About Me
Hi, I’m Laurie Vork.
Have you ever felt hopeless? Are nagging, painful, uncomfortable symptoms preventing you from getting ahead in your career, playing with your kids or grandkids, or having the energy to travel?
If you’re ready to explore a different approach to having more energy, losing belly bloat, resolving nagging constipation and thinking more clearly, you’ve come to the right place.
Looking back I can’t believe how much time I spent chasing from doctor to doctor and taking more meds than I care to remember. Sometimes symptom relief was achieved, but it wasn’t lasting. Doctors never offered that possibility.
Things shifted dramatically for me in 2008 when my health hit a brick wall. I started waking up in the middle of the night with a racing heart. That was as a scary new symptom for me. It got my attention. Check out my blog to learn more about my story.
After many frustrating doctor’s visits, scared and not knowing where to turn next, I found a functionally minded doctor. I didn’t know what that meant, but I was ready and willing to try a different way. What I was doing no longer worked for me.
The Butterfly Effect
By taking a functional approach, looking at symptoms from a whole person perspective, I felt like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. Hope burst forth.
I started feeling better. Nagging symptoms like belly bloat, brain fog, asthma, acid reflux, carpal tunnel, unrelenting fatigue, and thinning hair all started disappearing and haven’t returned.
I was enjoying restored health simply by altering nutrition and lifestyle practices. Symptoms like lifelong allergies and asthma disappeared after being on meds for over 30 years. I no longer need them to enjoy a symptom free life.
Intrigued by positive shifts occurring within my body, I was curious to learn more. How could such simple changes, ones no other doctor had ever shared with me, change my life so drastically?
I was experiencing more energy, didn’t require a steady stream of antibiotics for chronic infections because I wasn’t getting sick all the time, no more asthma symptoms, allergy symptoms dissipated, acid reflux resolved, carpal tunnel naturally disappeared, weight started falling off without really trying, digestion improved, skin cleared up, I could think clearly again and belly bloat dissolved.
I was enjoying health transformation and symptom resolution simply by changing what I was eating and how I was living. I won’t go back to just existing. Instead, I continue to tweak my health so I can thrive instead of just survive.
Career Shift
Newfound health sparked a curiosity to learn more about this healing modality. I returned to school to learn how to apply the powerful skills of Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle for myself and to help others who are ready to find new ways to take control of their health.
I now have the joy and privilege of helping others find hope through my practice at Restore Health Now, Inc. I named my company Restore Health Now because that’s the goal whenever I work with clients.
When you have your health, you have everything. You’re poised to achieve whatever goals you set before yourself.
Leverage my years of experience and training to shorten your learning curve. No need to struggle alone when help is a phone call away.
Hope is Powerful Medicine
Do you believe you have the power to thrive instead of merely survive?
When you have the will, there’s always a way. Hope awaits.
A Functional Approach
Fixing Root Causes
As my mentor says, “Functional Nutrition is the future of healthcare, not because it’s new or fancy, but because it brings us back to the foundation of what healthcare should be about — the needs of the patient.”
– Andrea Nakayama,
Functional Medicine Nutritionist and Founder of the Functional Nutrition Alliance
“For you have formed my inward parts; You have woven me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
Psalms 139:13-14
“While I also believe you can cure yourself, one gigantic lesson I learned in the past few years is that healing is not the same as curing. You can cure without healing and you can heal without curing. In medical school residency, most of our training focused on curing. Very little attention was focused on healing. You might heal a fracture or heal a gaping surgical wound but healing a person, nah, woo-woo, hocus-pocus, horse shit. Healing and curing are inherently different.
Curing means eliminating all evidence of disease while healing means becoming whole.”
Lissa Rankin, MD
How did I achieve my health successes? By adopting a Functional or holistic approach to wellness. I became the CEO of my health team. Change isn’t easy, but the results are worth the effort.
Functional Nutrition might be a new concept for you. It was a new way of looking at health for me too. But it makes so much sense. When you start to fix the root causes of whatever is contributing to your signs & symptoms, positive shifts happen in the body, symptoms start disappearing and natural healing takes root.
Your body wants to be well. Symptoms often manifest simply because of what’s on the end of your fork and how you live your life. These are modifiable factors you have control over. While the skills I teach may seem simple, they’re not necessarily easy. The good news is anyone can start practicing skills that invite power to transform your body from the inside out.
Here’s what I believe:
Everyone is unique
Everything is connected
Everything matters
Working from this framework, I consider myself a Thyroid Detective. I use my skills, talents and training to uncover what’s happening at the scene of your health crime. Symptoms are clues that something’s going on in your body. Your story or history leaves clues. Your lifestyle leaves clues. Failure to follow the clues and fix the causes of dysfunction keeps you sick, tired, in pain and feeling hopeless.
It’s my job to follow your clues and create a roadmap of wellness unique to you. Along the way you’ll learn skills that lead to symptom resolution and health transformation. Like a butterfly, you begin to emerge from your cocoon of chronic symptoms and burst forth into a new world of symptom relief. Health becomes a reality instead of a dream.
If you’re exhausted from trying to piece your health puzzle together by yourself, stop struggling alone and get help. I’ll help you connect the dots of what’s happening in your body and life. Learn how to practice nutrition and lifestyle skills that lead to symptom resolution and health transformation.
Stop struggling alone
Work in partnership
Fix root causes
Making changes in what you eat and how you live becomes easier once you understand why your body is expressing symptoms like constipation, belly bloat, brain fog, fatigue and weight struggles. Understanding brings awareness. Awareness leads to change. Change transforms. Transformation brings power and HOPE.
You CAN feel better
You CAN transform
Take ownership now
You’ve decided its time for a change. You’re ready to commit. What’s next?
Click the Work with me button to schedule a FREE 20 minute Strategy Session. Your Strategy Session gives me an opportunity to learn a little about your story. What have you already tried? What’s worked for you? What hasn’t worked? What kind of health transformation are you looking to achieve?
Health is priceless
Lose nagging symptoms
Restore your health!
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