Full Body Systems is for Nurses
Tune-in to this behind-the-scenes conversation with Andrea Nakayama, Functional Medicine Nutritionist and founder of Functional Nutrition Alliance, and Full Body Systems graduate Kristen Farmer to learn why Full Body Systems is a great program for nurses.
Kristen is a registered nurse and Functional Nutrition Alliance Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor (CFNC) with 25 years of healthcare experience. In this video she shares her experience as a Full Body Systems (FBS) student, discusses how she’s put FBS learnings and certification into practice, and answers one of our most common questions from nurses: “Will this be a repeat of what I already know?” Be sure to tune in to hear Kristen’s answer!
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Grad Spotlight: Salomey Adomako, RN
In this blog interview you’ll meet Salomey Adomako, a Registered Nurse (RN) and a Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor (CFNC). Salomey works with clients struggling with chronic health issues like diabetes, hypertension, joint pain, and digestive troubles. She’s enjoying great success leveraging dietary and lifestyle changes to contribute to her client’s healthcare teams and promote better health outcomes.
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What’s a Functional Nutrition Counselor?
In our mission to educate and empower a new kind of health practitioner, we work within the Functional Medicine model, recognizing its advantages in addressing many of the key problems we face in healthcare today—problems with patients getting sicker and sicker and chronic health challenges going unaddressed. We see GAPs in healthcare, and we’re keen on training an army of Functional Nutrition Counselors to fill them.
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Watch our Nurses Roundtable
There is a fast growing movement of nurses embracing the need for dietary and lifestyle modifications to address a skyrocketing patient population struggling with unresolved health issues. We’re proud to be supporting that movement, certifying hundreds of nurses as CFNCs through FBS every year. In this roundtable discussion, founder and Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Andrea Nakayama, asks FBS nurse graduates some of our most pressing questions on the subject. They’re likely the same ones you have!