Specialties
- Healthy aging
- Heart health
- Women's health
- Gut health
- General health
- Kidney disease
- Thyroid disorders
- GERD / Acid reflux
- High blood pressure
- Hormonal health
- High cholesterol
- Hypothyroidism
- Help gaining weight
- Nutrition support
- Liver disease
- Pre or postnatal nutrition
- Emotional eating
- Disordered eating
- Diabetes or prediabetes
- Vegan/vegetarian
- Prediabetes
- Type 1 diabetes
- PCOS
- Type 2 diabetes
- Ulcerative colitis
- Crohn’s disease
- SIBO
- IBS
- Tube feeding (EN)
- Menopause
Approaches
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Functional medicine🧍
Personalized macros⭐
Weight-neutral💊
Supplement management
Identifies as
- White
- Female
Cuisines / Diets
- Gluten Free
- Greek
- Italian
- Mediterranean
- Paleo
- Vegetarian
Minimum patient age
About Lauren
Lauren Steier, RDN, LDN, IFNCP is a dietitian nutritionist and an Integrative and Functional Nutrition Practitioner. She is passionate about nutrition and feels it is the foundation to optimal health. She has extensive clinical nutrition and integrative and functional nutrition experience, which provides a more holistic and personalized approach to each person’s unique needs to maximize the potential for health. She provides functional medical nutrition therapy for diabetes /insulin resistance, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, liver disease, kidney disease, thyroid disorders, women’s health, anxiety and depression, emotional and/or disordered eating, and a variety of gut health issues.
Approach to care
Holistic, integrative and functional, person-centered (not disease-centered) care, empathetic, encouraging, listens to your specific needs for a tailored nutrition plan of care.
Your first session with Lauren
Ideally, to maximize your time, you will fill out the nutrition questionnaire prior to your first session to help Lauren prepare for the session and understand specific needs. Then Lauren will listen to what your goals and desires are from a nutrition standpoint, and work together to come up with a plan of action over the next several weeks. She will offer some specific foods, nutrients, and strategies tailored to your unique needs and preferences to help you reach your goals and improve your health and vitality.
Location
📍 Knoxville, Tennessee
Education
Degrees from University of Tennessee and University of Alabama. Credentialed as an Integrative and Functional Nutrition Practitioner
Hobbies
Listening to music, live music, cooking and coming up with new recipes.
Licenses and Certifications
IFNCP - Integrative and Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner
LDN - Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist
RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist