Learn and gain insight about your diet, body and potential.
CORE nutritional counseling is a fun, interactive helping process focusing on the individual. Learn and gain insight about your diet, body and potential. Get your body to a fit, healthy balance through implementing the efficient nourishment tools you will learn here. We look at the whole person and whole picture. We are happy to cater to your needs and create your perfect plan.
Your Nutritional Counselor is equipped with the education, knowledge and hands on experience to guide and support you during every step of your journey no matter your end goal.
CORE prides itself on being at the forefront of nutritional and supplementation science. Our nutritionists are up-to-date with the newest innovations in diet and nutrition, from exercise recovery to smart cleanses. We are mindful of micro and macro nutrients and take pride in our in-house Synergistic Supplementation Counseling. To accompany your meal plan we carry only the best smart, pure and premium nutritional supplements to enhance and support your meal plan, including:
Vega by Sequel: Performance Protein, Recovery Accelorator, Pre Workout-Energizer, Shake and Go Smoothies, Electrolyte Hydrator, Delicious bars and more
Pure Encapsulations: Full line of super pure and premium supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbs, including the PureLean and UltraPure lines
Nordic Naturals: We Carry the PRO line of fish oils and supplements which are NOT for sale in regular retail stores!
Receive a complimentary mini-consult with every full size supplement purchase.
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Integrative and Functional Nutrition
Integrative and Functional Nutrition is the most effective way to harness the energy, information and connections to create health and reverse disease.
Integrative and Functional Nutrition recognizes that individuals are genetically and biologically distinct, and that healthful eating must be personalized to YOUR genetics, lifestyle, environment and health concerns. Food is actually information, not just energy (calories). Nutrition affects cellular metabolism and gene expression. Even more, food represents connection – families and friends preparing and eating food together.
Instead of applying a generic diet to an ailment or disease, Integrative and Functional Nutrition looks at underlying causes: inflammatory imbalances, detoxification imbalances, hormonal imbalances, mitochondrial dysfunction, immune imbalances, toxic emotions, digestive, absorptive and microbiological imbalances that create disease – arthritis, cancer, diabetes, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, gastrointestinal disorders, obesity and cardiac disease.
What does integrative and functional nutrition help with?
- Underweight, overweight, obesity, food addiction
- Prediabetes, Type 1 & 2 Diabetes
- Celiac gluten sensitivity and food intolerances
- Digestive and microbiome wellness
- Irritable bowels, small intestine bacterial overgrowth, GERD (acid reflux), diarrhea and constipation
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis)
- Chronic Fatigue, depression, anxiety, brain fox, PMS
- Autoimmunity (Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and MS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus)
- Hypertension and lipid disorders
- Chronic fatigue syndrome, generalized fatigue, adrenal fatigue, micro- and macrocytic anemia
- Pregnancy, lactation, infant and child nutrition
- Nutrition supplements
- Tube feed consults & blenderized tube feeds
- Health cooking/meal planning
- Sleep Hygiene, stress reduction, sports nutrition
- Joint pain, osteoarthritis, osteopenia, osteoporosis
- Acne, psoriasis, eczema, hives, and other various skin conditions
- Parkinson's dementia, neuropathy, multiple sclerosis
What can I expect from an Integrative and Functional Nutrition Consultation?
A Comprehensive Integrative and Functional Nutrition Consultation includes assessment and recommendations regarding:
- Dietary intake including macronutrients, micronutrients, and phytochemicals, fluid, meal pattern, and timing, eating style, and environment
- Review of systems including signs of nutrient deficiency, digestion, mood, physical symptoms, and anthropometrics
- Labs – conventional and functional
- Toxic exposure from food, environment, and internally
- Lifestyle factors including sleep, exercise, relationships, and stress
- Attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, values regarding food and nutrition
- Use of nutritional supplements and food/medication interactions
- Personalized recommendations that integrate specialized diets, lifestyle interventions, mind-body practices, and if necessary, functional labs and use of nutritional supplements.
You can expect that:
- Your consultation will be comprehensive.
- Your consultant will listen to you and your health story in an effort to connect the dots. In integrative and functional nutrition, all the organ systems, body, mind, and spirit communicate with each other.
- You will be treated as an individual and offered a unique list of recommendations.
- Your consultant will work after your session completing documentation and researching and obtaining materials and resources for you.
- You will have “homework”, that is, reading materials, working on your health, shopping, preparing healing food.
The best way to maximize health and get results is to address diet and nutrition and all its contributing factors. Talk to our staff at Santa Cruz Core to set up a series of consultations with our Integrative and Functional practitioners today.
CORE Nutrition Tech
Santa Cruz CORE Fitness + Rehab uses technology as a cutting-edge tool to assist you on your fitness journey.
We value personal attention above all and know every plan is different. We are there for you every day on your journey in person or via text, phone call, or e-mail. We will join you on your journey! This is why we use the latest technology. Don’t waste time wading through the app store and wasting money on programs and plans you never use. We have tried and tested them all and will show you the BEST online tools and apps for staying on track and motivating yourself for healthy meals and workouts. No matter if you have a smartphone, laptop, or ancient personal computer, we can show you how to employ the latest apps and technology to track micro and macronutrients and stay on track while at home.
Santa Cruz's Only Public, Medical-Grade body composition analysis machine. InBody measures your body composition, generally known as your body muscle, fat, and water. Our InBody 770 analysis measures:
- Skeletal Muscle Mass
- Percent Body Fat
- Body Fat Mass
- Basal Metabolic Rate
- Visceral Fat Level and more!
Instead of focusing on a single number on your scale, body composition analysis allows you to focus on losing body fat and gaining muscle while retaining the proper amount of body water in specific areas of your body. Body composition analysis is the key to tracking and maintaining effective weight loss.
Meet your Basal Metabolic Rate
A Metabolic Fingerprint, or resting metabolism, is the unique number of calories an individual burns each day without exercise or activity. An accurate Metabolic Fingerprint measurement provides the definitive answer when creating a personal program. This means that whether you are working to lose weight, build strength, or complete a first fitness event, the plan you prepare will be based on your needs and deliver the results you are looking for. The BodyGem device is a handheld, portable and profitable tool that gives you an accurate Metabolic Fingerprint measurement result in 10 minutes or less.
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