
Meet the Team!


Natalie Earle
Natalie Earle is a certified Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP) currently based in Scottsdale, Arizona, but she calls Oregon home. Natalie has previously worked four years at a functional medicine clinic and has helped individuals reverse chronic diseases such as Diabetes Type 2, Hashimoto's, IBS, and Ulcerative Colitis. Natalie has received training and is currently under the supervision of Mary Ruddick to support the body's healing by regenerating the immune system, hormonal system, and nervous system. She does this through nutritional therapy, lifestyle recommendations, and supplementation focusing on healing the microbiome. Natalie specializes in working with all types of digestive issues, chronic constipation, and IBS/SIBO. Along with her focus on digestive health, Natalie has a passion for women's health and hormonal imbalances ranging from PMS to Postmenopause and neuroendocrine disorders like Alzheimer's. Her journey started after she earned her bachelor's in Physics when she began experiencing symptoms stemming from childhood trauma, mercury poisoning, and the SAD diet. Her symptoms manifested as severe PMS, brain fog, eczema, PTSD, candida, cysts, acne, anxiety, depression, and gastrointestinal disorders. Natalie began studying the microbiome and learned how nutritional therapy improves mood, physical ailments, and energy. She has lived the connection between gut health, physiological health, and psychological well-being by changing her nutrition and reversing food intolerances. Research supports her experience, and she has discovered she is not alone in it.
Natalie uses a variety of dietary protocols such as the GAPS diet, ketogenic diet, lectin-free, low-oxalate, low-histamine, carnivore, and fasting. She uses an individualized approach to create custom nutritional recommendations, including supplements, herbs, limbic system exercises, self-compassion meditation, and hypnosis.


Courtney Jacobs


Alan Howard
Alan is a performance coach that is focused on helping his clients change the mental programming & unconscious beliefs that dictate their reality, resulting in deeper peace, joy, and personal power. Before coaching Alan owned and sold a successful digital marketing consultancy working with blue chip Fortune 200 & 500 companies. The agency was born with the purpose of reinvesting 15% of the profits into protecting the Amazon Jungle, a mission that came from a month-long adventure living deep in the Amazon with an indigenous tribe of Kichwa people. Alan has been featured in places like Forbes and Entrepreneur for his work.


Mary Ruddick
Director of Nutrition
Mary Ruddick is an internationally acclaimed nutritionist currently based in Europe and Africa. She has personally trained professional nutritionists around the globe! She currently has limited availability due to current research projects she is conducting in Africa and the Blue Zones. As such, she is only seeing new clients through set focus sessions each week. Please see the "schedule button" to see what focus sessions are open for you. If her current focus session topics do not apply to you, the best way to work with her is through working with Matt or Jen, as Mary oversees each of their cases. Please schedule a new client appointment with them.
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Co-Founder of Systems that Heal, an online educational program for regulating autoimmunity and chronic disease.
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Co-Founder of the Back to Joy Project, a GAPS diet inspired online mental health boot camp for regulating anxiety and depression through limbic system retraining and nutritional rebuilding of the nervous system.
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Creator of wellness programs for Alliance Health Insurance.
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REIGNS Method founder.
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Instructor for Five Seasons Medical in Portola Valley, CA.
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Director of Nutrition, recipe creator, and educational YouTube vlog creator for Captain Soup.
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Certified GAPS Diet Practitioner and Instructor.
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Food historian and world-wide diet researcher.
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World-Wide Medical Diet Retreat Leader. Past retreats have been held in Hawaii and throughout Europe and Asia.
For prospective clients, choose one of the following options below.
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Purchase one of her “Quick Starter Guides” found in our store. There, you will find her treatment protocols for several conditions ranging from infertility, weight loss, autoimmunity, to cancer.
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Take her 12-week educational course, Heal Yourself Ketogenic Lectin-Free Masterclass aka "Systems that Heal." This course applies to all forms of autoimmunity, diabetes, arthritis, chronic fatigue, dysautonomia, and chronic disease.
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Did you use to be proud of yourself but now you feel like a shadow of your old self? If so, begin by taking Mary's six-week mental health boot camp. This program is designed to turn back on your own body's ability to make its own feel-good chemicals. You can start your journey to better mental health by signing up at the Back to Joy Program.