For over 30 years, I’ve worked as a pharmacist, helping people manage their medications. But over time, I saw the same thing again and again — more prescriptions, more side effects, and not enough focus on why people were sick in the first place.

Then my own health became a wake-up call.

In my 40s, I was diagnosed with prediabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Later, during menopause and a very stressful season in my life, I developed full-blown diabetes. My blood sugars were high, my weight climbed, and I ended up on more and more medications. I felt discouraged and scared that my future would look like my mother’s, who also struggled with diabetes and other health problems.

I decided I couldn’t accept that as my story.

I began studying functional medicine, changed my nutrition, focused on gut health, lowered inflammation, worked on my stress, and rebuilt my habits step by step. Over time, I lost weight, my blood sugar improved, and I was able to come off most of my diabetes medications. Today, my A1c is in the normal range, and I’ve been in remission for over two years.

Now, I use both my professional background and my personal journey to help others do the same.