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In today’s high-stimulation world, many people feel lower motivation, reduced focus, emotional flatness, and a constant pull toward quick rewards like scrolling, snacking, or multitasking. This class explores why that happens and what you can actually do about it.

Dopamine Recalibration is 40-minute science-informed Zoom class that breaks down how your brain’s dopamine system works, how it is shaped by genetics, and how daily environment and lifestyle choices influence motivation, drive, and reward sensitivity.

Rather than treating dopamine as a simple “chemical of pleasure,” this session explains its real role in motivation, learning, and behavioral reinforcement -and why modern life can disrupt this system.

What you’ll learn
How dopamine works in the brain
Why genetics can influence dopamine signaling and sensitivity
How over-stimulation affects reward processing over time
The role of diet in supporting neurotransmitter balance and brain energy
How sleep, stress, and environment shape motivation and focus
Practical ways to reduce overstimulation and support dopamine recalibration
The difference between fast and slow COMT and how to support each one
what each DRD receptor does

What makes this class different
This is not a generic wellness talk. It brings together neuroscience, behavioral science, and a genetics-informed perspective to help you understand why people respond differently to the same environment -and why one-size-fits-all advice often fails.

Instead of extreme “dopamine detox” claims, the focus is on recalibration: restoring healthy sensitivity to everyday rewards so motivation feels natural again.

Who this is for
This class is designed for people who feel:

Mentally overstimulated or distracted
Dependent on constant input (phone, social media, food, stimulation)
Low motivation despite knowing what they “should” do
Curious about the biological and genetic side of behavior and habits
Outcome
By the end of this session, you’ll understand how dopamine function is shaped and how diet, lifestyle, and environment can be used to support a more stable, responsive, and resilient motivation system.

Not by forcing discipline, but by working with your brain’s biology instead of against it.

The class takes place on zoom and is less than 40 minutes. You will be sent instructions for login via email once you have paid.

Signup here: https://bountifullyhealthy.com/shop/dopamine-recalibration-online-class/

It's celiac disease awareness month!

No one really explains how much living with Celiac disease shifts your relationship with food.
It’s not just about cutting things out.

It’s the moment you realize that “gluten-free” doesn’t automatically mean you’ll feel okay.
So you start paying attention in a different way.
You question more.
You notice more.
You learn your body in a way you never had to before.

Food stops being automatic, and becomes intentional.
And somewhere in that process, your idea of “healthy” changes completely.

If you're needing help with learning how to really care for your body and nourish it, that's where I can help.I include DNA based personalized nutrition to your needs.

If you’ve gone through that shift too, save this as a reminder. I’d really like to hear your experience. What changed most for you after your diagnosis?

Hormone balance starts with understanding how your body processes them.

Estrogen metabolism, in particular, depends heavily on your foundations:

• Liver detoxification pathways
• Stable blood sugar
• Adequate nutrients (especially B vitamins, magnesium, choline)
• Healthy bile flow
• Adequate stomach acid and digestion
• A well-functioning gut microbiome
• genetic variants in detoxification

If these systems aren’t working well, estrogen doesn’t get properly broken down and cleared.

Instead, it can be:
▶️Recirculated through the gut (the “estrobolome” effect)
▶️Shifted down less favorable or even harmful metabolic pathway
▶️ throw the balance out with progesterone

This means that adding more estrogen whether through Hormone therapy, supplements, or environmental exposure can actually worsen symptoms and increase risk for estrogen dominant conditions and cancers in some cases.

Especially if your
• Gut health is compromised
• Detox pathways are sluggish
• There are genetic variations affecting methylation or estrogen clearance

Before trying to fix hormones directly, it’s often more effective to support the systems that handle hormones.

Contact me to learn more about how you can support your liver and gut health and understand your genetic risks and predispositions when it comes to detoxification, hormone metabolism and gut health.

Celiac disease can result in impaired nutritient absorption leading to deficiencies, regardless of the duration and compliance of the diet.

You'll want to save this post to refer back to.⬇️

There are many causes and contributing factors to this:
▶️ reduced gastric acid production
▶️ small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
▶️ autoimmune gastritis
▶️ lack of intrinsic factor (for B12)
▶️ ongoing gluten cross contamination
▶️ poor diet
▶️ medication use
▶️ excess alcohol
▶️ smoking
▶️ microvilli that never return to full height
▶️ imbalance in gut microbiota
▶️ genetic variants

As a celiac of 12 years, I occasionally experience nutritional deficiencies despite a 100% strict healthy gf nutritious diet, and balanced lifestyle. My theory is that a combination of various genetic variants and microvilli that are likely too damaged for complete Nutrient assimilation.

