Elizabeth is local to Buffalo, Minnesota, and has an array of artistic interests that include drawing, painting, and other crafts. Her passions include her plants (and plants of friends and family!), personal growth, health, and time with her family.
Joining the Functional Medicine Center team has helped her step into a more full-circle view of her own health. Elizabeth receives all of the same treatments that are provided to our patients, so she speaks directly from her personal experience while progressively improving upon her own health and mindset. She is passionate about patient care, and patient outcomes and fully engages in her role here.
Having experienced what would become a lifelong health journey, beginning at age 17, Emily felt a strong draw to wellness and functional medicine. After losing over 240 pounds, health became an ongoing priority. She joyfully embraces the healing power of natural living as not just a “diet” or “goal” but truly a mindset and way of life. When she’s not supporting patients or the clinic’s technology needs, she is working in her private salon suite in downtown Buffalo, MN. Emily’s husband has also discovered the healing benefits of functional medicine and natural healing at our clinic. Previously diagnosed with a progressive auto-immune disease and prescribed several immunosuppressants, he is now living pain, inflammation, and drug free. Together with their daughter and beloved chocolate lab, they can fully embrace all the joys of daily family life.
An interest in natural health and the desire to learn ways to encourage the body to heal itself propelled Marie to pursue health certifications from Trinity School of Natural Health. As a married mom of two kids and five grandkids, her relationship with God and natural health are important issues to her. She sees each person she encounters along life’s path as precious in God’s eyes, living a life that is valuable. She believes that making positive, educated health choices is vital for everyone. Marie feels privileged to be a part of the healing team at Functional Medicine Center of MN. She has witnessed firsthand how addressing each specific body’s needs results in optimum healing.
After moving from the suburbs to a house in the country twenty years ago, Lisa has become an avid gardener, forager, and farmer’s market shopper. She loves the idea of getting healthy foods directly from local sources and embraced the adage “food as medicine” eighteen years go when diagnosed with high blood pressure. Balking at the idea of taking prescriptions, she found a more natural path with supplements and clean foods. Fast forward to today, Lisa has found her place at Functional Medicine Center of MN, a place after her own heart.
Sue has a lifelong passion for cooking and eating healthy. Raised on a dairy farm and nourished as a child with the bounty of her mother’s extra-large vegetable garden, she is a firm believer that what you eat is a huge contributor to your health. She loved to read cookbooks as a child and still enjoys cooking as a hobby. The recipes she uses these days are usually adapted to make them keto and/or paleo-friendly.
Sue’s path to functional medicine was paved as she encountered health challenges within her own family. She first sought out traditional medical care which included the use of medication. When one medication didn’t work, another was added to the mix, causing extreme side effects. She asked the physician if he felt her son’s diet might be contributing to his health problems and was told, probably not. Following through on her hunch, however, she found research and resources that helped her discover natural approaches to healing and balancing the body. It all made so much more sense. She put that approach into action with spectacular results for her son.
Now, as a patient care coordinator, Sue helps patients at Functional Medicine Center of MN with diet and lifestyle changes to work in tandem with treatments to accelerate their own healing.
