Transforming Health Through Nutrition, Empathy, and Research

Your emotional relationship with food wasn’t an accident. It was engineered by the same industry that spent decades hiding what cigarettes did to people.

A March 2026 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine documented how tobacco executives were installed to run major food companies in the 1980s, applying the same psychological tactics they’d perfected on cigarettes to what we eat (DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2507028).

Meanwhile, new research in the journal Obesity found that 66% of food addiction symptoms are explained not by craving junk food, but by anticipating that eating vegetables will make you feel worse (DOI: 10.1002/oby. 70177). They didn’t just make their products irresistible. They made real food feel threatening.

This is what a hijacked anticipatory system looks like. It has a biology. And it has a history.

#foodaddiction #functionalmedicine

I won’t pretend the first version was ready. Early users hit real bugs. Some got frustrated and left. That’s on me.

So I did something I didn’t expect — I learned to own the code myself and rebuilt everything that wasn’t working. No investors. No large team. Just a belief that nutritional psychology deserves a real tool.

Wise Mind Nutrition v3 is live. Swipe to see what’s inside. →

Three AI features. A clinical admin panel for practitioners. And a core message that hasn’t changed: I’m not the guru. My job is to help you find yourself.

If you’ve tried this before and got frustrated — give it another shot. It’s official now.

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#wisemindnutrition

Something huge happened last week, and my reaction is complicated — which is exactly why I had to gather my thoughts. Overall, I think we’re moving in the right direction.

The research on psilocybin and ibogaine is genuinely compelling. For treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, and addiction, this door opening matters.

But we’ve watched this movie before. A powerful natural medicine gets discovered, patented, standardized — and the nuance disappears.

What the FDA’s fast-track criteria don’t account for is your unique biology — and those are exactly the variables I’m trained to think about. Psychedelic outcomes aren’t uniform, and the variation tracks with nutritional status, inflammation, gut-brain function, methylation, and cortisol patterns. These are active variables — not background noise.

Neuroplasticity is sensitive to metabolic conditions. Serotonin synthesis depends on tryptophan and B-vitamin status. Chronic neuroinflammation changes how an altered state is processed.

The better question has never been “did symptoms decrease?” It’s whether the person was prepared, supported, and tended to in the months after. I’m here for the nuance. Always have been. Always will be.

#PsychedelicMedicine #FunctionalMedicine #MentalHealthScience #TreatmentResistant #GutBrainAxis

You’ve been told you’re “treatment-resistant.” But when nobody has tested your gut, your hormones, your nutrient status, your genetics, or your cortisol patterns — what exactly has been tried?

At FxMed Mental Health, we specialize in the cases conventional psychiatry hasn’t solved — not because those cases are impossible, but because the right questions haven’t been asked yet.

If this resonates, save this post. Share it with someone who needs to hear it.

Book a free discovery call to unpack what this means for you 🫶🏼

#FunctionalMedicine #MentalHealthMatters #RootCauseResolution #TreatmentResistant
#GutBrainAxis

13 years of clinical work. A PhD. Training with the Institute for Functional Medicine. Custom AI models. And one realization: the future of mental health care requires a completely different approach.

Today I’m proud to announce FxMed Mental Health — a 6-month functional medicine program I built alongside a psychiatrist and health psychologist. We’re treating root causes, not just symptoms.

If you know someone stuck in the cycle of treatment-resistant mental health conditions, please share this. And if you want to talk — about the work, about collaboration, about anything — my door is open.

Deep love ❤️

#FunctionalMedicine #MentalHealth #NutritionalPsychiatry #RootCauseMedicine #IntegrativePsychiatry

Auto-Brewery Syndrome

This one stopped me in my tracks.

Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Your gut bacteria literally fermenting sugar into alcohol — inside your body — without you ever taking a drink.

People losing jobs, getting DUIs, having their families think they’re lying about drinking. For decades, doctors dismissed it. Patients were told it was in their heads.

It’s not in their heads. It’s in their gut.

A brand new study in Nature Microbiology (PMID: 41507585) finally mapped what’s happening at the microbial level — E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae overgrowth, fermentation genes switching on during flares, blood alcohol levels hitting nearly 3x the legal limit from endogenous production alone. And here’s what really got me: a fecal microbiota transplant put one patient into complete remission. 16 months and counting.

But here’s where it gets even more interesting for those of us working in mental health. Researcher Alan Logan and his team have been connecting the dots between gut microbial metabolism and cognition, impulse control, aggression, and mood. They coined the term “legalome” — because this science is literally changing outcomes in courtrooms (PMID: 41008344). DUI charges dismissed. The gut-brain axis isn’t a wellness buzzword anymore. It’s evidence.

Now — is Auto-Brewery Syndrome common? No. But the underlying mechanism — dysbiotic bacteria producing neuroactive metabolites that mess with your brain — that is incredibly common. And most people have no idea it’s happening.

This is exactly why I built a practice around comprehensive gut testing. If you’ve been dealing with unexplained brain fog, mood instability, cognitive issues — especially after antibiotics — the answer might not be in your head. It might be in your microbiome.

#autobrewerysyndrome

New research just dropped in Science Advances (PMID: 41616060) confirming something I’ve been passionate about for a long time: the vagus nerve plays a direct role in dopamine reward signaling 🤯

Let me say that again — your GUT is shaping how your brain experiences pleasure and motivation. This ain’t woo. This is neuroscience 🧠

As someone who works at the intersection of nutrition, mental health, and addiction, this hits. So many of the clients I’ve worked with over the years have had significant GI issues alongside their mental health struggles. And for too long, we’ve treated those as separate problems.

They’re not.

The vagus nerve — “the wanderer” — connects it all. And when it’s compromised by trauma, chronic stress, or dysbiosis, it sets the stage for everything from disordered eating to substance use.

The encouraging part? Vagal tone is something we can influence. Breathwork, yoga, cold exposure, mindful eating, gut-supportive nutrition — these aren’t just wellness trends. They’re evidence-informed strategies for healing the gut-brain axis.

If you or someone you know is in recovery, dealing with chronic gut issues, or working through trauma — this is worth grasping.

Drop a 🧠 if you learned something new.

#VagusNerve #GutBrainAxis #Addiction

I came into the nutrition field believing we could change things. Better food, better health, better outcomes — it felt straightforward enough. But the more I learned, the more I realized the system wasn’t broken. It was working exactly as designed — just not for the people it’s supposed to serve.

So I started studying why. Why do well-intentioned efforts keep failing? Why does the science get ignored? Why do the companies causing the most harm keep getting more powerful?

The answer has a name: the commercial determinants of health. It’s the framework that explains how corporate actors shape our food environment, influence our professional organizations, fund the research that suits their interests, and lobby against the policies that would actually protect people.

This article from Knowable Magazine lays out something I’ve been talking about for years — we don’t even track corporate crime the way we track street crime. There’s no centralized database. No national statistics. The last comprehensive federal report was from 1979. That’s not an accident. That’s by design.

But here’s what gives me hope: the conversation is shifting. Researchers, clinicians, and advocates are connecting these dots in ways that weren’t happening even five years ago. Legislation is being reintroduced. People are waking up to the fact that their health struggles aren’t just personal failures — they’re predictable outcomes of a system that prioritizes profit over wellbeing.

It’s an uphill battle. It always has been. But for the first time in my career, it actually feels like we’re gaining ground.

Are you feeling optimistic or nah?