Nutrition For The Best Health
Feel Vibrant And Energized
Anita Dock, Dietitian, Nutrition Counseling, Cincinnati, Ohio
Take Charge Of Your Health
Having a clear, personalized plan that addresses your health concerns at the root cause means you can finally take charge of your health journey and get back to enjoying the life you want to lead.
It’s time to get the knowledge and tools you need to make informed choices about your diet and reach your health goals.
Life Is For Living
Personalize
Find success with a program personalized for your individual medical issues and lifestyle that will identify the root cause of your symptoms and personalize your treatment and dietary needs.
Prepare
Get everything you need to prepare yourself for success. Including test results and meal plans.
Plan
With your freedom from symptoms, you can make plans for a re-energized and vibrant life.
Making Lasting Changes Starts With Getting To The Root Of The Problem
It can be frustrating to navigate the world of nutrition, especially when it comes to your health concerns.
Searching through Google and all the different diets can leave you feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.
That’s why I believe you deserve a personalized approach that takes into account your unique needs and goals.
With the right support, you can live, work, and love with energy and passion. Let’s work together to help you feel full of life and excited about the future.
At your appointments, I’ll take a comprehensive look at your daily habits and lifestyle choices to understand how they impact your overall health and well-being, including your nutrition.
We will discuss factors such as sleep quality, stress levels, physical activity, personal relationships, and any potential triggers that may be affecting your food choices.
By taking a holistic approach to your health, I can identify and address underlying issues that may be impacting your nutrition and overall well-being. Together, we will develop integrative lifestyle strategies to support healthy habits and behaviors, symptom management, and optimal health.
It’s Time To Get Started With A Clear Plan
medical assessment
I review your medical history, medication review, lab review, and any information that may need to be addressed to ensure we can address your concerns' root causes.
diet assessment
I take this opportunity to review your wonderful dietary choices you already include and identify the sticking points that might need some tweaking. This might include a trial of food eliminations, a change in food preparation, adjusting timing of meal and snacks, and evaluating potential nutrient deficiencies.
Lifestyle evaluation
Because healing comes from more than the food you eat. I take into account sleep, stress, and other integrative lifestyle factors. This evaluation helps me really get to know the challenges you’ve been working through, and can tailor each session to your needs.
Personalized Plan
This addresses the root causes of your concerns and includes a personalized plan that will address the root causes of your symptoms while providing healing strategies and support.
Clear up your nutrition confusion, create a clear plan, and confidently embrace a full life again
As part of your personalized plan, I may recommend specific testing to help us get to the root of your challenges
Mediator Release Test (MRT) is a food sensitivity blood test that tests 147 foods and 29 chemicals. The test provides the data needed for me to guide you through a highly-personalized elimination diet called Leap (Lifestyle Eating and Performance).
As a Certified Leap Therapist (CLT) I was trained on the Leap diet as well as physiology of food sensitivities and how to interpret the MRT test results.
Many of my clients present me with a long list of foods from IgG food sensitivity tests. They assume they have positive food sensitivities with so many foods they can not eat. But this isn’t often the case. Because this is non-specific test, you may end up excluding foods that don’t cause a problem.
The MRT gives highly specific results based on reactivity. It allows me to fine-tune the Leap diet protocol, giving you much more satisfactory results, which is why it is such a powerful test. The MRT test can provide a 93.6% split sample reproducibility, and it is 94.5% sensitive compared to multiple other common food sensitivity tests.
Hi, I'm
Anita.
Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Counselor.
I understand how confusing it is to interpret Google searches and advice from well-meaning friends and family and see what’s right for your body and mind.
Many of my clients tell me how empowering it is to have a personalized approach to your nutrition, health and well-being.
I start by establishing the root cause of your health challenges and then help you find practical ways to plan and prepare your life to feel full of energy.
My Qualifications
- University of Arizona, BS in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Dietetic Internship, University Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
- Licensed Dietitian, State of Ohio
- Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics member
- Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Practice Groups
- Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine Practice Group
- Diabetes Practice Group
- Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES)
- Certified Leap Therapist (CLT) Food Sensitivity Specialist
- Next Level Functional Nutrition
Certificate in Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy
Permanent Change Isn’t A Diet.
It Is A New Way Of Life.
Balance
Everything needs the right balance. Balancing your diet is as important as balancing your life. Finding where imbalances are occurring and nudging them back into balance by addressing life-work balance, sleep, stress, and exercise, as well as your diet, creates transformative changes.
Establish
Many people give up on positive changes they’ve made because they don’t get the results they are looking for. By returning to the root cause of your weight challenges, we establish enduring habits that last a lifetime, and from this, you see how you can experience a new way of life.
Personalize
Everyone is unique; therefore, each treatment must be personalized to your needs, lifestyle and goals. By working together with a plan that’s tailored specifically for you, you will find the changes are easier to make and keep.
Practical Nutrition Advice For Health
Book A Free Discovery Call
We will talk about what you're experiencing and what you would like life to look like instead. In the process, we will get to know each other and make sure we are a great fit to work together.
