Lyn Finnegan, BSN, RN FNLP, CFNC

Hello, I am Lyn Finnegan, founder of 3-8 Functional Wellness. I have made it my mission to help others by filling in the gap between the medical field and patient care. After dealing with my parents' cancer diagnosis, my daughter’s health issues, along with working in the clinical setting and hearing so many people feel lost and hopeless, I realized there was a huge need not only to educate the person who had just been delivered a diagnosis, but also help people maneuver the medical arena. It became a point of frustration to me that society as a whole is getting sicker and not getting better. Two thirds of the population is now on Pharma meds, and medicine has now become completely Pharma focused. Medicine needs to swing back the other way to  lifestyles medicine. It’s been proven that the day to day actions have the biggest impact on health. Something needs to change, so,  I decided to become a leader and find a new way to help people approach their healthcare. 

I practice holistically, getting back to roots of my nurse training and treating the person as individual. This will be done by developing a therapeutic partnership to begin to fill in the places where time does not allow Drs to help educate on diet and other therapeutics concerning a patients medical conditions. I am coming from a root cause resolution strategy to back everything up and see where the problem occurred, not just see the symptoms.  I believe in the multi-factorial approach in helping people get to their best health possible.   After becoming an RN, I understood how the system worked and really believed in it. When I adopted our child from China is when I started to question the system. Lacking in proper nutrition from an early age, she had some minor problems which we tried to fix. However, things were not improving and Dr after Dr just wanted to put her on medications which had numerous side effects. Searching for alternative answers, I found functional medicine. This. Changed. Our. Lives. We started treating the root causes of our daughter’s conditions and unbelievably she got healthier and healthier without Pharma drugs.  From this point on, I looked at medicine through a new lens. I believe drugs have a place in medicine, but I don’t believe it has to always be the first “go to”.  

 As I began to research, learn and soak up alternative ways of healing, my passion grew. Many times I have felt like an outsider, swimming against the current of modern medicine, but as I began helping my own family and friends with their health issues, I realized this new way of thinking was needed now more than ever. I finally went back to school to train and started a business- 3-8 Functional Wellness.   Today, I do private counseling with people and try to help fill in the medical gaps. I use a functional model that presents an ideal scenario for addressing individualized care. As a Functional Nutrition Counselor I will help bridge this GAP between the physician and the patient to yield both better and more sustainable outcomes.

 When we fill the GAP, we solve two of the problems in the current healthcare terrain: • Physicians get the support they need • Patients get the support they need. Win-win!    I have enjoyed helping people and seeing them attain their goals. I am grateful that I can do what I am passionate about. Everyday presents new people with new conditions that I am happy to dive into and try to become a detective to figure out the puzzle. Additionally, it’s a joy for me to embrace who I am and practice in an area that brings me both challenges and  struggles. I work with a tenacity to find the root cause along with kindness and compassion to help people heal. Working with me can be life changing, if you are ready to take the first step and break free of the standard model of care, email, call or text me.

 Let’s get started on regaining your health. Together we can create a healthier world, and future of health care.