WELCOME TO DIGEST
WELCOME TO DIGEST
“All Health Begins In The Gut”
Hipocrates
WELCOME TO DIGEST.
While your digestion is known as the root of your health, eating for a healthy digestion can be both complex and overwhelming. The overall quality of our food as a whole is often questionable and the busyness and stress of our culture can wreak havoc on our digestive systems.
While there are many ways to support your digestion, the most important path to a healthy digestion is you becoming the witness in your own body. What works for another may not always work for you.
My guiding philosophy is simple: The way out is always in when it comes to your relationship to your health and your body.
Perhaps you need a GPS?
Learn to navigate your way inward with a guidance system that will teach you to get to know your body's delicate ecology, discover your body's wisdom, fine tune your health, and repair your digestion no matter where you are starting from.
Transform Your Health
HELLO: I'M SUE
HELLO: I'M SUE
Welcome to this transformative journey…
I am so glad you are here! Whatever you are facing in your health and body and wherever you are in your journey, you have landed in the right place heal the root of health –– your digestion.
My name is Sue Van Raes and I am a functional nutritionist, food psychology specialist, author, former featured health writer for The Chopra Center, and founder of Boulder Nutrition.
Over the past 18 years I have guided thousands of folks into a more balanced, empowered and healthful experience of food, body, nourishment and health.
Your digestion is the root of your health and vitality. DIGEST is a roadmap to healing your digestion, rebalancing your microbiome and reclaiming your whole body health.
“Sue’s program leaves nothing up to the imagination or guessing in what my issues were. We used clinically proven testing to decipher what was keeping me from my optimal digestive health. I am grateful to be working with such a long-standing nutritionist”
Can You Relate?
Your confusion around what to eat is a constant challenge
You are tired of stomach aches, gas, bloating and indigestion
You have tried so many different recommendations but nothing is working
You went gluten free, but didn’t notice anything
No one can seem tell you the real reason why you are suffering from indigestion, lethargy, brain fog, or inflammation
You want to take a holistic approach to healing your body but you want the science too
You want to feel better so you can live your best life
Together We Will:
Identify the root triggers within your digestive distress
Create a sustainable and pleasurable food regiment that works for you and your body
Explore the radical self-healing abilities of your body when you are nourished effectively
Repair digestive problems, treat leaky gut, and restore balance to your microbiome
Boost your immune system and heal systemic inflammation
Learn the impactful connection between mind-body eating and mind-body living
Receive nourishing and healing recipes and menu plans for a healthy digestion and beyond
NOURISH & RESTORE
NOURISH & RESTORE
Let Your Body Be Your Compass
Learn the primary nourishment principles for digestive healing
Discover the most potent digestive super foods for digestive repair
Explore the recommended foods that best suit your biochemistry
Rebalance the delicate ecology of your unique microbiome
Attune your mind-body connection for optimal digestion and relaxation.
Heal your systemic inflammation
Diminish autoimmune symptoms
Fine tune a customized natural medicine regiment designed just right for you
Enjoy the restorative healing recipes that are simple, tasty and deeply nourishing
“After seeing a gastroenterologist and being diagnosed with a big deal intestinal issue, I knew it had to be related to food. They could only give me medicine and offered no answers. I then went to 4 other nutritionists, changed my diet and looked for a reason. I finally found Sue on a recommendation from a friend. She found my allergies, counseled me through the surprise and explained why I was addicted to the foods I am allergic to. I now feel better than ever. I am forever grateful for Sue and my healthy body. No Meds!”
EXPERIENCE FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION
EXPERIENCE FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION
I will guide you in exploring your health and healing through my signature methodology
Just as Functional Medicine approaches the body from the perspective of treating the root cause of disease, Functional Nutrition looks at the foundational way that food affects your body at the cellular level.
Learn the most powerful tools in transforming your health and your digestion. You will positively influence your biochemistry, prevent and treat imbalances, change the way you think and relate to food and have a sustainable and lasting impact on how you feel.
“Since working with Sue, I feel better than ever. I learned my food allergies and how to eat to enjoy my food with out them. I have circled back a few times to stay on top of things and re-align with my current health. I have healed my digestion, lost weight, began running 1/2 marathons started a yoga practice (made it to 500 classes) and best of all, I truly enjoy my eating and my health more than ever. It’s a beautiful thing to feel better.”
“I credit Sue for putting me on track to leading a life long healthy lifestyle. When I came in, I had heart burn, ulcers, sleep apnea and inflammation. Through her guidance, she helped me resolve my nutritional issues, repair my digestion and opened up my world to the wonderful, nutritional foods that are out there! Today, I feel great and strive to remain on this track. It’s doable... because Sue gave me the tools to make it so!”
I’d be honored to support you!
We will work intimately together to create customized and collaborative healing for your body, mind and soul, while learning exactly what will rebalance and restore your unique body for optimal digestion and health.
I will share with you the science and psychology that has served and supported thousands of folks with whom I have helped. Add in nourishment principles, healing super foods, potent natural medicine, mind-body eating and witness your life and your health transform.
“Digestion Is The Great Secret Of Life And Health”
YOUR GUEST TEACHERS
YOUR GUEST TEACHERS
Your Guest Teachers
Dr. Christopher Lowry PhD.
Tending to Your Microbiome
Christopher A. Lowry, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC), a Principal Investigator in the Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System, VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, & Clinical Center (MIRECC), Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), and director of the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Laboratory at CU Boulder. He is Co-Director, with Dr. Lisa Brenner, of the Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education (MVM-CoRE). Dr. Lowry’s research program focuses on understanding stress-related physiology and behavior with an emphasis on the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in stress resilience, health and disease.
”Mental health is health, and the microbiome is just as important to our mental health as any other aspect of our well-being.”
Marc David
Nutrition for the Greater Good
Marc David is the Founder and Director of The Institute for the Psychology of Eating and the author of The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss, and Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well Being. A nationally recognized teacher, speaker and corporate consultant, Marc presents his expertise in nutritional medicine, the psychology of eating, and the science of yoga in a fresh and innovative way. His humorous, engaging, and informative speaking style have made him a popular and well loved presenter and his non-dogmatic approach to nutrition appeals to a wide audience of eaters who are looking for positive, inspiring, and innovative messages about food and metabolism.
“Life itself is your proper meal”
William Wolcott
Digestion and Your Metabolic Type
Author. Researcher. Innovator. Formulator. Educator. Consultant.
Bill Wolcott is a leading authority in the rapidly emerging field of customized nutrition. For over 38 years he has provided technical consulting services to health professionals including physicians, dentists, naturopaths, chiropractors, and nutritionists. In this capacity, Bill develops computer-based, customized Metabolic Typing® nutritional and ecological lifestyle profiles.
Practitioners in over 40 countries throughout the world that trained in Bill’s Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing® use his patient-specific nutritional Metabolic Type® profiles and unique Metabolic Type® formulations as the basis of therapeutic protocols that are tailored to the highly individualized needs of patients. Over the years these customized protocols have proven to be remarkably effective in helping to resolve all manner of chronic health disorders.