Mariella Fortugno

Mariella is a Registered Dietitian and comes with over 10 years’ experience in therapeutic nutrition assessment and counselling. Having worked in a community-based diabetes clinic, a great deal of her expertise has been specific to type 2 diabetes and metabolic health. Throughout the years, she has assisted and guided individuals living with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes on lifestyle management approaches which has allowed them to delay or prevent the necessity of diabetes medications. Mariella is also knowledgeable in how herbs and nutraceuticals such as supplements can be used strategically to optimize an individuals’ personal health and nutrition goals. She keeps an open mind regarding a variety of perspectives on nutrition related topics and is not averse to being critical of certain mainstream nutrition recommendations. Mariella has a reputation for going the extra mile to help her clients with their nutritional wellbeing and understands the importance of remaining easily accessible so that clients are comfortable asking questions and can feel engaged throughout the process.