Join Danielle Dellaquila MS, CNS, LDN, Functional Medicine Nutritionist of Eagle Vision Nutrition in Scarborough, to discuss how an Ancestral diet and lifestyle can help aid in achieving optimal health. This conversation will include highlighting the importance that nutrients play in the body, why they are required for basic and optimal health and the best way to work nutrient dense foods into your daily diet.  She will also discuss the role the microbiome has on overall health.  Danielle will review which foods, nutrients and supplements are most beneficial for the gut microbiome and which foods are most detrimental. Lastly, Danielle will discuss how environmental toxins as well as toxins in the home can affect health and well-being.  

Danielle has been practicing clinical nutrition for over 20 years and Functional Medicine for 8 years.  Her approach when working with individuals, is to treat the underlying cause(s) of one’s ailments through functional medicine testing, analyzation and then personalizing a treatment protocol, based on what the tests divulge.  Functional Medicine is a systems, biology-based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease.  Oftentimes, mainstream medicine and doctors use medications to mask symptoms, while not addressing the REAL, underlying problem(s).  Danielle utilizes her combined skills as a Functional Medicine Practitioner and Functional Nutritionist to be: 

• Investigative:  “Test, don’t guess” is a well known adage in Functional Medicine. Testing allows Danielle to confidently determine the underlying factors to an individual’s symptoms. Addressing these issues and not just the symptoms leads to more profound and longer-lasting results.
• Holistic: She envisions the body as an interconnected whole that is in dynamic relationship to its environment, understanding that it is not a series of separate and independent systems. Recognizing the importance of these connections in health and disease within the body. Danielle’s first nutrition is the necessary foundation to 
• Client-Centered: Treating the unique client, not the disease. Danielle provides recommendations, treatments and protocols that are highly individualized based on an individual’s needs, diet history, symptoms, test results, nutrient statuses and more.

Danielle has helped hundreds of clients achieve optimal wellness, by eradicating nutrient deficiencies through food and supplements, balancing out the gut microbiota and detoxifying from environmental/lifestyle toxin exposure.