Finding stellar employees in a tight job market has been challenging for business owners, which is why Dee Harris, owner of D-Signed Nutrition, in Bonita Springs, considers herself blessed to have found a gem in Licensed Registered Dietitian Alyson Hornsby, a graduate of the University of Minnesota (UM) Department of Food Science and Nutrition.

While still a student at UM and just weeks after Hurricane Ian, Hornsby contacted Harris asking to join the team as an intern. “I was persistent, and didn’t give up, even after I learned the storm had devastated the area,” Hornsby says. “I wanted to find out if Dee’s office was open, because I’d visited her website and knew that her integrative, medical nutrition therapy and wellness-plans were a good fit for my bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietetics.” 

Hornsby’s persistence paid off. She not only completed her internship at D-Signed Nutrition, learning the art of functional nutrition directly from Harris, but also became a valued member of the practice upon graduation. Today, Hornsby enjoys meeting each client where they are and assessing which dietary habits she can help them shift. Her specialties include medical nutrition therapy, weight management, menu planning, food-product selections, supplements and lab reviews.

Hornsby grew up in the city of Viroqua, in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin known as Bluff Country. The area’s natural characteristics provide good conditions for growing crops and grazing livestock, and Hornsby believes that she was influenced to pursue a career in nutrition by her hometown’s organic farms and artisanal food markets, as well as an enthusiastic high school nutrition teacher, Jane Siemon. “I give a lot of the credit for my passion to Jane, whose cooking classes taught me a lot about the food we grew and the nutritional value it had,” Hornsby explains. “Her husband, George, started Organic Valley, the farmer-owned cooperative, in 1988.” 

Rather than enrolling in college immediately after graduating from high school, Hornsby traveled for several years. During this period, she developed chronic health issues that began with mold allergies. Embarking on a personal journey to find solutions, she discovered the healing power of nutrition, as well as a calling to help others find their own path to wellness.

D-Signed Nutrition is located at 3531 Bonita Bay Blvd., Ste. 300, in Bonita Springs. For more information, call 239-676-5249 or visit D-SignedNutrition.com.

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