Have you ever dealt with a chronic health condition such as gut dysbiosis, chronic fatigue, Lyme/mold illness that just won’t resolve despite doing all the “right things” your functional health provider suggested? You’ve tried eating a clean diet, gut cleanses, the best probiotics, eating early and not too much, taking the best anti-gut bug protocols, Lyme treatments, binders, liver support—the list goes on. Despite all these efforts, your health condition remains unresolved.

This has been my story. And I’ve come to realize that both myself and other functional providers may have “the order of operations all wrong.” I propose that Nervous System Regulation or Resilience is a Keystone Bodily Function—in other words, it is a primary system that needs to be improved, balanced, optimized, and harmonized before other key systems such as Hormones, Immune, Digestion, Detox, Energy production can fully come online to help you heal. Without this, all the supplements or functional health wizardry won’t lead to systemic healing.