I would like to share with you how I became so passionate about becoming a Nutrition Response Practitioner.
My story starts when I was about 20 years old. I started experiencing hormone issues and weight gain after being put on hormonal birth control by a medical doctor. I didn’t understand what was happening to my body. I hadn’t changed anything about my life other than taking the birth control pills yet my weight was steadily increasing. When I was ready to try to become pregnant, I discontinued the pill but then a new issue arose. I was now struggling with infertility. Eventually, I was finally able to become pregnant after years of being off birth control. After having my children, I still struggled with weight and hormonal issues. Additionally, my thyroid wasn’t working properly. I saw doctor after doctor only for them to tell me that I was fine. It took years to finally find a doctor that diagnosed me with hypothyroidism. He put me on synthetic thyroid medicine, but it did very little to actually make me feel better.
Around this time my, then, 10-year-old daughter had become ill and was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. One of the first things I asked her GI doctor was if a diet change for her would be beneficial? He quickly let me know that diet had nothing to do with her diagnosis. I knew that that could not be true. How could an intestinal issue not be related to the food she was eating? I spent years researching how to heal her gut. We tried conventional medicine to try to help her be healthy, but by the time she was 18 we had exhausted all medical options for her. We were desperate at this point. We saw a functional medicine doctor who helped us in some ways, but we still did not see the improvement that we wanted for her.
My husband had started seeing Dr. Serge Gregoire to help him with his blood pressure. I was amazed at his improvement and how Dr. Serge was helping him control his issues. My husband asked if I would like him to make an appointment for our daughter with Dr. Serge. I quickly agreed. After bringing our daughter to Mind and Body Solutions, we started to see improvements in her health quicker than we had ever hoped. I, along with my other two daughters, became patients after watching the amazing change in her health. I was hopeful that, for the first time in my life, I may have found someone that could finally help me with all my health issues that I had struggled with for my entire adult life. Within two weeks of becoming a patient I was already seeing changes in my body. I felt better than I had in a very long time. I was sleeping without taking sleeping pills, I had more energy, and my brain was clearer.
I then asked Dr. Serge if he had any positions available in his office because I knew that I had found my purpose in life along with a way to heal my body. I had to help others solve their health problems like Mind and Body Solutions had helped me. I became Dr. Serge’s PA soon after. I worked as his PA for almost a year and loved every bit of it. I learned so much while working with Dr. Serge. It gave me the confidence and knowledge to decide that I wanted to become a Nutrition Response Practitioner. Nutrition Response has made a huge difference in my life as well as the lives of my loved ones. I am passionate about helping others get their lives back and become their best selves through nutrition.
