Women’s health isn’t simple. Every year millions of women search for answers to stubborn symptoms like fatigue, weight plateaus, mood swings, digestive discomfort, and hormonal imbalance. They try workouts, diets, supplements, cycle tracking apps, and still feel stuck.
That’s where precision matters. Not guesswork. Not trends. Data, clarity, and expert care.
That’s exactly what the partnership between 1st Optimal and Taylor Murphy (also known as Taylor Gang or TaylorGangLifeFitness) delivers: real answers backed by laboratory testing, medical oversight, and personalized plans tailored to the unique biology of each woman.
This guide explains how the partnership works, what it means for women’s health and coaching clients, and why it’s a game‑changer in functional medicine, hormone optimization, and gut‑based wellness.
What This Partnership Is Really About
At its core, the 1st Optimal + Taylor Murphy collaboration unites clinical precision and real‑world coaching experience. It lets women get:
- Advanced hormone and gut lab testing
- Expert medical interpretation and oversight
- Personalized hormone, metabolic, and gut‑healing protocols
- A bridge between coaching and clinical care
- Tools that deliver measurable results, not guesswork
Taylor Murphy brings her expertise in fat loss, confidence coaching, nutrition, and sustainable lifestyle strategies. 1st Optimal brings medically driven diagnostics and treatments grounded in functional medicine. Together they answer the “why” behind symptoms instead of just treating the symptoms superficially.
Why Women’s Health Demands a New Approach
Women are asking Google questions like:
- “Why can’t I lose belly fat even with diet and exercise?”
- “What’s causing my hormonal imbalance?”
- “Is gut health connected to my mood and energy?”
- “What tests should I do for low energy and weight gain?”
These aren’t simple or isolated issues. Symptoms like fatigue, stubborn weight, brain fog, bloating, low libido, or irregular periods often stem from root‑cause imbalances in hormones and the gut.
Traditional healthcare tends to treat symptoms. Women leave appointments with prescriptions or generalized advice, not data on why their body is off balance. Functional medicine digs deeper. It looks at:
- Hormone metabolism
- Thyroid and adrenal function
- Gut microbiome health
- Metabolic hormones
- Nutrient status
- Inflammatory markers
This partnership uses the best of both worlds: coaching that understands real life, and clinical lab insights that reveal underlying biology.
Who Is Taylor Murphy / Taylor Gang Life?
Taylor Murphy, also known as Taylor Gang or TaylorGangLifeFitness, is a seasoned fitness and wellness coach specializing in helping women achieve lasting fat loss, increased energy, and overall well-being through a holistic approach. Taylor’s expertise blends fitness training, nutrition coaching, and mindset transformation to create sustainable health plans that work for real women with real lives.
Her philosophy is rooted in empowerment, and she firmly believes in meeting clients where they are, working with their unique bodies, and providing solutions that fit into their busy lifestyles. What sets her apart is her personal experience and understanding of the struggles many women face when it comes to fitness and wellness, especially as they enter different stages of life like perimenopause and menopause. Taylor’s approach isn’t just about getting results; it’s about getting the right results, in a way that’s sustainable and fits each individual’s lifestyle.
Taylor’s Specializations Include:
- Sustainable Fat Loss: Taylor helps clients understand that fat loss isn’t just about cutting calories or doing endless cardio, it’s about finding the right balance that fits the individual’s metabolism and hormonal health.
- Confidence Coaching: Through fitness and nutrition coaching, Taylor helps women build not just stronger bodies but also stronger self-belief and self-esteem.
- Metabolism-Boosting Workouts: Taylor’s fitness programs are designed to work with your body’s natural rhythms, focusing on metabolism-friendly movements that support fat loss without excessive strain.
- Nutrition and Supplementation: Taylor designs meal plans that support your metabolism and energy needs, incorporating whole foods and smart supplementation to optimize body function.
Her approach is all about long-term sustainability, avoiding quick fixes that aren’t practical for women juggling careers, families, and personal lives. Taylor understands the intricacies of female physiology, which is why she advocates for strategies that work with the body rather than against it.
With the 1st Optimal + Taylor Murphy partnership, Taylor is able to enhance her coaching with clinical, data-driven insights provided by 1st Optimal’s advanced lab tests, offering her clients a deeper understanding of their health and enabling her to optimize their wellness protocols. This collaboration means Taylor’s clients can now experience a more holistic, medically backed approach, combining her expertise with 1st Optimal’s clinical capabilities in hormone optimization, gut health, and functional testing.
Through this partnership, Taylor is empowering women to feel better and achieve their health goals, not just with hard work and commitment but with the right data and medical support to guide them every step of the way.
What 1st Optimal Brings to the Table
1st Optimal is a functional medicine practice focusing on personalized telehealth care that helps people optimize their:
- Hormones
- Weight
- Metabolism
- Gut health
- Longevity and performance
Our approach starts with comprehensive lab testing that goes far beyond a basic blood panel.
We use advanced tools like:
- DUTCH hormone testing (detailed hormone metabolites)
- GI‑MAP stool analysis for gut microbiome insights
- Extensive blood panels covering thyroid, inflammation, nutrient status, and metabolic hormones
This isn’t guesswork. It’s clarity. With data in hand, clinicians can design precise interventions for each client’s unique biology.
Functional Medicine vs. Traditional Care
Traditional care often treats symptoms in isolation: you feel tired, you get iron pills. You have gut issues, you get a probiotic. These can help, but they don’t show the cause.
Functional medicine starts with data. It uncovers root causes and builds a plan that accounts for interconnected systems:
- Gut health influences hormones
- Hormones influence mood, metabolism, sleep
- Stress alters cortisol and gut balance
- Nutrient status affects energy and immunity
This integrated view is how women finally get answers that last.
