Jill Grunewald HNC

Jill Grunewald, HNC, Integrative Nutrition and Hormone Coach, is a thyroid health and autoimmunity specialist. For nearly a decade, she has successfully guided her clients with hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s to health and vitality.

Since graduating from nutrition school in 2006, she has taken part in many courses lead by members of the functional medicine community. In early 2018, she’ll graduate with a certificate from the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, in partnership with the prestigious Institute for Functional Medicine.

Jill has suffered from alopecia (autoimmune hair loss), off and on, since 1982 and in early 2008, was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s. She knew that taking thyroid drugs “for life,” with no consideration for why her thyroid was under-functioning or what to do about her immune dysregulation was not the answer, so she immersed herself in learning everything she could about autoimmunity and hypothyroidism and how to manage these conditions with whole foods, botanicals, lifestyle modifications, and other natural therapies.

Jill’s Hashimoto’s remains successfully managed without thyroid drugs. And unlike many with alopecia, her bald spots always grow back.

In her coaching practice, Healthful Elements, Jill not only specializes in hypothyroidism and

Hashimoto’s, but also other autoimmune conditions (especially alopecia and Graves’), adrenal dysfunction/HPA axis dysfunction, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), perimenopause/menopause, and pre-diabetes/diabetes.

Jill has written for various publications, blogs, and online magazines, including Huffington

Post, MindBodyGreen, and Experience Life magazine and has contributed to articles in Self and

Shape magazines.

She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Mark, and daughter, Harriet.