REGISTERED DIETITIAN SERVICES BY CATEGORY
BetterByDesign Nutrition provides services in the following three areas:
1) Routine Health: healthy eating and weight management, chronic disease management (type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fatty liver), prenatal nutrition, PCOS, hypothyroid, menopause, and healthy aging.
2) Digestive Health: IBS, including low FODMAP, support for newly diagnosed Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, and SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth).
3) Therapeutic Diets: 3:1 and 2:1 therapeutic ketogenic diets for physical and mental health, and dietary support for symptoms of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome – hypermobility subtype (hEDS), Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), including histamine intolerance, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).
I — ROUTINE CLINICAL SERVICES
Routine Services are available as packages, as well as on an hourly basis.
Routine Nutrition Packages
Comprehensive Dietary Package is our basic package for healthy eating, weight management, as well as chronic disease management (type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fatty liver).
Prenatal Nutrition Package provides three versions of a Meal Plan (one for each trimester) for women who are expecting a child.
Healthy Aging Package is for middle-aged and older adults to help them maintain their health as they age, including retaining their muscle and bone mass.
Routine Clinical Packages
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Package is for women struggling with the symptoms of PCOS, with a focus on weight loss and lowering insulin resistance.
Menopause Management Package addresses the weight gain, sleep disruption, and varying mood that often accompany peri-menopause and menopause.
Hypothyroid Management Package provides dietary support for Hashimoto’s disease and other types of hypothyroidism with a focus on weight loss and nutrients of importance in the conversion of thyroid hormones.
Hourly Services
Initial Hourly Consultation is a non-clinical appointment to meet, share goals and health background, discuss various service options, and determine if we are a “good fit”. Any remaining time in this appointment can be “banked” for future follow-up services after completing one of the packages.
Clinical Hourly Services is for clinical work on an hourly basis or for individual follow-up appointments.
Specialty Hourly Services are nutrition education sessions available on topics, including reducing constipation and hemorrhoids, functional dyspepsia, gastroesophageal reflux disorder (GERD) and acid reflux, gout, hiatus hernia, kidney stone diet, and macular degeneration.
II — DIGESTIVE HEALTH
Digestive Health Packages Available
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Package uses a review of a Time Food Time Symptom Journal to help determine which specific foods or food components contribute to symptoms.
Low FODMAP Diet Package systematically implements a low-FODMAP diet in three stages to eliminate only FODMAP foods that contribute to symptoms.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Package is for those newly diagnosed with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) Package provides dietary support while undergoing antimicrobial treatment.
Celiac Disease Management Package provides detailed teaching for those newly diagnosed with celiac disease, and those previously diagnosed unable to achieve a normal IgATTG test, or still experiencing symptoms.
III — THERAPEUTIC DIETS
I currently offer the following therapeutic diet services;
3:1 Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet as an adjunct treatment in specific physical conditions (seizure disorder, specific cancers), as well as specific mental health conditions, under a doctor’s supervision.
2:1 Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet – as an adjunct dietary treatment for other mental health conditions, with MD oversight.
The Customized Nutrition Package is designed for conditions not covered by existing packages.
Hourly Clinical Services are for dietary support for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome – hypermobility subtype (hEDS), Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), as well as other customized services.
Extended Benefits Coverage
Initial Assessment and subsequent visits in all packages are priced at or below the Reasonable and Customary Fee limits of five major benefits insurers for British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, the provinces in which I am licensed.
Check with your plan provider to find out what your specific extended benefit plan covers.
Please note: At this time, all services are provided via a secure telehealth portal.