Whole-body, care for chronic gut symptoms that don’t resolve

Digestive Distress Support and Resolution

Constipation

Diarrhea

Heartburn

Reflux

GERD

IBS & IBD

Celiac Disease

Crohn's & Colitis

Ulcerative Colitis

Bloating

SIBO

Gallstones

Gas & Belching

Constipation • Diarrhea • Heartburn • Reflux • GERD • IBS & IBD • Celiac Disease • Crohn's & Colitis • Ulcerative Colitis • Bloating • SIBO • Gallstones • Gas & Belching •

If you’re dealing with ongoing digestive issues — bloating, constipation, diarrhea, reflux, abdominal pain, food reactions, or unpredictable digestion — you’re not alone. And it’s not “just how your body is.”

Many of the clients we work with have tried elimination diets, supplements, probiotics, medications, or been told they have IBS, reflux, or a “sensitive stomach.” Some have managed symptoms for years without ever feeling well.

Let’s get to the root cause.

At Hey Hey Mae, we approach digestive distress as a whole-body signal, not an isolated gut problem.

Digestive Symptoms Are Info, Not a Forever Thing

Digestive issues are often the body’s way of communicating that something deeper is out of balance. The gut plays a central role in immune health, nervous system regulation, hormone balance, and detoxification - which means chronic symptoms rarely exist in isolation.

We frequently see digestive distress connected to:

  • Immune activation or dysregulation

  • Chronic or stealth infections

  • Stress and nervous system overload

  • Mold or environmental toxins

  • Nutrient depletion

  • Inflammation and gut barrier disruption

Our goal is not just symptom relief - it’s helping the body regain digestive capacity so healing can be sustained.

You’re Not Alone- Listen In

How We Approach Digestive Distress

Rather than organizing care around labels like IBS, GERD, or “food sensitivities,” we look at why digestion isn’t functioning optimally and what’s interfering with the gut’s ability to do its job.

Our work focuses on:

  • Restoring digestive function and tolerance

  • Using data to inform direction - not guessing at what the root contributors to disfunction are

  • Supporting gut-immune balance

  • Identifying contributors like pathogens, inflammation, or stress

  • Strengthening the gut as one of the body’s primary immune systems

  • Teaching you how to care for your digestion without suppressing symptoms - real healing

This approach allows many clients to tolerate more foods over time - not fewer - and feel more digestively resilient in daily life.

Care That’s Practical, Layered, and Sustainable

Digestive healing doesn’t happen by doing everything at once.

Care at Hey Hey Mae is:

  • Individualized and client-centered

  • Delivered in bite-sized, manageable steps

  • Adapted as symptoms shift and capacity improves

We don’t start by taking everything away.

Supplements are used for a time and for a purpose. Food is foundational, not punitive. Testing is used thoughtfully - not as a checklist.

Our aim is long-term digestive stability, not lifelong restriction.

We Believe…

Food is
medicine.

Every human is made to flourish.

Supplements are for a time.

Any body can heal when strategically supported.

What Care Can Look Like

Clients working with us can expect:

  • Understanding what’s driving their digestive symptoms

  • Reducing inflammation and irritation

  • Addressing underlying infections or imbalances

  • Supporting gut immunity and barrier function

  • Rebuilding digestive resilience over time

Many clients tell us this is the first time their gut care has felt calm, clear, and doable.

Real Families. Real Progress.

Digestive Healing Foundational Care & Testing Package

A clear, supported way to begin care

Our recommended starting point for clients with digestive distress who want clarity and support to implement.
This package combines an in-depth root-cause assessment with three months of concierge-style care, so you’re not left trying to figure things out on your own.
This package is designed for clients who don’t want another one-off appointment, but instead want to understand what’s driving their symptoms and be supported as their body responds.

What Testing This Package Includes

✔️ OAT Organic Acids Urine Test (At-Home)

This at-home urine test gives us a functional snapshot of, gut activity, nutrients, metabolism and cellular health and how they influence digestive issues, fatigue, brain fog, mood changes and chronic illness.

We evaluate 76 markers across key systems including:

  • Yeast & Fungal Activity: Identifies candida and mold’s impact on bloating, brain fog, fatigue, migraines , immune stress.

  • Bacterial & Clostridia Markers: More than just C. Diff, but harmful bacteria linked to GI disorders, mood change and neurological symptoms.

  • Gut-Brain Chemistry: Assesses neurotransmitter metabolism and connects to sleep, stress response and mood, focus.

  • Oxalate Metabolism: Helps identify gut irritation, pain, inflammation.

