ABOUT US
We’re the husband‑wife team behind Getting Functional, a family first wellness space for busy parents who want holistic health to feel natural in everyday life, not like a second full time job.
We’re raising two girls (6 and 4), homeschooling, working, and walking through our own stories of military injuries, medication dependency, burnout, and hormone imbalance. So everything we share is rooted in real life wellness, not theory.
Here you’ll find practical family protocols, kids’ immunity and sick day guides, simple parent friendly workouts, non‑toxic home and shopping tips, plus honest conversations about faith, resilience, and grace when routines fall apart.
As a Functional Medicine Dietitian and a Health & Lifestyle Coach & Homeschool Mom, we blend expert insight with lived experience so you can make holistic wellness a natural part of your busy life without burning out.
leveraging my past for your future health
MY ROOT CAUSE DISCOVERY
I spent my childhood in sunny South Florida, where playing sports sparked a passion for nutrition and athletic performance that shaped my life. My interest deepened at Florida State University, where I graduated in 2001 with a degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science. After college, I worked as a personal trainer and performance coach, helping others improve their fitness and nutritional habits with science-based strategies and practical coaching.
Following the events of September 11, I felt called to serve my country and enlisted in the United States Navy as a Hospital Corpsman, providing medical support and care to fellow service members. In 2007, after sustaining serious injuries during deployment, I was placed on a long list of pharmaceutical drugs. The side effects led to high blood pressure, cholesterol problems, and severe anxiety and depression, making my transition to civilian life incredibly challenging. At my lowest point, after a second overdose in 2013, I discovered the power of Functional Medicine and started working with a specialist who guided me through eliminating these medications—one by one—and restored my health through alternative therapies including targeted nutrition, disciplined exercise, meditation, supplementation, heat/cold exposure, vitamin IVs, and hormone balance.
Determined to empower others with the knowledge that changed my life, I returned to college to become a Registered Dietitian and earned a master’s degree in Nutrition and Functional Medicine. My journey taught me how crucial it is to understand root causes—rather than relying on endless consultations and generic diets—and to set meaningful goals for lasting wellness.
Today, I’m a dad to two healthy girls, a husband, and a passionate advocate for self-empowered health. My mission is to share inside functional medicine hacks and strategies that allow people to become the experts of their own bodies. Every ebook, guide, course, and membership I create is designed not just to solve health challenges, but to give people the practical tools, protocols, and confidence to take charge of their wellbeing. Whether it’s weight loss, strength building, overcoming depression and PTSD, healing autoimmune and gastrointestinal issues, correcting hormone imbalances, or breaking free from pharmaceutical dependence—I want to help you move away from generic, one-size-fits-all advice and towards true personalized health optimization. My mission now is to use this deep, functional, and science-based knowledge to help you skip the years of struggle I went through. If you're ready to put the performance advantage back into your health, I invite you to unlock my digital resources and start getting functional.
— Reed Zatlow, MS, RDN
NICE TO MEET YOU,
I’m a mom of two girls, homeschooling and running our home, while trying to live out the same healthy, realistic lifestyle I want to share with you. I wasn’t raised in a “wellness” world, I grew up in a traditional Cuban household after my parents migrated from Cuba in 2002, where food was about love, culture, and having a full plate, not about balance or nutrition.
As a kid and teen, I struggled with my weight and my relationship with food. In high school, I got really passionate about “being healthy,” but that often meant yo‑yo dieting, over exercising, and not truly nourishing my body. My parents watched those patterns take a toll on my physical and emotional health, and eventually I started working with a dietitian. That experience was a turning point, not only for me, but for my whole family.
Together, we began to rethink the way we cooked and ate, honoring our Cuban roots while shifting away from the idea that “more food is always better” toward balanced meals and healthier alternatives that didn’t feel restrictive. Seeing my mom change, cook with me, and care about nutrition because of my struggles lit a fire in me. It’s what first sparked my passion for health and wellness and showed me how powerful guidance and education can be.
Those sessions with my dietitian were so impactful that I decided I wanted to do the same for others. I went on to study nutrition, and that’s where I met my husband, the father of our two girls and now my partner in this work. Hearing his story of military injuries, medication dependency, and how functional medicine transformed his health opened my eyes even more. Wellness, I realized, had to be about the whole person and the whole family, not just about diets or numbers on a scale.
Today, as a Health & Lifestyle Coach & Homeschool Mom, I bring all of that with me: my Cuban upbringing, my history with dieting and healing my relationship with food, my experience as a stay‑at‑home mom, and the functional medicine perspective I’ve learned alongside my husband. We’ve both been in your shoes, tired, overwhelmed, wanting to do better but not knowing where to start. Our heart is to simplify wellness and show you how simple, realistic tools can fit into a busy, imperfect life so you can feel more present, more grounded, and more at home in your body and your family.
