Eleonore Oppenheim, MS HNFM

Hi! I’m Eleonore. I didn’t think about health or nutrition much until I started having weird anxiety attacks in my 20s and a very cool doctor asked me if I had tested my vitamin D levels. Like most people (and especially most young people), I basically did not connect anything I was doing, eating, drinking, or putting on my body to any of the physical symptoms I was dealing with. I often had heavy, painful periods, had dealt with cysts on the one ovary I was left with after a childhood surgery to remove a benign tumor the size of a grapefruit from my womb, weird weight fluctuations, the anxiety attacks I already mentioned (some of which lasted for up to 12 hours, no joke), and various other weird but benign lumps in my body. As a kid, I got a cocktail of strep throat and tonsilitis at least once every winter.

I, like most people in modernity, had outsourced my health to my primary care doctor or some other doctor or various specialists, none of whom communicated with each other really beyond writing referrals. I also believed what I was told about genetic determinism (people get sick because they have BAD BAD evil genes that just can’t seem to figure out how to behave!). In other words, I had zero agency in my own health and I didn’t know I COULD have any agency.

I started a somewhat epic journey into learning about health and nutrition that took me from a chain smoking binge drinker into hardcore veganism + distance running (cavities, hypothalamic amenorrhea, permanent cartilage and other soft tissue damage), hardcore keto plus distance running (hypothyroidism and more hormonal/fertility issues) with several stops in between, eventually landing me where I am now, which is the healthiest and strongest I’ve ever been in my life in my 40s. I made A LOT of mistakes along the way that I am extremely grateful to have made. I also wound up with an RYT-200 Yoga teaching certification and a master’s degree in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. It’s my mission now to help other people (you!) sort through the steaming turdpile of health information sitting out there so you can save time, money, and suffering, and drive the bus of your own health.