Your Health is in Your Hands.
You are the Medicine.
Counseling ☆ Workshops ☆ Retreats
Mary Beth McCue RD, CDN, IFNCP
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Registered Dietitian (RD) ☆ NY Cert. Dietitian/Nutritionist (CDN) Integrative Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner (IFNCP) Mind-Body Medicine Coach ☆ Trauma Trained Practice AFMCP - Institute for Functional Medicine “Food as Medicine” and “Mind Mood Food” Certified with The Center for Mind Body Medicine
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Upstate NY 1st Functional Medicine Nutrition Practice - est. 2000 Community and National based service Insurance Coverage available (including Medicaid/Medicare) Private Pay Services available referrals not required, unless insurance specifies
Access your innate ability to restore with a functional nutrition, heart centered whole-body lifestyle approach.
As an Integrative and Functional Medicine Nutritionist, I help clients resolve health conditions, enhance digestive-immune health, and age with vitality. I use personalized functional nutrition and evidenced based lifestyle interventions that I have been trained in for three decades. I offer this through counseling, coaching, speaking and retreat services.
I help clients enhance mind-body connection by offering tools to reduce and prevent stress. Experiential options in sessions may include personalized meditation, breath work and heart-mind coherence.
Lab testing and supplementation options are available. Insurance-covered and private-pay services.
Referrals not required
MISSION
To provide a caring and supportive experience that offers personalized functional nutrition and mind-body coherence guidance. To help you create a unique, sustainable and vital lifestyle.
Functional Medicine Physician
"When I decided to open a functional medicine practice, a systems biology, holistic approach to treatment & prevention of disease, I reached out to Mary Beth, the only functional medicine and nutrition professional in the Capital District, and Saratoga Region, at the time. It has been a pleasure and privilege to collaborate with her. I appreciate Mary Beths commitment to applying powerful principles of FM; and her devotion to her patients welfare. I’m grateful for her willingness to discuss FM and nutrition with me. Her knowledge and skills are a wonderful resource for anyone who desires improvement, or hopes to maintain excellent health." — Anita Burock Stotts, MD, Functional Medicine
SPA State Park - Saratoga Springs, NY
Pine trees have medicinal properties, “symbolize” eternal or long lasting life, wisdom and health.
You are a Force of Nature …
Lifestyle is the Medicine that creates your force.
Grounded in Functional Nutrition, the science of epigenetics proves that your behavior and environment influence how genes "express” and thus influence health. Genetically we are 99.9% identical. This proves that outside of a very small number of remote areas of the world, we are all one common human race. We each come from many ancestral lines which can be seen in simple genetic testing. Our body’s are set up to restore and thrive and it is lifestyle choices that influence’s “everything”. The imperfect process of maintaining health and vitality is influenced each time we eat, think and feel. We always have opportunities to move towards more health.
Functional Medicine and nutrition practitioners work in a personal, progressive and measurable process that supports each patients desire for sustainable recovery at cell and genetic levels. As a “IFNCP”, I am trained to seek answers to “What does my client require to improve functional and support their health and healing ?” and “What does my clients need to remove to improve functional and support their health and healing”.
I work with all types of health conditions and needs
✓ Digestive and Immune Health ✓ Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome ✓ Cardiovascular and Hormonal Health ✓ Pain, Inflammation, Respiratory ✓ Body Weight/Composition, Prevention, Healthy Aging ✓ Skin Health, Medical Whole-Body Detox-Reset ✓ Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addictions, Eating Disorders, PTSD, Sleep
“Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!”
Mark Hyman, MD Dir. Cleveland Clinic Functional Medicine, Function Health,
UltraWellness Center, NY Times Multi-Bestselling author, former MD of mine.
Your “mountains” serve to show you a way to learn what you can achieve- rather then what you have been told you can’t. Vital health and aging is always more achievable. This is not referring to “new science”. Your “story”, lifestyle and biochemistry hold the super potentials of your gene expression and cell restoration.
Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine.
✬ Guided by your personal story, symptoms, assessment and goals.
✬ Root cause and symptom resolution focused.
✬ Individualized Food as Medicine and nutrient support that is not a diet.
✬ Mind-body medicine and personal growth. ✬ Realistic and sustainable lifestyle modifications.
✬ Heart and brain coherence to support authenticity and mental health.
✬ Microbiome and immune support that affects all body systems.
✬Minimization of inflammation, toxins and stress.
✬ Movement and exercise guidance that is personally appropriate.
✬ Sleep health support that is critical for restoration and healing.
✬ Conventional nutrient testing (not required), and recommendations.
✬ Genetic and functional testing offered and not required.
✬Treatment focused on personal priorities for full body health.
These factor’s signal to and activate the innate healing abilities of your body at gene, cell and energy levels.
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in" - Leonard Cohen
“Healing is not about attaining a state of 100% perfection. This is impossible, and doesn't exist in this realm. For me, healing is about cracking so wide open that I may feel and experience Love and Joy in every facet of Life; regardless of the circumstances. This a process - a journey - a coming Home to the Heart, coming home to Source, and embodying and knowing ourselves as Divinity. From this place, we share our authentic truth and medicine with the world. What the world needs most right now is for all of us to find and express our Divine unique essence as a vital part of the great tapestry of Life.”
Candice Webster - Healing with Horses
Hi, and thanks for stopping by.
Are you searching for answers to conditions related to fatigue, hormones, depression, anxiety, weight, inflammation, aging, immunity or digestion ? Do you desire to eliminate medications ?
I too was a functional medicine patient. It was life changing. I resolved twenty medical diagnoses that were caused by mercury toxicity. Later on I restored areas I didn’t know I needed to restore. I achieved this with the support of functional medicine physicians, dietitians and “life therapists”.
This led me to train with pioneers in Functional Medicine and Nutrition; and Mind-Body Medicine models emerging at that time in the 1990’s. I introduced Functional Nutrition to the Saratoga, NY region in early 2000 when I returned. I shifted from helping people manage to resolve conditions. I continue to do the training in order to maintain my credentials.
I was among the first graduating class of “The Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA)”, and the first fifty nutritionist that completed AFMCP with the Institute for Functional Medicine.
Working with and caring for therapeutic horses that ran at Saratoga Race Course.
HEALTH ＝ FOOD ＋ NUTRIENTS ＋ LoVe ＋ ENVIRONMENT ＋ GENE Expression＋ RENEWED CELLS
Health and self-care enhancement - Yoga Instructor
“I’ve seen two other dietitians. Mary Beths’ style and approach built on and complements my yoga science and practice studies as an instructor. Her support made sense, and was a “whole” approach tied to how one lives rather than conventional instruction of meals, grams, diet etc. Her natural process resonated and helped me enhance health and self-care. This personalized lifestyle restoration works, and is not temporary." — Victoria Pretti
Functional Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching
Speaking, Workshops, Retreats
Great changes result when people gather. Programs crafted to meet group needs for transformative inspiration.
Farmacy and Curated Market
“Let LoVe Rule” Blog & Tasty Dishes
Functional Nutrition and healthy life topics. Recipes created with enjoyment, taste and simplicity in mind.
Coming Soon
8-wk Workshop: Functional Food as Medicine
Wellspring Community Foundation for Trauma Recovery, Malta NY
“Mary Beth was a joy to work with! Wellspring wanted to host a (first time) community program to help people in their journey of healthy living via nutrition. She was the perfect fit. From the very beginning of our partnership, Mary Beth developed a unique program that fit our needs. She always put in extra effort to make sure classes were personalized for what participants wanted. Mary Beth is extremely passionate about her work, and we are grateful for her expertise, knowledge, and kindness! “
—Stevie Fellows Dir.Philanthropy/Community Engagement/Wellness