Medea GalliganMedea Galligan, MS Nutrition, CHHC, AADP, RYT, is a holistic functional medicine nutritionist. She helps people of all ages resolve chronic conditions by learning practical daily routines to manage stress, prepare simple and satisfying meals, and take better care of themselves.
“With knowledge of healthy foods and your body comes the power to create lasting health and vitality.”
Medea began as a pre-med student at Clark University in 1984, when a lab partner handed her Dr. Andrew Weil’s Health & Healing. She knew instantly it held profound truths. The principle of cause and effect made sense to her on a deep level, and she realized it was prevention and the many paths to optimal health that she cared about most.
She changed her studies to Environmental Science and International Development, and in 1989 became a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay, teaching agroforestry and beekeeping and working with community leaders on education and the environment.
After starting her family in 1993, she looked for more natural ways to care for her family’s health: natural foods, herbal teas and tinctures, superfoods, massage and yoga. She returned to school and earned her Master of Science in Nutrition in 1998, studying massage therapy and yoga along the way.
She went on to become a Board Certified Holistic Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, trained with The Institute for Functional Medicine in 2010, and has worked closely with functional medicine doctors and integrative practitioners ever since. She is also a Certified GAPS Practitioner, building on Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride’s landmark work on the gut.
Peace Corps, ParaguayAgroforestry, beekeeping and community education.
MS in NutritionThe start of helping clients make a sustainable change to a healthier lifestyle.
“Lose the Weight Forever”Host of a holistic health radio program in South Florida.
The Institute for Functional MedicineAdvanced training to help clients overcome chronic conditions.
Weekly nutrition columnistYancey County News, and Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader in Burnsville, NC.
Medea’s Espresso & Juice BarThe first organic cold-pressed juice bar and organic café in Asheville, NC, later Medea’s Real Food Cafe.
Naples, FloridaChapter Leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation in Naples, North and Collier County.
We Run NaplesInvited to the advisory board.
From 2014 to 2017, Medea and her team at Medea’s Real Food Cafe in Asheville educated thousands of customers about raw, organic cold-pressed juices, taught more than 15 fermentation workshops, supported over 50 local food producers and hosted hundreds of wellness classes. They made their own lacto-fermented Fruit Kvass and bone broths from pasture-raised poultry and grass-fed beef.
Over the years she has written more than 80 articles published in magazines and websites, worked with Donna Gates, author of The Body Ecology Diet, taught cooking classes with natural foods chef Jan London, and assisted in research and development for several lines of nutraceuticals.
She is a member of the Alliance for Addiction Solutions and teaches the science-based work of Julia Ross, MA, on amino acid therapy, supporting clients through recovery when they are ready.
Also a member of Slow Food USA and the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, and an advisory board member of We Run Naples.
“My journey to better health began that Sunday morning after speaking with Medea.”
I was dealing with food and environmental allergies and could no longer eat raw fruits and vegetables. I began the health coaching program with Medea and quickly began experiencing positive benefits. I went from one who rarely cooked to cooking daily and loving every minute of it. Medea covered all areas of my lifestyle, not just my eating habits.
“Her coaching gently held me accountable to myself and was empowering.”
For many years I had been riding the roller coaster of emotional eating. Medea introduced me to an abundance of resources and information, and offered the tools to really address using food to self-medicate. The biggest change for me was removing sugar from my diet. Medea’s approach is realistic and doable, and she lives it herself.
“I’ve discovered a new world of delicious whole foods bursting with flavor.”
After years of yo-yo dieting, Medea showed me how to stop trying to control the quantity of what I was eating and focus instead on high quality, natural foods. Not only did I lose 25 lbs, but I’ve been able to keep the weight off for over 3 years, and at 53 I’m in the best shape of my life.
“I am so much happier now and I feel that anything is possible for me.”
Medea has taught me to eat whole natural foods, cook for my health not my stress level, take better quality vitamins, and most importantly change my thought process.
Individual results vary. Client stories are shared with permission and describe each person’s own experience.
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