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Functional Nutrition for Digestive Health, Mental Wellness & Neurodivergent Care
When the body is out of balance, it often lets you know by expressing different symptoms… Maybe it’s persistent digestive symptoms, fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, changes in mood, or simply feeling “off”.
At True Potential Nutrition, we recognize how difficult it can be to navigate your health, especially when chronic conditions and persistent symptoms are at play. That’s why it is our mission to make meaningful changes feel possible again.
Through a supportive and collaborative approach, we’ll work alongside you to better understand the root causes that may be influencing your health and identify personalized strategies to support your unique needs. Ultimately, our goal is to help you reduce your symptoms and feel better in your body.
How We Can Support You
At True Potential Nutrition, we recognize that no two people experience health in the exact same way. Your genetics, health history, symptoms, lifestyle, environment, and individual needs all contribute to your unique health picture. That’s why we place so much value on getting to know your story—from the moment you were born to where you are today.
Digestive Health
Digestive symptoms can affect far more than your gut, impacting your energy, mood, sleep, and quality of life. We provide personalized nutrition support for a range of digestive concerns, with an emphasis on understanding what may be contributing to your symptoms.
Common Areas of Support: IBS, IBD, SIBO, GERD, Constipation, Diarrhea, Bloating, Gas
Mental Health
Nutrition, digestion, lifestyle, and mental wellness are closely connected. We use a whole-person approach to support mood, energy, stress, and overall well-being while considering the individual factors that may be affecting how you feel.
Common Areas of Support: Anxiety, Depression, Burnout, Fatigue, Brain Fog
Neurodivergent Nutrition
Neurodivergence can influence eating patterns, food preferences, routines, and how nutrition fits into daily life. We provide neurodiversity-affirming support that makes nutrition more practical, accessible, and sustainable.
Common Areas of Support: Food Selectivity, Sensory Differences, Executive Functioning, ADHD, Autism
Your Health Has a Story... We’re Here to Understand It.
Root Cause Focus
Your symptoms are an important part of your story, which is why we prioritize looking for patterns and connections that can help us to understand why the symptoms are happening in the first place. We do this by investigating and understanding your health history, nutrition, lifestyle, and the many other pieces of your health puzzle.
Personalized Nutrition
Nourishment isn’t just about what you eat. It’s also about how your body digests, absorbs, and utilizes nutrients. That’s why we look beyond your plate and consider how your digestive system, nervous system, lifestyle, and individual needs may be influencing your health.
Sustainable & Meaningful Change
We believe meaningful change doesn’t happen overnight. We’ll work together to identify realistic steps that support your health while taking into account your needs, preferences, and everyday life. The goal is to create changes that feel manageable now and sustainable for the long term.
Why Choose True Potential Nutrition?
Danielle MacDowell, MS, LDN, CNS,BCBA
Gut & Mental Health Nutrition Practitioner
When your health feels complicated, finding a practitioner who is willing to look deeper and truly listen can make a world of difference.
This is the mission behind True Potential Nutrition. Danielle combines advanced training in clinical nutrition and microbiome health with her professional background as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and licensed special education teacher. This interdisciplinary perspective allows her to consider not only nutrition and physiology, but also the behaviors, routines, environment, and individual circumstances that can influence health.
For Danielle, this means creating nutrition care that is collaborative, individualized, and grounded in both science and the realities of everyday life.