Education & Certifications:

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Advanced Integrative Metabolic Specialist

(CAIMS)

Metabolic Regen 

(Taught by Dr. Nasha Winters)​

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Certified Terrain Advocate

Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health (Taught by Dr. Nasha Winters)

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Certified Oncology Nutrition Consultant (ONC)

Oncology Nutrition Institute

(Taught by Jess Higgins Kelley)

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Cancer Peace University 

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Functional Supplement Specialist & Supplement Quality Specialist

Supplement Academy​

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Restorative Health Practitioner Level 3

RHP 3

(Gastrointestinal Wellness, Hormone Health & Blood Chemistry)

Institute of Restorative Health

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Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner

FNTP

Nutritional Therapy Association

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Courses with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt

(ART 1 and 2, Applied Psycho-Neurobiology)

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Holistic Health Coach

Institute for Integrative Nutrition

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BA, Colgate University

Andrea's Story

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Cancer touches us all. Whether we experience it ourselves during our lifetime or someone we love has it, we are all affected by it. I am no different. My mom had cancer in her 40s. This was quite traumatic to my teenage world, but she would not be deterred from living her long, full life. She had travel to do (and still does!). Thanks to modern medicine and her steadfast will to overcome, she is still here with us today and I am incredibly grateful.  This inspires me to help my clients, family and friends to both avoid cancer as well as help them heal from it should it arise.

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When I first started studying cancer nutrition, it was because of my mom, but it turns out that it may have been to prepare me for what was to come. 

 

In February 2023, I did a preventative full body MRI at a company called Prenuvo, and it found that I had a 2.3 by 2.4 cm mass in the right temporal lobe of my brain. About the size of a walnut. I had no idea, I was asymptomatic. It was a shock! I have been on a journey through the medical system since, culminating with surgery at Barrow Neurological in Phoenix, Arizona on April 5th, 2023. After surgery, I was released from the hospital and returned to mostly normal function remarkably fast. I credit that to the talents of my surgeon and all the work I did preparing for surgery.

 

As soon as I found out about the tumor, as my oncology nutrition training instructs, I immediately went on a healthy therapeutic ketogenic diet (or SuperKeto! as I like to call it, which is quite different from the keto you see on the internet and from online influencers). I also worked to mitigate any other contributing factors I identified through labs and testing, as I do for clients.  Two weeks after surgery, once pathology came in, we found out that it was a malignant grade 3 oligodendroglioma- brain cancer. While this was not good news, my surgeon was able to remove the full tumor. We agreed that I would avoid the standard chemotherapy and radiation protocols and instead  utilize the Metabolic Approach to Cancer as pioneered by Dr. Nasha Winters and Jess Higgins Kelley as a tool to stay cancer-free.

 

For the 3+ years since, it has been successful.​ Food has always played a central role in my life as a creative outlet, a health-transforming tool, and a source of joy. It is now something that is saving my life. 

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I understand the large undertaking of radically changing diet and working hard on improving health because I am doing it too. Not only do I guide others, but I am walking the walk myself.

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I am forever grateful to have the education, connections in the holistic oncology world and ability to gather data to inform every health decision I make and what I recommend to my clients.

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Here is a short clip of an interview I did shown on NBC Nightly News and the Today Show about the life saving potential of full body MRIs like the Prenuvo scan I got in 2023:

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I was interviewed by Cindy Kennedy from the Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health (MTIH), Dr. Nasha Winters' non-profit that is revolutionizing cancer care. We spoke about how I utilized the Metabolic Approach to address my brain cancer and terrain.

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My Prenuvo story was also included in the August 2024 issue of Vogue Magazine (linked to article photo below):​

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