Dr Cobi

69w

WE’RE HIRING! 🤍

An exciting opportunity has opened up to join our team at Essential Health Natural Wellness Clinic, and we’re looking for someone truly exceptional.

This is much more than a reception position. We are looking for someone who genuinely loves people, thrives in a positive environment, and wants to be part of helping patients transform their health. The right person will become an important part of our clinic family.

We’re looking for someone who is:
✨ Warm, compassionate, and welcoming
✨ Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail
✨ A strong communicator who enjoys connecting with people
✨ Computer savvy and confident learning new systems
✨ Familiar with Jane, QuickBooks, and Shopify (or willing to become proficient quickly)
✨ Wellness-minded and passionate about healthy living
✨ Positive, upbeat, and able to help create a joyful workplace—we work hard, laugh often, and believe great energy matters. No negativity or bad moods here!

Experience in a medical, wellness, or customer service setting is considered an asset.

Hours Required:
• Tuesday: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Wednesday: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Thursday: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Friday: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
• Saturday: 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM

If you’re someone who loves creating exceptional experiences for patients and believes you would be an amazing fit for our team, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply, please email BOTH:
• Your resume
• A personalized cover letter explaining why you are our special person and what makes you the perfect fit for Essential Health.

Applications without both a resume and personalized cover letter will not be considered.

📧 [email protected]

If you know someone who would thrive in this role, please share this post. We can’t wait to find the next incredible person to join our clinic family.

"From a parts perspective: the hypervigilance part, the resiliency part, the part that says 'yes, yes, yes', they're tired. They're no longer protecting you in such a loud way. Which is why everything starts feeling bigger."

Cortisol rhythm changes in perimenopause before almost every other hormonal marker moves visibly.

The HPA axis, the signalling system between your brain and adrenal glands, becomes less responsive. The cortisol curve flattens or dysregulates. The resilience buffer that women carry through chronic stress, long hours, and sustained caregiving begins to thin.

And here is what this looks like from a parts perspective:

The hypervigilance part that kept everything running, it's tired.
The resiliency part that absorbed the setbacks, it's quieter now.
The part that said "yes, yes, yes" to everything and everyone, it no longer has the bandwidth.

When those protective parts step back, what they were containing starts to surface. Emotions feel louder. Sensitivities feel sharper. Reactions feel outsized. The woman who "handled everything" no longer feels like she can, and she often interprets this as a personality change, a failure of character, or a sign of something wrong.

It is not a personality change. It is a cortisol rhythm change. It is the buffer softening.

And this surfacing, uncomfortable as it is, is also an opening. The parts that were protecting by staying small now have space to be honest. Many women describe this period as the beginning of knowing themselves in a way they couldn't before.

It's not a malfunction. It's a threshold.

Save this for the next time you wonder why everything feels louder than it used to.

"MTHFR and COMT variants are why one-size-fits-all supplement stacks routinely fail this population. You can take all the B-vitamins in the world and still be undermethylating."

Methylation is a biochemical process that runs in virtually every cell in the body, it's involved in DNA repair, neurotransmitter production, hormone detoxification, and immune function.

When methylation is impaired, the impact shows up as brain fog, mood instability, fatigue, poor stress resilience, and treatment-resistant symptoms that don't respond to standard protocols.

MTHFR and COMT are the two genetic variants I look at first.

MTHFR affects the conversion of folate into its active form (5-MTHF). Without active folate, the methylation cycle stalls, and standard folic acid supplementation does not fix it. In some cases, it makes it worse.

COMT affects how quickly the body breaks down estrogen, dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine. A slow COMT variant means these compounds accumulate, which affects mood, sleep, anxiety, and how the body responds to hormonal changes.

When a patient has done everything correctly, the right diet, the right supplements, the right lifestyle, and still can't think clearly, I look here.

The fix is not more of the same stack. It's the right form of the right nutrient, calibrated to the variant.

If this is you, this is the territory we map in clinic. Save this for the next appointment that goes nowhere.

"These are the formulas I built for patients I couldn't watch suffer through what I knew was treatable. Now you can have them between visits."

The store exists because of specific women.

The one who was driving two hours to get here and couldn't maintain the protocol between appointments. The one who moved out of province and needed continuity. The one who found me online and couldn't come in at all.

Grab the link in bio to shop or you visit the shop at https://drcobi.com/shop/

"Brain fog. Joint pain. Skin reactions. Low energy despite eating well. Five symptoms that don't feel digestive — and a single marker that explains them all."

Zonulin is the protein that controls the tight junctions in your intestinal wall.

When Zonulin is elevated, the barrier loosens. Partially digested food particles, bacterial components, and other molecules cross into circulation — triggering an immune response that manifests everywhere except the gut.

That's brain fog. That's joint inflammation. That's the skin flare that doesn't respond to topical treatment. That's the fatigue that persists despite eating well and sleeping enough. That's the nutritional deficiency that doesn't correct with supplementation.

All of these can trace back to an elevated Zonulin on a GI-MAP stool test.

The GI-MAP measures Zonulin directly. It also measures the broader microbial landscape — which pathogens are present, which beneficial organisms are depleted, and what the inflammatory picture looks like.

When the root cause is digestive, the treatment changes completely. And so do the symptoms.

This is the test we start with in clinic when these symptoms don't add up. DM me "GI MAP" if you want to know more about how it works.