What is Functional Nutrition?
Functional Nutrition The answer to some of the problems in health and healthcare today. A modality that works to not just support, but educate the patient in what’s going on in their body and how making uniquely targeted diet and lifestyle modifications will shift the terrain and help them to meet their goal
Diets don’t work. In my practice I don’t promote the one-size-fits-all approach. We are all unique. Symptoms of disease can be exacerbated by what you may think is a healthy diet or protocol. Together we can find INDIVIDUALIZED solutions. Personal experiences and working with the clients I’ve supported in the past have led me to make it my mission to help people who are unique and need individualized care. Who have tried all the pills and protocols and just aren’t getting better.
I want to work with the people who haven’t found relief in the trendy formulas and solutions; who need a caring, dedicated, and determined practitioner to dig deep and go the distance with them.
With the systems and frameworks I use in my practice, together we can uncover the root causes to your ailments. You’ve been everywhere and done everything. Let me teach you how to get the relief you desperately need.
Root cause resolution means we ask WHY not WHAT.
In order to find root cause we need to clear the muddy waters so we can see with more certainty.
Have you heard the story about the man who lost his keys?
A police officer sees a man intently searching the ground near a streetlight and asks him the goal of his quest. The man replies that he’s looking for his keys, and the two men search under the streetlight together for a while. After a few unsuccessful minutes, the officer asks whether the man is sure he dropped his keys near the streetlight.
“No,” he replies. “I lost them in the park.”
“Then why are we looking here?” asks the officer.
“The light is much better here.”
This is called the streetlight effect—when we look for something only where it is easiest to look, and not where it is most likely to be found.
Downstream signs, symptoms, and diagnoses are the streetlight, where it is easiest to see. Upstream is the root cause. We need to look upstream, or in the park where the keys ARE, we we can ask WHY those symptoms came to be. What made them occur?
Terrain is the environment where root cause resolution exists.
Just like roots of a tree grow in soil, the roots of a health issue grow in the environment that is conducive to that particular problem.
YOUR unique soil.
UPSTREAM root causes are what cause DOWNSTREAM signs and symptoms. Maybe even a diagnosis. They symptoms you are experiencing (brain fog, fatigue, weight loss resistance, sore joints, migraines, poor lab markers, skin disorders) are manifestations of something that is going on inside. WHAT is going on in there? That’s what I intend to find out!
If we only address the downstream symptoms, we miss the mark on sustainable solutions. Upstream considerations require an understanding of WHY those symptoms are appearing. From a Functional perspective we look at the interconnections between presenting complaints and start to course correct the internal environment in which they live.
It’s a FULL BODY systems approach. We cannot look at anything in isolation. All the systems of your body work together.
