I have been a health care professional for 17 years. I graduated from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science with a B.S. degree in microbiology and a minor in biochemistry.
I went to college and had the intention of getting a master’s degree, and then, a Ph.D. and working for a drug company to do research.
While in my senior year of college, I started to get back pain. My mom kept telling me to go to her chiropractor when I came home on the weekends because my back pain was so bad. I kept telling her no, but eventually gave in and went.
At the same time, I was learning things in college about how to analyze scientific papers, and had to know if they were valid studies or not. Come to find out, my journals that are quite popular publish studies that are written by ghost writers, that have data that doesn’t add up, and typically the conclusion of the research favors the entity that is paying for the study.
As I continued to see my chiropractor each Friday when I went home from college, he started educating me about holistic health. I really enjoyed what I was learning and realized that I wanted to help people and teach them that drugs aren’t usually necessary to heal their bodies. The more I learned, the more intrigued I became.
So, I decided to go to chiropractic school.
I loved school and everything that I was learning. I developed a lifestyle that is almost completely organic. I don’t use chemicals in my house for cleaning. I use almost all organic body products.
After I graduated from chiropractic school, I was in a private practice. I was getting really painful periods. I started to learn about bioidentical hormones and thought that that might be the answer to getting relief from the pain.
I went to an MD that prescribed bioidentical hormones. She had me get blood work and do adrenal health tests. I remember that most of my hormones were in the normal ranges. However, she gave me a prescription for thyroid hormones in capsules and estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in a cream. The cream was to used on a different body area every day.
After using these hormones for about 4 weeks, I started to gain weight. The first day I had gone to see her, I weighed about 115 lbs. In 4 weeks, I had gained about 25 lbs. I had never weighed that much in my life. I was scared and didn’t know what to do. I stopped taking the hormones and started to diet. Nothing was working. I had cellulite all over my thighs and had no idea how to get rid of it. I, also, remember having symptoms of candida.
I tried and tried to lose the weight, but my hormones were just not allowing weight loss because everything was out of wack. I did cleanses and juice diets.
About a year later, I found a Functional Medicine program that I could attend and get certified to practice Functional Medicine. I didn’t even know what functional medicine was, but I started reading about it. I realized that my background in microbiology and biochemistry were perfect for studying Functional Medicine since so much of Functional Medicine relies on the understanding of those subjects. My chiropractic education provided me with a vast nutritional background, so I knew that I would love the program. I would be able to help so many more people by learning functional medicine, so that’s what I did. I, also, knew that I would be able to reverse the damage I had done to my body with those hormones by learning Functional Medicine.
In my Functional Medicine program, I learned all about hormones, gut health, adrenal health, blood sugar, and so much more. I learned how to figure out which Functional Medicine tests should be ordered when patients presented with certain symptoms and learned treatment protocols to reverse their conditions.
I learned that not everyone’s body can handle bioidentical hormones and some people actually reject them, like I did. I learned how to lose weight by utilizing the principles of functional medicine.
I have several family members that have been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s. I have seen first hand what they have gone through and have helped them to reverse their symptoms through my protocols and my signature program.
Now, I help women who have thyroid problems lose weight. I see so many women who have undetected thyroid problems. In fact, 1 in 5 women have a thyroid problem and don’t even know it.
If you think you have a thyroid issue and need help being properly diagnosed, or if you have been diagnosed and are not get the proper treatment, please go to my calendar here and book a free 30-minute Thyroid Strategy Session with me. I would love to help you reverse your symptoms.
