Wellness off Main

04/26/2026

This client recently had functional lab work with me. She had labs done in the fall with her primary care, and was told she needs to go back on Lipitor. No other recommendations or analysis of the labs was made.

Here is where I get fired up:

1. The labs she had done in the fall were the “normal yearly labs” The standard tests that are ordered and covered by insurance are a joke. They only tell part of the story. The ranges are so broad you have to be pretty darn sick for them to be out of range. They look at your cholesterol and tell you to go on statins and see you in a year. What a waste of time.

2. This client is in her early 30’s. She is a momma. She has her whole life ahead of her. She has been told for years that her cholesterol is high and to take a statin. But nobody has ever dug deeper to look at the big picture. Left unchecked these patterns will most likely turn into chronic disease down the road.

3. If your doctor isn’t asking about bowel movements, digestion, diet, exercise, sleep, and stress patterns, and their only advice is “here take this drug” you don’t have a doctor, you have a drug dealer. And guess what, that drug isn’t healing or curing a darn thing. It’s a bandaid that makes the medical complex a bunch of money.

Back to these labs. We ran a comprehensive wellness panel, enough data points to get the whole picture. And then I analyzed them from a functional perspective to help understand what is going on inside her body and how she can take control of her health. This is what I found:

*Iron dysfunction. I don’t think she is iron deficient. I think she isn’t using her iron properly, most likely due to a need for copper.

*Methylation issues leading to systemic inflammation.

*An under functioning thyroid that has the very beginning of auto antibodies forming

*A high hematocrit and RBC. Which elevates her cardiovascular risk. These were high in the fall too but she was told it was from dehydration. Nobody asked her about her water intake, which is more than adequate, it’s not dehydration.

*Beginning markers of NAFLD.

*Her lipid profile combined with inflammation and high RBC and platelets do paint a cardiovascular risk. But why?? Statins won’t address the root, they will be masking it. Addressing methylation, inflammation, and having her doctor run further testing for the increased red cell counts, combined with diet and lifestyles changes will help her heal.

I share this all with you because I am so passionate about labs. I’m frustrated with the amount of people who have early warning signs if you just dig a little deeper. How many people could we prevent from developing chronic diseases if we really took the time to see the whole picture and then give them actually tools to change their path??

This client now has a diet, lifestyle, exercise, and supplement plan to help get her body on the right path so she can have a long, healthy life with her family ❤️

04/23/2026

3 things you will never get from my practice:

1. Fear p**n. I feel like every time I turn around there is some new variant, or syndrome, or fad diet, or toxin that we are all supposed to be worked up over. And I just won’t do it. I will support my body and help you support yours. I will do the best I can with the information I have at the time, and the rest is up to God. He designed us for a time such as this. I’m not going to use fear as my motivator in life and I will not use it to gain clients either.

2. I will not tell you that I think injecting things into your body is a good option. I don’t care how much money there is in peptides, weight loss injections, Botox, IV treatments, or vaccines. Injecting foreign, man made compounds, into your body is not the way to long lasting health. I’m sure I will make a few people mad with that statement, but it’s my opinion. These treatments are either incredibly dangerous, without long term studies, or a way to spend a pretty good amount of money for short term gain.

3. Trendy gadgets, magic supplements, and the next great “10 day detox”. The truth is you cannot buy your way to health. You can’t clean your liver for 10 days and then go right back to the same lifestyle. There is not a magic weight loss supplement that does not require you to make long lasting diet and lifestyle changes, there is no gadget that’s going to make all your ailments fade away. True health and wellness is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s a long term lifestyle. Detoxing doesn’t happen in 10 days, it happens daily with the right lifestyle. I am not here to sell you things. I am here to teach you how to care for your body and how to gain natural, long lasting health and longevity.

04/16/2026

I know I’m not alone right now when I say the world feels so heavy. There is so much loss, so much heartbreak, so much devastation from a relentless winter and spring.

All week long in my office I hear my clients describe the same feelings. It’s a lot. It weighs you down, it steals your joy.

Our world is so toxic and so broken.

