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Once upon a time…

For over 20 years, I have worked as a pharmacist and dedicated health care professional, delivering exceptional service to patients and their caregivers. I remember how proud I was when I graduated with a degree in healthcare. I was going to do my part in advancing public health - ‘First do no harm.’ It was a rewarding career, but I realized something was missing.  Nutrition as primary prevention and as medicine was never taught. Our healthcare system, driven by the demands from an increasingly unhealthy population, became focused on managing disease and less so on restoring health and well-being.   In our current health care system, most providers simply do not have the time it takes to educate patients on the steps they can take to improve or even reverse chronic health conditions. Over the years, it has become obvious that the simple 'calories in calories out, eat healthy and regular exercise' prescription has not been effective. 

The turning point for me was when my daughter became ill.  I was frustrated with the lack of real solutions.  I knew prescription medication was not enough.   Then a former colleague introduced me to a different kind of root-cause medicine and I started to pay closer attention to my family's health.

My family's physical health complaints quickly improved once I started focusing on restoring the normal physiological functioning of our bodies, providing the essential nutrients. Taking steps to address the functioning of the hormonal, immune, digestive, and detoxification systems of the body, as well as environmental issues, I now had a better understanding of the gaps that need to be filled in our health care system, to deliver optimal care. Medications, are absolutely essential and even lifesaving at times for critical or acute care, however, chronic illnesses require a different kind of medicine.  Nutrition-based care along with modifiable lifestyle changes and sometimes quality supplements will have the greatest and most definitive impact on chronic health issues.  The most urgent gap though, is in the educating and empowering of individuals on how to take charge of their own health. 

In functional nutrition I found a better approach.

Instead of chronically medicating symptoms, I integrate my knowledge of pharmaceuticals with nutrition to address route causes, providing the body with the nutrients and self-care lifestyle it needs to be restored to optimal health.  My most important role was not in simply helping restore my family's and close friends' health, it was in educating them. I believe that community can create cure and that SelfCare is the best HealthCare!

My mission is to spread health - to educate, empower and enlighten!

Fiona Duncan, B.S., R.Ph., FDN
Registered Pharmacist, Functional Nutrition Consultant & Health Coach

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