SUMMARY: My focus is on serving the needs of functional health practitioners and other clients through advanced educational offerings and consulting services in nutrition and functional health, via my business, Peak Functional Health, LLC. EXPERTISE & AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Functional health & functional medicine
- Nutrition
- Healthy aging
- Brain-gut-microbiome-immune axis
- Nutrigenomics & epigenetics
- Metabolic energy regulation and pathways
- Functional fitness
- Complex interconnections of the above areas
- Translating scientific information to support functional health practitioners and enhance their practices
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
I pursued my doctoral studies in molecular biology and genetics at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Colorado, Boulder, where I received my PhD. In my postdoctoral research career, I continued studying the molecular biology of aging at the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, and at two start-up biotechnology companies (in Seattle and Denver). I eventually left my research career to pursue a career in web development (which included positions at Rocky Mountain PBS and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and then running my own web development company for 11 years). Recently, I decided to turn my lifelong passion for health, fitness & education into a career, and completed my certification as a Nutrition Therapy Practitioner from the Nutrition Therapy Institute in Denver. I have also completed several courses in functional medicine and attended numerous conferences and seminars on nutrition and functional medicine. I am constantly reading the scientific literature to keep up, and I enjoy communicating this information in a way that helps practitioners and clients apply it to the improvement of health and wellbeing.
