With functional, environmental, and regenerative health expertise, Tod Wickersham is a Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor & Lifestyle Practitioner who helps men and women improve their energy, increase mental focus, overcome brain fog and have a healthy relationship with food to get their edge and joy back, be productive, reap the benefits of improved health and realize their personal and professional goals.

With more than three decades of holistic health and wellness experience along with an updated education and certifications from the Functional Nutrition Alliance, he brings his clients a broad knowledge, strong intuition, deep listening skills with proven processes to understand their unique nature, identify their challenges, and achieve their goals.  

While most medical practitioners are sincere and well meaning, Tod is frustrated by the suffering that is caused and the amount of money and time that is wasted by the predominant medical paradigm that can prejudge patients based on appearance and seems to primarily focus on reducing symptoms of patients with chronic health conditions and not addressing the root cause(s). As implied above, Tod shares his knowledge and wisdom with the goal that his clients transform their health to resolve both their unwelcome symptoms and the conditions causing the symptoms. 

Tod Wickersham’s passion for health and wellness along with four catalyzing experiences ultimately led him to become a full time Functional Nutrition Counselor & Lifestyle Practitioner in 2021. During the prior decades his health, wellness and spiritual counseling was limited to a part-time focus by joyfully raising wonderful daughters and his environmental consulting career which focused on profitably assisting individuals, businesses and non-profits thrive for the benefit of people and the environment. During this time, he also promoted regenerative agriculture, worked cleaning up hazardous waste, increasing recycling, advancing environmental justice in under-served communities, successfully organizing lobbying efforts for clean air legislation, and implementing clean air programs.

The four catalyzing experiences: 

1. After more than a decade of chronic and painful eczema and no cure being offered by dermatologists, in the mid-1980s he completely and permanently healed the eczema with acupuncture, herbal treatments, and reducing sugar and dairy consumption.
2. After hitting his head in a 2007 car crash, he completed two years of forced study on brain health, oxygen therapies, detoxes, neurotransmitters, and nutrition that resulted in him healing from the mild traumatic brain injury/concussion and the associated brain fog and memory issues. During this time he enhanced his energy/stamina and resolved unrelated recurring gut dysbiosis. 
3. After his father was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer in the early 2000s, he spent more than a decade researching the foundations of health and healing. Because of his father’s challenges and some of his own, he focused his learning on men’s health, BPH, afib, longevity, and cancer healing. At this point, he provided clients counseling and coaching on a variety of ways of eating for health, cleanses, supplements, oxygen therapies, and served his clients with other holistic modalities. In collaboration with other experts and learning the non-diet approach of intuitive eating, he also addressed his own weight issue and concerning health challenges. 
4. Having moved to Madison Wisconsin for love at the beginning of the COVID crisis, Tod was afforded the time to deepen his medical knowledge and update his functional skills. He completed two comprehensive functional nutrition and health training programs at the Functional Nutrition Alliance and passed the certification tests to become a Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor (CFNC) and a Certified Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner (FNLP). These programs, based on the functional medicine model of practice, teach the art of identifying roots of clients’ challenges and the terrain that affects them.  With a systems approach to restoring and building the foundations  of health, Tod now helps his clients uncover the roots and address the terrain of their conditions to transform their health and benefit their overall well-being.  

Based on the experience gained from these catalyzing events, a comprehensive training on intuitive eating, insights from the Medical Medium and additional trainings in genetics/DNA influences, Tod now provides his clients proven systems-approaches to help them improve their terrain, increase their energy, mental clarity and focus, frequently, without expensive lab tests or special supplements. This also comes with increased health, joy and vitality and healthy relationships with food.  

Additional Experience 

During the 35 years serving clients, he completed many trainings in acupressure, massage, exercise, sound healing, EFT, Chi Gong and Reiki. He has expertise leading groups and facilitating meetings, as well as, creating safe and healthy homes and workplaces. He has also led prayer and meditation gatherings, provided spiritual counseling and healing, and was a hospice pastoral care volunteer. 

What might surprise you about Tod

Tod has grown healthy food in six states, advocated for soil health programs/legislation and ecosystem restoration in five states, and collaborated with cutting edge regenerative farmers. He’s driven by his commitment to wellness, his love of people and a gratitude for the natural environment, as well as the delicious taste of nutrient dense regeneratively raised/grown foods. He thoroughly enjoys teaching clients and the public ways to grow well, cook well, eat well, and live well for the betterment of themselves, their families, and the planet. 

How to work with Tod 

Tod would love to chat with you about your energy, mental clarity, productivity and health goals to see how working together can help you reach them. Use this link to schedule a free health strategy call or contact him by clicking that message icon below.