Symptoms are your body telling you something needs to be addressed.  Your body is a highly intelligent machine.

You go to your doctor with a list of symptoms, and it’s their job to take that basket of symptoms and match it to a medication that either masks or suppresses them. This practice has become ingrained in our healthcare system—the notion of a pill for every ill.

In a less than five-minute appointment, your doctor sends you on your way - maybe you’ll feel better, or maybe not.

Understanding this approach can help us recognize its limitations and consider alternative methods of addressing health issues.  

Has this happened to you?

You’re still struggling with:

• Blood sugar issues: pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure
• Hormonal issues: perimenopause, menopause, PMS, PCOS
• Thyroid issues: Hashimoto’s
• Autoimmune conditions
• Fatigue
• Brain fog
• Low energy
• Poor sleep
• Inability to lose weight
• Digestive issues: heartburn, bloating

And your doctor tells you in so many words it’s normal to feel this way.  Or it’s normal as you age to need to be on more and more medications.

You intuitively know that symptoms are your body's way of asking you to address a deeper root cause. Maybe you’ve consulted Dr. Google for ideas.

At the end of the day chasing symptoms doesn't address the root cause of why you're not feeling well.

As a Nutritional Therapy Practioner, I look at your whole health history, not just the symptoms you’re experiencing.

I’m trained to look at your health through the lens of your:

• Sleep
• Stress 
• Blood sugar (how well you tolerate carbohydrates)
• Digestion
• Nutrition

The truth is these five foundations are the key to overall health and feeling your best.  I can’t tell you whether you need medication or not.  

I can tell you that with the nine clients I’ve been working with, some have been given medications as a band-aid.  It hasn’t fixed their symptoms, and they’ve become frustrated.

What I am seeing in using these five foundations with one of my clients who has type 2 diabetes are glucose numbers that are now in range when before he had massive highs (over 200) and lows (in the 70s).  

Glucose numbers like that are detrimental to overall health. The client is on metformin, a common diabetes drug.  He was not educated on how to use nutrition to support his glucose levels. 

With some adjustments to his food choices, he understands how to create balanced meals and snacks so his glucose numbers stay in range.  He’s not on some crash diet or eating boiled chicken and steamed broccoli.  

He’s empowered to make choices so he doesn’t experience the highs and lows of poor blood sugar, which can leave him tired, moody, and full of brain fog. 

I help people who are tired of being told that their symptoms are typical and just something they have to live with understand why they aren’t feeling their best so that they can finally feel empowered to take steps to reclaim their health.

You don’t have to settle for symptom management and not feeling your absolute best.