Functional & Holistic Nutrition
What is your why?
Unexplained digestive issues? Something up with your hormones like irregular painful periods or PMOS? Energy crashes and brain fog? Sleep disturbances and low libido?
You're in the right place.
1:1 virtual functional health coaching to understand your body, claim back your energy, and get to the why behind your health concerns with personalized guidance and support.
Root-cause nutrition for real life.
What is Functional Nutrition?
Functional nutrition gets to the root cause of your health issues, not just the symptoms.
Functional nutrition looks at the whole picture, your diet, lifestyle, genetics, and environment, to find out why you feel the way you do. Whether it's hormone imbalances, inflammation, or gut issues like bloating and IBS, we try figure out the WHY instead of just treating the symptoms. You get a personalized plan built around your body, using food as medicine to support lasting health.
Lara Leach is a degree-qualified (BSc Hons NT) and Board Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner (CFNP), Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN) and Certified Functional Health Practitioner (FHPC) based in BC, Canada.
For the last decade, Lara has supported clients in the UK, Zimbabwe, South Africa and across BC, helping them understand their bodies, restore balance, and feel their best through personalized nutrition and functional medicine.
Lara Leach Functional Nutritionist is built on something older than functional medicine itself. It's built on the idea of Ubuntu, the philosophy Lara grew up with in Zimbabwe: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, a person is a person through other people. It's usually spoken about in terms of human relationships, but the same logic holds inside the body. Your gut doesn't operate in isolation from your hormones. Your sleep doesn't operate in isolation from your stress. Symptoms that look separate such as bloating, fatigue, brain fog and skin flare-ups are rarely separate at all. They're systems in relationship with each other.
It shows up in the client relationship too. Ubuntu isn't top-down, it's collaborative, built on showing up for each other. Telehealth with Lara reflects that: not a practitioner handing down a meal plan, but two people working together, to figure out what your particular body and your particular life actually need. No judgment for the protein bar eaten in the car or the takeaway ordered after a long week. Just a steady, collective approach to figuring out what's actually going on and how to make real lasting change.
Meet Lara.
Are you ready to invest in your health?
Real results, happy clients
"Working with Lara felt safe and genuinely supportive. She is deeply empathetic and completely non-judgemental, which made it easy to open up. She truly cares, and her sense of humor brings a lightness that makes the experience feel human and reassuring."
- Alison A.
"After nearly a year of extensive medical testing with no answers through my primary care provider, Lara identified the root causes of my health issue within two weeks. She used functional lab tests and really listened to my lived experience"
- William
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