So what do we do? We love each other. We take care of our neighbors, we cherish our friends and family. We do things to help remove the weight, not add to it. And we let go of people and situations that don’t align with that.

MOST IMPORTANTLY… we follow Jesus. We remember who’s we are and who has already fought and won for us. We give Him our burdens, our struggles, the things we can’t make sense of, the things we can’t carry on our own. Because His way is always always better than our own.

My advice is to crank up the worship music, focus on what you can control, and spend time in prayer for the things you cannot.

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04/12/2026

We listened to Easter service in the car this year on our way home from spring break. The Pastor made a statement that he wasn’t afraid to die, because he knew exactly where he was going. It was the “getting dead part” that worried him.

The “getting dead part” is what worries me too. It’s my “Why”. It’s the reason I do all the things I do for my health, and my family’s health. The way I see it there are two ways to age and eventually “get dead”.

You can age and eventually die with a life full of doctor’s appointments, joint replacements, lists of prescriptions, chronic diseases, aches, pains, lack of energy, and nursing homes.

Or…

You can age with vitality, energy, and strength. You can travel, enjoy your grand babies and great grand babies. You can age with dignity and on your terms.

Obliviously these things are not 100% in your control. But I fully intend to do everything I can to age the best I can. Because I have worked in hospitals enough to know I don’t want to be there. I have worked with enough older people who are suffering to know I want to avoid the prescriptions and surgeries if I can. I want to be in my 80’s riding horses in the woods with great grand kids and walking on beaches with my husband. Not going from one appointment to the next.

So that’s my “Why”. That’s why I eat clean, healthy, whole food. That’s why I spend time outside every single day. That’s why I’m working on consistently incorporating strength training into my days. It’s why I live a detox lifestyle. That’s why I don’t eat garbage. It’s why I also don’t feed my kids crap. Because as much as I want the better way of “getting dead” for myself and my husband, I want it even more for my babies. I don’t want them growing up with diabetes, heart disease, cognitive issues, other chronic diseases, or cancer. Listening to a doctor say your loved one has cancer is a gut punch and hopelessness I never want anyone else to experience.

I think there are a large number of people in our society who have the Why wrong. If your Why is that you just want to lose weight so you take injections with dangerous side effects, or your Why is that you want to look younger so you inject your your face with fillers and toxins, or your Why is some other superficial type of gain, I’m afraid that down the road, the “getting dead” part is going to be a really terrible journey for you.

Or maybe you are just in survival mode. You are rushing from one thing to the next from the minute you wake up. You are juggling work, a million kids activities, your home, your social life, and your health. You are living off processed food and caffeine, and barely making it through the day. I urge you to evaluate your Why, and what things you can do to align your schedule and activities with your Why. Because life isn’t an emergency, and we weren’t made to live like it’s one.

If you need help focusing on your Why, I’m here. I will hold your hand and help show you the way. You just have to decide what’s important ❤️

04/08/2026

**edit again** all slots filled :)

**edit**
That was quick! Those 3 slots are filled, but the office added one more at 12:30 if anyone wants it 🙂

I have 3 openings left for Breast Thermogrpahy April 30th. 9:30, 10:00, and 10:30.

Please reach out to schedule, or for more information :)

04/05/2026

Hallelujah! He is Risen!
No sinner He can’t save, nothing broken He can’t heal, no mountain He can’t move.
Thank you Jesus…for everything

01/06/2026

It’s not goodbye..it’s a new beginning.

When we moved to our property and decided to move my business as well, we did it to chase a slower, simpler, more joyful pace of life. Not just for ourselves, but for our kids and honestly, for all of my wonderful clients as well.

Our world is so so busy. On top of the fast pace, it’s full of distractions, negativity, comparison, and stress. That’s not good for any of us.

It’s been on my heart for a while and God has been nudging me over the past few weeks to refocus priorities, guard my heart, and spend my time and energy on His work, not the stuff in this world that we get so bogged down in, that isn’t even really important.

