Kasia works with patients from all walks of life – children and seniors, college students, dancers, lawyers, other health professionals, home makers, young busy mothers, individuals with auto-immune conditions, overweight and underweight. She works with patients with compromised immune system, cancer, inflammatory conditions, hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, celiac or fibromyalgia. She specializes in complex gastrointestinal conditions such as gastroparesis, IBS, IBD, gastritis, SIBO, food allergies and sensitivities, chronic constipation, or diarrhea. Kasia has earned a positive reputation in the medical community and often teams with medical doctors (MD’s) to help treat chronic conditions. She communicates clearly and succinctly with other medical practitioners to help patients get the best complementary care. Patients from Johns Hopkins and related facilities have benefited from her services and her network of care.

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How is Kasia’s practice unique?

1. Whether clinical nutritional one-on-one counseling or the 30-Day Detox Program, Kasia’s services are completely tailored to each patient’s needs. Kasia sees every person as unique with individual needs, and no one food protocol fits all. That is why she takes time to do critical research and to get to know her patients, allowing up to two hours for an initial appointment.

Some patients seek Kasia as they have tried various things but failed to improve their health. Others take the Detox Program because they are “sick and tired of being sick and tired” or struggle with an auto-immune condition and are confused about how to get started.

2. Kasia combines cutting-edge science, philosophy and practice of whole foods, time-tested nutritional approaches from many cultures, and intelligent and sensitive support in one’s journey to wellness. She keeps abreast with scientific research for her patients, ensuring that they receive the most effective service.

3. She may be the only licensed nutritionist in the Baltimore Metro area who specializes in environmental aspects of nutrition. Kasia believes it is simply no longer possible to promote healthy nutrition and improve patients’ health while ignoring toxic insult from our homes (yes, our homes, which are more polluted than the outdoors), the immediate environment, water, cosmetics, drugs, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, food colorings, additives and preservatives now routinely embedded in food sources.

For example, did you know that when the Environmental Working Group tested ten newborn babies, all of them had an average of 200 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in their umbilical cords? These included the banned pesticide DDT, pesticide dieldrin, perfluorochemicals (fluoride added to drinking water?), brominated fire retardants (from your upholstery and beds), PCBs (e.g. dangerously high in farmed salmon, consuming which can increase risk of cancer), polyaromatic hydrocarbons, dioxins (many sources, including car exhaust or smoke from a fire from a burning house or a forest), mercury, and others. Kasia works with patients and her network of care to try and unravel mysterious symptoms caused by one or a combination of these insults to the body.

4. Detoxification

Kasia is committed to educating the general population about the need to detoxify the body and ward off chronic disease and cancer. Our new reality, which she calls “toxic sludge”, led her to re-evaluate current nutritional therapies and create a specific program that would provide much needed support for patients in need of cleansing from the daily exposure to toxins. That is how the 30-Day-Whole Foods Detoxification Program was born. Patient feedback cumulatively showed remarkable health improvements over time, far beyond the results Kasia had been able to achieve in general one-on-one nutritional counseling. The Program is surprisingly gentle, without food restrictions, fasting, juicing, or dieting. Its strength lies in science, individualized protocols, shopping and cooking education of whole-foods, and individual and group support. Due to repeated requests, Kasia has also made the Program available to patients out of state via internet and phone.

5. Food Allergies and Special Dietary Preferences

Kasia specializes in nutrition therapy for food allergies and sensitivities combined with hands-on fun and cooking re-education. Kasia teaches her patients how to prepare simple and healing plant-based whole foods (free of: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, corn, and meat, fish, and any other allergens). She also works with dietary restrictions and preferences such as vegetarian, vegan, or raw food diets.

6. Weight

Kasia has a non-diet approach to a safe and sustainable weight loss. She has also helped many patients who struggle keeping weight on due to medical conditions to stabilize while also assisting patients with overweight challenges to lose weight gradually and safely.

How Hard is it to Make a Change? Making positive behavioral changes, including those related to food, requires effort, time, and patience. First, you must be willing to introduce a new behavior. Did you know that it takes about 2 months to make your new behavior a habit? That is why you won’t succeed unless you commit to yourself and to working together. In return, you will learn tools, techniques, and needed practical skills to incorporate whole foods, make quick healthy meals, combat negative self-talk, and create a healthier body-image. In short, you will gain needed support to overcome barriers to altering your nutritional habits so that you can start living a more vibrant and radiant life.