Get to know me:

Hi! My name is Dr. Jennifer Wells. I was born in West Virginia and attended WVU for undergrad and dental school.  I moved to North Carolina and opened my dental practice First Impressions Family Dentistry in 2013.  

I spent many years in a high stress, go go go state of mind, which may have been the initial trigger for all my health issues.  I spent years going to the doctor complaining about symptoms, nausea, extreme fatigue, frequent migraines, extremely sore muscles, I couldn’t go thru a day without a nap, and every doctor would run blood work and tell me everything was “normal” and send me on my way.  Some even said I was depressed and recommended antidepressants, which I declined. 

After I had my daughter, my symptoms changed again.  I still had fatigue, and nausea, but now I was having vision fatigue, bloating, nausea, body pain, frequent migraines.  I started seeing a vision therapist, and a functional medicine doctor.  Together we began my journey toward stress management, activating the parasympathetic nervous system, and gut health.  But then Covid happened, and my body REVOLTED.   I had panic attacks, fully body rashes, and fast weight gain. I was at a loss, everything I had done previously wasn’t helping.  I sought a new functional nutrition coach and she truly changed my life.  We began with testing, flushing, customized supplements and within 3 months 80% of my symptoms were gone.  The fatigue stuck around, but I was losing weight, my headaches were less frequent, my cycles were more regulated, and best of all my body stopped hurting.  Functional health is a journey, one I’m still on every day, working to help the symptoms from the stress factors in life that I cannot change.

Throughout my journey, I became passionate about alternative health and functional nutrition.  And now I want to help others have the same life changing experience I did.