt off lately: low energy, irritable, anxious, or just not like yourself - your hormones might be behind it. & you can start supporting your body naturally, right now!!

🥣1. Eat More Soluble Fiber
Soluble fiber feeds the good bugs that produce butyrate, a compound that boosts serotonin, reduces inflammation, and strengthens your gut lining.
👉 Try oats, apples, flax, chia, or barley. One fiber-rich plant a day = better mood and digestion

🏋️‍♀️2. Prioritize Strength Training
Muscle is metabolically active and hormonally powerful. Just 2–3 sessions a week can:
✔️ Lower cortisol
✔️ Balance estrogen and testosterone
✔️ Improve sleep and reduce anxiety

🌙3. Support Your Progesterone Naturally
This calming, sleep-promoting hormone declines with age, especially if ovulation becomes irregular
✔️ Track ovulation
✔️ Eat fats + B6-rich foods (eggs, salmon, avocado)
✔️ Strength train
Still struggling? Bioidentical progesterone therapy may help

💊4. Replenish Magnesium
As estrogen drops, unfortunately so does magnesium absorption… leading to sleep issues, hot flashes, anxiety, and fatigue
✔️ Eat leafy greens, pumpkin seeds, and dark chocolate
✔️ Supplement with magnesium glycinate (for calm) or citrate (for digestion)

💃5. Boost Estrogen Naturally
Estrogen supports mood, memory, joints, and metabolism. If yours is low, try:
✔️ Gentle movement + strength training
✔️ Eating enough! especially protein and healthy fats
✔️ Phytoestrogens (like flax, tofu, lentils)

If symptoms persist, getting labs done may be your next step.
📩 Message us or book a consult to explore testing and options that are tailored to you

12/24/2025

Most advice around breast cancer prevention is “Eat healthy” and, “Get your mammogram”.
These things ARE important, yes. But also limited.
A mammogram can only detect cancer after it’s already formed, often 8 years into its development.
And while genetics play a role, they are not the full story. Only 10% of breast cancers are inherited.
The truth?
⚠️Everyday toxins
⚠️Hormone imbalances
⚠️Nutrient deficiencies
⚠️Poor gut and immune health
…all influence whether a damaged cell becomes dangerous or gets cleared away.

Why do we love functional medicine? Because there are real things we can do to reduce risk:
🧼 Clear toxins
🛠 Repair gut and immune function
🥦 Nourish with targeted nutrients
⚖️ Balance hormones
🏃‍♀️ Optimize lifestyle in a sustainable way
Let’s build a breast environment that protects you.
Message us to learn more or book a consult💗

12/22/2025

Science says… here’s how to feel better: don’t skip your magnesium ⚡️
Waking up at 2 AM wide-eyed?
Feeling anxious for no reason?
Dragging through the day even after a full night’s sleep?
You might be low in magnesium. And PSA - most women are, especially in perimenopause.
As estrogen declines, your body absorbs less magnesium… and that ripple effect touches everything:
🧠Mood
💤Sleep
🔥Hot flashes
❤️Heart health
⚡️Energy
🌿Digestion
The good news? There are things you can do to support your body:
✔️Eat more magnesium-rich foods like pumpkin seeds, leafy greens, and dark chocolate
💊Consider a high-quality supplement like magnesium glycinate or citrate
And if you’re doing it all but still don’t feel like yourself, BHRT can help your body better utilize the nutrients you’re giving it.
You’re not crazy. You’re not broken. You’re just missing support your body used to get naturally.
We can help you get it back. Message us anytime ✨

12/20/2025

Your health is worth it! Ladies, you deserve to show up for yourself. Don’t leave your wellness to chance. Give yourself what you need, and start to feel the difference.

12/18/2025

We LIVE for these testimonials!! Real women, real transformations, real solutions. We love seeing this progress.

12/15/2025

Science says… here’s how to feel better: support your progesterone 🌙
That feeling of being wired but exhausted... the sleepless nights... the rising irritability you can’t explain?
It’s not just stress. It could be low progesterone. Which is actually good news, because there are many ways to support your progesterone!
This calming, stabilizing hormone starts to drop in your mid-30s as ovulation becomes less consistent, especially during perimenopause.
Effective ways to naturally support progesterone:
🌙Track your cycle + support ovulation
🌙Strength train + manage chronic stress
🌙Fuel your body (hello healthy fats + B6-rich foods)
🌙And if you’re doing all the right things but still don’t feel like yourself? That’s where bioidentical hormone therapy (BHRT) may come in.
Your body isn’t failing! It just may need the support to make the progesterone it once made on its own.
We’re here to help you feel like you again💚

12/13/2025

Exercises you can plug into this tabata circuit:
💪jump squats
💪sit ups
💪crunches
💪mountain climbers
💪push ups
💪plank shoulder taps
💪squat pulses
💪jumping lunges
💪bicycle kicks
💪tricep dips
💪pull ups

You don’t need hours in the gym.
You just need 20 minutes and a decision to move!!

