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About Yamila

Root cause,
not quick fixes.

Why I practise functional nutrition — and how I help the people standard advice has left behind.

Yamila, functional nutrition coach

I'm Yamila Acosta-Flamma, a Stanford-trained functional nutrition coach. I help people the standard advice has failed find their way back to feeling well — through food, evidence, and a plan built entirely around them.

Why functional nutrition

Too many people are told their labs are “normal” while they feel anything but. Standard advice manages symptoms — a pill for this, a number for that — and rarely asks the harder question: why is this happening in the first place? Functional nutrition starts there, at the root.

How I work

My training is evidence-based, including nutrition science from Stanford, and I keep it that way — no fads, no fear, no shame. Together we map how your history, your symptoms and your labs connect, then rebuild from whole food up, with a plan made for your biology and your real life. I work alongside your doctor, never instead of them.

What I believe

  • Food is one of medicine's most underused tools.
  • “Normal” labs and actually feeling well are not the same thing.
  • There is no one-size protocol — only your body, your history and your life.
  • Good information should empower you, not keep you dependent.

At a glance

  • Stanford-trained in nutrition science
  • Over a decade of experience
  • Author of 'Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with Functional Nutrition'
  • Founding member & columnist at Souveraine magazine
  • Functional, root-cause approach
  • Evidence-based & fully personalised
  • Focus: autoimmune, hormonal & metabolic health
  • Works online, in English, Spanish & German

If any of this sounds like what you've been missing, you're probably more ready than you think. Let's find your root cause together.

Writing & recognition

— Yamila Acosta-Flamma · Functional Nutrition Coach

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