Hello all!
Welcome to Nutritionbysam! I am so excited to be a part of your health journey. My name is Samantha & I am a clinical nutritionist from the Jersey Shore passionate about food as medicine.
I aspire to educate people on the true power of nutrition & share nutritious and healthy recipes that not only taste delicious but make you feel good too!
A little background about me… I received my bachelor’s degree in pre-med with all of the intention of becoming a doctor. However after many years of working in the hospital while in school, I started to see the link between diet and chronic disease and began really intrigued by food as medicine. Still interested in a medical approach, I looked at multiple medical schools and found that medical school only had about 4 hours of nutritional science in 4 years of medical school and I started to believe that maybe medical school was not right for me.
Working in the hospital system taught me that although conventional medicine is important is it often overused and overprescribed. I found passion in functional medicine and the idea of finding the root cause rather than symptom management. This lead me to pursuing a Masters degree in Nutrition and Integrative Health from Maryland University of Integrative Health instead. The rest was history.
Today, I am living my dream practicing functional nutrition and helping my clients get to the root cause to their symptoms.
Some more about me… I love pilates, traveling, engaged to my high school sweetheart, and have a 12 year old teddy bear Pomeranian @luccathepom. I can not survive without my morning matcha and if I was stranded on an island and could only pick 3 things it would be Matcha, Dark Chocolate, and Peanut butter 🙂
You can follow my journey on instagram, youtube,
tiktok, and facebook @Nutritionbysam