WHY SHOULD I SEE YOU?
Have you been dealing with a certain health problem for years that medications or surgery haven’t been able to help? Have you been given a new diagnosis that you’d like to try support with dietary and lifestyle interventions (in addition to your conventional practitioner’s interventions)? Are you looking for answers that you haven’t been able to find? Are you tired of feeling like you are up against a wall? Are you keen to work on diet and lifestyle changes that could potentially turn things around for you?
I CAN HELP.
I will give you the time and attention that other health care professionals can’t, simply because of their busy schedules. I’ve worked alongside busy physicians for years and see first hand how hard they work. There just isn’t enough time in the day for them to give their patients the time that they would like. Conventional physicians and pharmacists like myself also have very little nutrition training in our programs. With over 20 years experience as a pharmacist, combined with my holistic nutrition training, I am in a unique position where I can step back and look at the whole picture. From this angle, I can help determine how to best support the body with nutrition and lifestyle changes without claiming to ever diagnose, treat or cure.
Two thousand years ago Hippocrates said: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” and you know what, I think that he might have been on to something….
WILL MY BENEFITS COVER YOU?
My services are covered if your benefits package covers “Nutritionist” but not if your plan only covers “Dietician”.
HOW CAN I REACH YOU?
Email or text is the preferred method to reach me. You can email me HERE. I will respond within 2-3 business days.
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE health BOOKS?
Too many to list! “Eating Alive” by Dr. Jonn Matsen, “The Body Ecology Diet” by Donna Gates, “The Wahls Protocol” by Dr. Terry Wahls, “Hashimotos Protocol” by Dr. Izabella Wentz, “The Plant Paradox” by Dr. Stephen Gundry, anything by Dr. David Fung and the list goes on…
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE COOKBOOKS?
I don’t very often use recipes, which might sound a bit odd coming from a nutritionist! I’m a throw it all in the pot kind of girl. I always focus on the types of ingredients that I’m including and make sure that I’m including the right components (and avoiding the wrong components) each time I cook. I’m certainly no chef and have no plans of opening up a restaurant, but as a busy working mother I’ve learned how to make tasty, supportive, REAL foods for my family in relative short order. It’s fairly simple once you get the hang of it and I’d be happy to show you how!
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
What is holistic nutrition?
Holistic nutrition uses a whole-person approach to health and healing. It recognizes that poor nutrition and lifestyle habits can be one of the major contributors to a wide range of health issues. It uses clinically proven nutritional education as its primary tool and emphasizes the building of health and disease risk-reduction by approaching each person as a unique individual.
Holistic nutrition requires full engagement of the individual in their health recovery process and also includes lifestyle evaluation and modifications with the goal of achieving better health.
When you think about it, our bodies weren’t ever meant to eat highly processed foods and we weren’t meant to be under constant stress!!
Think about all of the other species in the world. Wouldn’t it be weird to see a deer eating a bag of Doritos?
And yet, our species and culture has been conditioned to think that these are foods.
Now think of the foods offered at a typical gas station… other than perhaps an overripe banana or apple in a basket, you’ll be hard pressed to find any REAL food in there!
Generally speaking, as a culture, we’ve forgotten what real, whole food is and how imperative it is to our long lasting health. We are also under waaay to much stress whether it be; situational, environmental, physical or nutritional…. and stress and sickness are very tightly linked.
Holistic nutrition includes all of these pieces of the puzzle, when evaluating ones health. Once we know what the pieces are, we can start to put the puzzle back together.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”