Performance Nutrition for Integrative Clinical Outcomes

Tamara John, FNTP, is an author, educator, and Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with over a decade of applied experience translating complex nutritional science into clinic-aligned strategies.

Through Daisy Fields Company, she partners with MDs, DOs, DCs, DPTs, PTs, FNPs, PAs, and Mental Health Professionals. We provide evidence-informed nutrition insights that seamlessly enhance your medical treatment protocols, improve patient compliance, and elevate clinical outcomes—while saving busy providers valuable time.

Scroll down to explore our precise clinical scope and download our new practitioner care brief: Gluten, Personalized Nutrition, and Clinical Decision Support.

Our approach integrates advanced nutrigenomics with foundational physiology to nourish metabolic, digestive, and systemic health—creating sustainable self-care routines that extend the impact of your clinical care long beyond the office visit.

Clinician-Aligned Resources & Patient Tools

These peer-reviewed resources are designed to support your clinical practice with a transparent scope, streamlined referral pathways, and patient-ready educational materials.

You are welcome to download these tools to share with individuals who would benefit from evidence-informed, food-first strategies that safely complement your medical treatment protocols.

📄 Functional Nutritional Therapy Scope Document
A concise, one-page overview detailing our exact clinical tools, professional boundaries, and referral alignment for data-driven, integrative outcomes.
Download Practitioner Scope One-Sheet

🍏 Blood Sugar Balance & Sugar Craving Emergency Kit
A patient-friendly, physiology-grounded resource designed to help individuals stabilize metabolic energy between meals and break inflammatory habits.
Download Patient Educational Kit

📝Clinical care brief: Gluten, Personalized Nutrition, and Clinical Decision Support

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Please call, message or use our dedicated portal to explore how combining functional nutrition, advanced nutrigenomics, and Trace Elements HTMA can support your practice and strengthen your patients' long-term outcomes.

These clinician‑aligned resources are designed to support your practice patients with clear scope, streamlined collaboration, and patient‑ready tools. You’re welcome to download and share them with individuals who may benefit from personalized, food‑first strategies that complement your medical care.

How Functional Nutritional Therapy Enhances Patient Care

Nutrition is molecular information—a vital piece of the clinical puzzle that directly influences cellular repair, metabolic health, and inflammation balance. Our adjunctive services are customized to support your practice, providing patient-centered care that goes far beyond a standard restrictive diet.

• Customized Behavioral Heavy Lifting: While you manage the primary clinical treatment plans, we "go deep" with patients to implement daily, actionable execution strategies. We refine routines based on their unique biological preferences, lifestyle constraints, and minimalist stress-relief techniques for nervous system support.

• The "Nutrition by Addition" Philosophy: Tamara John, FNTP, explicitly rejects restrictive, deprivation-based dieting. Our clinical approach focuses on "nutrition by addition"—strategically crowding out inflammatory foods by introducing nutrient-dense, patient-specific alternatives that support your primary medical objectives.

• Optimizing Long-Term Outcomes: By meeting individuals exactly where they are, we help them build sustainable daily habits. This intensive, one-on-one lifestyle management reduces your provider workload, drives patient compliance, and extends the long-term impact of your medical care.

Precision Insights & Epigenetics for Elite Patient Outcomes

As an authorized Nutrigenomix® practitioner, Tamara John, FNTP, utilizes advanced genetic testing to bypass clinical guesswork and target optimal gene expression. By merging evidence-based nutritional genomics with foundational physiology, we deliver a highly precise lifestyle protocol that bridges a patient’s genetic blueprint, lived experience, and current health status.

Our clinical approach is structurally anchored across Six Pillars of Foundational Health Nutrition, specifically geared to honor bio-individuality and support the body’s innate cellular intelligence:

1. Adaptive Food Styling: Designing a long-term, nutrient-dense eating strategy that naturally flexes with real-life constraints.

