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Why Work With Me?

If You’re the Client:

You might wonder why you should hire and work with me, after all – most people have doctors already. Well, my services work really well as a complement to physician care. In the current system, doctors are pressured by quotas to serve as many patients as possible in their day. There often isn’t time in a twenty minute appointment to discuss sleep, nutrition, and vitamins at all, never mind addressing smaller, but lingering, health issues.

That’s where I come in. I have time to sit and talk with you.

What is the big picture? What’s happening that might be causing that annoying thing to go on and on, without going away? I hope to help my clients address and work through their issues, find that deeper cause, and steer the body to a better place. And when you’re happy with my assistance, I know you’ll give my name to others.

I am able to assist clients nationwide through HIPPA video calls and normal phone. My in-person services are available through the United States, and in person in Northern Colorado.

Contact me today to book your appointment, and start your journey toward better health: (970) 988-5413 or e-mail me

I also offer Cooking Demonstrations and Classes on the Paleo Diet and Fermented Foods, Food Shopping Counseling, and Speaking Services (read topics)Contact me today to get started: e-mail me now.

If You’re a Doctor:

If you have clients that need longer-term help with nutrition and lifestyle changes, weeks to years, and you don’t have the time to work with them, I would be happy to help. I do not discuss modifying someone’s medications – that’s between you and your patient. And I tell my clients that. My hope is to help clients make positive changes, that may lead to possible positive changes in health status. Just contact me at the number below.  (970) 988-5413 or Email


Other Services:

Is It Weird to Use Herbs?
When I tell people I work with herbs, I keep waiting for an eye roll or a laugh. And when you meet me,  you’ll see that although naturally-focused, I don’t really fit in the hippie model (well, except for the mom with the wooden shoes!). I’m pretty down to earth and want evidence that things work. I went to school to mainly study nutrition, and came away with a great herbal toolbox, as well.

My herbal education focused on how to combine herbs together to meet the individual’s needs, sometimes combing several herbs together to enhance the effect needed. Foods have qualities like warm/hot/cold, and so do herbs. People can feel that hot peppers, garlic and ginger are warming or even hot. I’ve learned to change the temperature of my herbal mixtures in order to either make them neutral when appropriate (to not change a person’s body temperature), or improve someone’s temperature if it is too warm or too cold.

Safety:
Herbals have a (usually) slower action than Western pharmaceuticals, usually with less side effects (but not always). But my education made me realize that not all herbs can be safe with every person, especially if that person is already on medications. There are many herbs that interfere directly with medications (St. John’s Wort is a perfect example). For some people, using herbs internally just isn’t a good idea.

Another herb has a positive effect on gut bacteria, but its also bitter, cold and drying. It would be a poor idea to use this herb by itself in someone who is already cold and dry, like dealing with constipation. We could modify the herb by adding warming and moist herbs, to change its effect on the body.

Essential oils seem unsafe to me, as they can enter the blood stream directly when applied to skin, bypassing the liver, which should have a veto power over all substances coming into the body.

Essential oils have a strong effect, and yet there are no warnings on the bottles. Other herbs can effect blood pressure, heart function, or are just plain toxic. Right now I am sticking with the less glamorous herbs that are generally regarded as safe.

Lastly, essential oils take a lot of herbal material to make a small amount of oil. It’s wasteful ecologically.

 

Contact me today to book your appointment, and start your journey toward better health: (970) 988-5413 or e-mail me.

I am available to see health coaching clients in person, teach health food and cooking classes, give health lectures and presentations,  and perform cooking demonstrations along Northern Colorado’s Front Range, serving these cities: Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, Longmont, Laporte, Wellington, Boulder, Bloomfield, Bellvue, Evans, Estes Park, Johnstown, Berthoud, Hygiene, Greeley, Westminster, Northglenn, Thornton, Niwot, Erie, Firestone, Lafayette, Louisville, Frederick, Cheyenne and other cities in northern Colorado. If you have a question, just call!

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