Noelle has worked in the conventional medical system for a number of years in the area of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals. While most patients kept coming back for higher doses and to have new medications added on to their current regimen, it didn't really resonate with her at the time that she was not exactly helping them get better nor helping to maintain a sustainable healthcare system for that matter. Her thoughts are that you can't fool the body and when you only focus on the medication and nothing else in the patient's environment you most likely head down the road of Polypharmacy and in many cases debilitation.
It took a while to for her to see this until she began to have her own health issues in the way of GI health and her mother's dementia treated with standard conventional care; the only thing that could be offered was a medication to mask symptoms.
Noelle believes that there may be times when medications are needed, however in many, many cases the conventional system does not look any further than the surface; thus we now have Deprescribing to help undo the damage done when people have been on certain drugs for much too long such as stomach acid reducers(PPI's) which interfere with B12 and calcium absorption, possibly increasing the risk of heart disease and osteoporosis and potentially causing rebound reflux when you try to stop them, leaving many people to continue taking them even without valid reason. They are even known to potentially contribute to decreasing cognitive health!
After the hard realization of all this set in, along with her own health issues for which she had to look outside the current system to find the answers, she began to focus on root cause. After spending the last 15 years researching and studying, and at that time, she chose the path of Functional Medicine. She began studying with the Institute for Functional Medicine and has not looked back. At that time she also completed Dr Dale Bredesen's scientifically proven Recode 2 certification in the Prevention and Reversal of Subjective and Mild Cognitive Decline and has been applying this protocol in relation to cognitive health for the past 10 years.
When she thinks back now she cannot imagine not treating the whole person as all body systems work together and are not cut off from each other.
Noelle has spent the last few years in both continuous training in Functional Medicine and at the same time providing services through this lens. She is also one of the few practitioners in Canada trained in the Bredesen Protocol for Cognitive Health.
Noelle now focuses in assisting high performing executive women 45+ who are experiencing cognitive issues such as memory lapses and declining mental clarity, to become more aware of what their brains may be telling them. Through a guided, root-cause approach they can move from fear and uncertainty to clarity & confidence and support both their current performance and their future cognitive health.
If she only knew then what she knows now, she would have been able to intervene in her own mother's health, so that she could have aged with optimal dignity.
As Dr Bredesen has so eloquently stated, "The baby boomer generations will be the last to fear Alzheimer's disease".