My expertise is in Natural Hygiene, Plant-Based Nutrition, Thyroid Disorders, Cancer survival/prevention, Type-2 Diabetes, Weight loss, Autoimmunity and teaching people how to create health by living healthfully. In June 2010, I interned at the True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, CA. While there I had the unique opportunity to learn how to take a person safely through a water-only fast. I will be finishing up my internship with True North next summer and will become fully certified in supervising water-only fasting (see resources page for video clips on True North and fasting). If you are interested in learning more about this powerful tool - please call me. I also have plans for people who would like to juice fast, or cleanse on a raw food vegan diet, or just want to learn how to eat healthfully and optimally to change their health. Give me a call so I can create a Health Promoting plan just for you.
All plans include nutitional and lifestyle modification. I will individualize an eating plan, just for you, based upon NATURAL,WHOLE FOODS nutrition. For health to be acheived one must eat real food. Who wants to just survive, when you can THRIVE. Learn to eat local, fresh and in-season.
I teach patients the principles of Lifestyle Medicine that is based on the
Life Science of Natural Hygiene, utilizing the body's innate power to heal itself when given the right environmental and nutritional conditions.
Conditions such as clean water, sunshine, clean fresh air, whole food nutrition, appropriate sleep/rest, periodic fasting, stress management, mind-body medicine,and exercise/movement. These are the basic foundations for your comprehensive health plan.
I am a graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) in Portland, OR and hold a license in Washington State.
I am a member of the National Health Association/American Natural Hygiene Society, the National College of Lifestyle Medicine (NCLM), the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), and am certified as a Nutritonal Education Trainer (NET) for Dr. Joel Fuhrman's
Nutritional Excellence Program.
I was a frequent guest host for the former radio wellness program, The Wellness Forum , which was heard each Saturday afternoon on 630 KHOW in 2004. I am a nutrition instructor for the Colorado School of Healing Arts in Lakewood, as well as the former Director of Nutrition for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage.
I am currently pursuing her certificate as a Professional Cancer Coach from the National Association of Professional Cancer Coaches (NAPCC). The association's primary responsibility is to unite professionally trained cancer coaches with men and women who want an evidence-based cancer prevention or recovery program. NAPCC's cancer coaches are registered and licensed health care professionals (R.N.'s, Psychologists, Registered Nutritionists, Naturopathic Doctors, Pharmacists, etc.) who are educated and experienced in both conventional and holistic cancer medicine.
I have also earned a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition and will be teaching this course online for eCornell. This course was designed and taught by Cornell University professor emeritus, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, author of The China Study (see video below).
I am on the staff of Metropolitan State College of Denver as a part-time, affiliate professor in the Health Professions Department/Integrative Therapeutic Practices (ITP).
My professional background in fitness, personal training, plant-based nutrition, natural hygiene, fasting, and Naturopathic Medicine uniquely blends these modalities to offer you the most comprehensive health program available. |