Working with Ryan has truly been a positive and transformational process.

A few years ago, when my decades-old self-managed Multiple Autoimmune Syndrome issues took a turn for the critical, I turned to conventional medicine only to find my health continue to deteriorate. Next was acupuncturists, alternative practitioners, and finally AIP. With only marginal symptom improvement, I had reached an apex. I needed solutions. I needed help! Flying blind was no longer viable or realistic. Most certainly, putting my well-being back in the hands of conventional medicine was out of the question.

Ryan immediately identified root-cause MAS issues, as well as seemingly unrelated genetic markers, hormonal imbalances, and gut dysbiosis that had eluded me and all previous practitioners for years.

Armed with hard data from running lab work, he has set me up for long-term success by providing solid life-long action steps where measurable and continual improvement has been the rule, rather than the exception.

The most important thing I can say to anyone in a similar desperate ‘health-crisis hole’ is this… Ryan provides results. Period.

A year ago I was a health wreck. Each day after work I would come home and hold out until 7 pm and then go to bed because I was physically exhausted from the day. In addition to being constantly tired, my symptoms included chronic pain throughout my body and constant headaches. Because the pain overwhelmed my thoughts, I was in a constant state of moodiness. Initially I had resigned myself to a future filled with lethargy, pain, and crabbiness,until the tachycardia I developed got progressively worse. I began to fear that my health was mimicking my late father’s heart disease, so I decided to look for health coaching. I found Ryan and due to his patience and expertise, I knew he could assist me in getting on the right path to recovery.

Ryan put me on a protocol that changed my life (and I am not exaggerating). We discovered a host of “hidden stressors” that had nearly taken over my body. Ryan made everything easy to understand and would welcome all of the questions I had. His patience and extreme curiosity, which drives his research into your health concerns, is comforting. Since being put on his protocol, the chronic pain has went away and I have incredible energy. I can go for long hikes and stay up past 11 pm, which I had never been able to do anymore. I also am kinder and calmer. I am free of the anxiety that consumed my mind not too long ago. I feel like life has opened a previously locked door for me and Ryan was the key holder.

I often look back on my life before discovering Ryan and wonder what my future would have looked like. I can only imagine that my days would be spend just “suffering through”. Now I enjoy waking up and taking advantage of all that it has to offer. I hope that others can discover how much healing can do for their lives. Ryan is truly a gifted and talented FDN and I couldn’t recommend him enough. In short, he is a miracle worker.

Without having a clue of how much my life would change, I met with Ryan one afternoon for tea to talk about my autoimmune disease riddled mother – an act of desperation to find someone or something to get through to her about the real possibilities of finding some quality of life amidst decades of disease. After two sentences from Ryan, all the dots connected.

I could come up with a very long list of all the things Ryan did for me and my family that day and for weeks to follow, but mostly, he just turned the lights on. He planted a seed that I then watered and fed, finally in a way that made sense, and it opened my eyes to the dull discomfort even I was feeling but never recognized…

I decided to work with Ryan Monahan after I had spent six days in the hospital for a small bowel obstruction. I have Crohn’s Disease. It was so bad that I actually thought I might be dying. Scared me half to death.

I realized that if I didn’t do something I would be one of the 75% of Crohn’s sufferers who require surgery. From there it can go downhill quickly. I was terrified.

I decided to go to The Mindful Nutrivore for answers. I was immediately impressed by Ryan’s extensive knowledge – and specifically what it means to heal the gut. What he said made so much sense, I decided to give it a go.

Ryan immediately put me on a program of lifestyle changes, probiotics, herbs, vitamins, and minerals to restore my gut health. His knowledge of anatomy, physiology, organic chemistry, naturopathy and gastroenterology is quite simply phenomenal. Before finding Ryan, I had been to five different gastroenterologists, one who was known nationwide. Doctors just wanted to load me up with steroids; yet, I was only getting worse.

After only a few months of working with Ryan, I had no more symptoms of GERD. Through functional lab-work, I discovered that I was gluten intolerant, and that I had “hidden” stress in the form of non-beneficial bacteria, yeast and SIBO in the gut – and didn’t even know it!

For the first time in nine years I finally have some real energy again! Brain fog is gone too!  Best of all, I’ve been free of flare-ups for over four months as of this writing. That didn’t happen in nine years of “treatment” with traditional medicine.

In short, Ryan has more than likely saved my health. I feel confident now that I can live a more productive, healthier life, free of pain, and flare ups!  His knowledge of functional nutrition is quite simply amazing, and he is excellent at teaching you the physiology, how it works and why. I feel so much better – I’ve lost 23 lbs, I have no more GERD, and my gut is finally beginning to heal. It’s been a true blessing to have found this talented man who completely understands this ingenious method of restoring function to the body. Without hesitation, I would recommend The Mindful Nutrivore to anyone and everyone! Take that step towards health, it works!