Zermina is a Registered Nurse, holistic health, and functional nutritionist specializing in women's health. Her journey to becoming a Functional Medicine Practitioner was rooted in her own health challenges. Her love of science and belief in food as medicine inspired her to enroll in a graduate program for nutrition science and advanced studies at the Institute of Functional Medicine to better understand how to approach chronic illnesses more holistically. 

After 11 years in clinical practice and working as an RN,  Zermina founded Living Wholelistic, her independent consulting practice where she leverages her expertise in functional medicine and integrative nutrition to help women balance their hormones, heal their gut, and optimize their chances for conception. Through comprehensive lab testing, she identifies the underlying imbalances and helps patients thrive through personalized nutrition plans, lifestyle, and supplement protocols. Her passion lies in empowering and educating women on taking control of their health and fertility.

This episode opens up with Zermina sharing her journey as a young girl with PCOS and how her experiences spurred her passion to pursue healing in a more natural way and led her to a career in functional medicine.

Zermina and Julie discuss the criteria evaluated to diagnose PCOS.  Zermina and Julie discuss the importance of doing your research, asking the right questions, and the importance of finding a provider who is truly going to listen to you and your symptoms in order to run the proper tests, and not simply approach your diagnosis of PCOS as an “umbrella term”. 

Zermina and Julie discuss the different lifestyle changes that can be incorporated to assist in healing the body from PCOS.  Zermina stresses the importance of having a personalized treatment plan and how different the journey looks for each woman. 

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