Your health, your way
Health isn’t one size fits all. With LERA, you get treatments carefully designed to balance your body’s systems and a health plan made to work seamlessly with your life and your goals.
Meet Julia, her focus: Hormone Balance
Julia is a 42-year-old professional juggling work and kids. She was feeling more tired than usual, and her periods had started coming closer together with more PMS symptoms. Overall, she felt moodier and more irritable.
Her PCP and gynecologist ran some basic tests and told her everything was normal. They offered her an antidepressant and sleeping medication, but she doesn’t like taking pharmaceuticals unless she absolutely has to.
Instead, Julia wanted to understand what was happening and why it felt like her body was changing.
Sleep
Lately, Julia’s sleep has been suffering. She can’t fall asleep easily, and she wakes up early to start working before her kids get up.
Work
Julia works a high-stress job with long hours. Between that and taking care of her kids, she finds it hard to find time to take care of herself.
Diet
While Julia typically tries to eat healthy meals, her busy schedule can mean grabbing a bite when she can rather than being guided by what her body needs.
Finding the root cause
Our approach to healing starts at the body’s foundation, the LERA Core Four. With LERA, Julia was able to dig deeper than basic testing. Her Hormone Health needed the most attention. But her autonomic nervous system dysfunction and poor stress resilience also needed a holistic approach to healing.
Julia’s hormones were out of balance.
After testing and analyzing Julia’s female hormones, we discovered that her progesterone was much lower than optimal. We also found that she had iron deficiency anemia and low vitamin D3, which was further affecting her hormones, mood, and energy.
Chronic stress was straining her autonomic nervous system, disrupting her cortisol levels and disturbing her sleep. Additionally, several of Julia’s diet and lifestyle habits were undermining her health.
Julia’s focus: Hormone Balance
Other focuses: Autonomic Nervous System
The path to Julia’s best self
Julia didn’t want to just mask her symptoms with prescription medication. She wanted to get to the root of why she wasn’t feeling like herself. Based on our testing analysis, we crafted a prioritized plan with Julia that she could easily access in the LERA app to stay on track and see her progress over time.
Balancing Julia’s hormones
We designed Julia’s nutrition and supplement recommendations to give her hormonal system the balance it needed and address dietary deficiencies and sensitivities.
Building stress resilience
To recalibrate Julia’s autonomic nervous system, we provided recommendations for regular exercises and stress management strategies like meditation and mindfulness.
Forming sustainable habits
Several of Julia’s lifestyle habits were putting additional strain on her health. We worked with her to develop a plan she was eager to follow, with small steps to make it easy.
Julia’s successes
Within three months of implementing these changes, Julia’s periods were normalized and her PMS symptoms were virtually gone. She was sleeping better and had more energy, and her moodiness resolved once her periods normalized. Julia enjoyed being actively engaged in the Hormone Balance community, able to support other women in the group beginning their LERA journey. She was finally able to get back to feeling like herself, and she felt better equipped to deal with perimenopausal changes on the horizon.
Meet Natalie, her focus: Gut Health
38-year-old professional Natalie had been experiencing bloating, gas, and loose stools for a year or so. She couldn’t identify triggers but noticed it worsened with stress, mostly job related. But she didn’t have time to prepare many meals at home, often having to eat on the go instead.
Her PCP recommended Imodium and an SSRI, suggesting that stress was causing IBS. After months of treatment, her GI issues still weren’t resolving and were continuing to interfere with her daily life.
Natalie wasn’t satisfied with her PCP’s diagnosis or solutions. She wanted to do a deeper dive into the potential cause of her issues.
Work
Natalie’s job keeps her on the go, so it’s critical to equip her with information she can use to prioritize her health wherever she is.
Diet
Natalie’s diet tends to vary based on her schedule and convenience, so she hasn’t been able to find a trigger for her GI issues.
