At Alabanza Health, our mission is to optimize your health to enable you to fullfill your inner purpose and to simply enjoy life. Our vision is to be a source of knowledge and assistance to empower you on your health journey. We use what Nature has provided to assist your innate wisdom to heal, allowing Natural Health Laws to function without suppression by pharmaceuticals. We value and respect each individual’s innate intelligence connected to the Universal Consciousness; what God and Nature has provided for us and compassion and love for all.

I am a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. I specialize in Functional Medicine and I am certified in Photobiomodulation. I utilize conventional and functional medicine laboratory testing combined with your story to get to the root cause of your symptoms. I teach nutritional optimization with food, herbs and supplements and lifestyle approaches to help you achieve your health goals.

I utilize Bales Photonics Firefly for photobiomodulation that can improve numerous issues by supporting healthy body function including but not limited to pain, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lyme disease, infections, parasitosis, arthritis and so much more. I encourage you to explore their website and youtube channel for more information, link found under the Bales section on this website. This product is not intended to treat, cure or diagnose any disease.

Ilene Castaldo

Board Certified Nurse Practitioner

Hello! I first received my Associate Degree and then Baacalaureate degree as a Registered Nurse. I enjoyed becoming the mother of 3 children during this period of time and engaged in an active family life with my husband. I practiced conventional medicine, but researched alternatives as I found in my experience my patients’ chronic illnesses worsened despite their best efforts. After ceasing to give my children allopathic medicines for the most part, my oldest daughter was treated with homeopathy which cured her of a developing asthmatic condition! Another daughter had warts fall off with homeopathic treatment! I also informally learned about herbal and nutritional medicine. After completing my studies in Homeopathy, I attended a Family Nurse Practitioner program so I could feel more legitimate using homeopathy and nutritional medicine in treating people. I graduated with honors, and fell back into the allopathic model, taking conventional positions in Cardiology, Primary and Urgent Care and becoming an Assistant Professor in Nursing at my original Registered Nursing college.

I more recently completed a course in Functional Medicine with the ADAPT (Advanced Diagnostics and Personalized Treatment) practitioner program with Chris Kresser, Licensed Acupuncturist and Functional Medicine expert, which gave me more knowledge and confidence using nutritional and herbal medicine.

My private practice has evolved to also using energy in the form of photobiomodulation, or light therapy. I am a Board of Advanced Natural Health Sciences Certified Light Therapist. I am sure I will continue to evolve my practice as I am continually engaging in classes and books about herbal, nutritional and energy, or vibrational, medicine which I see as the most promising therapies for our health.