The Ups and Downs of Chronic Illness
REQUIRE Transformation
Not Just Management
Addressing The Fatigue, Fear, and Stress of Chronic Illness
is an Important Part of
Your Treatment Plan
We start with understanding the natural history of your health changes by reviewing a thorough intake, your current pile of labs (or identify those needed if you do not have current tests), your diet, your supplements (what's helped, what didn't), what you've tried already, what your goals are, what your priority list is (breaking down what you're feeling into layers of change we can work through).
Understanding Chronic Health Challenges
Have you tried countless treatments and stacks of supplements without seeing meaningful improvements in your health and quality of life? Do conflicting opinions from online influencers, wellness trends, and heavily marketed supplements leave you feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about what would actual work for YOUR health? The goal with Dr. Hackett is to help you actualize your best health.
Many people struggle sorting through panacea-promise advice, quick-fix gimmicks, and sweeping supplement claims. As a result, your original intent gets diluted in the marketing and influencer approaches perhaps pushing your long-term healing even further out of reach and adding confusion to the mix.
A Systems Medicine Approach
Systems medicine forms the foundation of care with Dr. Tracy. Instead of focusing on isolated symptoms alone, she carefully evaluates how different systems throughout your body interact and regulate one another.
She works with you in developing an understanding the complexity of your immune system, hormones, digestion, metabolism, nervous system, and lifestyle factors helps create a more effective and personalized treatment strategy. You learn to listen to your body and feel the subtle shifts in your health so that you have more confidence in taking what you need, when you need it. No stacks of pills. Supplements and herbal formulas are not meant to be ‘permanents’. They are to help the body up-regulate or down-regulate to a better normal. Dr. Hackett doses almost everything on an intermittent schedule so as not to over burden your system, yet get the intended results.
Creating a Personalized Treatment Plan
Together, we carefully review the natural history of your health concerns and identify the patterns contributing to chronic symptoms. Then, Dr. Tracy develops a treatment approach designed to support healing, improve regulation, and encourage better long-term wellness.
Rather than relying on temporary solutions, the goal is to help move your body away from chronic dysfunction and toward more sustainable health and improved quality of life.
Integrative Support for Cancer Care
Many new questions and treatment approaches have emerged regarding how cancer care can best support long-term health and recovery. Therefore, part of Dr. Hackett’s approach involves helping you review your options while guiding you toward the most appropriate holistic care strategies for your unique situation.
Additionally, she works alongside your existing oncology team and develops supportive protocols that complement your traditional treatment plan. Her approach focuses on East-West Functional Medicine and may also include Iver-FenBen protocols when appropriate for your goals and medical history. She also recommends the RGCC testing strategy, although it is not pre-requisite to getting started. She can develop a tailored protocol from those results. There is a starting point that we can develop a nutritive strategy based upon where you are in your current treatment plan.
Nutrition and Supplementation Support
Nutrition plays a critical role throughout cancer care. So, Dr. Hackett starts with food and curate personalized nutrition strategies, supplementation plans, compounded substances, and dosing protocols focused on keeping you from losing weight and maintaining healthy blood cell counts, preserving muscle mass, and supporting stable body weight remain important foundations during treatment. These factors can influence how well your body tolerates medications, chemotherapy, and other therapies over time.
Acupuncture and Emotional Wellness
Acupuncture also serves as an important supportive therapy during treatment. In addition, it may help encourage relaxation, improve recovery, and support overall well-being throughout the healing process.
Many patients also use acupuncture to help manage stress, emotional exhaustion, and the physical strain associated with cancer treatment. As a result, care focuses not only on physical support, but also on improving emotional balance and quality of life during a difficult time.
Understanding Latent Viral Infections
Only recently have latent viral and bacterial infections gained broader recognition within the medical community. Although tracking lab markers and titers remains important, helping you actually feel better and regain quality of life is the larger goal.
