This is My Personal Health Journey

As the founder of True Health FDN, LLC. I have a 25 year background in physical therapy, fitness, supplemental nutrition and I am a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner.

I live with my husband Tom in Arizona where we enjoy traveling and spend our free time either hiking, biking, playing pickleball, kayaking, water skiing, snow skiing and RVing with friends and family. I became a FDN practitioner because I have always had a passion for helping people and I love being of service to others.

Over the last several decades I have had more than my share of mystery illnesses. My journey began 20 years ago while living and working in the Rocky Mountains in beautiful state of Colorado.

One day, I was cleaning my kitchen range hood using an aerosol stainless steel cleaner. Thirty minutes after spraying the cleaner on the range hood, I had started coughing and my throat felt sore so I knew I had unintentionally breathed it into my lungs. I drank some water and didn't give it much more thought.

Two days later, I was still coughing, had a sore throat and now my legs had turned purple! I went to see my acupuncturist who is a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. He told me I had stagnant blood in my heart and that I should see a cardiologist. Well, I waited until after going on a trip to the Ozarks during which I had an episode of a stabbing pain in the middle of my back the night before coming home. I got up from the bed and walked around until it subsided and went back to bed to try to sleep but I couldn't sleep. I was afraid I was having a heart attack and thankfully I did not have one.

Because of that severe stabbing pain, I called my doctor while we were driving back home to CO. He told me to come in immediately and he would make an appointment for me with a cardiologist. That week, I had every kind of cardiac testing available. He told me women have totally different signs and symptoms of a heart attack from a man. After all the tests the results showed I had 99% blockage in the LAD, known as the "widow maker."

The cardiologist said it was critical that I do an angiogram to put a stent in the blocked artery. After the angiogram, the cardiologist said I did not have cholesterol plaque that was causing the blockage. He had no idea what that substance was. The months following, I needed continued intervention every 6-8 weeks, the cardiologist kept saying he had no idea what the substance was because it was hard as glass and it kept coming back. His assumption was that the stainless steel aerosol cleaner had to have a bacteria or some kind of pathogen in it that attacked my lungs and it ended up in my heart and caused stenosis in the arteries! He decided it would be best to do a coronary bypass surgery of the two arteries. Not knowing of any other alternative, I agreed to go through with it.

Now, I think why didn't he do pathology lab testing on the substance that was causing the blockage. That would have given us the information needed for how to treat it effectively.

Then fast forward 10 years later, I was having severe PMS and hormonal changes, severe gut issues, adrenal exhaustion, and then a thyroid deficiency. Although, my heart was now fine, I was dealing with Metabolic chaos from my body going through extreme stress.. I went from one specialist to another and experience each doctor telling me all my labs were in the normal limits and nothing was wrong with me even though I felt so crappy. I knew something was wrong but not one doctor helped me with my health concerns. I was given prescription drugs for all my symptoms and that made me feel even worse.

Stress can cause the body to function in fight or flight for years when we go through any kind of life crisis. The loss of a loved one, loss of a job, any kind of major life changes due to injury or illness or have any kind of mental or emotional stress. All of it can cause organ systems to have a cascading effect creating metabolic chaos throughout the whole body going down like a dominoes effect.

After doing ongoing research through the years I finally came across Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. I did my research investigating it and finally told Tom about it. Tom gave me his blessing and I went back to school to get certified as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. I immediately started doing the work on my myself and found myself starting to feel better and have more energy I hadn't felt in a long time. Once I started following the plan my FDN practitioner Clinical Advisor made for me, it seemed like my body was able to receive the nutrition it was deprived of and I was healing my gut, hormones and thyroid all at the same time.

By utilizing the use of specific functional lab data and using clinical correlation to my symptoms I was able to find specific healing opportunities to heal my own body and turn back my biological age and find my True Health. I learned how to apply natural remedies. I did a deep dive into peptides, bioregulators and other pharmaceutical grade all natural supplements and made healthy lifestyle choices that made a huge impact on how good I was able to feel.

I made lifestyle changes and used supplementation to help my body turn on or off specific DNA SNP's which helped me have more energy and improve mental clarity. I optimized my hormones, improved my immune system, lowered oxidative stress and environmental stressors, removed inflammation and detoxified my body to have fully optimized health. All it takes is following your protocol and you will start to feel subtle changes occurring which will motivate you even more. Eventually, you start to see the transformation taking place right before your eyes. This is when you feel you can't place any amount of value on this kind of healing and it became a lifetime choice to continue living this way.

It was very important to me that I was able to heal myself and help my husband improve function and optimize his health before coaching and motivating others to heal themselves. Since starting True Health FDN we have helped men and women ages 19 - 88 have successful outcomes.

My mission with True Health FDN is to help educate and transform the health of as many men and women as possible to live in a body that is functioning optimally.