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Dr. Skye Stewart, 3168 Braverton Street, Suite 330, Edgewater, MD (2025)

12/22/2025

Between parties, sugar everywhere, travel, skipped meals, and family stress… your immune system is working overtime.

Here’s why flares hit harder in December:

👉 Cortisol spikes from stress = inflammation

👉 Blood sugar swings = immune activation

👉 Sugar + stress = leaky-gut symptoms

👉 Lack of sleep = zero recovery

👉 Alcohol = immune + gut irritation

Try these tips this month:

✔️ Eat protein before events

✔️ Keep electrolytes in your purse

✔️ Anchor one meal a day with real food (protein + veg + healthy fat)

✔️ Don’t skip meals even when busy

✔️ Slow exhale breathing to calm your immune system

Your autoimmune symptoms don’t pop out of nowhere… there’s a reason why they’re triggered every holiday season.

BUT they don’t have to take you down this year!

12/19/2025

Use these tips and I promise this year you’ll feel better…

1️⃣ Party Plate Rule of 3: 1 protein, 1 produce, 1 treat. Prevents the “I blacked out at the snack table” moment.

2️⃣ Eat Before Target: Holiday errands + hunger = peppermint bark you didn’t plan on buying.

3️⃣ 2-Drink Decoy: Drink what you want → then sparkling water in a wine glass. Cuts alcohol + keeps you alive tomorrow.

4️⃣ Bathroom Breathwork: 4 seconds in, 6 seconds out. 10 rounds. No one knows you escaped.

5️⃣ Magnesium at 4pm: 200–400mg glycinate before the party to calm nerves/bloat/PMS.

6️⃣ Mom Snack Box: Beef sticks, nuts, applesauce, electrolytes. Saves money, meltdowns, and blood sugar.

7️⃣ 7-Minute Morning Movement: Before the kids wake up. Mood, cravings, energy = instantly better.

Save this for holiday season survival 💛

12/18/2025

Functional medicine is built on one simple truth.

Your symptoms always have a ROOT cause.

And once you understand *why* your body feels the way it does, everything starts to shift.

Not through guesswork.

Not through quick fixes.

Not through “just manage it” or “your labs look normal.”

But through:

✔️ Real data

✔️ Real answers

✔️ Real clarity

✔️ Real support

✔️ Real healing

Functional medicine looks deeper into your gut, hormones, nutrients, inflammation, stress patterns, and the way your body processes life through comprehensive functional medicine lab work.

And once we see what’s actually going on beneath the surface, we can finally put the pieces together to support your body in the way it’s been asking for.

You deserve a version of life where you:

✨ Wake up with steady energy

✨ Feel calm in your own skin

✨ Have mental clarity again

✨ Feel confident in your body

✨ Don’t crash in the afternoons

✨ Don’t feel inflamed after every meal

✨ Actually feel *good,* not just “fine”

Even if you don’t see that version of yourself today, she’s still in there.

Functional medicine simply helps you find your way back to her.

If you’re ready for answers instead of guessing,

👉 Book a free 10-min consult (link in bio).

You don’t have to feel this way forever. 💛

11/23/2025

You’ve cut out gluten, dairy, sugar…

You’re meal-prepping, walking daily, drinking your greens—

but your body still feels puffy, tired, and inflamed. 😩

Here’s why 👇

Even the “cleanest” diet can’t fix inflammation if hidden stressors are still active:

🔥 Gut infections or imbalances (candida, parasites, SIBO) keep your immune system on alert.

💥 Stress hormones (cortisol, adrenaline) weaken your gut lining and drive inflammation.

☣️ Toxin overload (mold, heavy metals, pollutants) keeps your detox pathways jammed.

When your system’s overloaded, your immune response can’t just turn off — even if you’re doing everything right.

That’s why real healing takes more than removing foods.

It’s about rebuilding balance: your gut, hormones, and detox pathways working together again.

You’re not crazy for wondering why you still don’t feel like yourself.

Your body isn’t broken — it’s communicating.

Functional medicine lab testing helps us translate those signals.

Instead of guessing, we look at what’s actually happening inside your gut, hormones, and detox pathways so we can address the *real* root causes of your inflammation.

Because once you see what your body’s been trying to say…

healing finally makes sense. 💛

👉 Book your free 10-min consult — this could be the turning point you’ve been waiting for.

👉 Follow for more real, root-cause healing insights.

11/22/2025

“You’re fine. your thyroid labs are normal.”

If I had a dollar for every woman who’s heard that while barely holding it together, I’d be living on a private island right now. 😅

Ladies, “normal” doesn’t mean healthy.

It just means your numbers fall inside a very wide reference range.

But your body doesn’t care about ranges. It cares about balance.