Viruses can place a significant burden on the immune system over time. Consequently, chronic viral activity may contribute to ongoing fatigue, flu-like symptoms, brain fog, low energy, and inflammation. Therefore, treatment focuses on supporting your body while helping improve immune system regulation and resilience.
Supporting Immune System Recovery
Certain substances and carefully selected combinations of therapies may help support the body’s response to latent viral patterns such as EBV. Additionally, strengthening overall immune function and improving recovery capacity remain important parts of the healing process.
That lingering flu-like feeling often reflects the body’s ongoing effort to manage chronic stressors and immune activation. As a result, supportive therapies focus on helping your system recover more effectively while encouraging better energy, resilience, and long-term balance.
A Personalized Functional Medicine Approach
Another important aspect of care involves strengthening your overall constitutional health. Therefore, Dr. Hackett develops treatment strategies according to your unique symptoms, history, sensitivities, and wellness goals.
Rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach, she carefully reviews your previous treatments, supplements, nutrition, stress patterns, fatigue levels, and overall symptom picture. Furthermore, this process helps identify what may support your healing while also avoiding therapies that previously failed to provide meaningful results.
Only recently have latent viral and bacterial infections gained a measure of acknowledgement in the broader medical community.
The Lyme spectrum of infection or co-infections effect each patient differently. One commonality is the pernicious nature of the long-term effects of the latent infection and the degenerative impact on your tissues, vital systems, and your quality of life. Taking a fresh look at your history and symptoms along with a review of your course of treatment to date can help reveal a new way forward.
Another consideration is the overall robustness of your constitutional health. How we approach building you back to vibrant health is developed according to YOUR needs. It is not a formulaic, kitchen-sink, one-size-fits-all approach. We review your treatment history for understanding but also to avoid repeating things that didn’t work for you. We curate your current supplements, review your nutrition and sensitivities, the nature of your stress and fatigue patterns, and of course, your overall symptoms patterns.
“But your labs are all normal. You’re fine. It’s in your head.” 
Lovely thing to say instead of just admitting they don’t know how to help you… Let’s change that into analyzing everything that you’re experiencing and find a path to healing.
Only recently have CFS, fibromyalgia, and other “mysterious” undiagnosed illness syndromes been attributed to latent viral and bacterial infections gained a measure of acknowledgement in the broader medical community.
Viruses are parasites and must be dealt with from the perspective of making your internal environment inhospitable to them. Certain substances and combinations of substances can effectively undermine their ability to opportunistically proliferate in the body or “find a home” there.
Other aspects that must be considered is the overall robustness of your constitutional health, how best to mitigate your inflammation picture, and map out the layers of resolution. It can be thought of as an archeological method of clearing layers of issues to free you from the effects of the patterns keeping you in poor health. Over time, illness becomes part of your identity to a degree which further cements it into your system. We work on that aspect as well.
How we approach building you back to vibrant health is developed according to YOUR needs. It is not a formulaic, kitchen-sink, one-size-fits-all approach. We review your treatment history for understanding but also to avoid repeating things that didn’t work for you. We curate your current supplements, review your nutrition and sensitivities, the nature of your stress and fatigue patterns, and of course, your overall symptoms patterns.
Only recently have Long Covid syndromes and the complexity of the problem gained a measure of acknowledgement in the broader medical community.
Viruses are parasites and must be dealt with from the perspective of making your internal environment inhospitable to them. Certain substances and combinations of substances can effectively undermine their ability to opportunistically proliferate in the body or “find a home” there.
The primary consideration for resolution of your symptoms is reinforcing the overall robustness of your constitutional health. Disease progression is undermined and focused steps to mitigate the impacts on your body become apparent.
How we approach building you back to vibrant health is developed according to YOUR needs. It is not a formulaic, kitchen-sink, one-size-fits-all approach. We review your treatment history for understanding but also to avoid repeating things that didn’t work for you. We curate your current supplements, review your nutrition and sensitivities, the nature of your stress and fatigue patterns, and of course, your overall symptoms patterns.
