Amie Hornaman review: nutritionist 3

I signed up for Amie’s 20 week program. I’m two years post-op total thyroidectomy. I’m a Registered Surgical Nurse for 8 years and a former fitness coach for over 10 years. I knew my surgeon personally, so when she blew me off post-operatively I took it personally. Like many I also struggled to be heard by Doctors very early in my recovery which is how I identified so much with Amie’s content.

That’s how sales works. Sales and marketing hammers a pain point and makes you think you need a product to solve it. I wasn’t celebrating my successes of how well I was doing managing my thyroid levels with my new providers who have been amazing and I can get appointments with in as little as a few days.

I purchased the program in July and didn’t speak with anyone until October. In hindsight that was a huge red flag. When I brought this to Amie’s attention she said, “you should be more worried if you could get into someone right away.” That is a manipulative statement and inaccurate. Some physicians do have a waiting period, but I have worked with phenomenal doctors and surgeons that get people seen in a timely manner. The lack of compassion, empathy, and personal responsibility from Amie regarding her practice lead me to abruptly stop care a little over four weeks into a 20 week program.

There is not a refund once you start the program. You’ll be asked to cover your own labs in excess of hundreds to thousands of dollars if you’re uninsured or insurance doesn’t cover them. I have monitored my own labs for the past two years. I am an educated medical professional, but when I got cancer I also did a lot of research. When I produced my new lab results to Amie I just grew more frustrated because embarrassingly, I had paid for someone to tell me what I already knew.

I felt duped by a door-to-door vacuum salesman. I accept my mistake. I accept there are no refunds, but I could no longer work with Amie’s practice despite multiple emails not respecting my boundaries or my decision.

Working with Amie caused more stress than I needed. I felt like I was on an assembly line with someone having a manic episode. Amie doesn’t have boundaries herself as evidenced over booking, or creating the perception of overbooking. She’s an entrepreneurial bio-hacker.

She will want you to switch your supplements to an expensive supplement line she receives a portion of the profits from. This is common with functional medicine practitioners. Since insurance doesn't reimburse them they decide to get entrepreneurial which can take away from patient centered care.

After I spent the $2, 995, I spent $400 on labs, $400 on visits to other doctors to get prescriptions, $150 on prescriptions, $250 on supplements (I didn’t order all of them) on supplements I already had in my cupboard from different suppliers and labs that proved they were effective. I was bumping $4, 500 and I wasn’t even four weeks in.

Amie’s nutrition tracking app is not as advanced as other free apps on the internet. My diet template was generically populated (it had things listed I was allergic to). You get access to a bunch of poorly produced videos full of information that is freely available on the internet.

If you do have Hashimoto’s or thyroid cancer, focus on building a team of solid mental health professionals. The best thing for you is to reduce your daily stress. Yoga, alkaline baths, Brain Integration Therapy, EFT Tapping, Diaphragmatic Breathing, etc. One of the reason’s you have so much inflammation is because you’re locked and loaded into the sympathetic nervous system. That is going to increase your cortisol and demand for thyroid hormones. Intuitively learn the signals of your body. I think you’ll find that path more useful and cost effective than working remotely with Amie. I know I did. Best of luck to you.