Stress
Her job is a major cause of stress in her life, but Natalie hasn’t been finding relief in her doctor’s recommendation of an SSRI.
Finding the root cause
Our approach to healing starts at the body’s foundation, the LERA Core Four. With LERA, Natalie was able to find out more about what was contributing to her GI issues. Gut Health dysfunction was the main cause of her symptoms but certainly not isolated; her Autonomic Nervous System and Hormone Health were also impacted and played a role in her symptoms.
Natalie had gut dysbiosis and food sensitivities.
Analyzing Natalie’s testing results, we identified an imbalance in Natalie’s gut microbiome, as well as significant food sensitivities, most likely contributing to her daily GI issues. Additionally, she also had high morning cortisol consistent with ongoing stress, highlighting the foundational power of the gut-brain connection. As a result of the cortisol disruption, her hormones were also mildly imbalanced.
Natalie’s focus: Gut Health
Other impacted systems: Autonomic nervous system, Hormones
The path to Natalie’s best self
Natalie wanted to explore more options than just prescription drugs to truly find relief for both her gut health and mental health. Based on our testing and analysis, we were able to design a health plan for her that incorporated more holistic solutions — without taking up too much time out of her busy day.
Balancing the gut biome
We provided Natalie with a personalized nutrition plan that eliminated gluten and dairy from her diet. We recommended key supplements to support microbiome rebalancing.
Building stress resilience
To combat the impact of acute stress, we encouraged Natalie to implement daily mindfulness techniques and use targeted nutraceuticals to mitigate her high cortisol levels.
Making time for change
Natalie had trouble staying on top of her schedule — forget about making major health changes. But we prioritized every step in the LERA app, making it crystal clear what small things do each day and making it easy to make time for herself.
Natalie’s successes
Natalie quickly noticed improvements in her gut health. Within the first 30 days of implementing dietary changes and consistently taking her supplements, her gas, bloating, and loose stool were virtually gone. Natalie regularly joined our webinars and workshops about stress-related topics, and she learned to love her daily mindfulness sessions. She no longer worried about her gut health and how it might disrupt her day.
Meet Pam, her focus: Metabolic Efficiency
Pam is a 34-year-old mom of three small children. She was frustrated about some recent weight gain. Although she hadn’t changed her diet, she gained over 20 pounds in the past year and was feeling unusually tired.
After having her third child a few years ago, Pam hadn’t felt the same. Between working full time and caring for her family, she rarely had time for self-care or putting her needs first.
Pam wanted to lose weight, get her energy back, and start taking steps to prevent diabetes.
Work
Pam juggles a full-time job and kids, and her fatigue was starting to negatively affect both her work and family time.
Family
With a strong family history of diabetes on both parents’ sides, Pam was worried that her weight gain might put her at risk.
Diet
While Pam generally eats healthy, she’d never monitored her blood sugar. She was eager to see what she could learn.
Finding the root cause
Our approach to healing starts at the body’s foundation, the LERA Core Four. LERA testing helped Pam discover several health factors underlying her confusing recent weight gain. Her Metabolic System was the main priority, but balancing her hormones and incorporating stress management would also help to improve her energy and mood.
Pam was prediabetic and had Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism.
Our analysis of Pam’s blood work confirmed that Pam was on the path to diabetes. Elevated thyroid antibodies revealed that her thyroid was struggling. Testing also showed evidence of inflammation as well as moderate food sensitivities. Her vitamin B12 was very low, and her sedentary lifestyle and carb-heavy diet were also negatively impacting her health.
Pam’s focus: Metabolic Efficiency
Other focuses: Hormones, Gut Health
The path to Pam’s best self
Pam didn’t just want a diet to help her lose weight — she wanted to learn more about what was happening to her body and what she could do to maintain better health. Our testing uncovered a couple underlying causes for concern, and we were able to help Pam find the help she needed, easily.
