Functional medicine nutritionist, herbalist, family practitioner, health coach and fertility expert!
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Leona is a family practitioner who treats adults and kids through functional medicine nutrition. She has successfully treated many different health concerns including fatigue, stress and adrenal conditions, healthy and permanent weight loss, digestive health issues, cholesterol and heart health, blood sugar issues, Hashimotos, hormonal issues in both women and men and supporting hundreds of people in simply understanding their body better, improving their diets, and providing assistance in optimizing a specific type of chosen diet and healing through foods first. Leona is considered a fertility expert, helping many couples overcome months or even years of fertility challenges and go on to conceive and deliver healthy babies. Leona takes a food as medicine, whole body, and whole mind approach to health, favoring traditional modalities that consider the whole person coupled with cutting edge approaches in lab testing and diagnostics, always remaining food centered and branching out from there. Leona also enjoys working with people who just want to improve their overall health and gain more understanding about their individual needs and food choices. She uses nutritional therapies, herbs, supplements, detoxification programs, whole foods and diet and lifestyle practices to make real change. She also honors and addresses the emotional factors involved in good health and in persistent health challenges. A Nutritionist, Herbalist, Fitness Trainer and Birth Doula. Leona West has maintained a successful functional medicine nutrition practice for the last 10 years. She has also been a natural health educator and public speaker on health, food and nutrition for close to 20 years. She completed a formal nutritional medicine and herbal medicine program through AUCM, The American University of Complementary Medicine, located in Beverly Hills, California. She has additional training in Functional Medicine and certification in Functional Endocrinology and Blood Chemistry Analysis
Leona is also involved in research and writing contributions to medical programs, including integrative medical weight loss programs, integrative medical pain management programs and integrative medical addiction and detox programs. She has also contributed to book and magazine publications. Leona has also worked with companies, including Ninja and Nutribullet designing meal plans and contributing her expertise to health and wellness programs. Leona has strong relationships with local doctors in providing the most thorough, collaborative and complementary treatment in order to achieve the greatest transformations possible for her clients and in support of her community.
