I’ve lived everything I teach
From burnout, PCOS, and heartbreak — to healing my body, climbing Kilimanjaro twice, and building a practice that helps people around the world understand their biology at its deepest level.
I didn’t start my career with a doctorate and a set of answers. I started with questions — and a body that wasn’t cooperating.
As a teenager in South Africa, I was already fascinated by the human body and how it worked. Then a knee injury derailed my sport, disrupted my hormones, and started a decades-long conversation between me and my own physiology — one I’m still having today. It’s that conversation, more than any degree, that shaped the practitioner I became.
From South Africa to the US — and a diagnosis that changed everything
I left home to pursue education in the United States, full of ambition and curiosity. But the hormonal struggles I’d dealt with as a teenager didn’t disappear — they deepened. In my early thirties, I was diagnosed with PCOS. Alongside it came depression and infertility, two words that can quietly hollow you out if you let them.
I didn’t let them.
I wasn’t built to be a victim of a diagnosis. So I went all in — chiropractic, detoxing, low-carb nutrition, and movement. A lot of movement. I became a running coach, a bootcamp instructor, and eventually someone who had run over 20 marathons, 5 ultra marathons, and completed a full Ironman. I healed my body by learning to listen to it. I also built a successful business in the US and helped thousands of people lose weight and reclaim their health naturally.
I wasn’t built to be a victim of a diagnosis. So I went all in.
When the body that carried you starts to break
But somewhere in the intensity of it all — the training, the growing business, the speaking engagements — I lost the thread. The death of both my parents within a short period left a wound that hard work couldn’t outrun. I was burnt out. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Perimenopause arrived uninvited. And then came the pain — eventually diagnosed as a giant hemangioma on my liver — that stopped me in my tracks.
Leading up to this, my husband and I made a decision that looked radical from the outside: we sold everything and left our lives in the US. We lived nomadically, moving through the world with little more than curiosity and each other, before eventually settling in Portugal.
What felt like loss became the most important period of research in my career.
Building protocols from the inside out
Healing myself while simultaneously helping clients on the other side of the world sharpened something in me. I became obsessed with understanding the body’s healing mechanisms at a deeper level — not just symptom management, but root cause. I researched constantly. I ran case studies. I tested and refined and documented.
From that work came the Holistic Healing Strategy — a protocol I created for myself that went on to help people across the globe with vastly different conditions: autoimmune disease, chronic inflammation, digestive disorders, hormonal imbalances, metabolic dysfunction. Real people. Real results.
What felt like loss became the most important period of research in my career.
The missing piece — and a 97% statistic that changed my practice
Around this time, I discovered fatty acid bloodspot testing and was struck by what the data consistently showed: 97% of the global population is deficient in omega-3 and has a dangerous imbalance of omega-6 to omega-3. It was a missing piece that appeared again and again in my clients’ results, and addressing it became a cornerstone of my protocols.
The more I helped people, the more complex the cases became. My clients weren’t getting answers or proper testing with standard care. If I couldn’t help, who would? So I went deeper to find answers — into biochemistry, into cellular function, into microbiome function, and into DNA vulnerabilities.
Going deeper — orthomolecular medicine and the genetics revolution
Compelled to serve my clients better, I pursued further study in orthomolecular medicine and nutrigenomics. I earned my Doctorate in Orthomolecular Nutrigenomics from the Institute of Integrative Biomedicine and became a Board Certified Functional Genomics Practitioner through the American Association of Natural Wellness Practitioners.
Nutrigenomics — the science of how your genes interact with nutrition, lifestyle, and environment — is, I believe, the future of personalized medicine. It gives me the ability to understand a client’s biochemistry at a genetic level: why their body responds the way it does, what it needs, and how to build a strategy that will serve them not just this year, but for life.
For the first time, many of my clients get answers they’ve been searching for for years.
For the first time, many of my clients get answers they’ve been searching for for years.
Where I am now
Today I work with clients remotely across the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. I consult for medical doctors on complex nutritional cases. I speak at integrative medical conferences. And every single day, I get to do the work I was built for — helping people understand their own biology, and using that understanding to heal.
I live a peaceful life in Portugal with my husband. We still travel across continents to serve communities and educate on healing. My purpose is to bring you the clarity you’ve been searching for. I’m always researching and learning. And I still believe — with every study, every client case, and every protocol — that the body wants to heal. It just needs the right information.
Your body isn’t failing you. It’s talking to you.
Most chronic symptoms aren’t random. They’re signals — from your metabolism, your gut, your hormones, your cells — that something in your environment, your nutrition, or your biochemistry is out of alignment.
My job is to help you decode those signals. Not with a generic protocol or a one-size plan, but with your data: your bloodwork, your DNA, your health history, your life. From there, we build something precise.
Because when your body gets what it actually needs — at a cellular level — everything can change.
You’re in the right place if:
- You’ve been told your results are ‘normal’, but you know something isn’t right
- You’re navigating menopause, Hashimoto’s, PCOS, depression, or metabolic dysfunction
- You want to understand your biology — not just manage your symptoms
- You’ve tried everything and are ready for an approach that goes deeper
- You’re a high achiever whose body is finally asking you to slow down and listen
- Board Certified Functional Genomics Practitioner — American Association of Natural Wellness Practitioners
- Doctor of Orthomolecular Nutrigenomics — Institute of Integrative Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Science — LaGrange College
- Research in Microbiology & Immunology — East Carolina University
- Advanced Certifications in Metabolism, Sports & Holistic Nutrition
- International Speaker — Integrative Medical Conferences & Wellness Events
- International Nutrition Consultant for Medical Doctors
I’ve been where you are. I know what it feels like to have questions no one can answer, to follow the advice and still feel lost, to wonder if this is just how it is now.
It doesn’t have to be.
If you’re ready to understand your body at a level that actually changes things, I’d love to be part of that.