About Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist Rachel Smith

Stop Silently Struggling. You Deserve to be Your Healthiest, Happiest Self. I’m Here to Help.

My name is Rachel and I am a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P).

I help people struggling with autoimmune diseases, hormonal imbalances, and chronic illnesses reverse their symptoms naturally.

This means my clients experience a reduction in pain, inflammation, anxiety, depression and digestive issues, while they gain more energy, mental clarity, better skin, weight loss, and a feeling of being in control of their health and happiness once again.

My mission in life is to help others heal and help them rise up to their healthiest, happiest self. But where did this passion for health and helping others come from?

Let me take you a bit into my past…

I was very close to my grandfather and one of my 3 brothers. Both of their lives were taken from me at an early age. My grandfather passed when I was in middle school, and my brother passed when I was in high school.

I was convinced that the conventional medical system could have done better. I believe if they knew what I knew today about nutrition, lifestyle and natural medicine, that they would still be alive today.

This made me passionate to go to school for Healthcare Administration at UCF in Orlando, FL. I thought I wanted to improve the quality of the conventional medical system from the business side of things. After graduation from UCF, I embarked on my mission.

My plan sounded great, until I realized that everyone was so money hungry within our medical system. I noticed the push of pharmaceuticals, surgeries, and high insurance premiums. It started changing the way I thought about our medical approach. It felt like no one really wanted to make anyone healthier. They just wanted to make money off of keeping people sick.

Around this same time, I started to get sick myself. Slowly, I started having memory issues, brain fog, skin issues, digestive problems, insomnia, extreme fatigue, joint pain, swelling and inflammation throughout my body and it was hard for me to workout. I didn’t even have a menstrual cycle for 2 years. At this point I was only 22.

I went to countless western medicine doctors and was turned away with “normal” blood results and lab tests.

It wasn’t until I was having excessive heart palpitations and an abnormally high heart rate that things changed. I was admitted to the hospital where the doctors insisted I have an exploratory heart surgery to check for electrical issues.

They went in surgically through the major arteries in my legs and up to my heart.

After a week in the hospital, a $100,000 medical bill and results that came up NEGATIVE… I knew that was the LAST straw.

I started seeking alternative care and finally discovered that I had an autoimmune disease (Hashimotos thyroiditis) and also had various toxins stored in my body, including heavy metals, mold and pathogens. I read endless books, listened to hundreds of podcasts and did my own digging into health and wellness. I saw numerous practitioners including naturopathic doctors, functional medicine doctors, acupuncturists and more. I even went to the extent of removing my breast implants because I believe in breast implant illness.

I am happy to say that I no longer have any of the issues that I was struggling with. They disappeared through changing my lifestyle, using functional lab testing and removing toxins. I realized that my calling in life is to help others heal in a similar way that I had.

I went back to school for a few years studying chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, microbiology and immunology. I’ve studied at various institutions, including SPC, USFSP, and SCNM. I was also involved in scientific research at each of these schools.

Eventually, I discovered the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner program that hit everything I wanted to use in my practice as a health coach. As an FDN-P I use science that the western world loves and blend clinical correlations into a holistic program that uses a natural approach with clients. If you’d like to learn more about this institution, click here: https://www.functionaldiagnosticnutrition.com/about-us/

Overall, I have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in my health and education.

I don’t want you to have to run to different doctors for years like I did without ever finding answers and wasting all of your money! I want to take a deep dive into your health and get you the answers and help that you haven’t been able to find on your own yet. I’m ready to provide you with my expertise in functional lab testing and holistic health to help you rise to your healthiest, happiest self.

Flash forward to my current life, and I’m living as I should at this age. I enjoy traveling, cooking, reading, hiking, martial arts, weight lifting, swimming, spending time with loved ones, and learning as much as I can about wellness.

If you’re still reading this at this point, some of this must have resonated with you. If so, please reach out and schedule a call with me. I’d love to hear your story and see how I can help.

Just remember this… if you don’t have your health, you have nothing. When you take care of yourself and invest in your health, you are also investing in every other area of your life. Your health creates a ripples effect in the quality of your relationships, finances, spirituality, happiness, energy and overall zest for life.