If your labs are “normal,” but you’re still:

➡️ Waking up exhausted no matter how early you go to bed

➡️ Gaining weight even though you’re eating clean and working out

➡️ Losing handfuls of hair in the shower

➡️ Feeling puffy, bloated, or freezing all the time

➡️ Snapping at your kids for no reason because you’re running on fumes

…then your thyroid might be under-functioning long before your labs say so.

Because most doctors only test TSH (the messenger hormone).

But that’s like checking the thermostat and never seeing if the heat actually turned on.

A full thyroid panel looks deeper. It looks at Free T3, Free T4, Reverse T3, and antibodies — to show how well your thyroid hormones are being made, converted, and used by your cells.

When we dig deeper, we often find early Hashimoto’s, nutrient deficiencies, adrenal stress, or inflammation holding your thyroid back.

So if you’ve been told “everything looks normal,” but your body says otherwise…trust your symptoms.

They’re not all in your head. They’re messages. 💛

👉 Book your FREE 10-min consult (link in bio) and let’s look beyond normal together.

11/20/2025

You tell yourself it’s just stress, or another rough night with the kids, or simply “part of being a busy mom.”

But here’s the truth…caffeine doesn’t create energy. It borrows it from your already depleted reserves.

When your thyroid and adrenals are struggling, every cup of coffee pushes your exhausted body harder instead of giving it the real support it needs to recover.

Here’s what’s really happening inside your body 👇

☕️ Coffee spikes cortisol (your stress hormone) giving you a temporary 20-minute boost.

⬇️ Then cortisol crashes hard, leaving you anxious, mentally foggy, and reaching for another cup by noon.

🧬 Over time, this constant cortisol rollercoaster wears down your thyroid and adrenals even more, leading to:

- The dreaded 2pm energy crash

- Stubborn weight gain despite eating “all the right things”

- Brain fog that makes simple tasks feel impossible + mood swings you can’t control

- Feeling completely wired at bedtime but exhausted all day long

Your body isn’t broken or lazy …it’s desperately asking for the right kind of support.

Here’s how to start rebuilding your real, lasting energy:

✨ Eat a protein-rich breakfast (20-30g protein) within an hour of waking to stabilize blood sugar

✨ Get 10 minutes of morning sunlight before you even touch your phone

✨ Swap your second or third coffee for mineral-rich water, herbal tea, or golden milk

✨ Aim for a consistent bedtime before 10 PM to help reset your cortisol rhythms naturally

When you finally support your thyroid + adrenals properly, your energy starts coming from your own body — not from a mug.

👉 If you’re running on caffeine and fumes but still feel like you’re running on empty, it’s time to look deeper at what’s really going on.

Book your FREE 10-min consultation (link in bio) and let’s uncover what your labs might be missing — and what your body is trying to tell you.

11/19/2025

Did you know about 70% of your immune system lives in your gut?

That means when your gut lining becomes “leaky,” tiny gaps form between the cells that normally keep food particles, toxins, and bacteria *inside* your digestive tract.

When those escape into the bloodstream, your immune system panics.

It sees those particles as invaders and goes on defense mode.

Over time, that can lead to chronic inflammation and even autoimmune flares.

You might feel it as:

💥 Joint pain that comes and goes

💥 Bloating after meals

💥 Skin breakouts or rashes

💥 Fatigue and brain fog you can’t shake

This is why healing the gut lining is one of the most powerful steps in calming autoimmunity.

When the gut wall is repaired, the immune system finally stops fighting the wrong battle and symptoms start to fade.

Your body isn’t broken.

It’s communicating. 🧠✨

👉 Follow for more functional medicine insights

👉 Book a free 10-min consult to uncover your root cause

10/21/2025

Sometimes the missing piece is toxic heavy metals—things like mercury, lead, and arsenic that silently build up in your body over time.

🔹 Mercury from old dental fillings or high-mercury fish

🔹 Lead from old pipes, paint, or contaminated soil

🔹 Arsenic from rice, well water, or certain foods

These metals don’t just “pass through.” They can store in your brain, liver, kidneys, and fat tissue, disrupting energy, mood, and hormones.

The test I use is a cutting-edge test that measures heavy metals in blood, urine, and hair simultaneously.

Why is that important? Because it shows us:

✔️ Your current exposure (what’s coming in now)

✔️ Your body’s ability to excrete metals (how well you’re detoxing)

✔️ Your overall body burden (how much has built up over time)

This matters because detox isn’t one-size-fits-all.

If your body can’t excrete metals well, a generic detox could make you feel worse—mobilizing toxins without eliminating them.

With these results, we can create a personalized plan using the right binders, nutrients, and liver + gut support—so detox is safe, targeted, and effective.

✨ If you’ve tried everything and still feel foggy, fatigued, or inflamed, this test could be the answer you’ve been missing.

📅 Book your free 10‑minute consult today, and let’s see if heavy metal testing is the next step to finally feeling like yourself again.