With that being said I have decided to pause my personal and professional pages. They are time consuming, I find myself wasting so much precious time scrolling, and often times the negativity or doom and gloom wiggles its way into my day. I will leave this page active so that you may all continue to access the great information I have shared in the past ❤️

I do what I do, because I whole heartedly believe this is what God designed me for. Helping to heal people and give them hope is my calling. So while I know Facebook is a great free marketing tool, I am going to rely on Him to provide me the clients who need my help. Most of my business is from word of mouth and referrals anyway.

What can you do?
👉🏻Continue to tell your friends and loved ones about my business. I would love to help them.
👉🏻Text or call 989-370-9030 with questions or inquires
👉🏻Email me at Wellnessoffmain@gmail.com
👉🏻Write me a letter! 3716 Ford Rd, Wolverine MI 49799

I love to teach, and the absolute best way to continue to learn from me and move forward I taking control of your health is to join my virtual membership. Details and sign up can be found on my website www.wellnessoffmain.com

I also plan to start a monthly newsletter. I’m not sure if it will be email or postal mail. I kind of like the idea of postal mail. Who doesn’t like to get something besides bills in their mailbox?? If you would like to receive actual, physical, real mail from me, message me your address.

Thank you to everyone who has followed this page and encouraged me. I’m praying I will still be able to help you all, just in a different format.

God Bless!
Yours in Hope, Healing, and Health,
Ashly

01/05/2026

Saw this quote today and it really struck me!

So TRUE!!

If you want to get better, you have to let go of the habits that got you sick in the fist place.

I can do a lot with supplements, but to fully heal you have to do the work too ❤️

01/04/2026

Why do I recommmed not drinking tap water?

Because our water sources are very very polluted. City water is 100% a hard no. I don’t even want people to shower in that without a good filter. It’s full of so much junk. See handout in comments on how to look up whats in your municipalites water. One of the issues with city water js your body will absorb the chlorine, and among other issues, chlorine mimics iodine structurally in the body. It will clog up receptor sites and cause the thyroid to not function properly.

Well water isn’t clean either. Think about all the crap that is sprayed on crops, and the run off from factories. In addition to chemical pollution ground water can contain radioactive elements, cysts, bacteria, parasites, and more.

People will always tell me, oh but we had our well tested when we moved in. Let me tell you, I spent a few month stint at the health department doing water quality testing in their lab. It was like watching paint dry so I went back to the hospital. But they only test for like 5 things there. Passing that test means basically nothing, other than you don’t have E. coli.

Another thing that I have seen, is people will use a TDS meter to show you the water is “clean” or dirty. TDS stands for total dissolved solids. This is basically a measure of hardness and mineral content. This meters will not pick up pesticides, radioactive elements, bacteria, ot parasites. It’s basically a fancy tool people use to try and sell you something. Stay away “professionals” people who use this tool. They are trying to sell you something and arent educated.

I always recommend distilled water. If you work with me 1:1 I will suggest it immediately if you are on city water.

Distillation removes the water from the junk. It’s completely pure water. Drinking distilled water is actually a detoxifier in itself. It will pull crap out of tissues based of osmotic pressure.

One argument against distilled water is that it is dead water and it will make you mineral deficient. First of all, the minerals in water aren’t highly usable. Minerals are best used by the body when they are chelated to an animal or plant. Second of all, most people are mineral deficient as it is. I would much rather supplement with a daily high quality mineral than assume I’m getting what I need mixed in with my dirty water.

Below is a chart comparing different filtration devices. In the comments I will also post a handout I have made about water for quick reference and a link to the distiller I like. I am not affiliated with this distiller, I just use it and like it so I’m passing it on.

01/03/2026

How to stay sick 101:

Drink tap water
Eat processed foods
Eat seed oils
Avoid the sun
Don’t prioritize sleep
Eat small meals and snacks all day long
Rely on modern medicine for getting you healthy
Take Prescriptions
Don’t support detox
Dont move your body
Live in fear

What else would you add to this list?

01/02/2026

Update on my ice cream making!

The one with protein powder in it was hands down our favorite! It made it so incredibly creamy. I can’t wait to try it with other protein flavors!!

01/02/2026

🪱🪱🌕🌕Full Moon is January 3rd🌕🌕🪱🪱

Start you cleanse tomorrow :)