Take Your Health Into Your Own Hands
Welcome! This is place to find healing, relief, and a renewed relationship with food, your body, and your life.
You may have found medication not helping, your symptoms dismissed by doctors, or your blood results coming up fine, all while your issues worsen. You have come to the right place: nutrition is the first realm to look for answers about your health. It is only once we have cleaned up our diet that we can see clearly what remains, and requires further attention.
The answers to your health mysteries are all already contained within your body. Through short, targeted trials with food and lifestyle change, we will tease them out and you will discover a new way to listen to your body.
Many clients have told me they are afraid that working with a nutritionist will reduce one of the great joys in life, eating. What I’ve learned is this: Our sensory enjoyment of our food increases as we eat the way our bodies want us to.
I’ve spent over twenty years in the food industry- owning a bakery, a food truck, a catering company and a meal delivery service. Since leaving the food industry, I received certification at the best nutrition school in the country, the Functional Nutrition Alliance. Fusing the culinary and nutrition worlds while minding to your own innate bio-individuality, together we can map out a delicious, vibrant next chapter.
My Programs
Functional nutrition is slow medicine centered on your unique body, your health history, and your goals.
A lot of holistic medicine models operate just like traditional Western ones—with only 15 minutes or so to assess your situation, they dive right into testing and supplement suggestions without getting the full picture of who you are. In both models, the driving force of profit gets in the way of your true healing.
Before laying out the road map towards achieving your goals, we begin with a comprehensive evaluation of your past and current health history. Using your symptoms as guides, we will test different diet and lifestyle changes over short periods of time to learn more about your body’s true needs.
I have two offerings. One is a more in-depth 16-week program. This is for you if you have significant health challenges or symptoms.
The second offering is for midlife women experiencing symptoms brought on by the huge hormone shifts in this season of life. If you were feeling generally well before the onset of perimenopause, or have already tried some diet and lifestyle interventions, this shorter and more fast-paced offering may be a better fit.
TRACI PRENDERGAST
FNLP (Functional Nutrition Licensed Practitioner)
CFNC (Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor)
CC (Certified Culinarian)
I didn’t set out to become a nutritionist. I am first and foremost a chef. Just like Babette in the movie Babette’s Feast, I am enthralled by the alchemy of a good meal—by the way ingredients can become more than the sum of their parts, by how preparing a meal can communicate love and creativity, and how this message can alter people’s moods and their connection to one another.
With over twenty-five years working in food (as a chef, bakery owner, caterer, etc.), I have watched people’s challenges around food grow with each passing year. After an injury ended my cooking career, I began to try to understand why most of us can’t eat the way our grandparents did. Why all the allergies and intolerances? Why are so many of us suffering from autoimmune-like symptoms?
As I searched for answers to these questions, I stumbled upon Functional Nutrition, which not only explains the why but also offers a framework to address the deeply unique health issues each of us faces. I have applied these techniques to my own health, and reversed seasonal allergies that once plagued me, discovered the root cause of terrible menstrual cramps, eliminated persistent skin rashes, made huge headway over peri-menopausal sleep disturbances, discovered and corrected pre-diabetes blood sugar levels, and learned how to exercise and eat right for the stage of life I am in now.
I have helped clients recover from hormone imbalance, Candida, gut dysbiosis, IBS, Interstitial cystitis, chronic migraines, SIBO, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, persistant inflammation and so much more.
I believe that pleasure is a central aspect of health, and I am committed to helping you forge a new path with food that takes into account your body’s true needs, resulting in greater enjoyment.
I live in West Marin with my husband and two children. I am fluent in Spanish and have traveled extensively in Latin America—on foot, in the back of pickup trucks, river pangas, cattle cars, and hitchhiking. One of my biggest adventures was living—and cooking for— my family on a sailboat for two years! I think these experiences bring a unique perspective to my work and how I view life and diet.
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