Functional Nutrition Counseling

Spring is the perfect time to give your gut a little extra love. Supporting digestion can boost energy, improve mood, and help your immune system handle seasonal allergies — all without extreme cleanses or complicated rules.

Heart health isn’t about low-fat muffins. Fiber, healthy fats, stress support, and snacks like chickpeas or edamame go a long way. Holy Basil tea may even help lower LDL and triglycerides. Want a heart plan that actually works? Let’s make it simple.

Heart health isn’t just about cholesterol. For busy moms and families, it’s about balancing blood sugar, managing stress, reducing inflammation, and supporting key nutrients like magnesium. Small, consistent habits can make a big difference — and you don’t need perfection to start.

Many people find temporary relief from inflammation by restricting food, but the relief doesn’t last. True healing comes from uncovering the root causes—gut health, nutrient deficiencies, lifestyle factors, and hidden triggers—so your body can calm inflammation naturally and sustainably.

Your gut isn’t just about digestion—it helps regulate your mood, energy, and stress. Even small changes to support gut health can make a big difference in how you feel each day.

Eating more plants doesn’t mean you need to go vegetarian or vegan. It simply means adding more fruits, veggies, roots, grains, nuts, seeds, herbs, spices, and even fungi into your daily meals. Keep it simple, start small, and let plants do what they do best: fuel your body, mind, and resilience.

When we start vacations by eating well and continue to eat well, we’ll have more peace of mind for the unexpected, and our nourished brains will be more capable of overcoming acute stress to solve problems. Then, traveling up/downs become part of the experience, and navigating them becomes part of the fun.

Before conception and throughout pregnancy, the health of your gut microbiome plays a crucial role in your ability to detox, balance hormones, support your immune system, and even shape your baby’s development.

Imagine transforming your health from the inside out– experiencing less bloating, clearer skin, sharper mental clarity, and energy to live your best life. Cue: healing your gut. Why Gut Health Matters Gut health is foundational to overall well-being. Research has shown that it’s linked to…

Guest blog post with Jamie Truppi, a functional nutritionist and a mom. “Like the topics of death or sex, poop conversations are uncomfortable. Intimate. Personal. I think it’s time to normalize poop talk.”

A clean and simple soup, that is super easy to make!

Addressing bacteria balance to help mental health and cognitive function.

Feeling the burn? Learn the basics and how we can help…

When we lived in Thailand we discovered that the kids really loved fried rice. Something that I noticed early on was that kids do a lot better at getting their veggies in if they are chopped into small, uniformly sized pieces. You might be shocked…

Simple steps to increase your health and wellbeing.

We’ve all had tummy trouble at one time or another but as of 2012 nearly 20% of the population could be aptly diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and 1.35 billion dollars was spent that year on the condition in the U.S. (Magge & Lembo, 2012).