Hello.

Fast forward 10 years, now in my 40’s, and my life suffered a change of 360 degrees. I decided to adopt a little boy by myself and I am not sure I fully knew what I was getting into. Until that point my life had been focused on my management career with, lots of high demands, but I thoroughly enjoyed each minute of it. My workaholic nature was well suit to my career choice, my diligence of working evenings and weekends always paid off. I guess that the high levels of stress I was under, combined with years of poor diet, no exercise and no rest together with the fact that I was aging (my body reserves were beginning to be depleted) was an explosive combination ready to detonate at any moment. My little boy became the trigger, he brought someone that was merely surviving to a breaking point stage in a few years. I became exhausted physically and mentally, the joy of my work and of living almost disappeared. I quit my job and returned home to have some rest. It was no surprise, when I was diagnosed with a mental burnout. For the first time, I fully understood the value of health not from an abstract perspective but from what I was experiencing in my own skin. I was no longer immortal and the signs were all over my face (literally): I had no energy, I felt tired from morning to evening. I was border lining obesity, I felt aches and pains throughout my body. For years I had had high levels of cholesterol (the doctors tried to medicate me several times) and they were getting worse by the minute, my digestive problems returned, I had adult acne, and the worst was that my brain couldn’t function as it used to. I was a mess! I became certain that if I did not change things, I would not be here to see my child grow-up.

I used the little energy I had to look for the latest health-related data and to reflect on the choices I had made that lead me to be where I was. I also looked for answers in what I could do to treat myself. I stumbled on the concepts of functional and natural medicine, I attended a few conferences online. I was able to implement some of the recommendations and I could feel how beneficial they were. After some time, my energy and brain function returned and that allowed me to learn further. I couldn’t stop, I was in awe with all the new information and how different health was being approached compared with allopathic medicine (mainstream medicine). I decided to invest in formally educating myself, I became a health coach with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York. And I began my studies in Nutritional Therapy with International Integrative Educational Institute.

No matter what I was formally studying (from modern functional medicine to ancient Ayurveda), the books I was reading, the conferences I was attending … again and again experts were talking about the same pillars of health. 

The personal journey that had begun with me trying to recovery my own health, had now turned into a passion. As I began mastering my own health I made it my mission to help others do the same. And that is the reason I started this practice!