  • Mitochondrial & Energy Pathways: How cells function is key for repair.

  • Nutrient & Detox Markers

The OAT helps us identify yeast and bacterial overgrowth, gut imbalance, toxin burden, metabolic stress, and nutrient needs — so we’re not guessing or treating blindly, and can build a plan that supports real healing from the inside out.

✔️ GI-MAP Stool Test (At-Home)

The GI-MAP provides a detailed look at the digestive tract and gut digestion function - often referred to as the body’s second immune system and second brain.

This test helps us assess:

  • Beneficial bacteria and microbial balance

  • Bad Bacteria contributing to symptoms

  • Digestive function and inflammation

  • Gut immune activity

  • Chronic infections such as H. pylori, C. difficile, pathogenic E. coli strains, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Enterococcus, Giardia and more

  • Fungi, parasites, and common worms

For clients with Digestive Distress, this is where we discover the factors causing the digestive issues - whether they are pathogens or digestive function - often both!

Why We Start Here

By beginning care with these two tests alongside Foundational Care & Ongoing Support, we’re able to:
  • Identify root contributors early
  • Create a more focused, efficient care plan
  • Support immune balance more effectively
  • Reduce trial-and-error approaches
This approach gives families clarity, direction, and support - without overwhelm.

Foundational Health Assessment

Not ready for ongoing care yet?

A single, in-depth visit to understand what’s driving symptoms and what to prioritize first - without committing to long-term care. Short-term GI issues heal here.

Testing recommendations are made thoughtfully during or after your first session.

There’s no downside to starting care this way.

Digestive distress doesn’t mean your body is failing you. It means something needs support.

With the right approach, the gut can heal, resilience can return, and food can feel nourishing again - not stressful.

A Final Word

Our services are completely tailored to your body’s unique journey and needs, with support layered intentionally over time to increase success and avoid overwhelm.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • We ask why, and why again until we’ve found the original cause of disfunction

    Instead of treating or diagnosing disease, we take a whole systems approach to improving your health. For example, you have on going stomach pain and alternating diarrhea. We know that it’s not just the Gastrointestinal system involved, but the immune system through healthy gut bacteria, the thyroid as it maintains your bowel speed, there may be infections of the GI Tract or poor nervous system communication from the brain or even nutrient deficiencies preventing healthy digestive secretions.

    With each client, our team uses your data provided from testing, a thorough health history, symptom surveys and a short study of your food and mood habits. This data is paired with our knowledge of the complete body’s workings and functions. For each client, we work through dialing in a nourishing diet, mineral balance, appropriate hydration, fatty acid balance, blood sugar regulation, restorative sleep, optimal digestion, effective stress relief and healthy movement. We then consider drainage, immune modulation, mitochondrial health, parasites, heavy metals, mold and fungus, immune imbalance and chronic pathogens.

    Whether each client needs walked through protocols to support these is bio-individual, specific and continually reevaluated by your practitioner during care. That means you’re not using supplements forever, protocols continually change and you see progress toward healing.

  • Our team members share a mix of medical, functional and health backgrounds. The foundational functional training we all share is Restorative Wellness Solutions: Gastrointestinal Healing, Optimizing Hormones, Nutritional Blood Chemistry, Autoimmune Factors, Brain Development and Injury, Optimizing Brain health, Deep detoxification and Mold Illness, Genetics and polymorphisms.

    Part of our team has the Nutritional Therapy Association’s Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner certification, including a physical, functional exam. Other trainings we have completed include: Certified Lyme Specialist, Chronic Infections, Bio-Individual Nutrition, Functional Blood Chemistry, Pediatric Intensive, Nourishing Hope Nutrition for Autism and ADHD, Autoimmunity, HTMA Testing and Mineral Balancing, Organic Acids Testing, Toxicity and Toxic Load, Wahl’s Protocol for Multiple Sclerosis, Autoimmune Paleo Diet (AIP), Polyvagal Theory, Disordered Eating, Trauma and Children’s Nutrition and development. In addition, several of our practitioners have various medical designations including Pharmacist, Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery Nursing.

    We work together on every client case, refining our proven process with the great benefit of a team hive mind.

  • Our mission is to compassionately navigate your healing season, removing the root cause and restoring health through whole foods, the latest therapies and traditional wisdom, effectively restoring health. We will make foundational specific recommendations as early as your first session on nourishing diet, mineral balance, appropriate hydration, fatty acid balance, blood sugar regulation, restorative sleep, optimal digestion, effective stress relief and healthy movement.