How the Partnership Works (Step‑by‑Step)
Here’s how a typical pathway works when a woman engages with this partnership:
Step 1. Intake and Goals
You start with a health review. What symptoms matter most? What are your goals? What have you already tried? This contextualizes your biology and goals.
Step 2. Advanced Lab Testing
This is where the partnership shines. Instead of guessing your hormone status, thyroid function, or gut balance, you discover it through clinical lab results.
Common tests include:
- DUTCH Complete hormone panel
- Thyroid blood panel
- GI‑MAP stool analysis
- Nutrient and metabolic markers
Step 3. Medical Interpretation
Once labs are in, credentialed providers interpret the results. They connect dots that routine care often misses and identify root causes like estrogen dominance, dysbiosis, adrenal dysfunction, or metabolic resistance.
Step 4. Personalized Protocols
Based on your data, you get a plan that includes:
- Hormone balancing strategies
- Gut‑healing nutrition protocols
- Lifestyle and stress management guidance
- Targeted supplement support
- Medical treatments if clinically indicated (like hormone therapy)
This isn’t a template. It’s your biology‑led roadmap.
Step 5. Integration With Coaching
Taylor Murphy uses the clinical data to fine‑tune workouts, nutrition plans, lifestyle recommendations, and accountability frameworks so your coaching feels evidence‑based and life‑realistic.
No more cookie‑cutter.
Why Gut Health Matters in Women’s Wellness
Women search for answers to symptoms like bloating, irregular cycles, mood swings, and stubborn fat. The missing link is often gut health.
Your gut isn’t just about digestion. It’s a control center influencing:
- Immunity
- Hormone metabolism
- Inflammation
- Energy production
- Brain chemistry
The GI‑MAP stool analysis used by 1st Optimal examines your microbiome on a DNA level to identify:
- Microbial imbalances (dysbiosis)
- Inflammatory markers
- Pathogens
- Indicators of intestinal permeability
Once imbalances are identified, targeted gut‑healing protocols can be applied, including nutrition, specific probiotics, prebiotics, and supportive nutrients.
Hormone Testing: The Missing Piece
Many women push through low energy, weight gain, or fluctuating moods, assuming it’s stress or age. Often, it’s not just “normal.” It’s an underlying hormone imbalance.
1st Optimal’s hormone testing goes beyond standard bloodwork. We use panels like DUTCH, which measure:
- Estrogens and their metabolites
- Progesterone
- Testosterone
- Cortisol rhythms
- Androgen precursors
This reveals how your body produces, uses, and clears hormones, not just snapshot levels. That level of detail allows clinicians to design interventions that:
- Reduce fatigue
- Balance cycles
- Support metabolic rate
- Improve sleep and mood
What Women Can Expect From This Partnership
Women who work with this program typically see outcomes like:
- More energy and mental clarity
- Better sleep quality
- Improved digestion
- Sustainable fat loss
- Balanced hormones
- Stronger immune resilience
Those outcomes come from understanding your biology instead of guessing what might help.
Why Coaches, Not Just Clients, Care About This Model
Fitness and wellness coaching has exploded. But many coaches hit a ceiling because they lack clinical tools. Without lab data, coaches can only prescribe generalized plans.
Partnering with 1st Optimal changes that. Coaches get:
- White‑labeled lab reports
- Clinical insights validated by medical providers
- Tools to pinpoint root causes
- A standard of care that backs their recommendations
Clients want results that stick. Coaches want credibility and outcomes. This partnership fills both needs.
Results That Actually Matter
Functional data changes the conversation:
- Body composition improves because metabolic resistance is addressed
- Digestive symptoms resolve when dysbiosis is corrected
- Hormone fluctuations stabilize when metabolism and gut signals are optimized
- Stress and cortisol imbalances become manageable through targeted protocols
This kind of transformation happens only when testing leads to the plan.
Conclusion: A New Standard for Women’s Health
The partnership between 1st Optimal and Taylor Murphy/TaylorGangLifeFitness is more than a collaboration. It’s a movement toward precision, data‑driven women’s health care that actually works.
If you’re tired of surface‑level solutions and want real, measurable, biology‑based change, this model sets a new standard for:
- Functional medicine
- Hormone health
- Gut healing
- Coaching with clinical support
- Long‑term results
Women’s health is too important for guesswork. This partnership gives women the clarity they’ve been searching for.
Interested in a Health Optimization Partnership?
Elevate your coaching business and transform client outcomes by joining the 1st Optimal Partnership Program, the industry-leading medical-backed collaboration that equips wellness and health coach professionals with advanced lab diagnostics, personalized treatment protocols, and expert clinical support to deliver measurable health results.
Health Coaches, Trainers, Gym Operators, Nutrition Coaches, Fitness Professionals, and performance-focused wellness leaders can now stand out in a crowded market by integrating data-driven health optimization, hormone testing, GI-MAP analysis, and ongoing medical oversight into their service offerings, boosting client retention, revenue, and credibility. Partner with 1st Optimal today for fitness business growth and medical-back coaching at https://1stoptimal.com/partnership-program/ to access turnkey onboarding, flexible partnership options, co-branded marketing support, and the competitive edge your business needs to help clients optimize longevity, performance, and wellness.
About Us
1st Optimal is a functional medicine and performance health clinic dedicated to helping high-achieving adults optimize hormone health, weight, energy, and longevity. Follow 1st Optimal on Instagram
Founders:
- Joe Miller – Expert in functional medicine, hormone optimization, and health coaching. Follow Joe on Instagram
- Amber Miller – Operational leader specializing in patient experience, clinic growth, and holistic health. Follow Amber on Instagram
At 1st Optimal, we combine advanced diagnostics, personalized protocols, and coaching partnerships to deliver sustainable health results for midlife adults.
