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Rebecca Montrone
I first became interested in nutrition at the age of 16. My mother was an Adelle Davis fan, and I picked up her copy of Adelle's book Let's Have Healthy Children and started reading.
​Adelle Davis was a biochemist and nutritionist who at one time served as a consultant for ranchers and as a nutritionist for women who were expecting. She noted that ranchers were much more concerned about the prenatal diets of their cattle than was the average woman.
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When I finished that book I was struck with the profound understanding that...
"...We have so much more control than we know...."
I have since come to understand that "...Epigenetics begins before the womb..."
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Sadly, my mother contracted early-onset Alzheimer's disease. She was only 49 years old when symptoms began to become evident in 1979. This was long before Alzheimer's was a household word; before everyone knew someone who had it. I was her caregiver, and she lived with my husband Dale and I until she died in 1986. I determined to learn all I could to implement what I had been inspired by Adelle Davis to do - take control of my own health as far as possible and to help others do the same.
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While enjoying life as a stay-at-home Mom, I began my holistic health studies with Clayton College of Natural Health, earning a bachelor's degree in Holistic Nutrition, and eventually founding and opening Wondrous Roots in 2005.
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My late father was renowned compounding pharmacist E. George Roentsch, and from him I inherited a passion for research and compounding medicines, but in my case, from natural botanical materials. Throughout my education I studied herbalism and was eager to put my learning into practice.
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Looking Back at a Life Lived with Intensity - by Paul Miller, Keene Sentinel - 2011
Now it's 2024, and here I am, and here we are. I continue to learn every single day as I work with so many wonderful people facing sometimes seemingly insurmountable health challenges, and I am grateful for every single opportunity to be of whatever help I can possibly be. Every morning as I delve into the day and the work before me, I consider myself blessed and am ever grateful to God!
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"Bless the LORD, O my soul, and let ALL that is within me bless His holy name!"
Absolutely everything I am and do - my passion for living, my personal life, my professional life - is the God of the Bible: My Wondrous Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ His magnificent Son and my Savior, and the minute-by-minute comforting, guiding, ever-powerful Holy Spirit.
Thanks to my mother's influence when I was just a wee thing, I have studied the Bible intensively throughout my life, beginning with reading on my own in earnest when I was 7 or 8 years old and including a year of intenstive study at Word of Life Bible Institute in 1980-81.
I continue to study the Word of God every single day. I am not discouraged by the state of the world, disease, suffering, wars, and calamaties.
I believe, like Esther, God has put me here for "such a time as this," and I will do whatever I humbly can to serve Him in His care and compassion for the people He brings my way.
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Rebecca's Heart is my relatively new website dedicated to the sharing of Biblical teaching, education, and inspiration.
If this appeals to you, check it out, sign up, and keep coming back, as it will be ever growing.
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