Angela Pifer – Functional Medicine Nutritionist, MS, LCN, CN, FMN
Angela is one of the nation’s foremost functional medicine nutrition and health experts, and an accomplished speaker and radio personality. Her 35 years in the health and fitness industry and the past 21 years as a Functional Medicine Nutritionist focusing in the areas of digestive health, functional gut disorders, thyroid, autoimmune and SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth), have earned Angela, recognition as the go-to gut expert who can show even the most health challenged, how to restore their gut health and vitality.
Although she doesn’t look it, she’s 54 years old! She knows how to heal the gut, and keep both energetic and glowing.
She is a GI Health Researcher, Functional Medicine Educator, Licensed Certified Nutritionist and focuses all her continued education on GI conditions.
Angela sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of Physician’s Choice, who sells the number one selling probiotic in America.
Affectionately known to her patients as ‘SIBO Guru,’ within her private practice SIBO Guru she applies functional medicine and integrative functional nutrition into an evidence based approach along with clinical know-how to create an individualized approach for each patient.
Angela’s practice is focused on finding the root cause of her patient’s symptoms. She also educates people on the myths that surround SIBO.
In 2016 Angela founded Simply SIBO to help the functional gut community.
Simply SIBO – a gut prescription subscription recipe site, which helps people with functional gut disorders expand their diet! Create meal plans that nourish, stabilize and calm symptoms. Angela is on a mission to prevent SIBO sufferers from unnecessarily going on a restrictive diet and to help those who have been stuck on a restrictive diet for too long, expand their diet.
Angela earned a BS in psychology and an MS in Nutrition Science from Bastyr University, where she has also taught clinical practice and business development and still mentors nutrition and dietetic students. She is a licensed health care provider with the State of Washington, Certified in Functional Medicine and a Level Two Heart Zones Trainer. Angela has advanced training, completing over 3500 continuing education credits focused in the areas of functional medicine, detoxification, parasites and pathogens, SIBO, brain health, digestion and immune/ inflammation.
Beyond Angela’s 20 years in practice and expertise with SIBO, research is her passion. Here are the conferences that she attended in 2024:
- Environmental Health Symposium – Environmental Impact on Long COVID
- Eco-Cellcore – Functional Medicine and Carbon Technology
- Cogence Immunology – 12 month advanced certification
- Kharrazian Institute of Functional Neurology – Gut Health Course Certification
- Kharrazian Institute of Functional Neurology – Food Sensitivities – Solving the Puzzle
- Microbiome Keynote Conference
- Gut Microbiome
- Digestive Disease Week
- GastroANP
- A4M – Longevity Conference
And 2025:
- Eco-Cellcore – Functional Medicine and Longevity
- Cogence Immunology – 12 month advanced certification
- Kharrazian Institute of Functional Neurology – Chronic GI Disorders
- Microbiome Keynote Conference
- AIC Institute of Functional Medicine
- Digestive Disease Week
- PLMI – Chronic Disease
- Vibrant America – Longevity Summit
- A4M – Angela is a speaker
She is also a featured speaker in the SIBO SOS summit, Digestion SOS Docuseries and the Gall Bladder and Liver Summit and the only speaker who’s spoken at all 5 summits.