Doing this full-body Tabata was short, sweaty, and so necessary.
Strength training and having more skeletal muscle helps our bodies stabilize blood sugar, boost testosterone, and support your mood! It’s way more than just looking good on the outside, this is medicine to help you feel good from the inside out.
✅ No heavy weights
✅ Just bodyweight and intention
✅ Total time: 20 min (not including warm-up and cool-down which I highly recommend)
Movement is medicine and you’re worth the effort! No one can do it for you, show up and start to see the difference. You deserve to feel like you again.

12/10/2025

The real antidepressant is not just serotonin. It’s fiber!!
Around 90 percent of serotonin, the chemical that helps regulate your mood, focus, and motivation, is actually made in your gut. But your gut microbes can’t do it alone!... They need soluble fiber as fuel.
When your microbes ferment fiber, they produce butyrate. This powerful short chain fatty acid lowers inflammation, strengthens the gut lining, and boosts serotonin signaling in the brain. Low fiber means low butyrate, which can lead to an inflamed brain and a fragile mood. I don’t know about you but before I learned about fiber I would have NEVER naturally connected my gut health to how I’m feeling mentally.
More fiber means stronger gut health, better brain chemistry, and more emotional balance.
Studies show that people who eat the most fiber have up to 40 percent lower rates of depression… that’s an insane statistic!
The reason is not the carbs. It is the chemistry.
Your microbes do not need motivation.
They need food.

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12/08/2025

Science says… here’s how to feel better: strength training!
If you feel exhausted, anxious, or like your mood is all over the place... it’s not just stress. It could be your hormones.
And one of the most effective (and free!) ways to support your hormone health? Strength training.
Just 2–3x per week can:
🏋️‍♀️improve sleep and reduce anxiety
🏋️‍♀️balance cortisol (your stress hormone)
🏋️‍♀️support steady estrogen + testosterone
🏋️‍♀️build the kind of confidence that stays with you

Muscle isn’t just about appearance, it’s about feeling like yourself again💪
And if you’re already lifting weights and still don’t feel better? That’s a sign your hormones might need deeper support. We can help with that too💚
Message us if you’re ready to stop guessing and start feeling better.

12/05/2025

Incredible tips on how to keep looking and feeling young!

There are so many things you can do and invest in yourself at any age to keep feeling young, healthy, and happy.

12/04/2025

BIG NEWS!!!
This is the moment we’ve been waiting for and it’s *finally* here.
A brand-new clinical trial was just published, and it has the potential to completely shift how we approach women’s health, brain energy, and the menopause transition.
For years, we’ve said midlife women deserve research that’s just as rigorous as what we see in sports science or heart health. and now we finally have it.
This is the first study of its kind in peri- and postmenopausal women that shows REAL, MEASURABLE, improvements in brain energy, mood, and cognitive function after just 8 weeks of a safe, simple, affordable intervention.
This isn’t just hype. It’s real data. Real women. And it might be one of the most important breakthroughs for women in years.
Swipe through to learn exactly what it means.

12/03/2025

Science says… here’s how to feel better: eat soluble fiber!
Each meal is a chance to nourish your mood 🧠🥣
If your mood has been low, your gut might be trying to tell you something. Your gut is not just for digestion, it’s where most of your serotonin is made. And the key ingredient? You guessed it. Soluble fiber.
When you feed your gut the right kinds of fiber (think oats, flax, apples, chia), your microbes create butyrate; a short-chain fatty acid that helps:
✨calm inflammation
✨improve serotonin production
✨support mood and focus

It’s one of the simplest (and most overlooked) ways to support your mental health.
If you’re doing everything “right” and still don’t feel like yourself, your hormones might also be playing a role. That’s where personalized hormone support can step in.
You don’t have to figure it out alone. Message us anytime!

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Crystal Lake, IL
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Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	9am - 2pm

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