Haylie Pomroy on Performance Health, Supplement Safety, and Eating for Real Life
What does “performance health” actually mean?
It means building health support around what a person’s life actually demands. Haylie Pomroy’s clients include actors, athletes, CEOs, and regular people who just want to feel normal again. The glamorous side is real, but she’s more interested in what happens behind it: the long days, the physical stress, the pressure to show up and perform. A generic wellness plan doesn’t hold up under that. So she works the way she calls a “clinic without walls.” She looks at the whole picture, runs the right labs, and brings in a chef or a clinician when the situation needs one. Her whole pitch comes down to this: a plan built for you beats a plan built for everyone.
How did her own illness shape the way she works?
She got sicker before she got better. Haylie has ITP, an autoimmune disorder that affects blood platelets, and the medication-heavy route she started on made things worse. Eventually she became medication-free through food and targeted supplements, and that experience became her blueprint for metabolic health, immune balance, and resilience.
She’s also frank about what frustrates her in US healthcare: access, incentives, and how often a prescription ends up as the first move instead of the last. If you’re dealing with fatigue, inflammation, thyroid questions, or symptoms nobody can explain, her advice is to ask better questions, get basic bloodwork done, and treat nutrition as a starting point, not a last resort.
Should you take supplements at all?
That depends on what’s in the bottle. When a practitioner says “no supplements,” Haylie says it usually isn’t because nutrients don’t work. It’s because the industry is under-regulated and you can’t trust every label.
Her answer is third-party testing, and not just on the raw ingredients. The finished blended product needs testing too, because contamination can show up during manufacturing. She warns about adulteration, heavy metals like lead and arsenic, and online marketplace products that turn out to contain pharmaceuticals nobody listed. Whether you’re buying vitamins, protein powder, omega fats, probiotics, or vitamin C, ask where it came from, how it was tested, and who verified the final product.
What does she actually recommend eating?
Variety, mostly. She’s a fan of food rotation and a diverse diet over any plan that cuts out whole food groups for good. She thinks extreme fasting for weight loss slides into disordered eating, and she treats cravings and food noise as information to listen to instead of a willpower problem.
Her basics are simple:
- Eat soon after waking, so you’re working with your cortisol rhythm instead of against it.
- Graze through the day rather than going long stretches and then binging.
- Get more fruits, vegetables, and genuinely healthy fats.
She also ties modern metabolism struggles to toxin exposure, including endocrine disruptors, pesticides, and even chemicals in fast fashion that can interfere with hormone receptors.
What does she say about building a business?
Ask the simple question. Haylie talks openly about having dyslexia and says she learned to work with it rather than hide it. She’ll say she doesn’t understand something instead of pretending she does, and she thinks that honesty makes for better teams. Her advice to women in business is to be bold and surround yourself with people who really have your back, because nobody has it all figured out before they start.