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Are you tired of feeling like you’re in the dark about your own health and hormones? You’re not alone. Many women lack the resources and support they need to manage their hormonal health effectively.
*Available to Texas and Colorado Residents.
Give yourself 30 days to get in sync with your hormones and live a more vibrant, harmonious life with our provider-led, functional approach to women’s health.
This includes hormone testing (approximately one week before your cycle for those with regular cycles).
Our expert, Lauren Colletti FNP, IFMCP, will interpret the results and provide personalized recommendations.
Learn how to track your own blood sugar for 2 weeks and gain a better understanding of your own glucose curve. Our experts will provide resources to help your support stable blood sugar.
Weekly recorded lectures from our hosts, complete with handouts and resources to supplement your learning.
These lectures start with the foundations and include a sea of information on nutrition and lifestyle education to support you in your hormone health journey.
Watch live Q&A sessions with Lauren Colletti FNP, IFMCP and our guest speakers.
We’re bringing in experts to discuss topics like nervous system regulation, cycle syncing, sexual health, fertility, postpartum health, and much more!
Nutrition and Metabolic Health for Optimal Hormones
Speaker:
Elise Clark, FNP
Healthy Lifestyle – What to Prioritize For Optimal Hormone Health
Speaker:
Dr. Roxanne Pero, MD, FACOG, DIPABLM
Hormones In Review – What Do Your Labs Mean? Live Q&A and Lab Review.
Speaker:
Lauren Colletti, FNP
Nervous System – Why Regulation Is The Foundation
Speaker:
Dr. Karla Mehlenbacher, DC, DACNB, FIBFN, FABBIR
Studies show that approximately 80% of women suffer from some form of hormone imbalance. Rates of infertility are on the rise, affecting about 19% of women aged 15-49. Women are often taught very little about their own physiology, leaving them unsure of what’s “normal” and “abnormal” when it comes to hormonal health.
Primary care physicians, OBGYNs, and Women’s Health Professionals sometimes fall short in supporting women with hormonal symptoms or diagnoses. They may prescribe medications or offer generic recommendations that leave many women feeling isolated, unsupported, and without answers.
Symptoms of hormone imbalance can be a result of various factors, including diet, medications, synthetic hormones, pollution, environmental toxins, and chronic stress. Unfortunately, the current healthcare system isn’t always equipped to help women in these situations.
Our goal is simple yet transformative: to educate and empower cycling women to better understand their health and hormones within a supportive community of like-minded women, all at a reasonable cost.
We provide you with the tools to take control of your health based on personalized testing and your unique symptoms.
Lauren Colletti is a Family Nurse Practitioner, Board Certified by the Institute of Functional Medicine with well over a decade of experience. She is the Clinical Director at Alive + Well, where she sees patients throughout Texas.
Lauren has spent the majority of her career helping thousands of women optimize their health–many of which seek her support with thyroid and digestive disorders, autoimmunity, fertility, hormone imbalances, menopause, chronic fatigue and biotoxin illness. She has received training from some of the world’s experts in Women’s Health, thyroid disorders, BHRT, peptides, CIRS, genomics, and longevity. She practices personalized medicine, knowing that recommendations need to be based on the individual’s history, testing and review of symptoms and systems – she does not believe in “one size fits all” recommendations or rigid protocols but instead takes an individualized holistic approach.
Lauren focuses on the foundations first and then seeks the deeper root causes that are addressed through custom treatment plans. She believes in a team-based, multi-disciplinary approach, utilizing cutting edge therapies. She knows, first-hand, what an important role women play within their communities, whether as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, or friend. Empowered women, empower women and this is central to Lauren’s mission and life’s work.
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Acupuncture is a type of traditional Chinese medicine that’s been around for about 2,500 years. It’s used to support wellness and improve overall mental and physical well-being. The acupuncturist places needles into specific points on the skin to help activate an energy in the body, called qi. According to traditional Chinese medicine, qi is the lifeforce energy in the body — it helps regulate and move things in the body to keep us well. Stress, environmental factors, lifestyle behaviors, and genetics are some of the things that can block qi in the body. The needles help to unblock or move qi to other areas in the body to help support wellness.
Acupuncture needles are solid, stainless steel needles that are usually not much larger than a strand of hair. Acupuncture needles are placed at a very shallow depth and go between tissues, making them less painful than a typical injection.
You might be more sensitive in certain areas, but acupuncture shouldn’t hurt. If you feel pain, tell your acupuncturist. They’ll adjust the needles or choose other points. Their goal is not to make you feel pain. They do a lot of work to position you properly and make sure you feel comfortable.
Indeed you can do acupuncture or massage while pregnant. It is safe and our practitioners are very well versed in how to treat pregnant women. Please let us know when you book a treatment if you are pregnant and how far along you are.
Lauren dedicates her career to facilitating wellness and empowering her patients to take an active role in their health. She has a particular interest in helping her patients get to the root-cause of their health problems by listening, asking detailed questions and understanding that most health problems stem from past experiences. Through guidance and patient education, Lauren gives her patients the tools they need to heal, stay well and thrive.
As a daughter of a neuroscientist and a nurse, Lauren has always been interested in science and medicine. However, she quickly learned that laboratory based research was not well suited for her–she loves connecting and talking with people too much!
