Dana M. Elia, DCN, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, is an integrative and functional nutrition doctor and a registered and licensed dietitian nutritionist with over 25 years of clinical experience. Born and raised in New Jersey, Dr. Elia relocated in 2001 to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she is the owner of Fusion Integrative Health and Wellness, LLC, which was honored with the 2019 Best of Lancaster Award in the nutritionist category. Dr. Elia enjoys writing about diet and nutrition and sees the process as a means to help people identify the underlying root causes of the barriers preventing them from optimal wellness. She is also the author of The Stem Cell Activation Diet<./i>. In her free time, she loves hiking, camping at the Delaware seashore, traveling with her husband James, scuba diving, or going on an adventure with her rescued lab, Champ.