I’m a certified integrative nutrition health coach. I have a passion for two things…no, that’s a lie…I have a passion for a lot of things: my family and friends, eating ( I LOVE good food… exhibit A, a gift of a Spanish ham and my sheer joy, is pictured), running (I’m training for an ultramarathon… and dang, now that I’ve put that on the internet, I have to do it), my day job (I’m a flight test engineer and LOVE it),  and lastly, the two things that actually matter to you: health and wellness. I’ve always had a love (obsession even) for health, nutrition, fitness, and wellbeing.

 

This was amplified when my grandmother began to decline. I remember over the years watching medication upon medication continue to be added, yet her health continue to deteriorate…an inverse relationship to what one would expect from medications. Meanwhile, she became more and more sedentary, ate worse and worse foods, and more medication was added (I remember counting the medications my grandmother was on: 14, and that even increased up to 21 AT ONE TIME). Eventually, after years of being wheelchair and bedridden, she passed away from diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, dementia, obesity, and pre-leukemia in a hospice bed at only 72 years old. The toll this took on her and our family in her last years was immense.

 

I want better for me. I want better for my family. I want better for you. NO ONE should have to go through what my grandmother and family went through, and I firmly believe, better yet, I know, lifestyle choices can prevent what happened to my grandmother from happening to us. I don’t do this because I need to, I do this because I want to. I want to help you, and I will do everything in my power to help you LiveWell.