Tammy Gallagher, a Functional Nutrition Practitioner in Charlotte, empowers her clients to achieve more than just weight loss—she guides them toward comprehensive health transformations.
While many seek her expertise for weight management, they discover a path to overall well-being. Tammy's journey to this career began with her own struggles. In her 20s, she faced a cascade of health challenges, including obesity, high blood pressure and cholesterol, pre-diabetes, and persistent digestive issues.
Despite consulting numerous specialists, including gastroenterologists and weight loss doctors, she found no relief. Her health further deteriorated with a Crohn's disease diagnosis, culminating in a ruptured colon, its removal, and even a stroke.
These experiences became the catalyst for change. In her 50s, Tammy returned to college, driven by a desire to understand and reclaim her own health. This personal quest ultimately led her to become a Functional Nutrition Practitioner, allowing her to use her hard-won knowledge to help others avoid similar struggles and achieve lasting wellness.
Tammy looks at wellness by starting with the basics, and getting more specific after she clears the muddy waters:
Tier 1: The non-negotiables - There are some simple things that must happen for the body to be able to be healthy.
- Sleep - rest equals rejuvination.
- Elimination - if you're not eliminating waste properly, your body won't eliminate waste properly.
- Water - so much within your body needs hydration, and you simply cannot function without it.
- Blood Sugar - the hormonal chaos by having unstable blood sugar creates major challenges that none of us need.
Tier 2: Heal and seal the gut...and determine what is necessary to keep it that way. Without a healthy gut, there's no way to be healthy.
Tier 3: Take deficiency to sufficiency...we often find that after working through Tier 1 and 2 issues, there are no Tier 3 issues. But when there is, we need to resolve them through diet, lifestyle or supplementation.
- Food allergies and sensitivity testing
- Small intestine hyperpermeability (Leaky Gut Syndrome)
- Candida overgrowth
- Enviromental Toxins
- Organic Acids
- Vitamin D
- Hormones
- Digestion/Utilization of Macro Nutrients
