Midtown Chiropractic and Vital Principal Functional Medicine

Midtown Chiropractic and Vital Principal Functional Medicine Dr. Lindsey Carr, DC, CACCP, IFMCP, DABCI and Dr. Allison Bomar-Hyong, DC Dr. Lindsey Carr is a chiropractor at Midtown Chiropractic in Memphis, TN.

If you are struggling with neck or back pain, headaches or migraines, carpal tunnel, sciatica, or any other health condition please call us today or visit our website.

Happy Monday 🐥🐥
03/30/2026

Happy Monday 🐥🐥

🚫Your anxiety, your low motivation, and your foggy thinking are not personality problems.Your gut microbiome is involved...
03/27/2026

🚫Your anxiety, your low motivation, and your foggy thinking are not personality problems.

Your gut microbiome is involved. The research has been accumulating for over a decade, much of it coming from Dr. John Cryan and Dr. Ted Dinan at University College Cork, Dr. Emeran Mayer at UCLA, and others who have made gut-brain neuroscience their life's work.

❌This is not alternative medicine.
✅This is neuroscience that most people have never been introduced to. Save this one.

🚨Acne🚨Anxiety🚨Achy joints🚨Afternoon crashes….all might all share the same root.That sounds like a stretch until you unde...
03/26/2026

🚨Acne
🚨Anxiety
🚨Achy joints
🚨Afternoon crashes

….all might all share the same root.

That sounds like a stretch until you understand what happens when the gut microbiome shifts.

The visible symptoms people expect from gut dysbiosis: bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhea.

➠Most people know these.

The invisible ones almost no one connects:
🕸️Morning anxiety that fades by noon.
The gut bacteria that are imbalanced overnight produce metabolites that spike cortisol and dysregulate the HPA axis. By late morning, it settles. It feels like anxiety. It has a gut origin.

🕸️Skin that breaks out in hormonal patterns.
The estrobolome, the community of gut bacteria that metabolize estrogen, directly influences androgen levels. Disrupted gut means disrupted hormones, and disrupted hormones show up on the skin.

🕸️Joint stiffness, especially first thing in the morning.
LPS from gram-negative bacteria can cross a compromised gut lining and trigger systemic inflammation that lands in connective tissue. Inflammatory joint symptoms without a diagnosis often have a gut driver underneath.

🕸️Histamine reactions after wine, leftovers, aged cheese, or fermented foods.
Not an allergy. A sign that bacteria responsible for producing histamine are overgrown, and the DAO enzyme that should degrade it is depleted.

🕸️Flat mood and low motivation through the day.
Your gut produces 90 to 95% of the serotonin precursors in your body. When dysbiosis disrupts the bacteria that regulate tryptophan availability, mood chemistry shifts downstream.

🕸️Blood sugar crashes 2 to 3 hours after eating.
Short-chain fatty acids produced by healthy gut bacteria help regulate insulin sensitivity and blood sugar signaling. When those bacteria are depleted, the regulation goes with them.

None of these are mysterious. Every single one has a mechanism.

🙄"Everything came back normal."I hear this almost every week.😡And I understand why it's so disorienting. You have real s...
03/25/2026

🙄"Everything came back normal."

I hear this almost every week.😡

And I understand why it's so disorienting. You have real symptoms disrupting your daily life, and a stack of results that say nothing is wrong.

➠Here is what I have learned: normal does not mean thorough.

🚩It means nothing was flagged as disease within a reference range designed to catch disease, not to optimize function.

A standard GI workup often includes a colonoscopy to rule out structural issues, a basic H. pylori test, sometimes a celiac panel. Those are reasonable starting points. They are not the finish line.

What a comprehensive functional workup adds:
✅A GI-MAP or comprehensive stool analysis assessing your full microbial landscape, including opportunistic bacteria, inflammatory markers like calprotectin and sIgA, and gut lining health through zonulin.

✅Organic acids testing to see what your gut bacteria are actually metabolizing and how that is affecting your energy, cognition, and brain chemistry.

✅Cortisol rhythm testing, because chronic stress directly changes gut motility, stomach acid output, and microbiome composition over time.

✅Targeted bloodwork that includes hs-CRP, ferritin, homocysteine, and micronutrient status because deficiencies and inflammation both tell us something about how the gut is functioning.

When someone has been dismissed with "normal labs," there is almost always something that was never looked at. My job is to look.🔎

❤️‍🩹You were not making it up.That is the first thing I want to say to most of the patients who come through my door.You...
03/24/2026

❤️‍🩹You were not making it up.

That is the first thing I want to say to most of the patients who come through my door.

You described symptoms you had been managing for years.

❤️‍🩹You were told it was stress, or anxiety, or just how your body works.
❤️‍🩹Maybe someone told you to try yoga or eat less.

✅You did all of it.
❌And you still felt the same.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from having your own experience dismissed. It is different from just being unwell. It is the experience of being unwell and invisible at the same time. I see it walk into my office regularly, and I recognize it quickly.

What I know, after years in practice, is that symptoms are not random.
🚩Bloating that builds every afternoon.
🚩Waking at 2:47am.
🚩Jeans that fit in the morning and do not fit by lunch.
🚩A mood crash that comes right after eating.

