At Santa Cruz Core, we understand the crucial role nutrition plays in overall wellness. Our Nutritional Counseling sessions offer tailored guidance to help you achieve your health goals. Whether it's weight management, dietary improvements, or lifestyle adjustments, our expert nutritionists are here to support you. Are you ready to take control of your health? Book your Nutritional Counseling appointment now!
Food isn't the enemy, food is the solution and we help you find it!
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. From holistic nutrition to smart cleanses it all starts with measuring where you're at. A scale is not enough, at CORE we have the ONLY InBody 770 Body Composition Analysis machine available to the public. This analysis gives a true starting point.
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 Accelerator, 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!
Get started on integrative nutrition today or learn more about our integrative approach to nutrition.
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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. We work with clients to understand what's causing their symptoms—not just the whole body, but also the mind and spirit.
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.
We're Striving to Change the Medical Model in Healthcare and Wellness.
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 and mood disorders, digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances that create disease – arthritis, cancer, diabetes, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, and cardiac disease.
What does integrative 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 fog, 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 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.
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.
Meet Our Nutrition Counselors
Beau Jansen has been counseling clients and studying functional, integrative nutrition since 2003. His years of experience with a wide variety of clients make him a great choice for those looking to lose fat and/or gain muscle mass. Beau's expertise is in helping people get off "yoyo" diets for long-lasting results and matching the counseling style needed for different personality types.
By recognizing that individuals are genetically and biologically distinct and that healthful eating must be personalized to genetics, lifestyle, environment, and health concerns, Beau creates a truly unique approach for clients. Rather than applying a generic diet, Beau looks at underlying causes, history, and behaviors to create a strategy with modern technology and research to ensure success.
Beau's counseling style is experienced and information-rich with warm and welcoming humor. He loves explaining complex subjects with real-life experience and analogies that create a real connection.
Jaimi Jansen has been working as a trainer for over 12 years. Her passion for health and wellness comes from her life as an athlete as well as her personal experience gained through her struggle with serious injuries sustained from an accident she had at age 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.
Certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Hanson Muscle Technique, and as a massage therapist, she uses a combination of hands-on techniques and specific exercises to get her clients amazing results. She specializes in preventative medicine and has worked with not only community members, but college and professional athletes including NFL, NBA, & MLB.
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 the formation of the nonprofit Santa Cruz CORE Foundation. Jaimi also started a video podcast during the pandemic, Zoom Around Town with Jaimi, to highlight other local Santa Cruz businesses. She also creates ongoing integrative health, wellness, and business content for the Santa Cruz CORE youtube channel.
Debra Mayah is an Acupuncturist and Wellness practitioner specializing in chronic immune, pain, and fatigue challenges. She utilizes an integrative combination of modalities to help align the spine, redirect and balance the flow of Qi through the body and nervous system. She received her dynamic training right here in Santa Cruz by some of the nation's leaders in Integrative Health and Herbal Medicine. She has also traveled and studied throughout India, Asia, and South America, gathering gems of experience and knowledge she considers a gift to share.
Consultations include medical history, constitutional evaluation, personalized nutrition, herbal, and supplement protocols, and other therapeutic recommendations.
Debra embraces a self-care made simple philosophy, and a passion for educating and empowering people on their paths to health and vitality.
Carlos Salas is the head personal trainer in Watsonville, and he has been a personal trainer for over 20 years.
As an Advanced Elite Specialist, Carlos has advanced knowledge of body mechanics as well as extensive experience with nutrition counseling. He is certified in S.A.C CAN/USA Level 1, Crossfit Level 1, Active Isolation Stretch Therapy, Trigger Point, Pilates Reformer, Spin Cycle, and Functional Fitness Training.
With many years of experience as a physical therapist aid, Carlos specializes in pre and post-rehabilitation. His goal is to add life to people’s years, and years to their lives. When Carlos is not working, he enjoys exploring some of the best restaurants the Bay Area has to offer, and working on his house.
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