Goal: Breakthrough to Better Health
The core and foundation of Dr. Hackett’s approach is to calm inflammation, reregulate the immune system to discourage the attack of self-tissues, and encourage healing of targeted self-tissues and systems. The project is to calm immune responses to minimize self-tissue attack.
It’s now common knowledge that healing the intestinal lumen is the first order of business after calming the overall inflammation picture. But how, if everything is an irritant or the food sensitivity/allergy list is longer than what you can actually eat? It’s a step-by step process to expand your dietary allowances which in turn increases the biodiversity in your gut and that is key to building your overall long-term health.
The illness you’re dealing with is a layered puzzle as unique to you as your own fingerprint. Your treatment plan is designed for you and you alone. No cookie cutter kitchen sinking happens here.
We review your history carefully along with your labs to find a way through to healing. It is a process. The path can be winding, but if you stick with it, it works. Dr. Hackett has her own personal experience with autoimmunity and has been in remission for years.
Adrenal function has been discussed extensively in social media in the last several years. Fatigue, feeling tired but wired, unexplained deep exhaustion can all be attributed to cortisol level regulation, but there can be other causes as well. Your GI health, brain health, metabolic regulation, mitochondrial regulation can all contribute to fatigue. CFS can have a latent viral or parasite infection component.
Dr. Hackett helps uncover the underlying patterns and develop a treatment plan for you. “Adrenal fatigue” and “adrenal exhaustion” have specific clinical diagnosis rationale, not a subjective list of symptoms alone.
Dr. Hackett highly recommends the DUTCH test. These simple, at home, urine tests reveal valuable information about cortisol and sex hormone regulation. You can purchase the test directly from the lab’s website and enter Dr. Hackett’s name in the provider section. She is notified when the results are in and will reach out to schedule your appointment.
TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) diagnosis has recognized and offered treatments for arthritic conditions for thousands of years. Acupuncture is anti-inflammatory, so it help can alleviate joint pain, swelling, and tension in the soft tissues surrounding the joints. The addition of PEMF and electrostim can enhance the effects of acupuncture to alleviate pain. Other modalities such as cupping and GuaSha are also used.
The internal medicine aspect of the treatment is equally important. Whether we utilize TCM formulas or modern orthomolecular formulas, the protocol is designed according to your personal needs. We can help your body eliminate metabolites that encourage calcification formation, reduce inflammatory flare-ups, encourage better circulation and overall organ function.
Dr. Hackett has formulated two proprietary topical creams of all-natural ingredients that have helped hundreds of people find fast relief that is pleasant smelling and easily absorbed into the skin.
GI issues can stem from many insults to the body: microbes, fungus and/or yeast overgrowth, poor microbiome distribution, exposure to chemicals/heavy metals, vaccines, poor food quality, nervous system dysregulation, poor stress coping, and physical injury to the nerves/organs.
The goal of Dr. Hackett is to identify all of the factors involved in your particular health picture, prioritize which aspects are dominate and treat those first. The follow up is to address remaining issues. Finding a pathway to maintenance is the main goal so that you can get on with your life. Living around your illnesses and spending all of your time to organizing your care is a difficult way to live. Creating a protocol that works is one that helps you reduce the amount of supplements that you take and actually healing your body as much as possible to open up more freedom to you.
Autoimmune hypothyroidism is becoming more common as the years pass. The reasons for this are various. Reducing the attack of self-tissue is the number one priority.
When was the last time your antibodies levels were tested? Were they ever tested? Getting some baseline levels are essential to compare the numbers to your subjective feeling of progress.
There are many herbs and supplements that can support you into remission. The first step is treatment. The follow up is maintenance of the progress that you’ve made. This is a long-term protocol, but your visits to the clinic are spaced out more and more over time.
One of the most pernicious insults to human health in recent history has left many people very ill, demoralized by conventional medicine, and with few options available for treatment.
Depending upon the severity of your symptoms, your treatment protocol will vary greatly. Typical post-Covid issues Dr. Hackett treats:
- Tinnitus
- Vertigo
- Neurological issues
- GI issues
- Cognitive issues
- Musculoskeletal issues
- Respiratory issues
- Cardio regulation issues
Dr. Tracy will review all of your current lab work, scans, etc. and review the natural history of your illness pattern. We will also go over the treatments that you have tried; keep what works and avoid what hasn’t yielded results for you. Your current medications are also taken into consideration. Any adjustment to your medications must be done by your prescriber.
What Is Mast Cell Activation Syndrome?
MCAS effects the deepest signaling aspect of your immune system. Histamine regulation is the key aspect of the treatment protocol.
In a normal response, exposure to irritants, pathogens, or environmental toxins triggers the cascade that activates mast cells. It is the start of the inflammatory process. As the trigger resolves the inflammatory process subsides, resulting in your mast cell levels to return to baseline. They are the guardian sentinels standing guard, awaiting next insult to the body. However, when exposures become chronic and your immune system is continuously activated, mast cells can become over-reactive.
