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You found out you have an MTHFR variant, you started taking methylated B vitamins, and you still can't sleep. The gene alone tells you very little — what matters is whether methylation is actually breaking down, and in which direction.
Your blood work keeps coming back normal, but you still can't sleep. Here are the four functional lab tests I use to find the imbalances standard labs miss, and what they uncovered in a client who'd spent 25 years trying everything.
You're exhausted all day, then wide awake the second your head hits the pillow, and your doctor says your bloodwork is normal. Here are the five imbalances I find most often in clients who can't fall asleep, and how to test for each one.
Your doctor ran blood work, everything came back normal, and you still can't sleep. Here's why standard labs miss what's actually keeping you awake — and what functional lab testing shows instead.
You've fixed your sleep hygiene and you're still wide awake at 3am, wired and alert with your brain switched on. Here are the five root causes I see most often in my clients — and why it's almost never just one of them.
You've tried the obvious fixes and you're still lying awake. Here's the exact 30-day plan I'd follow if my own sleep fell apart again — and how to tell by day 30 whether you need to look deeper.
If you've already tried melatonin, magnesium, meditation, and a sleep tracker and you're still awake, it's because most popular fixes only work for one narrow kind of sleep problem. Here's how I rank every common insomnia fix from 1 to 10 — and which ones actually get to the root
Most people with insomnia have already been told their bloodwork is "normal." Here's what four functional lab tests found instead — including in my own body, when I had a parasite and no digestive symptoms at all.
A benzo was the only thing that finally got you to sleep, and now every attempt to stop makes your sleep worse than before you started. That isn't your original insomnia coming back. It's withdrawal, and getting off safely starts with fixing what broke your sleep in the first pla
You're dreading bedtime before it even arrives — bracing all day for another bad night. Here are the four steps I actually use with clients to break that cycle, and why none of them work long-term until you find what's biologically keeping you awake in the first place.
Bill spent seven years cycling through melatonin, Ambien, and ZzzQuil while still waking up every two hours — until his labs found five separate systems in his body that had quietly run out of resources.