FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION • WOMEN’S HEALTH •
FERTILITY • LONGEVITY
Hi I'm Susan Gladstein
I help women make sense of what their bodies are telling them, cut through conflicting health advice, and focus on what actually matters for energy, hormones, fertility, metabolism, and healthy aging.
My approach is practical, faith-led, and rooted in the belief that health should help you live your life — not become your life.
I know what it feels like to carry a quiet longing in your heart — whether it’s for a child, for more energy, or simply to feel like yourself again.
I also know what it’s like to be told everything looks “fine” while your body is telling you a different story.
After nine years of marriage and raising a beautifully blended family of five, I couldn’t shake the sense that someone was missing. When my husband suggested a vasectomy reversal, I had no idea how deeply that yes would change our lives.
Just months later, before a military deployment, I received a mandated anthrax vaccine. What followed was a cascade of symptoms no one could explain. I was told everything was normal — but I knew it wasn’t.
During that six-month deployment, I stopped outsourcing my health and started asking different questions. I began studying nutrition, hormones, stress, inflammation, and the way the body functions as a whole.
Years later, after rebuilding my health from the ground up, I became pregnant at 40 with our daughter, Emma. At 44, I welcomed our son, Ezra.
But the miracle wasn’t just pregnancy.
It was learning how much our everyday choices matter — sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, hormones, inflammation, and the way we live day after day.
That experience changed how I think about health: not as something to obsess over, but as the foundation that helps us show up for the life God has given us.
Today, I help women understand what their bodies are telling them, ask better questions, and look at the pieces that can easily get missed in rushed healthcare.
My work spans hormones, metabolism, nutrition, stress, fertility, and healthy aging — but the goal is bigger than improving a lab result or fixing a symptom.
I want women to have more energy, more strength, and more healthy years for the people and experiences that matter most.
Health isn’t the destination. It’s what makes more of the life you love possible.
And God Used That Longing To Change Everything
i dreamed of one more
Spontaneous kitchen dance party enthusiast
CHRONICALLY CONVINCED THERE’S ROOM FOR ONE MORE KID
Homeschooling mama who loves Jesus
Rides bikes around the 'hood like it's 1989
HOST OF ROOTED RESET™ RETREATS AROUND THE WORLD
Planner of epic family adventures around the world
Living the beautiful chaos of blended family and first responder life
Retired Air Force Veteran (23 years) and fire wife
A Few Things That Shaped Me
Get to Know Me
WHY MORE YEARS MATTER TO ME
THE CAREER I NEVER PLANNED
For most of my life, I wanted to be a doctor. Then, on a whim, my best friend and I walked into an Air Force recruiter’s office.
Two weeks later, I was headed to basic training. What I thought would be a detour became a 23-year career in public relations.
It also taught me one of the greatest lessons of my life: some of the best things God does with us are not the things we planned.
THE LIFE I ACTUALLY WANT TO BUILD
These days, success looks different to me.
I still love big ideas, meaningful work, and planning the next adventure. But I care just as much about long dinners, people around the table, being outside, laughing with my family, trying new things, and having enough margin to enjoy the life we’re building.
That’s also what changed how I think about health.
I’m not interested in spending every waking hour optimizing, tracking, restricting, or chasing perfect wellness.
I want enough energy, strength, and health to be present for the people I love — and available for whatever God has for me next.
I don’t think of longevity as chasing a number. I think about more years with Daryl, more family dinners, more trips, and more ridiculous dancing in the kitchen.
I want more time with my kids as they grow, more adventures, and more chances to say yes to the people and experiences that make life feel full.
To me, longevity is about staying strong, healthy, curious, and able to keep living a life I don’t want to miss.
Practical education, real conversations, and support for women who want to feel better without making wellness their full-time job.
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Deeper support when you want to look beyond appointments and understand the bigger picture behind your fertility.
EXPLORE FERTILITY SUPPORT
Small-group experiences built around connection, adventure, movement, good food, rest, and actually enjoying your life.
EXPERIENCE A RETREAT
Start With What Fits Your Season
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