Reclaim Diabetes
Nutritional Therapy Practitioner | NTP
Hi, I'm Danica
I am a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, a former post-operative nurse of 12 years, and someone who lives with Type 1 diabetes.
That last part matters more than any credentials.
Living with Type 1 means carrying something most people, even most health professionals, will never fully understand. It is waking up knowing that your stress, your sleep, your hormones, your emotions, the weather, a hard workout, a difficult conversation, all of it moves your numbers. And still being expected to keep them perfect. Every single day. With very little acknowledgement of what that actually costs.
The advice stays the same regardless. Lower your A1c. Lose some weight. Count your carbs better. Nobody talks about the exhaustion underneath. The mental load of constant calculation. The frustration of doing everything right and still seeing a number that does not reflect the effort. The fear of being dismissed in an appointment because your results are not where they want them.
I spent over a decade inside the conventional medical system. I saw what it does well and I saw exactly what it misses.
When I turned that same lens on my own health, everything shifted. Not through more restriction or better tracking. Through understanding what was actually driving the dysregulation underneath. The gut. The minerals. The adrenals. The nervous system running on empty. When I addressed those things in the right order, the number became the last thing I was managing because the systems beneath it were finally working the way they were designed to.
That investigation led me deeper into functional nutrition and eventually to Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis, a clinical tool that reveals what is happening inside your cells over time in a way that standard bloodwork simply cannot. I trained as an HTMA practitioner because for some clients it is the piece that finally makes everything make sense.
I went back to school because I wanted to become the practitioner I never had. Someone who understands the physiology, the blood sugar patterns, and the nervous system load, and who also understands what it actually feels like to live this every single day.
That is why I built RECLAIM. Not to help you manage your diagnosis better. To help you understand what is driving it, and what changes when you finally address the right things.
If you have tried everything and you are still not getting answers, you are in the right place.
