I'm Christine MacCarroll, a functional nutritionist based in Denver, CO in the US. My focus is on women's health and hormones, and I've also recently been putting additional focus on midlife metabolism, as I hit midlife myself
In trying to think about when I first got interested in this topic, I have to give a nod to my uber-"crunchy" mama, who not only delivered me at home, but showed me the pictures of my own birth from a very young age! I got the idea both that women's bodies are magical, and that the our general processes are very normal. It was a shock to my system to get to school and realize I was in the extreme minority!
Later, in helping my own daughter make a 180 recovery from a neurological speech diagnosis, my interest in the recovery capacity of our bodies was reignited, and I dove head first into making holistic health my life's work. I've been in practice for the last 7 years.