10/20/2025

Okay, be honest? Who’s gone all in on pumpkin spice season already... 🙋‍♀️?

It seems like EVERYTHING gets the pumpkin spice treatment these days - lattes, air fresheners, candles, cookies, cereal, even dog treats! There’s something about that warm, spicy scent that makes home feel extra cozy when the weather turns cool. BUT have you ever noticed some weird things happening after burning those pumpkin spice candles all evening or spending the day in a coffee shop full of artificial pumpkin scent?

➡️ That random headache that shows up out of nowhere

➡️ Waking up feeling like you didn’t sleep well

➡️ Feeling irritable or “off” for no good reason

Here’s the thing - it’s not all in your head! Most store-bought pumpkin spice products (especially candles) are made with artificial fragrances and paraffin (basically petroleum). When they burn, they release a bunch of not-so-great stuff into the air that your body has to deal with.

The good news? You can still have all the fall feels without the yucky side effects. Try these instead:

✨ Simmer some apple slices, cinnamon sticks, and real pumpkin pie spice in water on the stove

✨ Get candles made from beeswax or soy with real essential oils (not “pumpkin spice fragrance”)

✨ Use a diffuser with orange, cinnamon, and clove oils for that authentic fall scent

👉 Follow for more easy swaps that actually make you feel better

👉 Book your FREE 10-min chat (link in bio) if you’re tired of feeling blah after indulging in pumpkin spice everything and want to find out why

10/19/2025

Who’s gone all in on pumpkin spice season already... 🙋‍♀️?

It seems like EVERYTHING gets the pumpkin spice treatment these days - lattes, air fresheners, candles, cookies, cereal, even dog treats! There’s something about that warm, spicy scent that makes home feel extra cozy when the weather turns cool. BUT have you ever noticed some weird things happening after burning those pumpkin spice candles all evening or spending the day in a coffee shop full of artificial pumpkin scent?

➡️ That random headache that shows up out of nowhere

➡️ Waking up feeling like you didn’t sleep well

➡️ Feeling irritable or “off” for no good reason

Here’s the thing - it’s not all in your head! Most store-bought pumpkin spice products (especially candles) are made with artificial fragrances and paraffin (basically petroleum). When they burn, they release a bunch of not-so-great stuff into the air that your body has to deal with.

The good news? You can still have all the fall feels without the yucky side effects. Try these instead:

✨ Simmer some apple slices, cinnamon sticks, and real pumpkin pie spice in water on the stove

✨ Get candles made from beeswax or soy with real essential oils (not “pumpkin spice fragrance”)

✨ Use a diffuser with orange, cinnamon, and clove oils for that authentic fall scent

👉 Follow for more easy swaps that actually make you feel better

👉 Book your FREE 10-min chat (link in bio) if you’re tired of feeling blah after indulging in pumpkin spice everything and want to find out why

10/17/2025

Pumpkin spice everything is back… but did you know most fall drinks + snacks are basically a sugar bomb in disguise?

➡️ A medium PSL has 50 grams of sugar. That’s 12 teaspoons...

➡️ Packaged pumpkin bars, cookies, cereals? Usually loaded with refined sugar, seed oils, and “pumpkin flavoring” instead of real pumpkin.

Here’s why that matters ⬇️

🚨 Blood sugar spikes → energy crashes + carb cravings

🚨 Gut irritation → bloating + inflammation

🚨 Mood swings + brain fog → from cortisol + insulin rollercoaster

🚨 Hormonal stress → especially on adrenals + thyroid long-term

The good news? You don’t have to skip cozy fall vibes. 🍁

You just need to swap fake pumpkin spice for the real thing: actual pumpkin puree, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a touch of balanced sweetness.

✨ If you’re tired of bloating, crashes, and mood swings every time you indulge, let’s dig deeper into your root causes.

👉 Book your FREE 10-min consult today (link in bio)

👉 FOLLOW for more gut + energy tips this fall!

10/16/2025

She came to me exhausted. Every doctor had said the same thing:

“It’s stress. Take meds. Manage it.”

But her reality?

- Waking up tired, even after 8 hours of sleep
- Pain in her joints that made simple tasks hard
- Gut issues that flared after almost every meal
- Brain fog that made work feel impossible

When we ran functional testing, we uncovered what was driving her autoimmune flares:

🦠 Gut imbalances + leaky gut

🔥 Sky-high inflammation markers

🥛 Food triggers she never knew about

⚡ Nutrient deficiencies that left her immune system struggling

Once we addressed the ROOT:

✨ Gut-healing protocol

✨ Anti-inflammatory foods that fit her life

✨ Stress + nervous system support

✨ Removing hidden toxins from her home

Her energy came back. Her pain eased. And her “flare-ups” became rare instead of daily.

👉 Autoimmune conditions don’t define you—you just need to know the why.

📲 Book your FREE 10-min consult today (link in bio)

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