Get A Personalized Plan
Your personalized plan incorporates all the tools to help you create a new way of life. Soon these new habits will become established and help make your goals a reality.
Experience Health And Vitality
See what it's like to experience health and energy across all aspects of your life - physical activity, sleep quality, mental and emotional needs and spirituality.
Your Health Destination Starts Here
Purchase nutrition counseling for individual appointments. or purchase Discounted Nutrition Packages.
Special Pricing is also available for shared appointments with a friend, a family member or even the whole family.
Preboarding:
Pre-Appointment Prep
Before your first appointment, you will be complete paperwork to document your medical, diet and weight history as well as any symptoms that interfere with your daily life. If you are struggling with disordered eating, there will be a separate questionnaire to address these struggles.
Boarding:
Initial Appointment
This is a one-hour session where diet, recent labs, blood sugar monitoring, lifestyle, and your relationship with food are assessed. Often a timeline is created to determine connections that might lead to the root cause of current health concerns. This lays the groundwork for your individualized plan to meet your goals. This plan might be a personalized meal plan, dietary modifications, lifestyle suggestions, or recommended testing/supplements.
Flying:
Follow-up Appointments
These appointments are typically 30 minutes but might be longer depending on your needs. We review understanding of past concepts and provide new information or skills each visit. If you did testing such as nutrient testing, we will review your results and put a plan or protocol in place to address nutrients that are low as just one example. The functional medicine 5 R’s of Remove, Replace, Reinoculate, Repair and Rebalance will be implemented as appropriate for your care. Evaluating progress is a continuous process and goals are set regularly during follow-up appointments.
Arrival
By your journey’s arrival, new ways to manage your nutrition and health challenges will be in place. Whether your goals were weight loss, blood sugar control or managing gastrointestinal ailments, making lifestyle changes can take time to course-correct. Having a knowledgeable clinician to provide a plan and support you on this journey is essential and is a rewarding, supportive and collaborative experience.
Take Advantage of Other Services:
Grocery Tours
Pantry Makeovers
Culinary Skill Building
Meal Planning
- Weight Management
- Diabetes
- Heart Health/High
- Cholesterol
- High Blood Pressure
- Fatty Liver
- Eating Disorders
- Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
- Food Sensitivities/Food Allergies
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
- Autoimmune Disorders
- Thyroid Disease
- Kidney Disease
- Migraines
- Fibromyalgia
- Interstitial Cystitis
- Psoriasis
- Malnutrition
- Nutrient Deficiencies
- Vegetarian/Vegan Diets
- Pregnancy Nutrition
- Osteoporosis
Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Diarrhea
- Constipation
- Vomiting
- Heartburn/Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Crohn’s Disease
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Celiac Disease
- Small Intestinal Bacterial
- Overgrowth (SIBO)
- Gastroparesis
- Pancreatitis
- Exocrine Pancreatic
- Insufficiency
- Short Bowel Syndrome
- Bowel Obstructions
- Malabsorption Disorders
- Congenital Sucrase-Isomaltase Deficiency (CSID)
Come to the Cincinnati office or virtually through telehealth!
Frequently Asked Questions
Functional medicine is an integrative, patient-centered approach to healthcare that focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of disease rather than just treating symptoms.
This approach seeks to understand the unique biochemical, genetic, and lifestyle factors that contribute to an individual’s health and illness. By doing so, functional medicine practitioners aim to develop personalized treatment plans that promote optimal health and well-being. Functional medicine can be applied to various chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases, hormonal imbalances, digestive disorders, and mental health issues.
Functional medicine practitioners recognize that each person is unique, with their genetic makeup, lifestyle, and environmental factors, and require a personalized approach to healthcare.
However, it’s essential to consult a qualified healthcare professional before embarking on any new treatment plan.
In the United States, the terms “Registered Dietitian” (RD) and “nutritionist” are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct differences when it comes to education, qualifications, and legal recognition.
A Registered Dietitian (RD) or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN)] must have at least a bachelor’s degree in nutrition, dietetics, or a related field from an accredited university. As part of their education, RDs/RDNs must complete a supervised internship program, pass the national registration examination, and maintain their registration by completing continuing education requirements throughout their careers. RDs/RDNs are recognized by state and federal laws as qualified professionals to provide medical nutrition therapy and nutrition counseling, and develop personalized meal plans.
The educational background for nutritionists varies widely, ranging from self-taught individuals to those with degrees in nutrition or related fields. There is no standardized accreditation or certification process for nutritionists in the United States. Nutritionists typically provide general nutrition advice and education rather than individualized medical nutrition therapy. The scope of practice for a nutritionist can vary depending on state laws and regulations. Nutritionists are not universally recognized as healthcare professionals in the same way RDs/RDNs are, and their ability to provide nutrition counseling and advice may be limited in some states.
It’s essential to note that the term “nutritionist” is not regulated in many states, so it’s crucial to verify a practitioner’s qualifications and credentials before seeking advice.
On the other hand, the “Registered Dietitian” title ensures a higher level of education, training, and expertise in the field of nutrition and dietetics.