These are not personality quirks. They are information (and red flags).

The problem was never that your body had nothing to say. The problem was that no one around you knew how to listen to it.

But also…have a great day! 🤣❤️
03/23/2026

But also…have a great day! 🤣❤️

As the first day of spring arrives, it's a reminder that the earth is renewing itself, and the potential for growth and ...
03/20/2026

As the first day of spring arrives, it's a reminder that the earth is renewing itself, and the potential for growth and transformation is all around us. ✨

It's also an opportunity to reflect on our own health and well-being, and to consider the ways in which we can renew ourselves and make positive changes in our lives.

Just like the earth, our bodies have an incredible ability to heal and regenerate. We can tap into this natural resilience and begin to transform our lives for the better by focusing on our:

🌸Physical
🌸Mental
🌸And emotional health.

👉 Whether it's through regular exercise, nourishing our bodies with healthy foods, or taking time to prioritize our mental health and well-being, there are countless ways to support our health and wellness.

👉 And just like the changing of the seasons, it's never too late to start anew and make positive changes in our lives. So let this first day of spring be a reminder of the incredible potential within us all to transform our lives and cultivate greater health and wellness.

Let's embrace the season of growth and renewal, and commit to taking small steps each day towards a healthier, happier life. 🤸

Tell me one thing you’re going to do today to support your health in the comments!

Your gut lining is literally one cell thick.🧱❌That is not a metaphor.✅That is anatomy.And when that single-cell barrier ...
03/19/2026

Your gut lining is literally one cell thick.🧱

❌That is not a metaphor.
✅That is anatomy.

And when that single-cell barrier gets compromised, the list of symptoms that follows looks nothing like a gut problem.
🚩Joint pain.
🚩Brain fog.
🚩Skin rashes.
🚩Mood changes.
🚩Thyroid antibodies

If you have been chasing these symptoms in separate departments, the gut might be where this all starts.

The research is solid. The mechanisms are measurable. And the testing exists. Save this and read all the slides.

❌Not all bloating is the same.➠➠Where you feel it matters more than any food you have eliminated so far.Before I look at...
03/18/2026

❌Not all bloating is the same.

➠➠Where you feel it matters more than any food you have eliminated so far.

Before I look at anyone's diet, I want to know two things:
1️⃣where does the bloat hit
2️⃣when does it start

Those two answers tell me more than any food diary.

📌Upper abdomen right after eating usually points to the stomach or early small intestine. Low stomach acid, delayed gastric emptying, or the beginning of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. The food sits and ferments instead of moving.

📌Lower abdomen building through the afternoon is often the large intestine. Bacterial imbalance, excess fermentation in the colon, or the estrogen-gut connection. Estrogen receptors line the gut wall. When estrogen clearance is sluggish, motility slows with it.

📌Bloat that is already there when you wake up usually means fermentation happened overnight. Methane-producing organisms, slower transit, food sitting in the colon longer than it should.

Bloat that starts fine and builds by 3pm is often a sign of fermentation happening in the wrong part of the gut. SIBO lives here. So does dysbiosis.

Your bloat has a pattern. That pattern is data. And data can be worked with.

03/18/2026

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Why it matters:
You do not need a diabetes diagnosis to learn from your glucose patterns. A CGM can help you understand how your body responds to food, movement, sleep, and stress in real time.

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😤You're eating 1,200 calories. Walking every day. Doing everything the internet says you should do to "boost your metabo...
03/17/2026

😤You're eating 1,200 calories. Walking every day. Doing everything the internet says you should do to "boost your metabolism."

😤And you're either gaining weight or stuck at the exact same number you've been staring at for months.

Here's what's probably actually happening:

🦋Your reverse T3 is high because your body thinks you're in a famine and is actively blocking thyroid hormone from working.

🥞Your fasting insulin is elevated, meaning you've been insulin resistant for years and no one thought to check it.

☀️Your cortisol rhythm is completely backwards…tanked in the morning when you need it, spiking at night when you're trying to sleep.

🩸And your ferritin is low enough that your mitochondria can't produce energy efficiently even if they wanted to.

No amount of "eating less and moving more" fixes that.

Your metabolism isn't a simple math equation. It's a complex web of hormonal signaling, nutrient availability, circadian biology, and cellular function.

When one system is stuck, everything else compensates. And that compensation shows up as weight gain, energy crashes, brain fog, and complete weight loss resistance.

The women who end up working with me have usually tried 4+ approaches before finding me. They're not failing because they lack discipline. They're stuck because no one's actually investigating the physiology driving their metabolism.

❌I don't hand out meal plans.
✅I do metabolic detective work.

If you're doing all the "right things" and your body isn't responding, it's trying to tell you something. And it's definitely not "try harder."

What's one thing you've tried to boost your metabolism that didn't work? Let me know below. 👇

Please and thank you.
03/16/2026

Please and thank you.

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Dr. Lindsey Carr, DC, CACCP and Dr. Allison Bomar-Hyong are a chiropractors at Midtown Chiropractic in Memphis, TN. If you are struggling with neck or back pain, headaches or migraines, carpal tunnel, sciatica, or any other health condition please call us today or visit our website and take advantage of our new patient special.