Monitoring blood sugar
We provided Pam with a personalized nutrition plan focused on low-glycemic foods in order to restore optimal metabolic health.
Thyroid health and nutrition support
We also referred Pam to a practitioner to start thyroid medication. She required B12 supplementation as well as daily nutrient support.
Incorporating daily change
We encouraged Pam to start to incorporate consistent exercise to accelerate metabolic healing, using LERA’s behavior change strategies to start slow and prioritize the most impactful steps.
Pam’s successes
After implementing these changes, Pam lost 20 pounds in eight weeks. She found support in the Metabolic Efficiency community, where she enjoyed sharing recipes and ideas with members on a similar journey. She started a small dose of thyroid medication, which greatly improved her energy within a few weeks, leading to better engagement and enjoyable interactions with her family and friends. After six months, repeat blood work showed a complete reversal of her prediabetic condition.
Meet Gloria, her focus: Stress Resiliency
Gloria routinely felt overwhelmed and anxious. A 49 year-old stay-at-home mom of two teens, her sleep was suffering because she couldn’t turn her brain off. She often felt “wired and tired” and moody. Her period had been irregular the past couple of years, often with months-long gaps.
She was recently diagnosed with anxiety, and her doctor started her on Prozac. But her mood issues still led to conflict with her husband, and she often turned to alcohol to wind down and cope with her stress.
Gloria doesn't think Prozac is helping, and she’s worried about her marriage. She hopes that further testing might reveal the reasons for her symptoms. She is desperate to feel like herself again.
Sleep
Despite trying to go to bed early, Gloria can’t seem to wind down and get a good night’s sleep, causing her to feel tired.
Anxiety
Gloria’s recent anxiety diagnosis helped get her a prescription to address it, but she didn’t think it was helping and wanted to get to the root of her anxiety to treat it effectively.
Daily habits
Many nights, Gloria will try to wind down with alcohol. But instead of calming her nervous system, the alcohol actually further strains it over time.
Finding the root cause
Our approach to healing starts at the body’s foundation, the LERA Core Four. Gloria’s strained Autonomic Nervous System was a top priority, but her hormonal changes and metabolic health were also playing a key role in her overall well-being.
Gloria’s autonomic nervous system was dysregulated.
Our testing showed that Gloria’s anxiety and moodiness could be linked with imbalances in her autonomic nervous system. We also found that Gloria’s female hormones and testosterone levels were low, consistent with perimenopause, and that her cortisol rhythm was dysfunctional throughout the day. Her fasting blood sugar was also borderline high, and her unhealthy coping mechanisms had further contributed to her health symptoms.
Gloria’s focus: Stress Management
Other focuses: Hormones, Metabolic System
The path to Gloria’s best self
Gloria was worried that the anxiety and moodiness she’d been experiencing were affecting her relationships with her kids and husband. We designed her personalized health plan to focus on mental health, balancing Gloria’s autonomic nervous system and hormones while introducing healthy techniques she could use to regulate her stress levels.
Nourishing Gloria’s mental health
We provided Gloria with a personalized nutrition plan focused on optimizing brain health and balancing her blood sugar. We also recommended key supplements to help calm and recalibrate her nervous system.
Balancing Gloria’s hormones
We also referred Gloria to a LERA practitioner to discuss bioidentical hormone treatment and connected her with a health coach who specialized in women’s health issues, including major life transitions.
Tailored education and events
During our regular workshops, Gloria was able to learn several nervous system regulation techniques that she could use everyday, especially before bed, to help herself wind down naturally.
Gloria’s successes
After starting bioidentical hormone therapy to balance her hormones and optimize testosterone, Gloria’s mood and sleep quickly improved. She began regular sessions with a therapist who helped her realize that the prospect of her children leaving home soon was at the root of her anxiety. This realization and opportunity to discuss her emotions enabled Gloria’s nervous system to unwind and relax. She was finally feeling like herself again, and her relationship with her husband was improving daily.