I help women stop chasing symptoms, heal their body from chronic and autoimmune conditions and start their very own Root Cause Revolution.
I help people discover just how good they can feel. I blend science, eastern and western medicine, energy work, nutrition, ancient and modern techniques to help you live a well and nourished life.
03/07/2026
Conventional Lab Ranges vs Functional Lab Ranges 🤓
When we are looking at labs from a functional perspective we are looking outside the “normal ranges.”
Your conventional range is telling you if it’s urgent, emergent, or diagnose-able if it falls outside of normal ranges.
Functional ranges tell you what is OPTIMAL for health and longevity. Not just whether there is acute trouble. ❤
Conventional labs tell you where you’ve been. Functional lab values tell you where your going. Same labs. Different perspectives.
03/06/2026
How’s your hematocrit? 🫣
The last of the functional labs from conventional labs we are talking about as promised —hematocrit. 🩸
👉I will summarize Monday how to look at the big picture with all 5 numbers 👈
Hematocrit measures how much of your blood is made up of red blood cells.
Most folks only get the 🚩 it if it’s dangerously low (anemia) or extremely high (lots of big scaries).
From a metabolic POV 👉 hematocrit can tell us about blood thickness and oxygen demand.
When insulin is high or metabolism is stressed, the body can concentrate red blood cells and the blood becomes more viscous (thicker).
Which means that thicker blood means the heart has to work harder to move oxygen through the body.
Here’s the scoop 🧐 for ladies:
🟢 ~38–44% 🟰healthy blood viscosity
🟡 45–48% 🟰 metabolic stress possible
🔴 >48% → thicker blood / higher cardiovascular strain
Your hematocrit (and other CBC markers) are checking for anemia BUT also gives you clues about your metabolic risk (and cardiovascular risk too) ♥️
03/06/2026
Sneak 🫣 peek into your cellular stress from your routine labs.
🩸 RDW 🩸
RDW (Red Cell Distribution Width) measures how uniform your red blood cells are. I misspoke in the video - is not on. CMP But often ordered along side it.
Healthy metabolism 👉 cells are all the same size.
Metabolic stress 👉 cells come out different sizes.
This happens due to:
Oxidative stress, inflammation, and glucose swings damage red blood cells and disrupt how new ones are made.
functionally, RDW can be a cellular stress marker.
Most folks don’t hear about their RDW unless they’re anemic — but an RDW trending upward is associated with metabolic syndrome, diabetes risk, and cardiovascular disease.
Your red blood cells live about 120 days, so RDW can be thought of like a 3-month snapshot 📸 of cellular wear and tear.
Sound off 👇 where are you at?
03/04/2026
Alrighty, get those lab results out 🧐
Today we are looking at Uric Acid 👉 and no we aren’t looking for gout.
Uric Acid is also a metabolic marker.
When your liver processes large amounts of sugar - especially fructose - it produces Uric acid as a byproduct.
A rising trend in uri acid can point to metabolic stress before diagnosable diabetes appears obvious to your doctor. 🧑⚕️
Most labs from a conventional acute perspective consider up to 8.5 “normal.” But if your there your late ⏰ and you have been sugar overload 👉 liver stress 👉 metabolic dysfunction for a while.
You know the drill - sound off below 👇
03/02/2026
One of the earliest metabolic markers is hiding on your basic lab panel:
ALT
This is another one to look at in terms of standard blood work ➡️ functional insights.
Most people are told ALT = “liver damage.”
⚠️ Metabolically, ALT is often a fatty liver signal.
Your liver is the first place excess sugar gets stored as fat.
Before diabetes… before abnormal glucose… before symptoms…
ALT usually rises first.
Lab ranges often say normal is up to 40-56. BUT metabolically we like to see:
10–20 = ideal
20–30 = early metabolic stress
30+ = fatty liver likely
45 + = in some trouble now
When we talked about triglycerides, we learned they tell us what the liver is exporting.
ALT tells us what the liver is storing.
You don’t need new testing — just go look at your last CMP (Complete Metabolic Profile).
LMK your number below 👇
03/01/2026
First, general rule of thumb - ☀️ > 💡
The most basic form of improving your light environment involves 3 distinct signals. These signals tell your body what systems it should be working and how hard. Light is a signal for your metabolism for instance from the macro level down to the micro level of the mitochondria.
1️⃣ Morning Sunlight 🌅 - within 90 min of sunrise - get your naked eye out in the sunlight. Don’t stare at the sun 🤦♀️ but look at the horizon and the sky. Allow your eyes to receive the signal that it is daytime. (This is wha we do in stories each day here on IG with the “Sunrise HighFive”)
2️⃣ Midday sun 🌞- sometime around your midday or solar noon 🕛 head out to get 25 min of sunlight on as much of you (including your eyes) as possible. This helps with many metabolic functions including your cholesterol and raising your vitamin d level
3️⃣ Evening light 🌇- now ideally we’d all be walking around in the dark/candlelight after sunset but modern schedules don’t allow that for most. So here’s the scoop: get blue light blockers at night, avoid handheld screens after sunset, dim your lights, see the sunset if possible.
Let me know below 👇 do these steps seem doable?
If they don’t - pick the one that seems the easiest to shift. Practice it for a week. Then see what else you can shift.
02/28/2026
High cholesterol and low vitamin D often show up together — and it’s not random, but it’s still a 🚩
👉Your body actually makes vitamin D from cholesterol.
In your skin lives a cholesterol molecule (7-dehydrocholesterol) and when sunlight ☀️ hits it ➡️ your body converts it into vitamin D.
