Dr. Shel Di Montagna

Yinfinite Wellness

1336 El Camino Real, San Carlos, CA, 94070

Dr. Shel di Montagna is an Integrative Health Expert specialized in creating sustainable strategies that bring confidence, ease and creativity to support wellness goals from pediatrics to geriatrics. A Clinical Doctor of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and licensed in both pediatric & adult acupuncture, Dr. Shel blends a wealth of experience with skilled and gentle hands to create custom treatment programs for higher standards in health, fitness, beauty and mind at any age. At YinFinite Wellness Dr. Shel offers both needle & non-needle modalities: * acupuncture/ electroacupuncture/ acupressure * pediatric song/story/play treatments * rehabilitative cupping for structural realignment * moxa heat therapy * vagus nerve ear stimulation * integrative treatment plan reassessment for complex or stubborn cases A former teacher and family resource specialist, Dr. Shel offers a unique style of education-based family medicine utilizing college degrees in Sociology, Early Childhood Education and Community Health Science. Her earlier research contributions in the Social Construction of Early Childhood Commercialism fostered new classroom structures for antibias literature, garden to table nutrition curriculum and holistic health program development in county primary programs. Privately, she fostered unique home learning educational plans as a Kindergarten Bridge Specialist and served as a nutritional health liaison for families with special health concerns. After six years of training in Japanese and Chinese Acupuncture, her she was honored to integrate her two careers through extended mentorship in holistic pediatrics, complex health disorders, integrative neurology and the H.A.N.D.L.E. neurodiversity approach to academic learning. Weaving traditional wisdom and skills with modern medical advancements, Dr. Shel’s continued pursuits found her excelling in Functional Medicine Advanced Lab Analysis with her most recent accomplishments at The Institute for Functional Medicine and The Kalish Institute. In accordance with the most current knowledge of biomedicine in optimizing systems physiology, she is passionate about optimizing community stress resilience by naturally balancing hormones, the gut- brain axis and detoxification pathways of the brain and body to improve mood, focus, digestion, immunity, sleep and body composition. Awarded internationally as a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner for her work, Dr. Shel continues case study mentorship to offer the highest level of biomedical testing and corrective, data-driven nonpharmaceutical programs in her mission to reestablish education and empowerment- forward standards of health and wellness. She concurrently leads The “StressCase” Study, an innovative, partially-subsidized functional medicine program for those struggling to thrive due to overwhelm of the mental and physical stressors of modern life. All her local patients are encouraged to apply. Led by an insatiable awe of the natural sciences and humans within it, Dr. Shel has garnered a rich alchemy of health resources from decades of collaboration with families, students, patients and mentors. It is her passion, privilege and purpose to liaise these resources back into the community in their honor.