    Supplemental protocols are build to be for a season, for a reason - never extending on complicated protocols for years. Multi-vitamin and mineral complexes, herbs, supplements, homeopathics, digestive aids, topical creams, bio-identical hormones are specifically combined for each client to create our proven results. For our younger clients, supplement protocols lean heavy on yummy chewable and liquid drops or tinctures. Adult clients, too, who prefer chewable or liquids or have specific needs find it our individual protocols meet their needs and preferences.

    We believe that clear is kind: each supplement or recommendation will be explained and specific, measurable to-dos will be assigned at the end of each session. We minimize confusion of your protocol, health and wellness information, using bio individuality as our guide.

  • While several of our providers have traditional medical designations, we do not prescribe medications. We can and do work with and to support your current medical goals, prescriptions and are trained on potential interactions. We often rely heavily our practitioner who is also a Pharmacist to educate and support those with multiple prescriptions.

  • We don’t! We work with all members of your family, men, too! 1 in 2 children in America suffer with a chronic illness including eczema, asthma, juvenile arthritis and diabetes. Time and time again, children prove to be the most ready-to-heal of all! We love working against this statistic and have further training in pediatrics, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD/ADD, Autoimmune disease, FPIES, Lyme and more.

  • Yes! We have worked successfully with many who have suffered from mold exposure. We often find this to be an immune trigger that has allowed other chronic infections to flare, surface or persist. Our extensive mold training allows us to support and direct you through Mycotoxin testing for your body as well as guide you through testing your home, surveying your environment, selecting mold remediation and more. We include drainage, detox, anti-fungal, limbic system retraining and many more supports in our comprehensive plan. You’ll experience this process step-by-step in a simple format.

  • When it comes to healing health challenges: the sky’s the limit. There isn’t a body that won’t benefit from the work we do to assess and support increasing health. Clients have had success navigating and improving: Eczema, Digestive Distress, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Grave’s Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Anxiety, Depression, Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia, Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), IBS and IBD, Celiac Disease, Recurrent Streptococcal infections, Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders, Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism, Leaky Gut or Intestinal Permeability, Multiple Sclerosis, Recurrent Epstein-Barr Virus or Mononucleosis, Lupus, Heartburn and Acid Reflux, Fibromyalgia, Juvenile Arthritis, High blood pressure, Lyme disease, Autism Spectrum Disorder, PANS, PANDAS, hormonal challenges, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), painful PMS, painful periods, Sensory Processing Disorder, Ulcerative Colitis, Mold Illness, Crohn’s Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, MTHFR genetic mutations, Severe Acne, Parkinson’s Disease, Fertility Issues…

    Because our approach takes a whole-body perspective and continually improves your health status, finding healing for many layers of your health challenges is our promise.

  • We love to work with the most information available and can help advise you on what's helpful and what's not needed. While we will review these labs to help us understand your health story, and use the information when preparing protocols, we will not necessarily review them in detail. To have them reviewed in a session, you may purchase additional calls. Please ask your practitioner.

  • We see clients globally and in all parts of the United States. Testing availability varies for international clients by location, but some clients will find care useful and effective without testing. All tests are sent via mail or ordered through Labcorp and can be completed from the comfort of home or a draw center.

  • We accept HSA/FSA funds, credit, debit, cash and check. Hey Hey MAE does offer financing to a select number of clients, through payment plans. You may also be eligible to make use of Paypal Credit's 6 months with no interest agreement when monthly payments and full payoff in 6 months are completed. Please let us know if you’d like your invoice via PayPal.

  • knows what you're talking about!I I (Elizabeth) learned early in my health journey that a functional test is only as good as its reviewer. Our proven process and miles of happy clients are our proof of success. We spend the time, we comb through research, we update testing methods, we work tirelessly to get to the true root of your illness.

    When it comes to resolving your complex health challenge, we are training in and employ a variety of methods including nutraceuticals, varied traditional and functional testing, biofeedback, homeopathics, supplementation, diet change and more.

    Illness isn't built in a day or by one factor and your support needs to match that! Your health story is important to us and informs how your body got to where it is and how we’ll restore it back to health.

    All testing will be explained thoroughly to you, line by line, time made for questions and messaging always open for any more support you desire. We're here for you, we believe clear is kind and we are constantly seeking out more and newer education to get the job done, well!

    We’ve also been there: experience is our best teacher, and we have each had lengthy health journeys that resolved when we were able to put our specific training and methods to work on our own health. We’ll guide you with empathetic compassion from a place of experience.