Meet Dr. Champion

A leading Functional Nutrition expert with over 10 years of experience working with complex health conditions.

Dr. Jennifer Champion graduated top of her classes with a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition, a Masters in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine with additional training in Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath and Hypnotherapy. Overcoming her health obstacles has allowed Dr. Champion to approach each client with an unrivaled level of sensitivity and support.

After being raised in an environment where medications were the highlight of care, Dr. Champion’s passion for getting to the root cause of health conditions and willingness to collaborate with the client has allowed her clients to feel better within days instead of months or years. The importance of connection, conversation, and communication is emphasized throughout your entire time with Dr. Champion. You can rest assured that there is no space for judgment in her practice, and she welcomes clients ready to put in the time, energy, and passion for reaching their full health potential.

Works with those who desire positive life changes and are ready to become their best selves.

They know that there is something more to life than their current existence, and they are not afraid to take the reins and make those changes. With collaboration, guidance, and nutritional supervision, Dr. Champion’s clients can start feeling better within days instead of months or years.

The importance of connection, conversation and communication is stressed throughout your entire time with Dr. Champion.

There is no space for judgment in her practice, and she welcomes every client ready to put in the time, energy, and passion to become the most incredible person they can be.

Dr. Jennifer Champion has a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition, a Masters in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and is triple-board certified in Nutrition, Health Coaching & Hypnotherapy

Dr. Champion considers herself a Phoenix rising from the ashes. At age 5, she tragically lost her mother to Lupus. Raised by her highly functioning alcoholic and career-oriented grandparents, who blamed her for her mother’s death, her environment was stressful. Food became her friend and her enemy.

Jennifer’s weight skyrocketed from 80 pounds in kindergarten, to 150 in junior high, to 250 in high school and all the way to 350 pounds in college. Diets, no matter how stringent, never worked and eventually she turned to binging and purging to try to keep her weight under control. Nothing worked and her family shamed and ridiculed her for being overweight.

At the age of 11, her grandmother had her first stroke, and Jennifer had to become her caretaker and assume the “typical woman” responsibilities for the household. Her family was deeply entrenched in their facade of perfection, desperately trying to cover up the truth behind the front door.

By the time she turned 15, Jennifer would again experience the loss of a family member; this time, her grandfather. Relieved but also blaming herself because she had often been told that she was the cause of their additional stress, she tried to take her own life. Fortunately, she didn’t succeed.

While in college, working to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Jennifer was diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) and told she would never have a child. She was also identified as being on the Autism Spectrum. Devastated that she was so far from the perfection she strived for, she embarked upon a wild and dangerous path.

With time and healing, she decided to lose weight through healthy means, start putting herself first, and figure out how to work with her diagnoses instead of rebelling against it.

At age 28, she stepped into a gym for the first time. Little by little, the weight came off. Fourteen months later, with a lot of hard work, eating right, and working out, she lost 105 pounds. She felt amazing!

Shortly after, Dr. Champion found herself pregnant – against all the odds and in defiance of what her expensive endocrinologists told her. Her life would forever change at this moment because she knew that nutrition could truly change lives.

About a year after Jennifer’s son was born, her grandmother began having frequent strokes and seizures. Within the next year, the woman who raised her took her final breaths. As she watched her grandmother slowly fade away, Jennifer realized that she was brought here to help the women of this planet.

Her purpose, she realized, is to help others thrive, to find their health and their voice.

This was a pivotal point for her, and she moved from pursuing a Bachelor’s in Psychology to applying for a degree in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.

Jennifer promised herself, in honor of her mother and grandmother- whom she missed dearly – that she would work to reach as many people as she could and help them become the women they are meant to be.

This passion eventually carried her through earning her Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition. Her dissertation and final research presentation were on PCOS.

Today, Dr. Jennifer Champion has a thriving practice in the Tacoma, Washington area and sees clients nationwide. She has a passion for her clients that is contagious.

She has the ability to make you feel like you can do anything because she believes that there is no end to your potential except the limits that you put on yourself.