Who are we?

Josh Dech

You only get sick for two reasons: toxicities and deficiencies. I believe everyone can heal, as long as we can find the root of your illness - it’s just a matter of quickly you can do it.

Functional medicine doesn’t believe that the body makes mistakes; instead, I look at root causes that create symptoms. With this lens, we’re able to go beyond putting a “Band-Aid" on symptoms with medication, and work to find the root causes and contributing factors to actually reverse the disease processes.

Because of the incredible success I’ve had reversing gut diseases like Crohn’s and Colitis (and other digestive issues that most doctors say can’t be helped), I’ve partnered with medical clinics across the country to help their patients get better too.

That lead me to becoming a medical lecturer for the Priority Health Academy, where we teach doctors to do what we do!

What does it mean to reverse IBD?

I use the term “reverse” because IBD is generally linear and predictable because it progresses in a very typical way. For example, symptoms often start mild and progressively worsen over the years.

By “reversing” IBD, we can actually reverse that timeline to restore quality of life - so much so that our clients even forget they ever had it!

Credentials

Holistic Nutritionist and IBD specialist
Physician’s consultant for IBD and IBS
Medical Lecturer
Ex-Paramedic
Scientific Strategist and Education Director for the Root Cause For Crohn's and Colitis foundation

Curtis Gillespie-Sayers

Functional Health Coaching is about helping you find a personalized balance for your body, mind, and emotional well-being using an integrated and comprehensive approach. The pillars of “functional medicine” address care for the whole human being and see the body as an entire network, not just separate organs or body parts that need treatment.

After struggling with health issues from a young age, I was eventually diagnosed with an extremely severe case of sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and a pre-diabetic status. Add in some struggles with substance abuse by this point, and I guess you could say I was hitting rock bottom. The good thing about hitting rock bottom is there is only one way left to go, and that’s up! This was the pivotal moment in my life when I became infatuated with functional health and began my journey…

Curtis’ Credentials

Science Officer and Team Lead at The Gut Health Solution
CISSN
Functional Nutritionist from Metabolic Mentor University
Innate Immunity Functional Health from Dr. Stewart Gillespie
Nutrition from Dr. Ben House
Blood Chemistry from Dr. Ben House
Blood Chemistry for Athletes from Dr. Ben House
Biometric Coaching (TCM) from Dr. Dustin Nelson
Methylation & Clinical Nutrigenomics from Dr. Ben Lynch
Dirty Genes Summit from Dr. Ben Lynch
Nutrition & Program Design from N1 Education
Nutrition & Program Design for Trainability from N1 Education
Extensive mentoring under Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, Dr. Kurt N. Woeller, Dr. Stewart Gillespie, Dr. Andrew Heyman, Moasic Diagnostics, Biocidin Botanicals & Diagnostics Solutions, as well as programming mentoring from Cody Moxley of N1 Education.