Nutritional counseling & personalized food plans
Please bring a 5-7 day food diary to your first
appointment. When we meet you will tell me your story and I will listen.
Based on what you tell me, I will ask you to fill out questionnaires which will help
me evaluate your needs and your priorities. I may recommend certain lab tests or
metabolic typing to get a clearer picture. At this first visit you
will receive some foundational recommendations and you can begin your journey
to better health.
After analyzing the lab results, questionnaires and conversations, and interpreting it all, we will begin to assemble a personalized Restoration Plan. This program may include a list of nutritional and *functional foods and perhaps supplements or other wellness tools. Your plan is not computer generated but is uniquely for your individual biochemistry, specifically for this moment in your life. I will then coach you in implementing and adjusting the plan as needed, until recovery is achieved.
During follow-up visits
we will make adjustments to your Plan as you're improving. You will learn through
feedback from the Plan what works for you and what doesn't. As symptoms resolve,
some secondary symptoms that have been in the background may come to the front
and will need to be dealt with. Your patience and continued commitment to your
health will pay off.
This may sound like a slow process but there are no
magic bullets. A complex health issue does not happen overnight, but takes years
to develop. Those vague, seemingly unrelated symptoms you may have been complaining
of for years were the heralds of your present situation. The effects of years
of environmental abuse or uninformed choices cannot be reversed instantaneously.
However, with resolve, you can look forward to steady improvement and healing
from within, reclaiming lost territory and, eventually, lightness and joy.
*Functional
Foods have biologically active components which impart health benefits or facilitate
desirable physiological effects.
