Meet our Team of Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioners

Josephine Thomason and Sarah Gallander are Board Certified Functional Nutritionists and hold 10 different certifications between them covering areas like full body systems, toxicity and detox, metabolism, blood chemistry, and Lyme patient advocacy.

Together they founded the Functional Nutriton Collective (FxNC) in 2023 and brought together 6 other practitioners to help clients Break the Cycle of symptoms and reclaim their health with a custom approach to wellness. This means you have a team of practitioners dedicated to figuring out your unique symptom puzzle.

Each practitioner in the Functional Nutrition Collective (FxNC) has a desire and passion to meet you where you are, teach you how to understand the conversation your body is having with you through our proven SHAPES© system, and give you the tools and confidence you need to see sustainable changes and success.

We are here to prepare, discover and guide you towards true wellness and cannot wait to help you Break the Cycle.

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The Founders Stories

A Long and Tiring Search for Answers

Josephine and Sarah spent much of their lives being at a loss around their health and feeling like they were in a never ending battle. In a constant state of stress and anxiety and feeling that it was all just too much and defeated as they got their labs drawn and told they were “normal” but still never either of them feeling great.

Josephine received a long list of diagnoses such as gastroparesis, hypothyroidism, and fibromyalgia, after being in pain since her childhood and Sarah was misdiagnosed by 15 doctors for over 10 years before learning she had Lyme disease and mold toxicity. Both Josephine and Sarah’s diagnoses were accompanied by ongoing doctor visits and numerous medications but no one seemed able to get to the root cause or bring back their energy or vitality. They were just supposed to live with the stress, pain and barely functioning nature of their diagnoses.

Still having symptoms and feeling very determined to get to the bottom of it, both recognized they had to step up and become their own health advocate in order to navigate the medical system that was either unable or unwilling to help. They chose to fight, for themselves and for everyone else who is at the end of their rope and too exhausted to hang on because their health isn’t solved by a standard lab test.

Even though they had help of supportive family, functional medicine physicians, a scientific foundation, nutrigenomics, proper nutritional support and mindset training, it wasn’t until they dove into the field of functional nutrition that they truly learned how to heal. You could say that finding Functional Nutrition was the final piece. Now that they understood how to get to the root causes of their symptoms, they could truly start to make changes and feel better. This allowed them to heal their bodies, reclaim their energy and vitality and get back into true health.

If you’re ready to experience the same results as we did, and as many of our clients do, schedule your Simple Start Assessment where together we’ll get clear about your health goals, uncover what’s really standing in your way, and create a proven plan to get you back to the energy and vitality you deserve.

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