Let’s start with two thyroid facts: The diagnosis of hypothyroidism (low levels of thyroid hormone) is missed by most physicians. Patients arrive with obvious symptoms of hypothyroidism every doctor learned in medical school: sensitivity to cold, hair loss, weight gain, dry skin, fatigue, constipation, depression, irregular periods, and infertility. The doctor listens, sometimes attentively, and […]
Nutritional Counseling & Meal Planning
Services / Nutritional Counseling & Meal Planning

Safe natural therapy to heal illness and improve well-being
Nutritional counseling focuses on helping clients understanding foods and their role in preventive nutrition.
Our nutritionists offer the following services:
- FirstLine Therapy: A lifestyle modification program to guide your return to a path of extended health. FirstLine Therapy is a disease-reduction program with the primary goal of helping individuals achieve and maintain a healthy body composition (lean muscle-to-fat ratio) in order to improve health, manage disease, feel better, and reduce the risk of serious conditions.
- Meal planning: Our nutritionists customize a meal plan for you based on your conditions, treatments plans, personal goals. You work directly with your nutritional counselors to achieve your health, weight and wellness goals.
Providers
Olivia Darrow
Nutrition Provider
She collaborates closely with our Integrative Primary Care providers to help patients navigate their "at home instructions" of their whole-person care plans at Wholeheatlh Chicago.
Health Tips
Along with most things relating to good nutrition, I wasn’t taught much of anything about supplemental magnesium either in medical school or during my internal medicine residency. It was a professional clinical nutritionist I met during a long-ago meeting of the American Holistic Medical Association who first told me, “You’ll never go wrong if you […]
The word keeps popping up in emails from patients, and I’m seeing it more and more on their smoothie “lists”. Then, when I saw an article in the Washington Post about colostrum, I thought I’d better write about it myself. Colostrum was your first taste of food when you were born, the first milk produced […]
Most people figure they must be getting older based on how they feel and look. We wince at our first grey hair, deepening wrinkles, and shifting body fat. We huff and puff climbing the stairs, forget names, and occasionally leak fluids. We relate to the line from a Leonard Cohen song, “I ache in the […]
Patients come to WholeHealth Chicago regularly with this common refrain: “You’re the fourth (or seventh or tenth) doctor I’ve seen. I feel terrible but am always told that my tests are normal and there’s nothing wrong with me.” Then they’ll add: “I read about Candida overgrowth and the symptoms seem to fit me exactly. I […]