Our health is very much like a puzzle and if any of you are experiencing, or have experienced, health challenges you know that there is a big missing piece to restoring your health. The missing piece is having that person on your health team that bridges the gap between you and your providers. Providers is a broad term used now to indicate your primary doctor, nurse practitioner, and the many specialists you may be seeing. I call this the "ist" list, cardiologist, oncologist, endocrinologist, hematologist, psychiatrist, neurologist, etc.
Every single one of these health professionals can play a key role in your health, but they cannot help you restore your health on their own. For one thing it is not fair to them, or to you, that you put the responsibility of your health on them alone.
We all must learn to be the leaders of our own healthcare team. We need to understand more about our lab results, the impact medications we are taking may have on us in the short term and the long term, what options we may have to address our health concern(s), and how to advocate for ourselves. We also need to understand how the food and lifestyle choices we make are impacting our health. We need that person that can take the time to listen to our whole story and the health journey we have been on. What worked and what did not work. Someone to make the connections that help lead to root cause resolution and not symptom management.
We don't want to put a lid on the pot of boiling water to keep it from boiling over, we want to turn off the stove. We want to try to get to those roots that our illness is thriving in and change the soil so illness cannot survive in it.
The missing piece to complete your health puzzle, to fill that gap between you and your providers, the person who will look at you as a whole, and as the unique individual you are, is a functional nutrition counselor.
As a functional nutrition counselor this is what I do. I educate you on how food and lifestyle choices impact function. I help you look for the clues that will guide you to the root cause(s) of how you feel and empower you to be the lead of your healthcare team.
Feel free to go to my contact page here on my website if you would like to set up a Discovery call to learn more and chat about your health journey.
Wishing everyone the very best of health!
Jocelyn Moglia
Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor
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