{"id":1654,"date":"2018-03-29T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2018-03-28T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:37:51","slug":"amy-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"Amy Doyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Functional Food\u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\n

By Riley Bunch | Photography by Alice G. Patterson<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

When Amy Doyle sits down with a patient, she not only wants to hear their symptoms, but their entire health story. She wants to know not only current and past health history, but how they\u2019re sleeping, their stress level and dietary habits and other lifestyle behaviors.<\/p>\n

A truth-seeker by nature, all these elements allow Amy to put together the pieces of the puzzle and help people lead more healthy lives through her functional nutrition consultation practice, White Stone Wellness.<\/p>\n

While dealing with health challenges of her own, Amy became frustrated with the responses she was getting from professionals in the traditional medical field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told what I was dealing with was very common, and a lot of my concerns were dismissed by practitioners,\u201d Amy said. \u201cI didn\u2019t subscribe to the paradigm that, \u2018If you have this set of symptoms, this is the drug you take.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Having always been a foodie, Amy found respite by incorporating functional nutrition practices into her life. Now, after earning a master\u2019s degree in applied clinical nutrition from New York Chiropractic College, Amy uses the same findings to reach others frustrated with their own health issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than treating the person\u2019s set of symptoms, you\u2019re treating the whole person,\u201d Amy said.<\/p>\n

Functional nutrition links a patient\u2019s health challenges directly to their body\u2019s digestive process. Nutrition isn\u2019t only about what someone eats, Amy explained, but about the body\u2019s digestion, absorption, utilization and detoxification of that food.<\/p>\n

\u201cI become an investigator and really look at what is the root cause of what\u2019s happening in their body,\u201d Amy explained.<\/p>\n

Often, Amy has seen that simply cleaning up a patient\u2019s diet can help them become healthier. However, the individualized treatment process can be more extensive, depending on the person and their health issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cFunctional nutrition is based on the recognition that everybody is biochemically different,\u201d Amy said. \u201cOne person could come in with one set of symptoms and another can come in with the same set of symptoms, but they have different needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amy sees similarities in her own health journey and those of her patients. When a patient reaches her practice, they\u2019re often frustrated. As they begin to understand their specific symptoms, it\u2019s easier to see their illness is something they have and not something they are, Amy said. Since she began her practice, she\u2019s helped more than 70 patients.<\/p>\n

One of her goals is to create a center of collaboration between physicians, chiropractors, naturopathic doctors, holistic nurses and nutritionists.\u00a0It would be a combined effort to give patients access to any type of medical help they may need.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love for Syracuse to be the place where there\u2019s collaboration between allopathic providers, and providers like myself,\u201d Amy said, \u201cbecause we all have the same goal.\u201d SWM <\/em><\/p>\n

White Stone Wellness has offices in Willow Heath Wellness, 3090 Belgium Road, Baldwinsville, and the Synergy Center, 4562-4568 Pewter Lane, Manlius. Reach Amy by phone at (315) 527-1453 or email at amy@whitestonefunctional nutrition.com. Learn more at whitestonefunctionalnutrition.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

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