Leah Novak is a Master Nutrition Therapist (MNT), Registered Nurse (RN, BSN) and Certified Personal Trainer (CPT). With over 20 years working in the healthcare and fitness industries, Leah specializes in supporting her patients through tailored nutrition with the goal of experiencing more vitality, wellness and energy.

Leah’s career started in the Intensive Care Unit, Chemical Addiction/Rehab, and Perioperative Services at various local hospitals throughout Colorado and in Minnesota. In 2015, her own health issues led her to functional medicine where, as a patient herself, she learned that conventional medicine wasn’t providing the healing she desired. Within a year of using a functional medicine approach, Leah’s physical and mental health improved immensely. So much so, she made a career change to be part of the medicine specialty that better aligned with her values.

She attended the Nutritional Therapy Institute of Denver for just under 3 years to become a Master Nutrition Therapist (MNT), and enjoys ongoing training through The Functional Forum and others. She is also our avid podcast listener (her favorites include The Drive with Peter Attia and The Doctors Farmacy with Mark Hyman) and considers herself a life-long learner.

Leah joined Dr. Maren’s team in January 2019 and hasn’t looked back since! Using her combined knowledge of nutrition, personal training, and nursing, Leah loves helping her patients create personalized, sustainable, lifestyle-based approaches to overall healthy living in support of the overall treatment plan established by Dr. Maren.

Leah’s experience using lifestyle-based approaches is wide-ranging and targets gut health, mental health, cardiometabolic conditions, autoimmunity, and more. Her newest area of excitement is helping her patients better understand the relationship between genes and optimizing health, an area of study called Nutrigenomics.

Outside of work, Leah is a wife, a mother of two, an Orangetheory Fitness Coach, and a group fitness instructor. If she’s not reading about nutrition or listening to medicine- and nutrition-based podcasts, you will find her playing outside in beautiful Colorado, watching sports with her husband, running her kids to their various activities, cooking, walking her dog, or catching up with friends.

A science-based, nutritional approach to health and wellness is essential in achieving and maintaining optimal health. So we are super excited to have Leah’s expertise in our practice! Leah sees new and established patients through telemedicine.