Mary Purdy, MS, RDN, CD holds a master’s degree from Bastyr University, where she currently teaches. Mary spent three years as adjunct professor at Bastyr and five years as a clinical supervisor at The Bastyr Center for Natural Health. From 2015-2019 she worked at the wellness company, Arivale, as a Coach and Clinical Education Lead, providing both training to coaches and nutrition and lifestyle counseling to clients using a personalized medicine approach that considered nutritional genetics, blood analyte biomarkers, microbiome, and salivary cortisol. Before her work with Arivale, Mary was in private practice for eight years working with hundreds of patients on a variety of health issues.

Mary is the co-author and creator of the revised “Environmental Toxins, Exposure, and Elimination” module of the Certificate of Training Program offered by The Academy Center for Lifelong Learning, and she co-authored the Diet Appendix for The Anti-Inflammatory Diet chapter for the fourteenth and fifteenth editions of Krause's “Food & The Nutrition Care Process.” She has presented at FNCE, the Washington State Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, the Austin Alliance of Registered Dietitians, and Integrative Medicine for the Underserved. Mary was the keynote speaker at Bastyr University’s commencement ceremony in 2019. She is also Past Chair of Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine (DIIFM), host of the web series and podcast “Mary’s Nutrition Show,” and author of the book “Serving the Broccoli Gods.”

The presenter reports the following relevant disclosures: she has received honoraria from Wellevate, Emerson Ecologics, Simple Mills, and Biome Bliss; she is faculty at IFNA Academy; Board Member & Past Chair for the DPG Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine; and a Board Member: Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. She has certified that no conflict of interest exists for this program. View our disclosure policy.