So cholesterol, contrary to popular belief, isn’t just a “heart number.”
💡It’s a raw material for hormones and vitamin D production.
If you’re indoors most of the time, heavily sunscreened, or getting only early/late sun, the conversion doesn’t happen.
Result:
Vitamin D stays low
Cholesterol stays higher
Sometimes the body isn’t over-producing cholesterol…
…it’s under-using it.
Before panicking about total cholesterol, always check vitamin D and sunlight exposure — you may be looking at a light signal problem, not a diet problem.
02/27/2026
Here’s the scoop - if your triglyceride to HDL ratio 3 or above it’s urgent - if it’s 5 or above IMO its a make changes now emergency.
How do we do that?
Getting from 2.0 to 1 - these changes typically are in meal timing and or your light environment.
Above 3 — the changes are the same, except we have to make some major nutritional changes as well. I like to start with practicing an appropriate breakfast for at least a week, then practicing an appropriate lunch while maintaining your breakfast, then practicing the third week with an appropriate dinner while maintaining your lunch and breakfast. On week four I recommend removing all of the snacks and other unnecessary items to clean up the meal timing.
typically buy about the third month or the 12th week you have made major 25% or better improvements in all of your scores. Not to mention you feel great.
02/25/2026
Stop fearing LDL, or even total cholesterol 👀
Instead look at the metabolic story.
(And just say no to statins 🚫)
Often folks don’t want to pay for functional testing - and in my practice you don’t have to, because we can tell a tremendous amount from just your standard labs that your family doc runs.
One of the most important is a metabolic marker from your lipid panel. And psssst it isn’t total cholesterol.
It’s your:
Triglycerides / HDL ratio
Why? 🤔
Well your Triglycerides rise when your liver is converting excess sugar into fat and your HDL falls when your insulin stays high.
So the ratio of Triglycerides/ HDL becomes a window into your insulin sensitivity or insulin resistance — years before other markers. And 1/10 of functional la testing.
So get out your most recent labs. Look for triglycerides and HDL. Divide triglycerides by HDL and you will get a number.
If your number is
< 1 = metabolically flexible 🔥 (GOAAL!)
1–2 = healthy
2–3 = insulin resistance
3 = metabolic dysfunction
5 + = severe cardiovascular risk
(So statins change the lab numbers but not the risk)
You can have “high LDL” and be metabolically healthy…
and you can with “normal cholesterol” can be severely insulin resistant and have very high cardiovascular risk. But the ratio - tells us the metabolic story.
02/06/2026
If someone asked me who I am, I’d show them this. ✨
Life rooted in land.
Built with love.
Full of laughter.
No performance.
No fixing.
Just presence.
Most of our tension doesn’t come from who we are. It comes from the effort of maintaining who we think we need to be.
When you tune back into the real you, the body recognizes safety again. And that is where the magic of healing happens.
📸 credit topping portraits
02/05/2026
Don’t worry, I’m passionate about it NOW - but that’s not why I started down this path. 💖 passion yes - but misguided.
I got into it because the medical model failed me. It failed me at 11 years old when I spent the year in and out of Children’s Hopsital in Little Rock - missing all but 1 month of my 6th grade year.
Even after that, I persevered. I went to become an RN (still have that license now). Then my daughter came along and we began to repeat the same issue. No real answers. Medications to suppress symptoms. Lots of shrugged shoulders.
Still I persevered. I’ll go to Nurse Practitioner school. And then I realized it was just more of the same.
The typical answers are to throw meds at it. So I went to Naturopathy school and got my doctorate in Traditional Naturopathy and while the information was different - out in the wild the practice was very much the same. Only - through supplements at it.
It wasn’t until I started asking “What signal is being ignored?” that things changed.
What once felt like weakness, questioning everything, refusing bandaids and shortcuts, not fitting into the box - became my superpower.
I can see patterns other miss. I don’t teach you to override your body. I teach you how to rebuild to heal yourself.
10/13/2025
What is Traditional Naturopathy + what can it help with?
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Naturopathy is a science-based system that uses natural methods to allow your body to heal itself.
No masking symptoms or putting duct tape over the check engine light.
The focus is on root cause analysis rather than diagnosis or symptoms, and it relies on natural means: diet, lifestyle, herbs, supplements, avoidance of chemicals, support for detoxification, and reduction and/or relief of stress instead of prescriptions and invasive therapies (I leave those to your conventional medical team).
It's beneficial and supportive for acute and chronic conditions, but is NOT intended for urgent or emergent care. We can work alongside your conventional medical team if needed.
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Hi there! I’m Audrey Christie! I help women find relief and remission from autoimmune disease (and other chronic illness too). I’m a holistic wellness practitioner with functional medicine+ functional nutrition + energetic medicine approach to wellness. My processes are simple and get to the root cause using a holistic approach that includes the body, mind, and spirit.
My background and training includes several body and energy modalities, including Masters of Science in Nursing with a minor in Education, Registered Nurse, Medical Intuitive, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Reiki Master, Ripple Magic Facilitator, Certified Clinical Master of Aromatherapy, Certified Crystal Healer, Yoga Teacher, certification in Homeopathics, energy medicine, Ayurveda, Epigenetics, nutrition, and many other healing modalities.
I pull from all of this to work to help clients via one-on-one sessions, group classes, and courses.
What does that look like?
If you are interested in learning more, find Free Resources here.
Or if you are ready to work together, learn how here. I work with clients virtually all over the world, and see clients in person at Essential Healing in Lake Dallas, TX.
If you are interested in me coming to speak or teach a class email her team at acm@audreychristie.com.
