What is a Health Coach?
Health coaches are certified experts on human lifestyle behaviors, self-motivation, and overall health and wellness. A health coach empowers people to discover their own, unique WHY behind their reasons and desires for change. Health coaches support and guide their clients to be their own experts on themselves, including their mind, body and circumstances they live within. Learn more about health coaches here.
Jill is committed to:
Working with clients as a partner, guide, and support system
Developing solutions with clients based on their unique goals and circumstances
Empowering clients to become experts on their own health
Addressing all aspects of health and wellness, beyond the reach of conventional healthcare models
Jill’s Story
In developing a deep connection and interest in improving her health and wellness, Jill started her evidence-based health journey at age 16. She ate based on the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.), feeling zero consequences for eating anything she wanted, without regard to nutrition. Jill began researching various dietary theories to improve her overall health and sports performance. She experimented with many different eating methods to support a healthy lifestyle, including vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, gluten-free, paleo, keto, and carnivore and finally landed on an animal-based diet.
In 2000, after giving birth to her 4th of 5 children, Jill had a partial thyroidectomy (removing half of the thyroid gland), which was the beginning of a cascade of chronic health conditions for decades. Sleep disturbances, hormonal fluctuations, low energy and libido, cognition issues, hair loss, weight gain, weight loss, and heart palpitations were just some of the chronic health issues she faced.
Later, Jill discovered that she was homozygous for the MTHFR C677t genetic SNP (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase single nucleotide polymorphism), which indicates the MTHFR gene is operating at a 30% capacity. This placed her at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancers, neurological disorders, and methylation issues. For the past 24 years, Jill has focused on integrative nutrition and holistic lifestyle practices to optimize her health, improve lab results, maintain lean muscle mass, and personalize her nutrition and supplementation. This created a unique health equation that supported her thriving hair growth, optimal thyroid function, maintaining ideal body composition, consistent restorative sleep, and navigating peri-menopause and menopause while mitigating chronic symptoms.
Jill received a B.A. in Psychology from The George Washington University, where she began mastering her coaching skills, including the psychology of changing lifestyle habits. She completed the Institute for Integrative Nutrition Health Coach program in 2018, the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy program in 2019, and the Revero Carnivore Coaching program in 2021. In October 2021, she passed the National Board of Health & Wellness Coaches exam, collaborating with the National Board of Medical Examiners, representing the training, education, and assessment skills needed to help support her clients at the highest level.
She is the founder of Jill Foos Wellness, a private health coaching business in Chicago that virtually serves individuals worldwide. Jill helps her clients achieve their health and wellness goals through functional medicine, nutritional strategies, and integrative health practices. Her clients achieve dramatic health and lifestyle results thanks to the individualized consultative partnership they develop.
Credentials
National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)
October – 2021
Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Certified Health Coach
May – 2018
Functional Medicine Coaching Academy
Certified Health Coach
August – 2019
Revero
Certified Carnivore Coach
June – 2021
Designs For Health
Dietary Supplement Specialist
February - 2023
Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Gut Health Specialist
August - 2023