For more than 20 years, Brittany Heyden worked in traditional nursing and healthcare leadership, building a career rooted in evidence-based practice and patient-centered care.
Over time, she noticed a recurring pattern: women continued to struggle despite “normal” lab work and standard treatment plans. When she eventually faced her own unresolved health issues, it deepened her conviction that true wellness requires a more comprehensive, integrated approach.
This realization eventually shaped the foundation of the Renovaré Method™, her whole-person philosophy for identifying root causes and restoring balance throughout the body.
Blending functional medicine with lifestyle, emotional well-being and nervous system regulation, Renovaré, meaning “to renew,” guides women toward feeling vibrant, resilient and connected to their authentic selves.
Her introduction to functional medicine began during her own health challenges, including persistent cardiac arrhythmias that conventional testing couldn’t fully explain. Exploring integrative approaches revealed the profound influence of nutrition, gut health, detox pathways and stress physiology.
Motivated by these insights, she completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in an accelerated eight-month timeframe and redirected her career toward holistic, root-cause care.
A Broader Vision for Healthcare
As a nurse practitioner, Heyden felt drawn to functional medicine, inspired by the deeper investigative work and the ability to spend meaningful time with patients.
She established a virtual practice to expand access to integrative, root-cause care across Nebraska and South Dakota, removing barriers that often prevent women in rural regions from receiving comprehensive wellness support.
“It opened my eyes to the possibility that there was more to health, wellness and medicine than what I’d been taught. I felt deeply called to help the women who were exhausted, frustrated and desperate for real answers,” Heyden says.
Her approach supplements, rather than replaces, traditional care. One of the concepts that most transformed her perspective was the use of optimal lab values, which reveal subtle dysfunction long before disease develops.
Combined with an understanding of the gut as the body’s foundation, this helped her trace chronic symptoms back to deeper systemic imbalances.
“Our systems become overwhelmed when the gut, liver, lymphatic system and detox organs aren’t functioning the way they were designed to. When those pathways slow, toxins accumulate faster than the body can clear them, and that’s when symptoms begin,” Heyden explains.
Supporting Women Through Complex Health Journeys
Today, she works primarily with women seeking clarity around how nutrition, stress, hormones and lifestyle shape their well-being. Healing, she emphasizes, is both gradual and holistic.
“We criticize ourselves and try to live up to social standards of perfection. We have to learn to love ourselves unconditionally. That doesn’t mean we can’t strive to grow, but we have to love ourselves in every phase of life. We morph, change and evolve,” she says.
Her assessments are comprehensive, exploring childhood patterns, stress exposure, sleep, diet and environmental triggers. She pairs this with extensive lab work, including full thyroid panels, mineral levels, insulin markers, GI mapping and advanced hormone testing such as the DUTCH test.
The Functional Medicine Framework
Her care model follows the “Five Rs”: remove, replace, re-inoculate, repair and rebalance. Nutrition, restorative sleep and nervous system regulation form the foundation. Even simple somatic practices help support regulation and calm.
“If our mind isn’t healthy, our body won’t be either. There’s a direct connection, and they have to communicate. There must be a healthy flow between them,” Heyden says.
Supplement protocols are introduced gradually to ensure tolerance and absorption. Many women begin with deficiencies in magnesium, vitamin D and essential fats, and even small corrections can create meaningful change.
“Healing isn’t fast. It’s not a pill that works overnight. It’s an evolution and ultimately a lifestyle.”
Thriving in Every Season
Heyden believes every woman deserves to feel “exquisite, amazing and vibrant.” Midlife, she says, is not a decline but a moment of profound transformation.
“We have to start honoring our bodies and allowing our minds to rest instead of constantly pushing.”
Her guiding message remains: “Be exquisitely you.”
Explore the experience at www.brittanyheyden.com, where science meets soul and transformation begins.
"We have to learn to love ourselves unconditionally. That doesn’t mean we can’t strive to grow, but we have to love ourselves in every phase of life."