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A Metabolic Approach to Nutritional Therapy

Empowering you to take ownership of your personal health by understanding how the body works and your unique, bio-individual needs.

 
 
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Flawless
Digestion

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Energy
Balance

 
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Stress
Resilience

Travis Harris, FNTP

 
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Travis Harris is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner certified by the Nutritional Therapy Association, Inc. trained to evaluate a client’s nutritional needs, identify nutritional deficiencies, and discover support for optimal function.

🍦 Real ice cream can be an amazing bedtime snack. 🩸 The liver stores about 100 grams of glucose called glycogen to maintain blood sugar homeostasis. 🚨 Many people wake up around 3 am every night because of an adrenaline response in the middle of
🦴 Calcium is required for bone, heart, muscle, nerve, and mitochondrial health.  Some studies suggest it is even protective against high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer.   🥬 You’ve maybe heard people talk about the acid-base ba
🔆 When I backed myself into a corner with seemingly no more “safe” foods left to eat, I discovered the power of homemade marshmallows. 🍯 They’re essentially just gelatin, water, and honey (or maple syrup or cane sugar). 🍖 Gela
😾 This may be frustrating for some, but there is no single pro-metabolic or bioenergetic diet.  What improves metabolism for 1 person can have the opposite effect for another.  There’s a handful of us talking about very similar thing
🌡 To expound a little further on the warm hands and feet club, another easily accessible health metric is body temperature and pulse.   🤸 I’ve talked to a lot of people who are eating “pro-metabolic” but not checking in with
✨ The parasympathetic (rest and digest) state is the healing state that undoes the damage wrought by the sympathetic (fight or flight) state. 🩸 The parasympathetic state increases blood flow while lowering blood pressure.   🙌 You’ll kno
🥭 Easily digestible carbohydrates support energy production and a healthy metabolism.    🥖 When I say eat carbs, I don’t mean eat a box of goldfish, or a giant plate of spaghetti, or unlimited breadsticks from Olive Garden—obv
⚡️Bioenergetics is a field in biochemistry and cell biology that concerns energy flow through living systems.   💥 The reason some of my recommendations may sound counter to a lot of standard and pop-nutrition advice is because there are two opp
🏂 Physiology affects personality.  Chronic pain, fatigue, and gastrointestinal distress kept me from fully engaging with life the way I wanted. Falling down the rabbit holes of increasingly restrictive dieting only led to further alienation.&n
💥 Glucose is the primary and preferred energy source of our cells.  Fat is great, but “using fat for fuel” is using the backup generator and breaks down the thymus gland, liver, and muscle tissue. Being in a perpetual state of catab