Healing Isn’t a Test Result: What This TFN Client Meg O’Neill Learned About Mindset, Data, and Patience | Ep 391
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever felt frustrated by how slow healing can be, or caught yourself searching for ONE answer that will finally explain everything, this episode is for you. Erin is sitting down with TFN client Meg O’Neill to explore what happened when she learned how patience, mindset, and functional testing work together over time.
Together, they unpack Meg’s client case, including recurring infections, acid reflux, blood sugar instability, and elevated liver markers – and why none of those symptoms told the full story on their own! Erin digs into why testing matters, what “under the hood” data can uncover about gut bacteria and gluten reactions, and how to stop missing root causes by assuming hormones are always the culprit.
Meg also shares the small, but meaningful changes that helped her build momentum on her health journey, including removing dairy and gluten.
In this episode:
- How Meg’s current season of life changed the kinds of health and work habits she was willing to sustain
- Why putting labels on your health (like blaming all your symptoms on perimenopause) can delay real answers
- How functional testing played a critical role in Meg’s care and helped move her beyond guessing or trial-and-error
- The data behind low Secretory IgA and low beneficial bacteria, and what it means when you’re constantly getting sick
- The small shifts Meg focused on to improve her energy and digestion without overhauling her entire life
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| 0:00.0 | I was so disconnected from my actual physical body. Like I feel now so present and in my body. And there was certain times where I had all non-toxic things. And it was like as life got harder as it does, I let those things fall away. I just didn't know how to prioritize it. |
| 0:22.2 | It's often moms of two or three kids who are really in the thick of it, and they're like, |
| 0:27.7 | what did you do? |
| 0:28.5 | What are you doing? |
| 0:29.1 | And it's like no one has like a magic sauce or magic wand. |
| 0:33.3 | It was just that I took each baby step. |
| 0:36.9 | And I said to myself, this is who I am now. |
| 0:39.6 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, |
| 0:42.6 | because we do things a little differently around here. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience |
| 0:48.0 | as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, |
| 0:50.7 | creating a new model that I call intuitive functional medicine, |
| 0:53.7 | where we combine root cause |
| 0:55.2 | medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. This is where science meets self-trust. Your body |
| 1:01.7 | already knows how to heal, and this show is going to show you how. If you're looking for new ways |
| 1:07.0 | of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with a friend because you never know whose life you might change. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay, so I'm so excited today because I have my friend, my colleague, and a client of the |
| 1:18.9 | functional nutritionist Meg O'Neill with us. Hi, Meg. |
| 1:21.9 | Hi. |
| 1:22.9 | If you guys could see us now, we are wearing our Christmas colors. I mean, green. She's in red. |
| 1:28.2 | So Meg and I first met on Instagram. |
| 1:31.5 | Like years ago, I was trying to think maybe like 2019. |
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