FDN is an emerging field and growing body of work that bridges the gap of medical care and self-care- taking ownership of that bridge. FDN allows any allied health practitioner to present an effective opt-in model of care to their clients that is easy to follow and exactly what they have been looking for from a health care provider. The FDN protocols provided are potent, proven and individualized to build health.
The purpose of an FDN-practitioner is to help individuals investigate and resolve their underlying contributors to their “METABOLIC CHAOS”. An FDN-practitioner correlates the results of a client’s functional lab tests with the client’s main health complaints, history, and concerns to provide clues to help reveal healing opportunities then provides the client with self-healing protocols. FDN Practitioners are investigators and helping guide a client to put the pieces of their health puzzle back together to regain health, vitality and homeostasis.
FDN stands for Functional Diagnostic Nutrition which means-
Functional is a meaningful indicates working with and respecting the innate intelligence of the body, how the body really works. It is the desire for equilibrium and balance (homeostasis).
Diagnostic with “functional” means to find healing opportunities, uncover opportunities to evoke the healing response, and to identify and remove obstacles to recovery.
Nutrition to nurture, to feed the cells, tissues, organs and systems- the organism. to provide everything the body genetically requires.
An FDN practitioner is similar to a health detective- we work with you to help investigate why you are experiencing your main health complaints and help identify healing opportunities, instead of treating symptoms, and areas of health that need improvement (areas of opportunities). We coach up clients to achieve their desired results.
We use functional labs to help create clinical correlation and to use results to help put the pieces of the puzzle together- an individualized approach to healing. We do not treat the test results. Instead we use the DRESS For Health Success program to help guide a client to healing from the inside out.
What is the role of an FDN Practitioner?
- We act as Health Detectives and use our many tools to solve the “METABOLIC CHAOS” crime including our signature functional labs.
- We investigate the underlying causes of unwanted health conditions including lifestyle, the environment and individual “weak” links in the metabolism
- We are look for clues of HIDDEN dysfunction and imbalances – hormones, immune, digestion, and detoxification systems.
- We create all-natural recommended protocols that work in a non-specific manner
- Our goal is to build up and maintain health for individuals
- Many symptoms and diseases tend to disappear over time and “normal” function is restored (homeostasis is reset) as we, health coaches, coach up the function of the dys-functioned body systems
- We do not diagnose or treat any disease- we treat everything non-specifically
- We used the “D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success” protocols to impact every cell, tissue, organ and body system (the WHOLE person- the organism).
- General health building principles can often outperform specific treatments by treating nothing specifically and everything non-specifically – unwanted health conditions ideally improve or disappear as long as the “METABOLIC CHAOS” Cascade is reversed.
- We are all unique bio-individuals with different history, lifestyles, genetics, imbalances, deficiencies, environments, stressors and dysfunctions – so there is not “one size fits all” approach to healing and rebuilding an individual’s health.
- We implement our health building principles and trust the outcomes – while we adjust and correct our direction as we continue on our healing and rebuilding journey to restore The WHOLE Athlete.
