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About
Dr. Courtney Hunt has spent the majority of her career as a board certified OBGYN helping women, mothers, and their children deal with 21st Century illnesses that current medical textbooks fail to address. Most of these illnesses arise from our changing, modern environment. After many years delivering babies, Dr. Hunt grew tired of seeing mother after mother, and woman after woman, come in feeling exhausted, foggy, achy, and sad. Worse yet, she grew concerned about the growing number of sick children these women were bringing in with them; children of all ages.
Dr. Hunt herself was a busy delivering obstetrician and operating gynecologist and has spent years translating that expertise into figuring out how to make surgery and pharmaceuticals less necessary and lifestyle more important in the path to wellness. She began to study nutrigenetics many years ago when she started to realize that the majority of her pregnant patients were nutrient depleted and grew concerned over the impact this could have on the fetus.
Early Passion for Medicine
Since childhood, Dr. Hunt had a desire to become a physician, especially when at the age of 13 her grandmother developed ALS also known as Lou Gherig’s disease. This motivated her at age 17 to attend The University of California at Berkeley as an integrative biology major with a focus on reproductive endocrinology, genetics, and neuroscience. She graduated from medical school at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine at 25 and completed her residency at UCLA, ultimately administrative chief resident.
Founding Desert Jewel OBGYN & Expanding Focus
After practicing in California, she moved to Arizona at 29 and founded Desert Jewel OBGYN in 2005. There, she encountered numerous patients with chronic conditions like fatigue, autoimmune diseases, and hormonal issues who had been previously overlooked or inadequately treated. This led Dr. Hunt to study genetics and its relationship with environmental factors and lifestyle choices to better serve her patients.
Personal Insights & The Gut-Brain Connection
In addition, her husband was diagnosed with Celiac Sprue shortly after they were married. A childhood disease that was missed in him despite numerous doctor’s visits until well into adulthood with almost catastrophic ramifications. This spurred her to deepen her knowledge of the gastrointestinal tract and the affect our food choices as well as the microbiome have on it and it’s connection to our brains.
Breakthrough in Nutrigenetics & Mitochondrial Health
Looking beyond traditional medical training, Dr. Hunt turned to nutrigenetics. Her experience with BRCA cancer gene testing led her to realize that genes could provide a healing roadmap. She discovered that mitochondria, as cellular energy producers, play a crucial role in controlling nuclear DNA.
How Courtney helps you
Educational consults with Dr. Hunt will address all of these issues as they relate to your genetics, your mitochondrial DNA, and your environment. They will take into account your sleep, your light environment or circadian signaling, your diet, and your genetics.
Environment is key to our health, not just genetics. By adjusting our diet, supplements, light exposure, and stress levels around our genetic predispositions, we can help our bodies heal and thrive. Come to your consultation with clear health goals and a vision for your wellness. Your genetics provide the roadmap, but you have the power to create your optimal health.
We are looking forward to meeting you.
- Courney Hunt
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