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 well versed in 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!
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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 nutritionist 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 like an individual and offered a unique list of recommendations.
- Your nutritionist 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 in with our Integrative and Functional Nutritionist today.
Meet Our Nutritionists
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 workout. 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.
Body Gem: Metabolic Testing Device
What is it? The BodyGem handheld device provides a precise measurement of your resting metabolic rate, which can account for up to 75% of total calorie needs. This technology allows us to determine your scientifically based Daily Calorie Budget to promote greater weight loss.
Meet your Metabolic Fingerprint
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.
Hyrdostatic Underwater Dunk Testing: Body Composition
Do you know what percentage of your bodyweight is fat vs. muscle ? Get Dunked! $49 first time rate.
Why Dunk? Stepping on the scale every morning is not only tedious and frustrating before your first cup of coffee, but also fairly limited. A bathroom scale weighs an individual’s cumulative fat, muscle, water and tissue content and spits out an arbitrary number that we use to measure fat loss--it makes no sense!
Hydrostatic underwater weighing is the current most accurate method of determining the ratio of body fat to lean mass.
Call us today to reserve your dunk!
What does Archimedes have to do with it? Underwater weighing is based upon the Archimedes Principle, which states that the buoyant force on a submerged object is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by the object.
We can use this principle to determine a person’s percentage of body fat because the densities of fat mass and fat-free mass are constants. Lean tissue, such as bone and muscle, are denser than water, and fat tissue is less dense than water. Basically, muscle sinks and fat floats. To perform underwater weighing, a person is first weighted on dry land. Next the individual will get into a large tank of water. While sitting on a special scale, he is lowered underwater and asked to expel all the air from his lungs and remain motionless while the underwater weight is measured.
Meet Our Nutritionists
Misa Lawson has over 30 years of experience in nutrition therapy. She earned a B.S. degree in Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics and a Master's Degree (M.P.H.) in Public Health Nutrition from U.C. Berkeley. Misa is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) and is Certified in Integrative and Functional Nutrition.
Misa uses Integrative and Functional Nutrition as an effective way to harness the energy, information, and connections to create health and reverse disease. By recognizing that individuals are genetically and biologically distinct, and that healthful eating must be personalized to genetics, lifestyle, environment, and health concerns, Misa creates a truly unique approach for each of her clients. Rather than applying a generic diet, Misa looks at underlying causes such as inflammatory imbalances, detoxification imbalances, toxic emotions, digestive, absorptive and microbiological imbalances.
Sandra Larsen CPT, N.C. is a Holistic Health Practiti
oner and personal trainer (NASM). She has been a student and practitioner of the Healing Arts since 1987. Her broad foundation in the Healing Arts includes certification in Nutrition from Bauman College, a degree in Horticulture and (BASI) Pilates Certification. Diet and exercise are key in supporting the body’s goal of maintaining and restoring health. Realizing that no one diet fits everyone, Sandra is able to customize modifications to increase your success at restoring optimal health (and weight) with a plant-based diet. Her clients are able to make great progress, understanding how to navigate the onslaught of hype in the grocery store, avoiding common pitfalls and enjoying wholesome, delicious and nutritious meals supported by only the best of nutritional supplementation.
Jaimi Jansen has been working in wellness for over 10 years. Her passion for health and wellness come from her life as an athlete as well as her personal experience gained through her struggle with serious injuries sustained from an accident at the age of 18. In order to understand the body so as to help herself and others, Jaimi earned a degree in Biochemistry through UC Santa Cruz, and went on to become a Certified Nutritionist and Personal Trainer. Jaimi’s goal is to improve the quality of life and help people achieve the optimal path to health by creating a community of wellness. In 2009 her dream of providing all-inclusive care was realized when she founded Santa Cruz CORE Fitness + Rehab.
In 2013 she was awarded the United States Associate of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Female Entrepreneur of the year. She continues to share her passion through the growth of her business and formation of the nonprofit Santa Cruz CORE Foundation. Passionate about her community and health for all, Jaimi and Santa Cruz CORE offer many sponsorships and donations and strives to be active and involved with local events and non-profit organizations.