Meet the Happy & Healthy Team!
Meet the Happy & Healthy Team!
Lauren is a Family Nurse Practitioner with 15 years of nursing experience. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor with 10 years of experience in Women’s Health, with four of those years focused on helping new families successfully feed their newborns. She is on track to be a certified Functional Medicine practitioner by July 2025 through the Institute for Functional Medicine.
She is also a wife, a mom to two awesome girls, a self-proclaimed nerd who is constantly obsessed with learning more, and a hopeless animal fanatic. The more dogs, chickens, and goats, the merrier! Deeply rooted in her Christian faith, she believes in treating everyone with respect and dignity, and strives to be honest, kind, and encouraging in all situations. Through years of her own health struggles, including severe rhabdomyolysis, debilitating fatigue, muscle weakness, and joint pain, to name a few, she found her way to Functional Medicine. That is when she finally began to get her life back! Knowing that she had found something special, she devoted herself to helping people truly HEAL using the principles of Functional Medicine.
Jason knew he wanted to be both a fireman and Marine from a very young age. He is a Captain with the Houston Fire Department with 16 years of experience. He served 8 years in the United States Marine Corps, with two deployments to Iraq. During these deployments, he was exposed to many toxins, including burn pits, leading to adult-onset asthma, as well as hitting several IEDs (improvised explosive devices), resulting in a TBI (traumatic brain injury) and other injuries. Jason is also a certified Functional Medicine Health Coach through the Functional Medicine Academy. He did not know how immersed in healthy living he would become until his wife’s (Spoiler alert: Lauren is his wife!) health declined suddenly and rapidly years ago. Being the problem solver and supportive husband he is, he threw himself into research to help her. Through the journey to help Lauren, he was also able to heal his lifelong chronic seasonal allergies and no longer needs any medications for allergies or asthma. Beekeeping and making homemade sourdough bread are two of his passions that help to keep him and his family happy and healthy. He is also a leader in his home and church, helping his daughters and boys in his Bible Study class learn to live their lives for the Lord.