2. Metabolic & Blood Sugar Balance: Supporting insulin sensitivity and stabilizing daily cellular energy performance.

3. North-to-South Digestion: Optimizing gastrointestinal root causes, from stomach acid baseline to irregular elimination.

4. Essential Fatty Acid Integrity: Balancing structural cellular membranes and systemic inflammation pathways.

5. Mineral Balance Restoration: Correcting deep intracellular mineral and electrolyte ratios via specialized HTMA testing.

6. Intracellular Hydration: Ensuring optimal fluid dynamics and cellular nutrient transportation.

Adjunctive Recovery & Performance Nutrition

Targeted, evidence-informed nutritional protocols work synergistically with primary medical and rehabilitative care to accelerate physiological recovery. By analyzing specific genetic variants within the Nutrigenomix® Exercise Physiology, Fitness, and Injury Risk panels, we map actionable biometric data points including:

• Physical Biocompatibility: Power, strength, endurance capacity, and underlying muscle damage markers.

• Injury Risk Factors: Genetic predispositions for Achilles tendon integrity and bone mass baseline.

• The "Mindset Map": Biological variants influencing exercise motivation, behavior, and innate pain tolerance.

This precise genomic mapping provides clinicians and patients with an objective framework to optimize physical therapy, athletic training, and post-surgical rehabilitation.

Targeted Clinical Support Areas:

• Tissue Repair & Muscle Growth: Accelerating structural synthesis and preserving lean mass.

• Inflammation Modulation: Regulating systemic inflammatory cascades to shorten down-time.

• Immune & Nervous System Support: Protecting baseline defenses and enhancing neuromuscular nourishment.

• Energy Performance: Maximizing cellular ATP production and metabolic efficiency.

Nutrigenomix® testing protocols are available in specialized clinical formats including: Sport Nutrition & Performance, HealthPlus, Fertility, and Plant-Based Nutrition.

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Root Cause Insights for Unresolved Chronic Symptoms

Clinician Insight for ‘labs are normal but the patient is still unwell’

Many patients live with unexplained fatigue, anxiety, burnout, sleep disturbances, chronic digestive complaints, and metabolic dysregulation—symptoms that standard serum laboratory panels frequently fail to explain.

While blood tightly regulates its mineral levels at the expense of tissue, Trace Elements Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) offers a stable, 3 to 4 month cellular-level view of mineral ratios and toxic heavy metal exposure.

Understanding these complex mineral relationships is essential; minerals operate in synergistic and antagonistic patterns that directly drive mitochondrial and metabolic function.

By delegating this intensive, data-driven lifestyle analysis to Daisy Fields Company, we help clinicians:

• Identify Hidden Metabolic Stress: Uncover underlying tissue-level drivers behind chronic, unexplained illness.

• Personalize Intervention Protocols: Design targeted "nutrition by addition" and supplement strategies with baseline data precision.

• Monitor Cellular Detoxification: Safely track the mobilization of toxic heavy metals and patient response over time.

We utilize Trace Elements Inc. (TEI), a global leader that has processed over 3 million HTMA tests since 1984. Utilizing advanced ICP-Mass Spectrometry (NexION® models), TEI maintains a strict policy of not washing the hair samples, preventing the loss of critical water-soluble minerals like sodium and potassium.

Through this precision testing, we evaluate core neuroendocrine and metabolic patterns:

Fatigue & Energy Exhaustion: The test analyzes the Sodium-to-Magnesium (Na/Mg) ratio to evaluate adrenal stress resilience, paired with the Calcium-to-Magnesium (Ca/Mg) ratio to track blood sugar stability and energy crashes.

Sluggish Metabolism & Hair Loss: The Calcium-to-Potassium (Ca/K) ratio reflects tissue-level thyroid activity, allowing us to catch subclinical, burdened metabolic states before they manifest on standard panels.

Nervous System & Immune Resilience: The Sodium-to-Potassium (Na/K) ratio gauges emotional resilience and immune activity, while the Copper-to-Zinc (Cu/Zn) ratio provides an objective look at immune modulation and susceptibility to recurrent infections.

