Adeline
About
Adeline Pfeiffer FDNP
I know what it’s like…
To feel alone. To be left out. Feeling like no one understands.
I was a healthy child growing up, able to eat whatever I wanted. But at 14 my life changed forever. By 15yrs old I was told I had Crohn’s disease and needed to start treatment immediately. But unfortunately the first treatment completely back fired and my body was never the same since.
The next 12 years consisted of one complication and set back after another. A seemingly never-ending cycle of rare side effects, hospital trips, surgeries and flare ups. The long list included abscesses, fistulas, stomach ulcer, erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum, bowel infections, bowel obstruction, stage II bowel cancer, hernia, stoma prolapse, bowel perforation and more...
Nothing I did or tried seemed to help. I was desperate for breakthrough and willing to do whatever it took. Unfortunately the state of my large bowel had gone beyond being able to be saved, and a bowel perforation from a colonoscopy meant I had to lose 90% of my large bowel. I was devastated.
In the next season that followed I finally started to get my life and health back, but the previous season took such a huge toll that I’m left with permanent physical and emotional scars.
My life now is night and day compared to what it used to be. I’m pursuing my passions and achieving goals I once thought impossible.
Over 100,000 people in Australia currently have IBD and that number is increasing.
And there are over 80 known autoimmune conditions.
My passion for pursuing functional health came from my own health journey.
I don’t want anyone else to experience the pain, hardship and heartbreak that I went through. To be put in the ‘too hard basket’ by doctors, left feeling hopeless and helpless with no promise of ever getting well.
We’re not told that there is another option. A form of health care that looks at root causes and addresses the WHOLE body.
So I made it my mission to get this message out there.
To bring hope and solutions like I wish I had been given.
Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDNP)
That’s a technical way of saying I’m your personal health coach and wellness advocate.
I use in-depth testing to uncover why your body isn’t functioning optimally, and we keep digging deeper to ask ‘why’ until we get answers. My role is to empower and equip you to take back control of your health and make informed decisions moving forward.
Digestive symptoms? Hormone imbalances? Respiratory problems? Skin conditions? They’re all connected. The human body is intricately designed where every organ, system and tissue is linked. We can’t separate the body to only focus on one area, pretending that treating one thing doesn’t effect the other. This is the foundation of functional, root cause medicine. Thinking holistically and problem solving the solution.