Ashley Besecker RDN, CD

Ashley has been in practice for over 10 years and is passionate about living a long, balanced, healthy and happy life. She believes that optimal health can be achieved even in the midst of real-life challenges such as depression, anxiety, genetic risk variants and family history of medical ailments. She assesses each client’s individual story, health history, biochemistry, and goals and pulls her expertise from multiple models of care such as Functional Medicine, the Bale Doneen Method for Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention and the Bredesen Protocol for prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease. This provides clients with a well-rounded and evidence-based approach to health. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Science from Pepperdine University, completed her Dietetic Internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Monroe Carell Jr Children’s Hospital, and her Genetics and Genomics Certificate at Stanford University. She is the owner and founder of Crave Health and lives on Mercer Island with her husband, 2 daughters and Boxer pup. Ashley’s client roster is currently full and she is not accepting new patients at this time.