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Familys Health Results Drive Mother To Open Deluge Health Spa – Patch.com

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SPRINGFIELD, VA After Fiona Duncan had spent around 20 years as a practicing pharmacist health reasons led her to explore a new path.

Her daughter was experiencing digestive and gut issues, as well as skin breakouts, leading to some emergency room visits. Duncan found no results to help her daughter, and she even had to transfer her daughter to another high school due to an allergy to mold.

Then a friend introduced her to functional nutrition. This concept looks at the origin of health challenges rather than the disease or diagnosis itself. The personalized plans use food and other lifestyle functions like sleep, exercise and stress relief.

When Duncan's daughter entered a 12-week functional nutrition program, her skin had cleared up and her gut issues were improving by the end of three months. But after the program had stopped, her daughter's issues started to return.

That's why Duncan decided to learn functional nutrition so she could treat her daughter herself. On top of that, Duncan also experienced fatigue from a demanding job but didn't have a clinical diagnosis. She saw results herself from functional nutrition, along with family members.

"Seeing the results with my family members and my daughter and myself, it was no choice," said Duncan. "It was like, you have to share this."

With her daughter's health and Duncan's own deteriorating health from a demanding job in mind, Deluge Health Spa was born. The business opened in January 2019 at 8336 Traford Lane in West Springfield.

The business offers two main services: the 12-week functional nutrition program guided by Duncan and infrared sauna therapy sessions. Duncan is also preparing to launch a metabolic reset program early in 2022 after running a 14-person testing group starting at Thanksgiving. The metabolic reset program is focused on weight loss by addressing the needs of the mind, body and spirit.

While the functional nutrition program can be conducted virtually, the sauna therapy is the one component clients can get at Deluge Health Spa's brick-and-mortar location. Infrared sauna therapy is designed to help with de-stressing, improving cardiovascular health, reducing pain and more. The business has four private sauna suites for 20-minute or 40-minute sauna sessions.

As the COVID-19 pandemic started just over a year after Deluge Health Spa opened, the business, like others, saw some pause or cancel their memberships. But the business started seeing appointments go up for sauna sessions a few months into the pandemic, as COVID-19 restrictions had closed gyms they would normally go to.

On the health side, Duncan said the pandemic highlighted health disparities and the need for better nutrition and health care.

For instance, she noted African American people tend to have low vitamin D levels, and sufficient vitamin D levels may be linked with less severe COVID-19 symptoms, studies show. With the functional nutrition approach, she believes getting a disease or diagnosis under control with medication doesn't mean you aren't still susceptible to other diseases. She sees nutrition-based care, lifestyle changes and supplements will have the strongest impact on chronic conditions.

"If you're not looking at the underlying cause, you're still going to have that challenge," said Duncan.

Duncan admitted her business struggled during the pandemic, even though she saw new clients. She took a contracting job for six months and continued to balance a few clients for the functional nutrition program. She also got a grant through Fairfax County's COVID-19 grant program for businesses.

Deluge Health Spa is a member of the Northern Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce, which provides tools to help Black-owned businesses succeed. Duncan was previously part of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce and didn't know there was a Black chamber in Northern Virginia. She decided to switch to get a different perspective and says it can help small companies that normally don't have the resources for advertising and media relations. Duncan looks forward to getting involved with the chamber's programs later, she is focusing on launching Deluge Health Spa's new metabolic reset program for now.

The goals Duncan has for Deluge Health Spa focus on growing services. She wants to bolster online course offerings for those who may not be ready for a bigger commitment like the functional nutrition program. For instance, one potential course could be focused on improving sleep. Duncan is also interested in training pharmacists in functional nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

In the short term, Duncan wants to recruit people to try a five-pound weight loss challenge in the new year. Adding foot traffic to the brick-and-mortar location for sauna sessions and drawing a more diverse clientele will be other priorities.

In the long term, Duncan hopes her program can turn into a larger program she calls a self-help institute.

"I imagine having a big enough place where it's an all-inclusive teaching how to get healthy," said Duncan. "It's a course you go through where you learn what is functional nutrition."

For more information about Deluge Health Spa, visit delugespa.com.

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