WHAT
Functional Nutrition is finding the right way for each of us to eat—using food to improve health and return the body to balance away from disease. No single "right diet" exists. As individuals, we have specific genetic backgrounds, food preferences, and changing environmental influences. Most want to be healthy, but learning how to make food and lifestyle choices that support health can feel challenging. Functional Nutrition offers the concepts, strategies, and tools to make that happen.
Why
Emerging science offers clear evidence that food has a strong influence on health. Calories in food not only fuel our body but also contain the components that play important roles in all our bodily functions. Poor-quality food can influence and create disease, just as high-quality food can positively impact disease and sustain health. The age old saying is true, food is medicine.
HOW
When you work with a Functional Nutrition practitioner as part of your healthcare team, you will have access to information that educates and supports you with a new approach to food and nutrition. Small changes in your food choices and meal planning, new insights from nutrient and metabolic testing and lifestyle modifications can add up to vibrancy and balance in your life.
My Story
While raising my family, I developed an autoimmune disease; one that doctors wanted to treat only with steroids. Thus began my path studying and researching functional medicine. Getting at the root of what caused my triggers and flares was key for my healing. After many trials of elimination diets and reintroductions, finding seasonal and local foods and spices, discovery of meditation, integration of movement and a renewed sleep habit as well as recognition of all the joy and happiness around me, I found health again.
I returned to school to study Nutrition to better understand the chemical reactions happening in the body. I studied how the balance of macro and micronutrients support key mechanisms, how inflammation from stress and food cause the body to express disease and how movement, sleep and meditation can positively affect this vessel we inhabit. Fueled by new discoveries personally and with clients, I am excited to share with you too.