A comprehensive integrative medical nutrition therapy consult traditional medical nutrition therapy with complementary and alternative medicine modalities to help support an individual’s natural ability to achieve a state of health and balance in body, mind, and spirit. With a collaborative, patient-centered approach, we take the time to listen and understand your nutrition and health journey, your goals of care and develop solutions that can provide lasting results.
Areas of Expertise:
- Autoimmune/allergy, including mast cell disorders
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Disordered eating behaviors/relationship with food
- Dysautonomia
- Ehlers Danlos syndrome
- Food Intolerances/Sensitivities
- Hypertension
- GI Conditions:
- Functional GI Disorders: Dysphagia, Dyspepsia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Nausea, Vomiting, etc
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Gastroparesis
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Structural alterations that affect function (colostomy, ileostomy, resections, Nissen Fundoplication, etc)
- Malnutrition
- Metabolic Associated Steatohepatitis
What’s included in an initial visit:
- 1:1 nutrition consultation (60-90 min)
- Comprehensive review of your nutrition and health-related history including medical, familial and social history, laboratory data, medications, supplements, medical and functional tests, procedures, and nutrition-focused physical findings
- Development of your nutrition plan and supporting materials provided following the visit.
Follow-Up Visits:
- 1:1 individual nutrition consultation (45-60 minutes)
- Review, modify, update, provide additional instruction to nutrition plan.
- Frequency is determined at the end of each session depending on the time-frame agreed upon by the practitioner and client.
Diabetes Self-Management Training has been shown to:
- Improve Hemoglobin A1C
- Reduce the onset or progression of diabetes complications, including hypoglycemia
- Decrease Diabetes-related stress
- Improve lifestyle behaviors
- Decrease ER visits, hospital admission and readmissions
- Improve quality of life.
