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Dr. Shaelyn Watson, DCN | Functional Health

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build a body that matches your ambition 🍊
gut • hormones • energy • skin
less managing your symptoms, more living your life
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How to build a body that can keep up with the life you want ⬇️

1️⃣ Ask the questions no one else is asking. Why are you exhausted after 8 hours of sleep? Why does your acne flare before your period? Why are you bloated despite eating well? The timing, patterns, and connections matter.

2️⃣ Stop treating symptoms with someone else’s solution. We use comprehensive bloodwork and advanced functional testing to identify what’s happening in YOUR body and target what needs attention first.

3️⃣ Build a body that can handle more. Less fighting brain fog to finish a task. More consistent energy through your workday, with something left for your workouts, relationships, and goals.

4️⃣ Know how to keep it that way. Understand your body, recognize when something is off, and know exactly which tools to reach for instead of starting from scratch every time.

Welcome to FULL CAPACITY™. Welcome to getting your life back (and then some)🍊

Life isn’t slowing down. Your health shouldn’t be the reason you have to

Comment “CAPACITY” for details by @dr.shaelynwatson

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the nutrition I love, the labs I look at every day, the herbs I reach for, the lifestyle pieces I’m always talking about, and a little bit of the energy I hope you feel when you’re in my practice 🍓

because your health is shaped by soo much more than food alone!

it’s the nutrition, your environment, the exposures your body is navigating, the data we uncover, the routines that help you feel like yourself again, and building a life where your health is no longer taking up all the space.

welcome to my little corner of functional health. follow along for more on building a body that can keep up with the life you’re creating ♡ by @dr.shaelynwatson

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If you’re new here, hi 💓 I’m Dr. Shaelyn!!

I’m very into good coffee, wandering around bookstores for way too long, learning basically anything I can about the human body, and figuring out how to make feeling good fit into a full life 🗓️

Around here we talk a lot about gut health, hormones, energy, labs, and all the little things your body does that make you go wait... is that actually normal?!

Mostly, I want you to understand your body a little better every time you leave my page and feel like your health can actually support the life you want to live, instead of constantly getting in the way of it.

Happy you’re here 🥰 follow along if that sounds like your kind of thing! by @dr.shaelynwatson

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🗣️You can’t go back to the same habits and expect a different outcome! If you need help actually solving your gut issues and fitting the healing into your real life without it taking over, comment “ANSWERS” 🪄 by @dr.shaelynwatson

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Honestly, it’s not even about being symptom-free. It’s about all the stuff you’ve been missing while you deal with them.

Canceling plans last minute. Picking outfits based on how bloated you are. Spending forever on your makeup to cover a breakout. Just trying to make it through the afternoon.

That’s the part you actually want back.

Follow along if you’re over working around your symptoms and ready to start living again 🤗 by @dr.shaelynwatson

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De-influencing you toward what actually works🚽

Not everyone is constipated for the same reason. Sometimes your gut just needs a lil extra support moving things through your 25 feet of intestines!!

A few signs motility may be part of the problem: • you only go every few days • you rarely get the urge to poop • you feel like food just sits there forever • you get more bloated as the day goes on • you feel backed up even when you’re eating plenty of fiber

Follow for more tips on figuring out what’s actually going to work for YOU 🧻 by @dr.shaelynwatson

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does your practitioner…

bring a fresh perspective to your health?

have the discernment to look beyond the obvious and connect the dots?

individualize your care instead of following a one-size-fits-all approach?

take the time to genuinely connect with you?

prioritize understanding WHY you’re experiencing symptoms?

stay dedicated to your progress?

care about giving you the freedom to live without your health holding you back?

help you feel like yourself again?

because being symptom-free is just the baseline. I want you to have the energy, confidence, and capacity to do MORE with your life.

follow along if this is the kind of care you’ve been looking for🍊 by @dr.shaelynwatson

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I would have traded my early 20s acne for my puberty acne ANY DAY😭 
I spent YEARS and so much money on dermatologists, birth control, skincare, supplements, changing my diet, eating healthier… you name it, I probably tried it.
 And trust me, I gave everything a fair shot. I’d spend months trying something, get excited when my skin started clearing up, and then feel completely defeated when the breakouts came right back.
 I was tired. I wanted to understand WHY this kept happening.

It’s one of the reasons I went back to school to earn my doctorate and specialize in functional medicine.

I discovered gut dysbiosis, poor estrogen detoxification, elevated cortisol, leaky gut, and vitamin D and B12 deficiencies. Things no one had ever thought to look at before!  
Your skin can tell you a lot about what’s happening internally, but sometimes we’re so focused on treating what’s showing up on the surface that we never investigate what could be contributing to it.
 Now I get to help other women find answers instead of spending years feeling like they’ve tried everything 🥹 
If you’re tired of trying everything to clear your acne only for it to keep coming back, follow along!🍓I’ll show you how functional medicine can help you find answers and work toward clear skin that lasts. by @dr.shaelynwatson

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Comment “ANSWERS” if you have been wishing someone would actually sit down, look at everything, and help you through it! 🫶🏽🔎 by @dr.shaelynwatson

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Comment “GUT” if you want to see what testing can help uncover why your symptoms are happening so you can actually solve them at the root 🦠 by @dr.shaelynwatson

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Comment “BLUEPRINT” and I’ll send you my Symptom-to-Solution Blueprint showing you what your symptoms may be pointing to and the step-by-step areas to work on so you can actually start healing🧑🏽‍🩰 by @dr.shaelynwatson

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