Live longer, healthier

Some therapies add years to your life, while others add quality of life to your years. Personalized nutrition can do both.

Janell Kaplan, MS, LDN, CNS®
Clinical Nutritionist

Here at the jkn clinic

Our mission is to empower people to live longer, healthier lives beyond cancer and chronic disease. We use an integrative and functional medicine approach to personalized nutrition to assess and address the root causes of cardiometabolic disease, cognitive decline, fatigue, and pain, moving people toward optimal health and living. Learn more about our services.

We’re here for you

If you’re struggling with cardiometabolic disease, cognitive decline, fatigue, or pain AFTER primary cancer treatment, and you’re not sure where to begin your healing journey, we can help with that.

Some of the services we offer

Integrative & Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IF-MNT)

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Nutrition Coaching & Accountability

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Standard & Functional Laboratory Testing & Evaluation

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Practitioner-Grade Supplements

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Expert care for cancer survivors by a cancer survivor

My name is Janell Kaplan. I am an Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM)-trained practitioner and board-certified and state-licensed nutritionist and founder of JKN serving the DMV area and beyond — District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as Florida and New Jersey. I am also a long-time cancer survivor living with cardiometabolic risk factors and other late effects related to cancer therapies that saved my life in 1999. I aim to deliver 100% personalized nutrition care, including medical nutrition therapy (MNT), with the competence of an expert clinical nutritionist and the caring heart of a cancer survivor. My team and I are here for you. Read more about me.

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