We worked with Andrea to present to our team at work on the changes to Health Canada's New Food Guide. She was absolutely fantastic. Her enthusiasm and knowledge shined through the entire presentation and our team certainly left like with actionable tips and ideas to improve our nutrition lifestyle!
Thank you Andrea :)
I had an amazing experience at Ignite Nutrition. Marlee was an incredible help, she gave me a lot of suggestions on how to improve my diet throughout my pregnancy, and also provided recipes for me to try that would support a growing baby. I would absolutely refer any of my friends or family to this clinic. Thank you for all of your help!!
I've known and worked with Andrea Hardy now for over 5 years now. I highly recommend her, as she has personally helped me and many of my team members with difficult digestive health cases. She is also an amazing speaker, as I had the opportunity to moderate her Dietitians of Canada presentation this year. She is engaging, funny and really down to earth!
Genuinely changed my health - very knowledgeable and able to modify recommendations to suit my lifestyle. I would recommend her to everyone with nutrition or digestive health issues.
I had the opportunity to meet Andrea Hardy and listen to her brilliant speech during an International symposium in Rome, I appreciate her in-depth knowledge of the interaction between diet and microbiota. She has oriented her studies on the relation between gut health and diet, being one of the first dietitian who understood thy key role of the microbiota as a target for personalized diet prescription. She is an internationally recognized expert on those fields due to her knowledge and impressive communication skills, which are essential even during one-on-one nutritional counselling. I strongly recommend Andrea as a serious reference point in nutrition and dietetics especially, but not only, for gut health.
We hired Ignite Nutrition to come in an do 4 Nutritional lunch & learn sessions throughout 2019 for our staff.
We really wanted to ensure that whoever we hired for these presentations provided a balanced approach and their presentations were informative and provided our participants with excellent resources to make healthier, smarter choices and also debunked some of the "fad" diets and food myths that exist today.
Thanks to Andrea and her team for a great experience - we will certainly be reaching out to them when we decided to start our next initiative.
I had an excellent experience working with Jen Rawson at Ignite Nutrition. Jen brought an incredibly informed approach, helping me to navigate the complexity of food sensitivities and draw connections between gut health and other mental and physical indicators. I also really appreciate how her approach fits within intuitive eating, which involved considering options and food sensitivities while being careful not to restrict foods unnecessarily. Thank you!
Our Clinic had an excellent opportunity to worked with Andrea Hardy and did a presentation to 40 patients. She presented extensively on "Brain Food: Eating for energy, focus, and a healthy mind." focuses on making small meaningful changes to improve nutrition and health, and help improve mood and energy.
Her impressive knowledge on this field has brought an awareness to our patient with great feedback and our clinic certainly looking forward for another presentation in the future. We strongly recommend Andrea Hardy as an expert reference point in nutrition and dietetics.
I had my first appointment with Jen Rawson today and it was excellent. I went to Ignite Nutrition because I was diagnosed with a hormonal disorder called PCOS, I was very confused about what my diet should look like with this disorder. Jen was able to help with just one appointment, she provided me with so much helpful information. Now I have a clear picture of what my day to day eating habits should look like without limiting myself. I highly recommend coming to Ignite Nutrition if you feel stuck with your diet choices and are in need of some help, I m sure they will help you just as much as they helped me today. So glad I came here, thank you!
Ignite Nutrition attended the Husky Wellness clinic back in October 2018. In chatting with Ignite staff, I was impressed with their knowledge of diabetes and interest in supporting any efforts in this area. I worked with Ignite staff over a period of time and found the appointments to be of good value with supporting documentation, discussions around diet, exercises and opportunities for improving my general health.
I took Andrea's 4 week course "Be your own Nutrition Expert". A lot of great information packed into this course. I also have watched a couple of her webinars and read her blogs. Highly recommend!
As a digestive health dietitian, I was looking for more support in the management and treatment of SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth). I have taken many trainings on SIBO and knew quite a bit of information on presentation, symptoms, potential underlying causes etc. However, what made Andrea's (Ignite Nutrition) course different was the practical application of how to actually go about coordinating the test within your health care team, where to order the test, how to interpret the test and evidence based treatment + management options that can be discussed with the physician and dietitian based on results.
She was also very responsive to email and gladly hopped on the phone with me the same day to discuss questions I had on SIBO and a patient. This course far surpassed my expectations. Thanks Andrea!
Andrea is knowledgeable and enthusiastic and has a real passion for focusing on a straight forward approach to solving digestion problems. She has really helped me to understand and work toward managing my diet over the long term and I am very glad to have been referred to her.
AMAZING!!! I have been sick for 18 years with IBS type symptoms. My GI specialist recommended that I see Andrea for help with the FODMAP diet. I started immediately and am soooo grateful for the help. ( I already was eating mostly healthy for the last 10 years, but was still had terrible symptoms.) Six weeks later, by the time my colonoscopy/endoscopy was scheduled, I was almost diarrhea and pain free! The colonoscopy / endoscopy results showed that I had lymphocytic colitis and I started on steroids immediately. Now it was time to start re-intoducing the trouble causing fodmap sugars. Andrea was able to talk to my GI specialist directly and counsel me through all the questions regarding this particular diagnosis, the diet and the steroids. It really helped to have everyone on the same page, instead of trying to figure it out all myself.
With the unpredictable pain and diarrhea, it was so easy to meet with Andrea online without ever having to leave the house. I always received a follow-up report via email that I could refer to. I really believe the personal one on one counselling with Andrea made all the difference for me. There are so many pitfalls and so much conflicting internet information. Andrea usually already had a pretty good idea of where the diet problems were and my questions were always answered. She took time to discover what I missed eating most and then found great alternatives. I am now back to eating almost everything and am feeling great. I do not believe I would have had success with steroids alone, as I still inadvertently occasionally eat the wrong food and have symptoms even though I still take steroids.
IGNITE NUTRITION has been life changing for me!
Andrea & the Ignite team are the experts in gut health and nutrition. As a fellow dietitian, I always send clients, friends and family with IBS, IBD or any intestinal struggles to them. Andrea also has the amazing talent of not only helping clients with science-based evidence, but connecting with them on a personal level - and a TED talk on this topic to prove it!
Andrea provides a kind non-judgmental space and great results!
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