Hi, I'm Caitlin.

I’m a Christian, wife, mom to three boys, and a licensed Dietitian, in that order.

My Story

This has been a long journey, so you’re going to need your cup of coffee and a comfy chair. Here we go!

I started down the path to become a Dietitian 12 years ago when I went to Rwanda and came back with major gut problems. After a year of testing and poking and prodding, I was diagnosed with IBS, given several medications to somewhat placate my symptoms, and told by the doctor that she couldn’t do anything else for me except a diet journal that may point out foods that may be causing my symptoms. In that moment I decided to become a Dietitian to figure out what was going on with me.

Two years later, I got accepted into UT Southwestern’s Master’s of Clinical Nutrition program. Towards the end of the program, though, I was starting to feel a little off about the conventional medicine approach. In school we weren’t taught how to use food to heal, but rather how to eat while on certain medications. I felt off by the way the medical system was prioritizing medications above all else and how the doctors were treated as gods. Where did God fit in with all of this? We were taught a whole system of viewing health and medical care that had no room for God. This was unsettling but I wasn’t sure at the time how to view health.

Fast forward to after graduation, I was a newly licensed Dietitian and a new mom. I was still feeling off about the medical system, so I decided to stay home with our son and start my own practice. There is something about being responsible for a sweet, innocent baby that really makes you want to step up your game. So, I became the vetters of all vetters. And it is because of my blessing/curse of feeling the need to vet everything that I stumbled across opposing information on vaccines. When I brought it up to a couple of different doctors, none of them had heard of anything I asked him about. That’s where things changed for me. If you are advocating to inject something into my child and I know more about the vaccine inserts, history, and studies than you, I’ve got a BIG problem with this. Instead of an honest discussion of risks vs. benefits, I got, “If you don’t vaccinate your child, you’re putting other kids at risk.” However, I need evidence, not social pressure.

This was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I could no longer “trust the Science” because my doctor said so. I believed God created us and He should be the center to our health. I believed He didn’t leave us completely without direction regarding our health.

I scrapped the health framework I was taught in school and returned to the Bible to learn what it said about health.

I pulled out my Bible and began to search for anything that was related to health or diet. The Bible is full of so much wisdom, so I wanted to build a health framework from the very wisdom found in the Bible, with Christ at the center. I was convinced at this point that the medical system had built a health framework based on “Science”, not the Bible, which is why we, Christians, have had a hard time trying to fit Christ into it. It had it all backwards.

Once I had a good Biblical foundation of what health is, who it comes from, and how to eat and drink to the glory of God, I changed my family’s diet to foods that were as close to God’s design as possible. However, we were still getting sick all the time. I saw it in my friends and family around me too. Everyone was getting sick, more than we did when we were kids. Miscarriages were becoming way too common as well. Healthy people were getting weird “viruses” every cold and flu season. I couldn’t just accept this as “the norm.” I became determined to find whatever else was going on here. As I started digging deeper, I realized that diet was only one piece to a much bigger puzzle to our health.

The biggest problems I’ve settled on and what I’m convinced are the problems of our day is simply this: unnatural chemicals, pathogens, and frequencies.

God created the world and everything in it. When He created the natural compounds that make up food or herbs, He designed how the body would break those compounds down. When He created mercury and aluminum, He made them with their specific particle sizes and specific chemical make-ups. When God created, He knew the effects of His creations and designed accordingly. When man creates today, he does not know or understand the consequences of what he has created. It takes us about 50 years of using these man-made things to learn what those consequences are. Often times, we realize that departing from God’s design was probably not the best idea after all. And yet, we go back to the drawing board and say, “I’ll get it right next time.”

All this to say, man has discovered many new things about God’s creation. It has been a good thing for man to explore God’s creation – you’re able to read this now and call someone without using a hardwired phone because of man’s exploration and discovery. How amazing are the things in nature God has created and man to discover them! However, these discoveries and resulting innovations do not come without trial-and-error. Now, it’s our task to figure out how to thrive in a world that is full of trial-and-error products. We now have the ability to create advanced metal tools, but how can we minimize and break down the toxic by-products? We now have the ability to genetically modify bacteria (look up CRISPR), but how do we make sure we don’t create dangerous bacteria instead? We now have the ability to use wireless phones that use electromagnetic frequencies to send and receive information from across the world, but how do we protect our own body’s natural frequencies the brain uses to make our body work from these competing frequencies?

This is where I’ve landed today. I have built a health framework using the Bible as the foundation. Training myself (through reading Scripture, meditating on it, and seeking counsel – Psalm 1, Psalm 19) to have a Christian worldview of health was the most vital piece. Now with every new piece of evidence or observation I bring it back to this: how did God create this to work? I have found that health really isn’t that complicated with God. There is a amazing simplicity to it. But when you remove God from health, it becomes very confusing and complicated. This reminds me of 1 Corinthians 1:27-31…

“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: ‘Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.'”

Here Paul is arguing for the simplicity of accepting the free gift of Jesus’s payment for our sins. But this theme is all throughout the Bible. God uses what seems foolish to destroy the wisdom of the wise, “so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power” (1 Corinthians 2:5). God created the most intelligent computer on the earth – our brain. He created our bodies to have an intelligent design that we will never be able to make ourselves. I am convinced that the wisest approach to health is to trust in His design, though that approach may be deemed foolish by the current medical system or those who reject Christ.

It'd be my joy to help your family be healthy again.