About Us
Our Mission
We specialize in a wide range of clinical nutrition, health, wellness and performance nutrition. We believe in evidence based nutrition and exercise science with a focus on the individual and application of functional medicine nutrition.
Core Values
✔ Educate, analyze, and interpret behavior
✔ Track, measure, and interpret metrics
✔ Create plans with solutions for long term health success
Gut Dysbiosis | Microbiome | Body composition | RED-S | Bone Mineral Density | Hormonal Balance | Autoimmune | TBI/Cognitive | Energy Balance | Tactical Field Nutrition | Austere Nutrition | Triathlon |
Years of Expertise & Professionalism
With a background in television, film, and investment banking, Regina understands the pressure of high-stress environments where time is limited and outcomes are uncertain. That same drive carried into athletics—racing bikes across the Tri-State, competing in Ironman triathlons, and summiting some of the tallest peaks in the U.S.—all while pursuing the goal of staying healthy and active.
This blend of professional and athletic experience ultimately shaped her philosophy in sports nutrition. She recognized that success requires strategies that support long-term performance, recovery, and resilience.
Under the Preservation of the Force & Family (POTFF) program, Regina conceived and built the Performance Nutrition Program for the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and the 1st Marine Raider Support Battalion, Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC).
Supporting more than 800 Marines and Sailors, including four Marine Special Operations Teams (MSOTs), she embedded nutrition into the operational culture to enhance resilience, mission readiness, and long-term health.
Working alongside the medical team and strength coaches, she developed individualized fueling strategies, taught courses on topics such as sleep, alcohol, and supplement safety, and created pre-deployment nutrition kits for service members and their families. Drawing on her background as a triathlete coach, Regina aligned nutrition with the battalion’s training cycles—designing fueling protocols tailored to altitude, temperature, terrain, and mission demands.
Today, she translates these lessons from elite tactical athletes into practical, performance-driven nutrition strategies for athletes and high performers across disciplines.
Why Sports Nutrition?
Regina’s passion for sports nutrition began while training and racing road bikes—spending 15 hours a week in the saddle while also working 50-hour weeks in Manhattan. The toll of “habitual overtraining” sparked a deep interest in holistic nutrition, which later evolved into a focus on functional medicine and performance health.
Along the way, she experimented with elimination and gluten-free diets to reduce fatigue from high-intensity racing. At the time, gluten-free foods weren’t widely available, and sticking to such a restrictive plan left her with limited options, too little fuel, and even greater exhaustion. The experience highlighted the need for practical, sustainable nutrition strategies that truly support endurance athletes.
From this journey came a realization: sports nutrition isn’t just about food—it’s about addressing the root causes of health while fueling performance. Regina founded her work on this principle, blending holistic nutrition with the science of endurance fueling to help athletes recover stronger, perform longer, and thrive in every aspect of life.
Completing a thesis that calculated energy balance in elite mountain bikers and utilized iDXA to assess body composition and bone mineral density (BMD), she presented her findings during a Thematic Poster Session at the Annual ACSM Conference. Her expertise in energy balance—both intentional and unintentional—combined with her ability to operate iDXA technology, interpret results, and design targeted plans to improve BMD and/or reduce fat mass, has established her as an expert in this field.
Affiliations/Memberships
—Nutrition specific
- SCAN (Sports, Cardiovascular, Wellness & Nutrition) and SD-USA (Sports Dietetics-USA)
- DIFM (Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine)
- PINES (Professionals in Nutrition, Exercise and Sport)
- ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine)
- CAND (California Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics)
- CDSPA (Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietetics Association)
- SCDA (Southern Colorado Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics)
- Food and Culinary Professionals
Research “The Effect of Energy Balance on Bone Mineral Density in Elite Endurance Athletes”
— BONE MINERAL DENSITY & ENERGY BALANCE
Sports Biography
Regina’s passion for endurance sports began early. She started swimming competitively in fifth grade and discovered her love for running in seventh grade when she joined the cross-country team. She quickly rose to the top as the leading Red Hook Raider, setting multiple records across New York in cross country and track events, including the 1500, 4×1600, 4×800, and 3000 meters. Her standout achievements include regional wins, a top-20 finish at States, and a victory at the Class C Kinney Championships in Van Cortlandt Park, NYC. She continued her running career at Ithaca College, where she qualified for States as a freshman.
After graduation, Regina’s love of endurance led her into adventure racing. Inspired by the Eco-Challenge in the 1990s, she joined a team of seasoned climbers in Malibu State Park, where she learned the art of teamwork, strategy, and resilience during five days of racing with minimal sleep. This sparked a new chapter of chasing outdoor challenges across the Tri-State area, though she felt the pull of the West calling her.
While working in Manhattan, Regina returned to cycling—first completing the Boston-to-NY AIDS Ride in 1998, then moving into competitive road racing with New York City teams like CRCA and Kissena. As a Category 3 cyclist, she raced throughout the Northeast, tackling multi-day stage races like the Green Mountain Stage Race and the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, as well as criteriums and national-level cyclocross events. She also embraced the NYC messenger bike culture, adding track racing in Queens and Trexlertown, PA, to her racing repertoire.
After five years of nonstop bike racing, Regina returned to her triathlon roots—completing her first half-Ironman and then her first full Ironman in Lake Placid, NY. Among her favorite races is the iconic Survival of the Shawangunks in New Paltz, held near the trails where she grew up running.
Her competitive drive eventually merged with her academic pursuits. Regina earned a Master’s degree in Sports Nutrition after realizing how much fueling strategies impacted her own training and performance. Personal experience with overtraining and experimenting with dietary changes sparked her interest in functional nutrition—particularly how evidence-based approaches can optimize performance, recovery, and long-term health.
Today, Regina continues to blend sport and science. She develops personalized nutrition plans that align with each athlete’s training cycle and goals, whether performance-driven, health-focused, or centered on body composition. Her endurance adventures now extend to ultra-distance events, including summiting Mt. Whitney and the Pikes Peak Ascent, often taking her to the Grand Canyon, the Sierra Nevada, the Rockies, and the red rocks of Utah and Arizona.
When she’s not working with athletes, you’ll likely find Regina cycling the San Diego coastline, running rugged mountain trails, or seeking out the next endurance challenge.
