FDNTHRIVE - Key Persons


Brandy Buskow - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Brandy has been a certified FDN practitioner and member of the FDN® team since 2014. She's devoted to helping new practitioners successfully guide clients on their paths to get well and stay well naturally.

Dr. Alan Weinstein

After 25 years of practice, Dr. Weinstein combined his exercise expertise with direct to consumer marketing where he wrote, produced, directed and starred in his own long form infomercial, for an exercise device of his own invention. During this time he worked with Eric Stilson who many of you know for his hugely successful marketing campaigns for HealthRider, Bowflex and the AbDoer. He honed his marketing media skills with Mercury Media and Euro RSG the largest media buyers in the world. He then went on to work with Alex Mandossian, Paul Colligan, and David Jackson, the top innovators in internet marketing today. Having built three successful practices over the last 25 years, he brings an expertise in marketing and media that no one else has.

Dr. Lori Valentine Rose

Job Titles:
  • Certified Nutrition Professional ( CNP )
Lori Valentine Rose, PhD, is the Founder of Hill College Holistic Wellness Pathway, an NANP/NBHWC approved degree program and AHG member school. She is the owner of Lori Rose Holistic, a private clinical herbal, holistic nutrition, and wellness coaching practice. She is a National Board Certified Nutrition Professional (CNP), a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, a Board Registered Herbalist (RH), a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), a Published biologist and ecologist (PhD), a Member of Cook Children's Hospital Johnson County Alliance for Healthy Kids, and a Blue Peak Community Award winner. She is a mom, wife, permaculture farmer, and passionate Zumba and Strong Nation fitness instructor. Her purpose on this earth is to help people find the authenticity, vulnerability, and courage that it takes to follow their dreams. She uses her variety of education in biology, scientific literacy, functional diagnostics, environmental impact, herbalism, coaching, and nutrition to help people feel awesome again and enable them to follow their dreams and make this world a better place. Dr. Lori Valentine Rose (PhD) Certified Nutrition Professional (CNP) Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition Registered Herbalist (AHG) National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner (FDN-P) Hill College Life Sciences Professor Founder of the Hill College Holistic Wellness Pathway www.hillcollege.edu/holisticwellness Office: 817-760-5892

Dr. Sandeep Gupta

Dr. Gupta is a functional medicine and wellness doctor who is passionate about educating and sharing knowledge on some of the most important areas in holistic wellness today. In his daily life, he is a board-certified general practitioner. He runs a busy integrative medicine practice on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Dr Gupta graduated from medical school at the University of Queensland in 1999. He has received specialized training in integrative medicine, and was awarded a Fellowship of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (FACNEM) in 2008 and a Fellowship of the Australian College of General Practitioners FRACGP) in 2010. He also has a physician training certification with Dr Ritchie Shoemaker in biotoxin illness and Masters of Nutrition with Dr Gabriel Cousens in diabetes and living food nutrition. He is a past board member of the Australian Chronic Infectious & Inflammatory Disease Society (ACIIDS) and of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) and a founding and past board member of the International Society for Acquired Environmental Illness (ISEAI). He is on the examining lecturing faculty of ACNEM and is the chair of the legal advocacy committee of the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association (AIMA) where he is a strong advocate for issues threatening the integrative medicine movement overall. He's very proud to be one of the medical directors for Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, and on the advisory board. He has a broad range of interests including environmental medicine, management of complex multi-system illness including mould-related illness, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and chronic infections. His main passion relates to finding the underlying causes and innovated approaches to managing chronic illness, which he teaches through his online and face-to-face courses.

Dr. Thomas Polucki

Dr. Polucki is an Upper Cervical Chiropractor and chiropractic instructor in practice for over 25 years helping provide fast and lasting pain relief without drugs or surgery.

Jo Pate

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
Jo came to FDNthrive® as an entrepreneur, has been a certified FDN® practitioner since 2018, and a member of the FDNthrive® team since 2020. She uses her dual expertise to provide new practitioners the tools to succeed on both client and business platforms.

Reed Davis - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
A triple board-certified Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP), Reed is also a Nutritional Therapist (CNT), an ANWCB Health Coach and a well-known expert in functional lab testing. He's the founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) and the FDN Certification Course, which currently has over 3,000 graduates in 50 countries. Reed Davis, Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT), is an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine. He is the Founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®(FDN) and the FDN Certification Course with over 3,000 graduates in 50 countries. Reed served as the Health Director at a Wellness Center in Southern California for over 10 years and with over 10,000 clients is known as one of the most experienced clinicians in the world. Reed serves on the Advisory Board of the American Natural Wellness Coaches Board and the American Association of Natural Wellness Coaches. He lives in the US and when not teaching the FDN Certification Course and helping his graduates build their private practices, he is usually found gardening or riding motorcycles.