The Full Story
Hi! I’m Laura. I’m here to help you take control of the future of your health!
My mission is to help you negotiate your current health challenges and empower you to optimize your health for the rest of your life.
The truth is that we were born into these incredible, complex, magical human bodies that really WANT to serve us so that we can live our best lives. Our bodies have the innate capacity to heal a LOT of challenges that happen along the way. Our bodies WANT to be optimally healthy. ​
The thing is, our bodies meet lots of challenges along the way, And when we don’t recognize or address those challenges, eventually issues start to compound and feed off of each other and we start to get disordered functionality, which manifest as symptoms and dysfunctions that are often diagnosed as ‘diseases’ and ‘disorders’.
When given the right tools, your highly intelligent cells and body systems have the ability to slow, stop or reverse a LOT of what you may consider to be an unstoppable downhill slide in your health. This is Functional Medicine and Wellness. We learn more every single day, and the science that studies your body’s capacity for resilience continues to teach us about all the things that are possible for you.
I hold a medical degree from The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (1988), and I am a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner through the Institute for Functional Medicine (2021).
I also completed residencies or board certification in Family Practice and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, and Holistic and Integrative Medicine.
I’ve studied with the Nutritional Medicine greats like Alan Gaby, MD and Jonathan Wright, MD from as early as the mid-1990’s. And I practiced as a doctor using Integrative and Functional medicine for more than 25 years.
So, I have earned the right to say that I am an expert in the field of Functional Medicine and Wellness. And what I’ve learned is that YOU are best served if, rather than looking at you through the filters of “diagnoses” and labels that put your body functions into categories that translate to many different specialists taking care of one part of you or another and ignoring the rest, we look at you as a WHOLE. A WHOLE HUMAN, body, mind and spirit, with all of your body’s systems interacting with each other, leaning on each other, affecting each other. Even if you are feeling terrible, there is a LOT in there that IS WORKING, and there is a spark or many sparks of health that just want to be encouraged so that they can move your body toward an optimal path of well-being.
To be most fully in best service to you, I now serve you as your Functional Wellness Mentor. I help you to help you: 1) find and understand the systems in your body that are seeing challenges; 2) find the innate health within you and learn how you can use it to modify the balance of your current health; and 3) help you discover and initiate the courses of action that will move you toward your best health ever.
Just so you know: I've got multiple licenses.
I've chosen to change my practice so that I now use licensure that is different from my Oregon medical licensure; my license as a Holistic Health Practitioner gives me more breadth and range regarding how I can best help you; the only thing is, you can't expect medical prescriptions, and I've chosen not to say that I "diagnose" or "cure" you anymore; all of this said, I am a superstar as a Functional and Integrative Health expert, consulting with you and mentoring you to get you what you need on your path to living your longest, healthiest, and happiest life!
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Consultation as a Functional Wellness Mentor and Consultant to help you evaluate and better understand your body, what is being challenged and how, and how to move your body forward into a better place;
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Access to, Education about, and help understanding specialized Functional laboratory testing that can help you evaluate your body on a deep level so that you know what you are working with;
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Access to and Education about choice, high quality, vetted, evidence-based supplements, home care products, and equipment to help you enhance your capacity to optimize your health;
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Access to my signature 9-Week Total Health Reset Bootcamp, designed to help you take the deep dive into education and experiential deep cleaning and reorganization for your body that is KEY to any road toward better health;
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Continuing Education in many aspects of your body’s function, including the latest in evidence-based information, in the form of: free and paid workshops and retreats, videos, blogs/vlogs/podcasts, social media posts, written materials, guest speakers, and special events;
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Our Healthspan Optimizers Membership Club, a membership-based weekly online community of like-minded and awesome humans who also seek education, mentoring, connections, and empowerment on their health and life journeys.
My services are intended to complement, optimize, and empower your health journey. I strongly recommend that, along with my services, that you continue your relationship with a Conventional Medical Practitioner of your choice. If you do not have one, I can help you with guidance regarding how to find one who will most optimally complement the work that we do together.
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I can’t wait to get started with you on your journey to your best health! Please check out all of your options on this site and take action for yourself! Feel free to schedule a free ‘Meet and Greet’ 15 minute consultation through my Functional Health Transformation practice site.
In Great Health,
Laura