Heavy Metal Toxic Burden: The test maps bio-accumulation of Lead, Mercury, and Aluminum that disrupt cellular enzyme pathways, using elevated tissue Calcium levels as a vital detoxification marker.

Curate this advanced screening modality into your preventative and foundational care plans. Contact us to coordinate patient care or request our clinician resources:

📄 Whitepaper Guide: Unlocking the Potential of HTMA: Bridging the Conversation Around Mineral Patterns, Toxic Elements, and Metabolic Typing.

📊 Sample Assessment: TEI Sample HTMA Report with Clinical Interpretive Notes.

Request Clinical Sample Reports or Call / Message to Connect Personally

GLP-1 Medication Companion & Metabolic Support

Emerging research highlights that GLP-1 receptor agonists—while highly effective for appetite regulation—frequently induce systemic nutrient insufficiencies and rapid muscle wasting due to severe appetite suppression, delayed gastric emptying, and altered absorption.

A recent large-scale review published in Clinical Obesity evaluated nearly 500,000 adults, identifying widespread depletion patterns in Vitamin D, Iron, Calcium, and critical B-Vitamins, alongside notable losses in lean muscle mass.

As an adjunctive partner, Daisy Fields Company provides dedicated metabolic companion care for patients currently on, or transitioning off, GLP-1 therapies. We design precise "nutrition by addition" frameworks to:

• Preserve Lean Skeletal Mass: Ensure adequate protein and molecular cofactor absorption to prevent sarcopenia and bone density loss.

• Maintain Nutrient Sufficiency: Counteract delayed gastric emptying by introducing highly bioavailable, nutrient-dense protocols.

• Restore Gastrointestinal Resilience: Address common pharmaceutical side effects including nausea, dysphagia, GERD, chronic constipation, and diarrhea.

We utilize a time-honored, clinician-designed Functional Nutritional Assessment (FNA). This non-invasive, objective tool maps the gastrointestinal tract as a synchronized "north-to-south" physiological process. Rather than relying on educated guesswork, the FNA pinpointing the exact systemic gaps where targeted nutrition acts as molecular information to trigger tissue repair, modulate inflammation, and restore metabolic efficiency.

Our clinical expertise allows us to provide evidence-informed guidance across complex metabolic, autoimmune, and digestive profiles, ensuring no two protocols are ever identical:

• Digestive Pathology Support: Comprehensive self-care guidance for Celiac disease, Barrett’s Esophagus, GERD, Diverticulitis, and Gallbladder insufficiency.

• Advanced Blood Sugar Stabilization: Reversing the physiological drivers behind Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Reactive Hypoglycemia, and Insulin Resistance.

• Immunological & Autoimmune Care: Targeted inflammatory modulation for Psoriasis, Eczema, severe food sensitivities, and elimination/reintroduction protocols.

Seamless Nationwide Delivery & Virtual Practice Logistics

Seamless Nationwide Delivery & Virtual Practice Logistics

Our clinical partnership model operates completely virtually across the United States. We serve as a turn-key, outsourced nutritional utility for your practice, handling the time-intensive lifestyle modifications that modern medical timelines cannot accommodate.

By utilizing a sophisticated virtual intake process, we ensure a seamless and high-touch patient experience from start to finish:

• Direct Digital Testing Delivery: Advanced Nutrigenomix® and Trace Elements HTMA collection kits are shipped directly to the patient's home, requiring zero in-clinic inventory management or administrative overhead from your staff.

• Peer-to-Peer Reporting Framework: Following a comprehensive data analysis, we compile concise, objective clinical summaries regarding your patient's nutritional status, ensuring you stay effortlessly informed with a SOAP note format.

• National Scope, Local Accountability: We deliver precise nutritional support to individuals nationwide, while maintaining deep regional roots and trusted collaborative loops within the Colorado wellness communities.