Common Questions
1. What is an FDNP, and are you a doctor?
No — I'm not a doctor, and I don't diagnose or treat disease. FDNP stands for Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. My training is in reading lab and lifestyle data to find why your body stopped functioning well, then building a full lifestyle plan — including personalized nutrition — around that, instead of just managing symptoms as they show up.
2. My doctor ran bloodwork and said everything's normal. Why do I still feel awful?
"Normal" range and "optimal" range aren't the same thing. Standard bloodwork is built to catch disease, not the slow shift toward dysfunction that happens for years before a diagnosis exists. My work looks at a wider set of data than a standard panel — and unlike most tests your doctor orders one at a time and reads in isolation, mine are read together, as one investigation into how your systems are interacting.
In Eat Right for YOUR Body (my group program), that means MRT and Metabolic Typing — pinpointing the specific foods your body reacts to and the fuel ratio it actually runs best on. Energy Reset (my 1:1 program) includes those same two tests, plus five more that go deeper: a DUTCH panel to see how your hormones are being produced and used, a GI-MAP to assess your gut terrain and digestive function, a Mucosal Barrier Assessment to see whether a compromised gut lining is contributing to how "off" you feel, a Metabolic Wellness Profile to see how digestion and stress are affecting your body, and Continuous Glucose Monitoring to see in real time how your body handles sugar. Each piece adds context to the others — that's what makes the picture usable.
3. What's actually causing the fatigue — I feel like I'm doing everything right?
For most women, food is a much bigger driver than they've been told — even women who already eat "healthy." Blood sugar swings are a common reason for waking at 2 or 3am and not being able to fall back asleep. Reactions to foods that seem healthy on paper can quietly drain energy in ways a standard lab will never show. That's exactly what Eat Right for YOUR Body is built to find and fix — it's structured specifically around food as a major lever on how you feel.
4. What does working with you actually look like?
Most women start with the free MasterClass, where I walk through why this happens. From there, if you want a structured plan, you join Eat Right for YOUR Body — a group program built around your specific chemistry, with food as the central lever.
If the group program doesn't feel like the right fit, or if you finish it and food addressed a lot but not everything, my 1:1 program, Energy Reset, goes deeper — with more extensive testing and fully individualized care.
And while I primarily work with women, I occasionally work with husbands who want to do this alongside their wives — that program is called Eat Right for HIM.
5. What does it cost?
Cost depends on which path fits you — the group program, the 1:1 program, or something in between — so instead of a flat number here, let's talk it through directly. Book a quick call and I'll walk you through what's included and what it costs for the path that actually fits your situation.
6. Do you accept insurance?
No — and that's intentional. Insurance dictates what I can and can't do for a client. It controls the care you receive and tends to fit you into a box built for "someone like you," not you specifically. I believe every woman's care should be built around her, not a category she's been sorted into — and letting insurance guide that would be a disservice to you. I also don't provide a superbill; based on how I read current FSA/HSA guidelines, most of what I do doesn't qualify.
7. Will I need lab testing?
Yes, and here's why: my work is about aligning what your body is telling you through biochemistry with what it's telling you through symptoms. Without lab testing, I can't make that correlation — it would be like being asked to build your house but only handed nails, no wood. I keep testing to the smallest set that tells enough of your health story to build an intentional plan. In the 1:1 program, there are 6 foundational tests required. In the group program, 2 tests are strongly recommended — the program's results are substantially less reliable without them.
8. How long until I feel a difference?
If food is a major driver of your symptoms — which it is for most women, even the ones already eating "healthy" — you should feel a difference within days to a couple of weeks. If food isn't a major driver for you (this happens, but it's rare), identifying what is takes longer: weeks to months.
9. Can I keep seeing my regular doctor?
Absolutely. It's not my position to tell you to take or ignore your doctor's advice. My job is to educate you on the potential causes of your symptoms based on your lifestyle and lab work, lay out the options in front of you with their pros and cons, and support you in whatever choice you feel is right for your health. If you have serious medical conditions, it's helpful for us to work closely with your physician as you make lifestyle changes, so you get the best care from both directions.
10. I've tried everything already — supplements, diets, more exercise. What's different here?
Most of what you've tried treated one symptom in isolation. This starts with lab testing to see what's actually driving things for your specific body — I use those results to figure out which "big rocks" upstream of your symptoms are likely causing most of them, and we work to remove those rocks from your river so life is smoother sailing.
11. Is this a carnivore or all-meat diet?
No. I never tell anyone they have to eat all meat, and that's not the takeaway from anything I teach. What I do is heavily center nutrition around animal-based foods — I believe they're essential to optimal health, especially for a metabolism already working harder through perimenopause. If you're committed to a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, I'll be honest with you: this work is hard, and it's substantially harder without animal products in the picture. I'm probably not the right practitioner for that path, and I'd rather tell you that upfront than waste your time.