April Ritchotte, FDN-P

• Board Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner

If you have ever been frustrated by conventional medicine or told “your tests are normal” I understand how you feel!

If you feel like you are experiencing more symptoms every year (a cascade effect called “Metabolic Chaos®”), I can help.

I jumped from practitioner to practitioner desperate to find answers to the myriad of symptoms I was experiencing years ago, only to be met with frustration and no resolution.  It was so disappointing, but it is also what led me to functional medicine.  And by working with a functional practitioner, I found answers, I recaptured my health and shifted my career to the functional health space.

Like many of our patients, I learned you don’t always need a medical doctor to find and resolve the upstream causes of our decline in health, and that is why I pursued a career as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P).

As an FDN-P we don’t guess, we test.  

In addition to a comprehensive consultation, I use functional testing to identify healing opportunities that may be the root of your symptoms – symptoms like fatigue, sleep disturbances, weight loss resistance, brain fog, gut distress, digestive disorders, skin issues, anxiety, depression, and more.

Functional tests complement clinical assessment, health history and your collection of symptoms.

It may include tests like:

• Hormone panels (urine or saliva)
• GI Map (sampling to assess the microbiome, uncover pathogens, and more)
• Organic acids (OAT) to reveal fungal/mold markers, mitochondria function, etc.
•  Functional bloodwork (which is interpreted differently than conventional reference ranges)
• Toxin exposure (heavy metals, environmental toxins, mycotoxins)
• Specialty labs like SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), food
• sensitivities, and more.

These labs further inform me so that I can tailor an approach that helps the body restore balance and ultimately helps you resolve your symptoms.

This approach is successful because it is holistic, including protocols that focus on optimizing diet, physical activity, sleep, stress management, and lifestyle changes, but is also highly customized based on what testing has revealed that is unique to you.

I would love to help you recapture your health, so let’s get started!