This chronic overactivation can result in abnormal production of mast cells that can lead hyper-inflammatory responses that can spread throughout your body. The symptoms range from irritating to life-altering. Skin irritation (hives, whels, photosensitivity, and burning pain), abdominal pain, migratory bone and muscle pain, fatigue, anxiety, cognitive problems, neuropathic pain, blood pressure irregularity are the main symptoms but there are several others.
So, how can we address mast cell activation syndrome? Firstly, by undercutting inflammation. That is a multifocal proposition. Many providers will tell you to improve your sleep and exercise habits, but when you feel like you’ve been run over all of the time seemingly simple life regulating activities are difficult, at best. We look at a matrix of interventions to build your protocol: acupuncture, herbs (Chinese/Ayurveda/West), supplements, homeopathics, peptides (troche or injections).
Your pathway into strengthening and healing is done through accumulating small wins that others would take for granted or not even recognize. But, this is YOUR journey, no one else’s and it needs only matter to you and you achieving a freer way of life.
Dr. Hackett’s approach includes techniques for building strength at mind, body, and spirit levels. Specially designed meditation techniques, nutrition focused on building you up, treatments that help reduce inflammation and pain.
Our skin is our largest organ. It is our barrier and our next level of excretion of toxins and metabolites when our internal organs are overburdened. That said, many skin conditions are symptoms of internal organ need for detoxification and functional support. Your immune response internally can be reflected in your skin health. If the autoimmune response is specific to your skin condition, the approach is layered to address internal as well as external aspects of your case.
Many influencer-level ‘educators’ have you focused on healing your gut and detoxing your liver, which are legitimate paths but it doesn’t really cover the entire picture. If you are a sensitive responder or an “opposite responder” (everything works exactly the opposite as intended) you need a more nuanced approach to getting you on a trajectory of healing, for good.
Did you know that protocols for detoxification exist for:
- Lungs
- Blood
- Lymph
- Gastrointestinal system
- Kidney
- Liver
- Skin
Depending upon how your overall health is presenting, a different detox recommendation exists for each unique case. Your psoriasis is different from your friend’s case because your bodies are different, how you have lived in your bodies is different from each other. It only makes sense that your protocols would also differ.
Customized, all natural, hypoallergenic topical applications can be formulated for your unique needs as part of your protocol as well. Peptide microdosing has shown promise for many chronic conditions as well. We will go over all of your options.
Dysglycemia is a broad term for poor regulation of glucose metabolism. Chemical additives to foods, poor quality foods, too much sugar intake, alcohol intake, poor gut health, and other hormonal regulation issues can all contribute to sluggish metabolic health.
TCM and functional medicine are very helpful in re-regulating your metabolism. Dr. Hackett utilizes multiple natural choices for helping you achieve your optimal weight with : acupuncture, herbs, targeted supplements, and peptides.
Microdosing of specific peptides may be helpful in giving your body a little nudge if you’re stuck on a hamster wheel of “trying everything and my weight stays the same”. There are safe, health promoting protocols available to help you get to your weight and health goals while preserving (if not improving) your underlying health and organ function.
Weight management testing:
The complexity of maintaining optimal health can be an overwhelming proposition. A long-standing cornerstone to longevity management is:
The Detox
There are so many gimmicks, gadgets, the latest Cure-All molecule, and panacea remedies that come and go. The structure of the biochemical pathways of your body’s systems, however, do not change. We can give your systems to right nutrients and substances to up or down regulate function, reduce inflammation through several pathways, and tweak your protocol to help you feel your best.
Elimination of toxins and metabolites when our internal organs are overburdened can preclude that optimal lifestyle. Many chronic health conditions are symptoms of internal organ need for detoxification and functional support. Your immune response, likewise, reflects in your overall functional health. If the autoimmune disease or precursor symptoms are an obstacle for you the approach is layered to address the complete picture.
Many influencer-level ‘educators’ have you focused on healing your gut and detoxing your liver, which are legitimate paths but it doesn’t really cover the entire picture. If you are a sensitive responder or an “opposite responder” (everything works exactly the opposite as intended) you need a more nuanced approach to getting you on a trajectory of healing, for good.
Did you know that protocols for detoxification exist for:
- Blood
- Gastrointestinal system
- Liver
- Lungs
- Lymph
- Kidney
- Skin
Depending upon how your overall health is presenting, a different detox recommendation exists for each unique case. Your psoriasis is different from your friend’s case because your bodies are different, how you have lived in your bodies is different from each other. It only makes sense that your protocols would also differ.
Customized, all natural, hypoallergenic topical applications can be formulated for your unique needs as part of your protocol as well. Peptide microdosing has shown promise for many chronic conditions as well. We will go over all of your options.
