First Ascent
I feel like I have been on the approach route for a while, but now I am making my first ascent of this private practice nutritional counseling business mountain. Today is the 200th day of 2022. This means I still have 165 days to meet big goals and gain positive altitude. Welcome to Elevation Nutrition, where I want to help you live your most active, healthy life. I invite you to join me to reach nutrition elevation. I am so excited to finally let my knowledge, skills, experiences, ideas, perceptions, and recommendations flow to help you achieve your healthiest life.
“What are you going to do,” you may ask? I am taking my whole-foods, food-as-medicine, holistic education combined with almost 20 years of experience from living in 7 different states and 2 countries to create nutrition plans that work for you. I am using a fantastic electronic medical record platform, Practice Better™, that is going to allow for optimal communication and easy appointment booking.
Perhaps you want to know why you may or may not have a hard time getting the results you want. Let’s look at your genes and see how what you eat can influence how you feel with 3×4 Genetics™ and their easy-to-understand blueprint.
While living in Germany, I noticed I was feeling tired…like all the time. I luckily found a fantastic doctor and some lab work showed that I was indeed deficient in some nutrients. Well, to get those levels back up, and get my energy back, I needed supplementation. Europe has more regulations on supplements than the USA does, so I did not have a lot to worry about. Here in the USA though, supplements are not regulated and what the label says is in that capsule may not be what is inside, and it may actually be harmful for you. I have been involved with only the top supplement companies in the USA that follow good manufacturing processes and independently test their products. Using Fullscript® my supplement recommendations can be sent right to your door. Best of all, you will have confidence that they will be safe for you. Stay with me here, I have a couple of more services to mention.
Food first though! “I want to know how to eat better.” With Eat Love™ I can provide you with meal plans that include grocery lists, recipes, and even on-line ordering, all based on my recommendations for you. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be able to include this amazing tool and resource in my practice.
Ok, last one (maybe). I learned about elimination diets to figure out food sensitivities when I was completing my Master’s in Nutrition. They are not easy. They take a lot of planning, support, and resources. My last position was in the Eosinophilic Esophagitis and food allergy clinic at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. The doctor used a patch test that required the patient to have the patches placed on them on a Tuesday, and then come back to have them removed and read for reactions on Friday. It was my job to then teach them to eat without the foods they reacted to. This was a very in-depth process, and some patients I worked with for years. I would say food sensitivities and allergies are a prominent nutrition topic. I am now working to become a Certified LEAP™ Therapist in which I will use the results from a blood test called MRT or Mediator Release Test® that is the most comprehensive test today for food sensitivities. Together with the LEAP method, we can figure out which foods may be making you feel sick, and then how to eat so that you feel good and still enjoy foods you love.
I am so excited (I keep saying that) to finally be out there to help people feel their best and live their healthiest life! I hope that you will come on this journey with me and check out my Nutrition Services. Keep watching for updates and offers and more Positive Altitude posts. After all, this is just the beginning of the mountain and who knows how high it is.
