Nutrition and Wellness Coaching at Ess3ntia

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Before becoming a Certified Functional Nutritionist, my passion for nutrition and wellness began when I was a young girl in middle school. Throughout my adolescence, I struggled with food mindset, eating disorders, digestive issues, body dysmorphia, and more. I faced similar challenges alongside many of my friends. My interest in nutrition developed from a desire to achieve optimal health, ultimately leading to increased confidence and overall well-being. I pursued my studies in Nutrition at the University of Houston. During my college years, I gained insight into the healthcare system in America and learned how doctors often diagnose patients to prescribe medications that merely address symptoms while causing further issues in the body. This experience deepened my love and passion for holistic health. Too many individuals walk around with diagnoses, attributing them to genetics, without understanding their bodies' actual states. By adopting a root-cause approach, we can extinguish the boiling pot of symptoms and disease states instead of simply covering it with a lid of medications. As a functional nutritionist, I strive to provide wellness guidance to those who wish to heal from the inside out.

As a Certified Food Coach and functional nutritionist, I live with passion to help people achieve optimal health by educating them on what fuels their bodies to feel great and avoid disease. At ess3ntia, we offer a range of holistic health and wellness guidance services to support our clients' health goals, including one-on-one coaching, group programs, workshops, and retreats. Our nutrition and wellness services are designed to be flexible and customizable, allowing our clients to choose the option that best fits their needs.

As a certified Primal Health Coach (PHC) and a functional nutritionist, I can see that we are doing something wrong! Humans today spend much of their lives battling weight, diseases, and premature death. Humans are designed to be nimble, agile, strong, and to endure. However, the human animal increasingly isn't doing any of these things. To understand why we are where we are, we have to take a step way back—before we became addicted to processed foods that sicken us, make us fat and fragile, and before the trillion-dollar health and pharma industries stepped in to try to fix us (but failed miserably). We delve deep into evolutionary biology, biochemistry, exercise science, and holistic health to uncover clues that can help bring us back to the badass creatures we are designed to be. Primal living and Ancestral Health is the model we follow to become the humans we are meant to live, move, eat, play, and be. Through proper wellness guidance, we can aspire to live better, longer.