A 10-unit study of herbal therapeutics and herbal formulations with dedicated focus on digestive, immune, nervous, respiratory, cardiovascular, liver, and hormonal support extending my root cause toolkit beyond nutrition and into plant medicine.
The Herbal Academy
The Intermediate herbal course
herbalist
Clinical nutrition assessments, diagnoses, and intervention planning with multidisciplinary care teams.
Advanced functional nutrition training through the IFNA in partnership with the Institute for Functional Medicine.
1,200+ hours of supervised practice across clinical, community, and food service management rotations. Leadership & Project Management concentration.
Clinical Dietitian
Integrative & Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner (IFNCP)
Dietetic Internship
B.S. Human Nutrition & Foods
Foundational training in nutritional science, dietetics, and food as medicine.
Ben Taub Hospital Level 1 Trauma Center
Integrative & functional nutrition academy
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
The University of Houston
Behind the Practice
Education, Training, Licenses, & Certifications
My Credentials: RD, LD, IFNCP
Meet Alah Elasmar, a Functional Medicine Dietitian & Herbalist who takes a whole body, root-cause approach to health.
Functional Medicine Dietitian · Herbalist | Founder of Made with Barakah
I received my Bachelors of Science in Human Nutrition and Foods at the University of Houston. In between graduating and completing my dietetic internship at Illinois State University, I spent time overseas, completing a semester in an MBA program at Birzeit University in Palestine and a nine-month program in Islamic Sciences and Classical/Qur’anic Arabic through Al-Madina Institute and Ibn Khaldun University in Istanbul.
I went on to receive advanced training in Integrative and Functional Nutrition from The Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA), in educational partnership with The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM).
I've since deepened my root-cause approach by completing The Herbal Academy's Intermediate Herbal Course studying herbal actions, energetics, and safety alongside body-system-specific botanical support from digestive and immune health to hormone and nervous system balance. This training lets me weave evidence-informed herbal support into the same root-cause lens I bring to nutrition and lab-based protocols.
I'm currently licensed in the state of Texas & helping clients with their health and nutrition goals from various states virtually.
You can find me getting my daily steps in, checking my sleep score, reading on my kindle, retail therapy shopping, sipping on herbal tea blends, on my pilates reformer, or trying out new cafés with family!