Amber Lynn Vitale is a Certified Nutritionist, Ayurvedic Clinical Consultant, and is a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional™, Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition®.
She is the creator and instructor of Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine at Wild Rose College.
She now lives on a 25-acre farm in Montana where she puts theory into practice rejuvenating the soil, improving plant and animal health as well as that of her family and community, and discovering the herbs that the land offers for the people living in that ecosystem.
Amber’s educational background includes the Medical Sciences, Integrative Bodywork, Integrative Nutrition, Ayurvedic Medicine, Yoga Therapy, and Dietary Supplement Formulation. She sits on the advisory board for Natural Practitioner and Taste for Life magazines, and since 2008 she has been producing written and video educational content for many publications, an educational YouTube channel, and Instagram and Facebook pages.
Amber has maintained an Integrative Nutrition practice since 2003 in collaboration with Functional Medicine healthcare providers and is an active member of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals.
Amber is passionate about traditional foods, herbs, and regenerative farming, and incorporates these important lifestyle concepts into her nutrition education. Her practice today seeks to simplify health optimization by addressing the few common core deficiencies affecting all of us in modern civilization. She believes we all benefit most from utilizing the foods and herbs that thrive where we live, rather than importing herbs from other ecosystems, and her goal is to restore the human relationship with plants through caretaking and stewardship.
Favourite herb: “St. John’s Wort. It grows all around me in Montana. Farmers and ranchers try to eradicate it because the county says it is invasive and toxic to livestock. And yet right here in our back yard is a topical wound healer, sun protectant, healer of damaged skin due to summers farming under the intense Montana sun. Internally this herb provides an uplifted mood during the long, dark Montana winters as it carries within it the agni (fire) of the Solstice Sun. It is the perfect example of ‘exactly what we need can be found right in our own backyards’.”
Fun Fact: “I used to speak fluent Russian, still speak it well enough. I studied it as my minor in college, as I had some James Bond fantasy that I’d be a spy or a diplomat as the Soviet Union had just fallen and Russia was opening up for business. My, how things can change!”