I grew up in a family who valued and followed the recommendations from our trusted institutions. Despite our best efforts, we couldn’t escape the burden of metabolic dysfunctions and diseases.

We are foodies so naturally, I was drawn to the culture of food, the functions of food and the relationships and traditions we form around food.

Intuitively, I knew food was driving my purpose and mission though I hadn’t quite yet understood the role it would play in my professional development.

But in my early 20s, my own health came to a screeching halt as I developed a whole slew of chronic symptoms.

My first reflex was to ask my physicians how my food choices and lifestyle at the time could be impacting my situation. According to the experts, my family history and genetics were to blame and only chronic use of medication was offered as a viable solution. The word chronic resonated – could chronic symptoms be the result of chronic behaviours… I had to explore this further.

Curiosity drives my love of learning and since I valued food for its various functions, I decided to test my body’s response to food methods and lifestyle interventions. I began searching for protocols and tactics outside the scope of allopathic medicine. I had to advocate for my own health. I knew, long before I could understand how, that my choices had somehow led me to this breaking point, and that perhaps, the sum of new decisions could create different outcomes. I felt like I had to own my situation and my quest for solutions. That’s when I discovered The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM).

I had far too much respect for food to accept that it could have so little to play in my health span. Was I ever right to follow my intuition.

Applying the principals of functional medicine, I began using my body as a test subject. Applying the changes what not enough, I had to dig deeper inside my head and my heart to find the courage to put myself first, to believe in my ability to thrive and to work with conviction.

A decade later, my inflammatory markers have gone down, my metabolic health is thriving and with this much energy and resilience, I’ve become unstoppable.

Functional medicine put me on the path of remission, and it has also created health for members of my family.

The social disparities and crippling health status of our global population is a reality I refuse to accept as normal. Too often we interchange the word normal and common when we refer to the current landscape. Creating sustainable health is a compelling way to challenge the status quo and empower those who believe in their ability to regain freedom and good health.

In fact, since my own human upgrade, I have since become functionally trained to actively help others find their way back to better health.

Better health is a birthright!

Empowering those who dare to believe in their health is how I choose to invest my time and energy.

Food was the problem, but it quickly became the solution.

Food is information, food is medicine.

Food is a universal language, something we all understand regardless of age, race, beliefs and values.

It has the power to move us in either direction.

Lifespan means very little without health span. Very few are those who have the courage to create health span.

Are you one of those people?

​If so, I want to get to know you.