All about the nutrition and how it works!

Functional Nutrition

Functional: Means useful, practical, and designed to fulfill its purpose. It is in good working order and able to perform its function.

Human Nutrition: The process of provision of essential nutrients from food and drinks to the human body.

The role of a functional nutrition counselor is to help the individual figure out the most suitable application of nutritious foods to support health and wellness. To protect against disease, remedy ailments and maintain healthy weight. Each body is unique, each gut microbiome flora is unique, each persons health history is unique.

During the intake process expect to have a rigorous series of questions to dive deep into your health history, eating habits, sleeping patterns and digestive processes. Yes, this will include some sort of food diary, bowel elimination, mood/emotions responses and wake/sleep cycles. This is the process you wish your health care provider had time for to get to the root of the issues you are having.

Are you ready?

This is it, the next step into a wonderful healthful life! The question you need to ask yourself is 'Am I ready'? What is the big dream? Am I able to face the truth of changes that are about to happen? This needs to be a BIG reality check because otherwise this will not work. It will seem like a fad diet or short term prescription to help with an ailment. Understand this will be a systems reset for a life long new way of eating, thinking, managing life. Initially it will have some more short term prescriptive actions as your body will likely go through some detoxification or withdrawals. This will be a reset to how YOUR body will adapt to the way it has always wanted to be nourished, operate and heal itself. You will grow in confidence in listening to what your body wants to do and needs. You will be able to work in a great collaboration with other health and wellness professionals and how to integrate new practices to upgrade your new found health.