<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nA Little Bit About Brandy Cummings Before We Begin…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Brandy Cummings is a mom, clinician, and certified preconception, pregnancy and postpartum nutritionist. She is the owner and face behind her practice, Pivotal Origins<\/strong> which focuses on helping support parents with their unexplainable postpartum symptoms. Through peer-reviewed research<\/strong><\/em> practices, Brandy and her team is able to help parents with making sense of their unexplainable postpartum symptoms<\/em><\/strong> and treating them with effective research-based solutions. Brandy opened her practice in 2016 in response to trying to overcome her own health issues<\/strong> due to the impact they were having on her life. Through her own pregnancy experiences, she also realized that there were major gaps in support from preconception throughout postpartum and wanted to help in bridging that gap. She is trained in functional medicine<\/strong> which involved looking at the root cause of your symptoms <\/em><\/strong>rather than simple trying to treat the symptoms you are experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThrough her own struggles<\/strong> with her health and seeing multiple<\/em> doctors, she was able to see a doctor that specialized in functional medicine that was able to look at her symptoms holistically and hone in on her thyroid<\/strong> and the potential it had for causing the symptoms she was experiencing. This influenced how brandy operates in her own practice which, according to Brandy, looks like<\/strong>, “Those first couple of sessions, we are just really diving deep. I offer functional lab testing, and so I can really look at how things are working on a biochemical, on a cellular level in a really profound and comprehensive way. But sometimes Western medicine doesn’t do. I’m never one to have an attitude of us versus them or that functional medicine is better than conventional medicine. I really, truly believe we’re better together. And so always just working to bridge that gap and offer people the very best that both modalities have to offer because they both have lots of pros.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis brings us to the focus of this post – the impact that your thyroid can have on different facets of your health. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n