Real Life Experience
Amber Weber, ARNP, NP-C
Provider & Owner of Nourish Mind & Body
Amber is a Board Certified Nurse Practitioner who has been working in the healthcare field since 2005 when she graduated from Coe College with her BSN. She then obtained her Master’s in the Nurse Practitioner track at Allen College in 2012. As a nurse practitioner, she has worked in Otolaryngology (ENT), Family Practice/Walk-in Clinic, and Functional Medicine.
She is currently a member of the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM) and working on her certification through IFM. She is also in the process of obtaining a Peptide Therapy Certification through A4M (American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine).
Amber's Story
Amber became passionate about functional medicine after struggling with her own bout of chronic fatigue for 18 years. She saw a slew of family practice providers and specialists, including doctors at Mayo Clinic. Yet no one was able to provide any real answers, just continuously prescribing medications with little to no relief along with any number of side effects.
"It became old as I struggled for 18 years missing out on so much in life as all I wanted to do was sleep. I would fall asleep anytime, anywhere. I even struggled to stay awake when I was on vacation. All I could think about was laying back down to sleep. I also started falling asleep while driving anything past 15-20 minutes. It was scary and frustrating that no one had any answers."
In May 2016, Amber started an elimination diet after reading The Whole30 and couldn’t believe the improvements by just removing the four recommended food groups. This didn’t completely resolve her symptoms as she had far more going on, but this was the beginning of her path to discovering functional medicine.
In 2018, Amber saw her first functional medicine doctor and within 3 months was starting to feel a difference! Within one year of working with her functional medicine specialist, her chronic fatigue symptoms were completely gone!
