I have been studying nutrition and health my whole life. As a kid, I was interested in vitamins and what they could do, I started working out with weights at a young age and this eventually led me to pursue a career helping people get healthy. My pursuit of health led me to Functional Medicine and as I started to see patients with a variety of health conditions, I continued to see people report improvements in anxiety, depression, brain fog, ADHD, andeven Bipolar Syndromes. This sparked something in me to dig deeper into these cases.

The miracles I see with using a functional approach to health are rewarding but also disturbing. Our current healthcare system uses a limited paradigm that hinders progress with many patients. Corporate medicine controls the type of care and information patients receive about mental health. This message leads the patient to the belief that their only hope is to be medicated. They are told that they have a diagnosis, and no one understands why they developed it and that the only solution is medication. My mission is to help people understand how they developed their problem and empower them with the tools to reverse it and prevent it from recurring.

The great thing about Functional Medicine is that it is a whole-person approach. By whole person, this includes their lifestyle habits, diet, nutrition, family and past medical history, sleep, sexual function, energy levels, exercise habits, EMF exposure and other toxic exposures, bowel function, etc. A comprehensive workup is critical to establishing the underlying dysfunctions that are contributing to specific neurological issues. Understanding that the whole body is connected and that problems in the intestines can contribute to anxiety, depression, and other mentalhealth challenges. I can have 7 people with a diagnosis of depression, and they can have 7 totally different reasons for developing it and need seven totally different treatments. The idea of treating the diagnosis and that everyone with depression needs an antidepressant does not cut it. Treating the person is the only way to truly get your life back!