She first earned her undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis. Afterwards, she achieved her Nursing Degree, Masters in Public Health Nursing, and Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Texas, Austin. She is now a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner with prescriptive authority in the state of Texas. Lauren is also certified by the Institute of Functional Medicine. Even with her plethora of knowledge, Lauren still devotes time to continuing her education in functional and integrative medicine; as well as continuing to stay up to date on current medical research and best practices.
Lauren lives in Austin, Texas with her husband Sam, and their three children: Hazel (7), Harrison (3) and Holland (1). She loves anything outdoors– hiking in the mountains, around Austin, or at the beach. Lauren also adores live music, cooking nourishing food, and dancing two-step with her husband.
Born and raised in the DFW area, Elise is a native-Texan Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). After graduating with Honors and obtaining a Bachelor of Nursing from University of Texas, Austin, Elise worked alongside an OBGYN. That opportunity sparked an interest in hormones’ effect on the body, so she continued her education at Texas Women’s University.
Once again thriving and graduating with Honors, Elise achieved her Master of Science in Nursing in 2015. She then started her career as a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner in family practice, then endocrinology.
After practicing as an NP in a traditional setting for some time, she realized there was more she could do for her patients. Her realization led her to functional medicine. Elise has now been working in functional medicine for six years. She loves how she can see the difference that personalized medicine makes for her patients.
Elise is certified in Advanced Hormone Replacement Therapy from Worldlink Medical and is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Her interests and areas of expertise include hormone replacement therapy for men and women of all ages, PCOS, thyroid disorders, exercise and nutrition as medicine, gut health, and nutritional deficiencies.
In her spare time, Elise enjoys yoga, reading, and spending time with her husband and young son.
Dr. Pero was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Coming from a long lineage of accomplished and well-respected physicians in her family, she naturally gravitated towards the field of medicine. Being surrounded and supported by fierce women in her life, her affection for women’s healthcare blossomed as she entered the specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
She had always been taught in Western Medicine that “if it runs in your family…” so she assumed, as she came from a large family, that starting her own family would be effortless.
As she and her husband started on their infertility journey, she was diagnosed with Endometriosis, Uterine Fibroids, Hormone Imbalance, and Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura- none of which “ran in her family”. This is when an unfolding in her personal life and in her professional career began, as she began to see the disadvantages of the sole reliance on Western Medicine narratives and the advantages of Integrative, Lifestyle, and Functional Medicine.
Once she became aware of the benefits of nutrition, supplements, and acupuncture as augmentative and facilitative to modern fertility treatments, she was able to conceive. Her and her husband went on to have three biological children and recently adopted their fourth child. Since ascribing to a Functional Medicine lifestyle herself, through a personally tailored nutrition and supplement plan as well as regular exercise, sleep/stress optimization, and the many other important pillars of whole body/spirit health, she has been symptom free from Endometriosis and Uterine Fibroids without needing surgical intervention or hormones.
In her “spare” time, she loves live music, competitive exercise, and reading. Her life is full with her 4 children, husband of 14 years, and sweet pup but also her intense love of her craft in medical care, especially in Functional Medicine. She has been able to realize that, through her health journey and struggles, she is able to relate and provide hope to her clients.
She is excited to help you realize your full health potential and start living your best life yet!
Dr. Karla Mehlenbacher is a Board-Certified Chiropractic Neurologist, holistic autoimmune practitioner and founder of Take Root Brain & Body. Dr. Mehlenbacher uses Integrative Neurology and Functional Medicine to help people struggling with post-concussion syndrome, childhood developmental disorders, chronic pain and many other neurological and autoimmune conditions.
After developing an auto-immune disease as a child, and later a discovery of Lyme Disease, she was drawn to the field of holistic health and healing. Dr. Mehlenbacher received a Doctorate of Chiropractic from Parker University, Fellowships from the International Board of Functional Neurology and the American Board of Brain Injury and Rehabilitation and has degrees in human anatomy, biology and clinical neuroscience. She weaves perspectives from these disciplines to support full-body wellness. Her hope is to build a community where anyone suffering with chronic illness can seek wellness and feel supported by a wide variety of resources specific to the healing journey.
Doctor of Chiropractic
Board- Certified Chiropractic Neurologist
Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Neurology Board
The International Board of Functional Neurology
Fellow of the American Board of Brain Injury and Rehabilitation
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Cindy Nilson is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Full Mesa Carrier, Reiki Master and Intuitive advisor. Utilizing acupuncture, energy-infused acupressure massage therapy and body psychology, she integrates teachings from eastern medicine, shamanism, energy/chakra healing and archetypal patterns to provide a unique diagnostic perspective and treatment experience. Specializing in how stress, our thoughts and emotions affect the physical body, and resourcing from the 10,000 hours spent honing her work, Cindy creates new and exciting collaboratives to her foundations in acupuncture therapy. She believes joining Alive + Well is the joyous culmination of her work and is excited to share this beautiful environment and healing space with her clients.
Cindy holds a B.A. from Texas A&M University and a Masters degree from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine. In 1999 she received her Doctor of Oriental Medicine from the New Mexico State Board of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. A native of Central Texas, she has been in private practice in Lakeway, where she lives happily married, raising kids.