Welcome to Fox Functional Wellness

Our Stories

Nicole Fox, MPH,RD

Integrative Dietitian & Owner

I knew early on that my purpose in life was to elevate health & happiness for people.

My life’s work as a health professional has helped people reframe their health struggles from pathology and something being wrong with them, to an opportunity to grow through learning how to truly  start listening to their bodies.

My professional lens became focused on women’s health after going through a humbling decade of my own hormone journey that started with a challenging post natal recovery and being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s after the birth of my son in 2008.

Enter my introduction to functional medicine and its power to heal my thyroid.. I was hooked and went on to learn everything I could about thyroid, adrenal and reproductive hormones from a functional nutrition perspective.

10 years later, I faced the onset of my own severe perimenopause symptoms. I stared at the mish-mosh of  conflicting research on peri and post menopause health, shocked to learn that only 1% of all NIH funding goes to fund peri/post menopause research. No wonder your doctor doesn’t know how to help you in perimenopause! Despite multiple attempts to replace my own declining hormones with skilled providers, I was still miserable. It occurred to me that if I, a health professional, was having a hard time, what was going on for the typical woman in the U.S. without a medical background?

In the middle of my mid-life dark night of the soul, I had a lightbulb moment.

It hit me that the hormone therapy I was counting on to “fix me”, was never meant to work like that. The hormones were simply signals to support my body. But the signals were not being heard, as there was too much noise in my body. 

 I was in a phase of my life where I was working long hours on a business project that had taken me off of my true path in healthcare. I was under a huge amount of stress, cutting sleep, and then on top of that overexercising, in an attempt to counteract perimenopausal weight gain. My life had become overcomplicated.

It hit me that if I didn’t stop this way of living, my bad habits were going to stop me in my tracks and no estrogen patch was going to help. I took a big career risk and took several months off and reassessed my entire life. I began to slowly make the lifestyle & nutrition changes I taught to everyone else, one step at a time. It was humbling.

As I got back to work in my private practice, I began to create smart, time efficient ways to care for myself and I started to feel better. Then guess what? The bioidentical hormones started working.

Why? Because when we clear the noise from our bodies, get very quiet, and give our bodies the riight food, movement and rest they need, they will work with the power of menopausal hormone therapy, not against it.

I now help women who are not responding to bio-identical hormones, are not ready for them, or are not candidates, with the nutrition, exercise, life organization and mindset piece of the mid-life health equation.

Hot flashes?  Insomnia?  Weight gain?  Brain fog? Mood Swings?  Hair Loss? Exhaustion? 

This is your body begging for attention and your heart longing for a change that is ABOUT YOU. Finally. A call to honoring your needs, putting yourself first, and finally stop surviving on the crumbs you settle for (while you also clean the kitchen).

I help busy women at key hormonal transitions cut through the noise and step into their power.  I provide the tools of functional medicine testing, nutrition & lifestyle change, paired with a permission slip to strategically create the health changes they’ve struggled to start on their own. 

Are you ready to start working smarter, not harder? Are you ready to choose effective changes that work in your crazy busy life and own your body again? 

If so, let’s talk about it.  Please schedule an introductory call to learn more about how our practice works. 

To Reclaiming Your Health,

Nicole Fox, MPH, RD

Integrative Dietitian