About Radiant Reality Nutrition
I am completing a Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, hold advanced certification in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, and draw deeply on Ayurveda for constitutional assessment. These aren't three separate tools — they're three lenses pointing at the same patient. The functional labs tell me what's broken. The Ayurvedic constitutional assessment tells me the physiological terrain that made you vulnerable to breaking there. The classical East Asian medicine tells me the pattern of how that breakdown is moving through your body. Where all three agree is where your root lives — and where healing actually begins.
About Tennee
I know what it feels like to be the patient who is doing everything right and still not getting better. I spent years navigating my own recovery from mold toxicity — running labs, trying protocols, hitting ceilings — while simultaneously watching my daughter fight through Lyme disease and PANDAS. The conventional medical system did what it could. It wasn't enough. What healed us both wasn't any single approach. It was learning to look at the full picture at once, from every direction available.
That experience lives in every clinical encounter I have.
In practice, this means I use advanced functional lab testing to investigate what standard medicine misses — the gut, the hormones, the immune system, the detoxification pathways, the places where subclinical breakdown has been accumulating for years before it has a name. The labs give me the objective picture. But I don't stop there.
Layered underneath the functional assessment is a classical East Asian medicine framework — pattern recognition developed over thousands of years — that tells me how your body's imbalance is moving, which systems it has taken hold in, and what it needs to resolve. And Ayurvedic constitutional medicine tells me the terrain you started with: the physiological blueprint that made you susceptible to breaking down the way you did, in the places you did.
Most practitioners give you one of these pictures. I work from all three at once — because the place where they all agree is where your root actually lives. And that is the only place treatment needs to go.
About Tennee
Practitioner
MY STORY
There was a period in my life when I was doing everything right — and getting sicker.
I was exhausted in a way that sleep didn't fix. My body felt foreign to me. I had seen practitioners, run labs, followed protocols. And despite doing everything I was told to do, I kept hitting the same ceiling. The diagnosis I eventually received — mold toxicity — explained something. But it didn't explain everything. And it certainly didn't tell me what my body actually needed to heal.
Then, at the same time I was navigating my own recovery, my daughter became sick. Lyme disease. PANDAS. If you know these conditions, you know they don't follow a simple path. Her nervous system was under siege. Her behavior changed in ways that were terrifying and heartbreaking. The conventional medical system did what it could. It wasn't enough.
What happened next shaped everything about how I practice today. I stopped waiting for a single system to have all the answers and started building a picture from every angle I could find. Genetic testing. Functional labs. Herbs. Supplements. Acupuncture and TCM herbal medicine. Muscle testing. Each piece revealed something the others couldn't see alone.
We both healed. It took years, and it took a willingness to look at the full picture rather than just the diagnosis. That process — the long, non-linear, multi-layered process of finding what was actually driving the breakdown in each of our specific bodies — is what I now bring to every patient I work with.
WHY I WORK DIFFERENTLY
I am completing a Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, hold advanced certification in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, and draw deeply on Ayurveda for constitutional assessment. These aren't three separate tools — they're three lenses pointing at the same patient. The functional labs tell me what's broken. The Ayurvedic constitutional assessment tells me the physiological terrain that made you vulnerable to breaking there. The classical East Asian medicine tells me the pattern of how that breakdown is moving through your body. Where all three agree is where your root lives — and where healing actually begins.
Most practitioners look at chronic illness through a single lens — one system, one protocol, one framework. My own experience taught me something those traditions confirm individually but rarely say together: the place where multiple ways of understanding the body all agree is where the actual root lives.
What I call constitutional terrain is the underlying physiological blueprint that existed before your diagnosis — the innate organization of how your body generates energy, manages heat and cold, regulates the nervous system, processes stress, and recovers from illness. Your terrain is why you got the illness you got, why it presents the way it does in your body specifically, and what your body needs to actually rebuild.
I don't start where your symptoms are. I start where your body's breakdown began. And I use every tool available to find it.
WHO I WORK WITH
You've probably already tried a lot. You may have a diagnosis — or several. You may have done the labs, the diets, the supplements. You feel better and then crash. Or you've never fully felt well and no one has been able to tell you why.
You might be navigating chronic gut issues that shift and change. Long haul illness that isn't resolving the way it should. Fatigue that has no name. A nervous system that won't settle. Or you might be a parent watching your child suffer in ways that conventional medicine keeps failing to fully address — and you know, the way I knew, that there is something being missed.
I work with complex, chronic cases that haven't responded to standard approaches. Not because I have a better protocol — but because I ask a different question.
TRAINING & CREDENTIALS
My clinical training spans multiple complete medical systems — deliberately. I sought each one because it revealed something the others couldn't fully see.
Doctorate of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (DAOM) — In progress - TCM, herbal medicine, classical diagnosis
Masters Acupuncture and TCM (MAHM) -Acupuncture and Integrative medicine college, Berkeley, CA
Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) -Advanced functional lab interpretation & root-cause methodology
Ayurvedic Medicine -Constitutional assessment, prakriti & vikriti, elemental medicine · California College of Ayurveda, 2003-2005
Craniosacral Therapy - Nervous system regulation, somatic release
Neuromuscular Therapy -Structural & tissue-level bodywork
Acupressure- Channel-based energetic medicine
Hypnotherapy -Subconscious patterning & nervous system access
University of Oregon- Undergraduate foundation in health sciences
I became this kind of practitioner because I had to. My own body, and my daughter's body, demanded it. I'm grateful they did — because it made me someone who can actually help the patients who need this level of looking.
If you're ready to find out what's actually driving your illness — not just what to call it — I'd love to talk. The discovery call is free. Come tell me what's been happening.
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Functional Medicine and Nutrition Education
Credentials and Training:
- 1994-1997: University of Oregon, Eugene OR, Bachelor of Arts
- 2005-2007: California College of Ayurveda, Nevada City, CA, Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist
- 2014-2015: Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P) Training
- 2015-2016: Holistic Nutrition Full Body Systems, Andrea Nakayama
- 2016: Acutonics Levels I-IV, West Coast Acutonics; Sound Healing, Kairos Institute
- 2018: Advanced Microbiome Medicine Mentorship Program, Grace Liu PharmD
- 2022-Present: Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley, CA, Doctor of Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine (DAIM) candidate,
Additional specialized training includes:
- SIBO Intensive (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) - FDN and Lisa Pomeroy ND
- Functional blood chemistry - FDN and Lisa Pomeroy ND
- HPA access and DUTCH testing - FDN and Lisa Pomeroy ND
- OAT clinical interpretation - Gut Institute - Grace Liu PharmD
- Neurolinguistic reprogramming for health coaches - NLP Marin
- "Estrozen" hormone detox intensive - Andrea Nakayama and Replenish
- Walsh detoxification method - Dr Bryan Walsh
- Mastering brain Chemistry - Apex energetics seminar - Datis Kharrazian MD
- FDN Advanced training on Mitochondria- Lori Rose PhD,CNP,FDNP,RH, NB-HNC
- AFDNP certification
May your Reality be Radiant!
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