Meet Jennifer Doering RDH, MS

I built this practice because I became the patient who needed it,  I know exactly how it feels to have answers that don't answer anything. 

With over two decades of clinical dental experience and a Master’s degree in Integrative and Functional Nutrition, I thought I understood health.   

Then my own body started asking questions I didn't have answers to.

I experienced what so many of my clients describe — that frustrating, disorienting place where you know something is wrong, but the standard system keeps telling you everything is fine. Where you're doing what you've been told and still not healing. Where the symptoms are real but the roadmap doesn't exist.

What changed everything for me was understanding the connection between functional health and inflammation. Not as a concept — as a lived experience. When I began applying the principles of functional and integrative nutrition to my own body — addressing sleep, stress, movement, gut health, and what I was eating, not just as lifestyle choices but as biological levers — everything shifted.

I didn't just feel better. I understood, for the first time, why I had felt so unwell. And that understanding — that moment of the body finally making sense — became the thing I most wanted to give other people. 

As an active member of the American Nutrition Association and The Institute for Functional Medicine, I stay at the forefront of emerging research in functional healthcare. 

Beyond the Bite is the practice I built from that experience. Every program, every session, every resource in this community is shaped by what I know now — as a clinician, as a student of functional medicine, and as a patient who found her way back.

 You don't have to have it all figured out before you start. You just have to be willing to look at the whole picture. That's what I'm here to help you do.