Lifestyle Medicine for Insulin Resistance, Prediabetes, and Diabetes
For adults, children, and families navigating insulin resistance, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, and weight-related metabolic concerns.
I help people heal metabolic disease using evidence-based lifestyle medicine, food as medicine, practical culinary coaching, nervous system support, and joy-centered habit change—so healing feels sustainable, compassionate, and aligned with real life.
Our Approach: The Joyful Medicine Method
The Joyful Medicine Method is an evidence based lifestyle medicine approach that applies the principles of lifestyle medicine in a way that honors culture, lived experience and body diversity, and recognizes that nervous system regulation, community and joy are essential components of healing.
Who This Care Is For
You’re in the right place if you are:
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Living with insulin resistance, prediabetes, or type 2 diabetes
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Experiencing weight-related health concerns and want care without stigma
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Feeling frustrated by advice that focuses on numbers without addressing daily life
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Seeking prevention, reversal, and long-term metabolic healing
This practice is designed for women and families seeking lifestyle-based care that supports long-term metabolic healing.
How to Work with Dr. Jenn
Precision Lifestyle Medicine Consultation
A 90-minute comprehensive evaluation that explores your metabolic health, nutrition patterns, daily routines, medical history, and goals.
You’ll receive a personalized Lifestyle Medicine plan that integrates food, movement, stress, sleep, environment, nervous system support, and joy-centered habits.
Includes a 15-minute follow-up for clarification.
Longer-term follow-up packages are available for continued transformation.
Intensive Lifestyle Reset (6-Month Program)
A high-touch program for those ready to reverse metabolic dysfunction with focused support.
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3-part initial assessment
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Monthly 45-minute follow-ups
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Personalized culinary and nutrition guidance
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Continuous accountability and messaging support
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Tools for integrating habits into real life
Joyful Metabolic Reset (Group Coaching)
A physician-led, small-group program for women in midlife seeking a sustainable, joyful path to metabolic health. Designed to support insulin resistance, prediabetes, and midlife weight changes, the program integrates lifestyle medicine, nourishment, nervous system care, and community for lasting change. Physician-led coaching, weekly support, structured modules, and community.
Our Practice Model
Healthy Living with Dr. Jenn, LLC is intentionally designed as a cash-based, time-rich consultative practice.
This approach allows for the type of care that traditional insurance systems rarely support:
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longer, comprehensive visits
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personalized lifestyle and nutrition guidance
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ongoing follow-up and support
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deep exploration of metabolic root causes
We do not participate in insurance networks or Medicare. Payment is required at booking, and many patients use HSA/FSA benefits.
Our services are consultative and meant to complement—not replace—your primary care.
This structure ensures you receive thoughtful, evidence-based care focused on metabolic healing, joyful living, and sustainable lifestyle change.
Meet Dr. Jenn
I’m Dr. Jenn — a triple board-certified physician in pediatrics, pediatric critical care, and lifestyle medicine. After more than 25 years of practicing medicine, I’ve come to believe that real healing happens when we combine medical expertise with practical, sustainable changes that support your everyday life.
I created this practice to offer something more comprehensive — a space where adults and children can improve their health by addressing the true drivers of chronic illness using the power of food, movement, stress management, and joyful connection.
I’m also certified in plant-based nutrition and culinary coaching, and I believe deeply in helping you build a life that feels joyful, balanced, and truly well — inside and out.
Testimonials
Perla Bueno
Client
“I had to make lifestyle changes to improve my overall health. Dr. Jenn has been my guide and my teacher. I began to see a difference in my heart rate, blood pressure. I have lost over 70 lbs. and my blood pressure medicine and insulin doses decreased by half. “
Kori Bazal
Client
“Who would’ve thought having meaningful relationships could lead to living a longer, healthier life? Dr. Jenn has changed my life not only with her medical skill set as a pediatric physician but also by helping me use food, exercise, sleep, and relationships as my medicine.”
JOYFUL WELLNESS BLOG SPOTLIGHT
Health Isn’t Just About the Absence of Disease — It’s About Joy, Too
“Joy isn’t a reward for being healthy — it’s often the path that gets you there.”
Wellness doesn’t have to feel like a punishment. In fact, joy can be a powerful driver of health. Read Dr. Jenn’s latest blog post on why embracing joy is essential to healing — and how it fits into a lifestyle medicine approach.