One research article said "The restoration of the gut through strict adherence to a GFD does not always fully resolve deficiencies. A micronutrient deficiency in long-term GFD patients was found in up to 20% of subjects for folic acid and 30% for vitamin B12. For this reason, the regular monitoring of these nutrients levels is necessary during a GFD, and supplementation should be provided as needed."

This is why it is vital to go at least 1-2 x year for the blood tests mentioned in the slides. Don't make my mistake where I skipped a year of tests only to discover through neurological symptoms that I had a B12 deficiency. For me supplements are a necessary and permanent part of my celiac condition as without them, nutrition from food alone is not enough. If you continue to experience nutritional deficiencies and have ruled most of the above causes/contributing factors, then the same may be true of you.

My recommendation is DNA testing to check genetic variants that may be contributing and nutritional coaching with me to take you step by step through optimising diet, genetic expression and lifestyle.

Educational content based on research and personal experience.

Here is the part most people miss...⬇️

Your hormones are not only influenced by your diet and lifestyle but also by your genetics.

How your hormones are produced, metabolised and detoxed will differ from person to person. This is why some people are more prone to hormonal imbalance than others.

Raging PMS or perimenopausal symptoms? Endometriosis, fibroids, mood swings?
Maybe you're on the flipside: feeling flat, "dead' and no motivation?

Both are determined by your genetics.

Blood work is great, but testing serum hormone levels is often not useful because it is just a snapshot of one moment in time. Whereas your genetic data is set in stone and determines your risks and predispositions. Your genes don't change, but the expression of them does and that is where the power lies.

It's time to stop guessing and take a deeper look into what your body really needs on a nutritional level to support your hormones for better mood.

Contact me for your DNA hormone test.

It's not a one-size-fits-all approach.

You may or not not need methylfolate. You may need a non methylated form. There dosage and form differs from person to person.

Many others factors need to be considered.
For many people MTHFR is the least of their concerns. MTHFR is just one gene in over 30k in the human genome.

Want to know more? Start with a nutrigenetic feedback with me, with personalized recommendations based on your genetics and health needs.

Nodding to all of these? ⬇️
It doesn't have to be this way.

I've been in perimenopause for 5 years. When It first started I had it all: the hot flushes, waking up at 2am with a pounding heart, anxiety through the roof, PMS, itching skin, belly fat.

Until I learned how to support my genetics. All those symptoms are gone.

1. Weight gain
If you're living on stress, your sympathetic nervous system is working overtime and your cortisol levels are high. A body in flight-or-fight mode will hang onto fat as a security measure. Weight loss is as much about your emotional state and lifestyle and as it is about your diet. Building stress resilience is key. ▶️ DNA diet

2. Insulin resistance
Running on empty, fueling with coffee, eating on the go, favoring sugar and refined carbs over greens = recipe for emotional dysregulation, hormonal imbalance, and mood swings. ▶️ DNA health or core

3. Inflammation
Poor memory, brain fog, joint pain, feeling 10 years older than what you are, puffy face, water retention, bloating. Handling stress is key. Diet is key. Lifestyle is key. Increasing movement, hydration, antioxidants. ▶️ DNA health or core

4. Hormonal imbalance
Some women are prone to estrogen dominating because it doesn't get metabolised correctly. Estrogen is stored in fatty tissue (belly fat its favorite hideout). But...progesterone is the first hormone to drop and we need progesterone to stay calm, sane and for the safety of everyone around us. Other women don't have enough of either progesterone, testosterone or estrogen. ▶️DNA hormones

5. Digestive issues
You're bloated, constipated, feeling puffy and thinking you've got all these new food sensitivities when you actually just need to learn how YOUR body processes nutrients and what the best way to eat is for YOU. Genetically we all metabolise nutrients differently and this means our nutritional needs are unique. ▶️DNA diet

What to do now...
Dm me or email me and let's start with your foundation....your DNA and build a body and mind that can sail through the next 7-13 years (average length of perimenopause).

If you're still trying all kinds of diets to beat food sensitivities, loose weight, get rid of bloating, or curb acid reflux...you're doing it wrong.

Your diet starts with learning about your genetic variants and how your body responds to inflammation, detoxes, metabolises nutrients and even the integrity of your gut lining.

Order your DNA gut test. Email me or dm me for more info. Available worldwide 🌐

Last chance to get on the waitlist for MTHFR foundations: Genetics, mood and methylation

Doors open on 20th Feb!

ADHD is a lifetime membership, but that doesn't mean you can't improve things.

✅️Learning how to work with your brain also involves learning how to help your genetic enzymes function better.

✅️Learning how your brain works is just as important as WHY it functions the way it does.

✅️Learning how your body processes nutrients can help you figure out which ones need more support.

✅️Your genes can even help figurw out what ADHD meds are best or not suited for you.

Thesw are things I have helped myself with as someone with ADHD and cam help you with. It starts from the foundation of who you are...your blueprint.

Visit my profile, pop me an email and let's chat.