How Can I Help You?
I have been around the block with my own experience of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. I have qualifications and experience that others don’t. I have spent years researching what works and what doesn’t.
Disclaimer: If I meet with you personally here in Georgia, I can give you, for a fee, what is called Medical Nutrition Therapy. If you live outside Georgia, depending on your state, I may not be legally able to advise you in my professional capacity as a registered dietitian. However, as a Health Coach I can help steer you in the right direction regardless of where you live. There is a lot of useful free information on this site, but of course, since I do not know you or your medical or nutritional history, this information is not meant as medical nutrition therapy for any illness. I am not a medical doctor and I cannot give medical advice.
What I Can Do For You
I can help you get your life back! If that sounds too good to be true, how would you feel if you could think more clearly, remember better, and have enough endurance to work? Would it be worth making big changes in your lifestyle in order to feel happy, motivated and be able to accomplish your goals? How about having the energy to take care of your kids or grandkids, to teach them the things that matter, and to play? I can make all these things more likely with the right nutrition support and lifestyle coaching.
For example, I can help you with food plans to stabilize your energy and help you build endurance. I can guide you to the physical, emotional and mental practices that can give you the most bang for your buck. I can advise you on supplements to help your sleep, your energy level and your pain improve. Believe me, I have spent a lot of my own time and money separating what works from what doesn’t, so you don’t have to!
If you are into details, read on below!
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My Qualifications
I’m a licensed health professional – that is, I am a registered dietitian (RD), which is a mainstream medical credential similar to RN (registered nurse) or R.Ph. (registered pharmacist). Registered dietitians are required to have the most science credit-hours of any of the allied health professions, equaled only by registered pharmacists . In order to become an RD, a person must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university, in a program that has been approved by the American Dietetic Association (not just any bachelor’s degree in nutrition will do). Next, a rigorous internship is required. After the typically year-long internship is completed, the graduate must pass the arduous national registration exam. Then depending on the state, strict licensure requirements must be met. I am registered in the state of Georgia.
Beyond this, I have many years’ experience teaching nutrition to groups, and counseling individuals on ways to use food to optimize health. I have helped many people normalize weight, improve cardiovascular health, and reverse metabolic syndrome so as to stop their headlong slide into diabetes (with its complications of blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and death).
When I realized that I had a syndrome that wasn’t getting better, I looked into what was known about nutritional treatment. I found that mainstream nutrition professionals had nothing to go on – there was no consensus, not even any education about FM/CFS given to dietitians. Worse than that, the medical profession tended to consider “fibromyalgia” and “chronic fatigue” as waste-basket diagnoses. There was little grasp that fibro and chronic fatigue are 2 aspects of the same illness.
I spent 2 years searching through the medical literature to find out everything I could about FM/CFS. The result was a 70+ page continuing education module for dietitians, “Fibromyalgia: What Dietitians Need to Know”. Since then I have learned a lot more, from research and my own experience using multiple treatment modalities and experimenting with my diet.
