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
Areas of Practice
- Gut Dysbiosis / Microbiome
- Body composition,
- Bone Mineral Density,
- Hormonal Balance,
- Immune and Autoimmune Health
- TBI/Brain/Cognitive Health
- Energy Balance
- Tactical Field Nutrition
- Austere Nutrition
- Multi Day Endurance Racing
- Triathlon Nutrition
Years of Expertise & Professionalism
With a background of working in the television, film, and investment banking industries, we understand high stress, limited time, and the ability to control outcomes.
While racing bikes across the Tri-State, racing Ironman distance triathlons, and running up the tallest peaks in the contiguous U.S, we aspire to be healthy and active.
We conceived and built Performance Nutrition programs within USSOCOM for MARSOC. Applying the lens of a triathlete coach using Annual Training Plans and macro/meso cycles, Regina created a way to asses needs of each pre-deployment training cycle, and then built nutrition protocols to support these training phases with a focus on optimizing performance and resilience.
By the Numbers:
- 1 on 1 nutrition counseling,
- iDXA scans,
- Group Education
- Field Observation & Assessment,
- Data Collection
- For > 800 Marines & Sailors,
- 16 Teams,
- 4 Companies,
- 2 Batallions.
Why Sports Nutrition?
Our passion for sports nutrition evolved while training and racing road bikes for 15 hrs per week and working 50 hr per week in Manhattan. Experiencing “habitual overtraining” we became interested in the field of Holistic Nutrition. A decade later, this evolved to Functional Medicine Nutrition.
We experimented with Elimination and Gluten Free Diets to reduce fatigue associated with excessive high intensity racing.
Implementing a gluten free diet before foods were manufactured to be Gluten Free, was not practical and led to more fatigue due to limited food choices and too little starch.
This prompted the realization by Regina, that she wanted to create a field that focused on “Holistic” nutrition, that looked at root cause health issues, with the expertise of sports nutrition, to support endurance athletes.
15 years
Experience
800 + Marines & Sailors
16 Teams
4 Companies
2 Battalions
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I have a history of disordered eating and have worked with other Dietitians. Usually they try to teach me to accept my body as it is and focus on changing me. Working with this team, I was able to be myself and slowly change restrictive behaviors. Highly recommend this team.
Jacyln M.
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Client
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
Affiliations/Memberships
—endurance sports specific
- USA Triathlon
- Training Peaks
- NSCA
- ACSM
Research “The Effect of Energy Balance on Bone Mineral Density in Elite Endurance Athletes”
— BONE MINERAL DENSITY & ENERGY BALANCE
Completing a thesis that calculated energy balance in elite mountain bikers, and used iDXA to measure body composition and BMD (Bone Mineral Density), she presented her research during a Thematic Poster Session during the Annual ACSM Conference.
Her expertise in energy balance (intentional or unintentional), combined with the ability to run an iDXA, interpret the results and formulate a plan to improve BMD and/or reduce Fat Mass, made her an expert in this area.
Sports Biography
Regina grew up swimming and running competitively and knew she’d compete in triathlons someday. She started swimming competitively in fifth grade, but fell in love with running after being recruited for the cross country team in seventh grade. She quickly became the leading Red Hook Raider and set multiple records in cross country across New York, and on the track in the 1500, 4*1600, 4*800 and 3000. Bragging rights include several regional wins, placing top 20 in States, and winning the Class C Kinney Championships held in Van Cortlandt Park, NYC. She ran cross country for Ithaca College and qualified for States in her freshman year.
Regina competed and placed Top 3 in several sprint and olympic distance triathlon in the Long Island/Montauk/Tri-State area. She competed on local New York City bike teams (CRCA, Kissena) as a Category 3 road cyclist. She raced all over New England with a focus on multi-day stage races, and criteriums. Using her summer fitness in the off season, she raced Cyclocross National Championships in Maryland and the Napa vineyards at Domaine Chandon.
Joining the messenger bike scene in NYC, she added track bike racing to her portfolio. Weekly racing was on the track in Flushing, Queens with qualifying events at the track in Trexlertown, PA. After racing non-stop for five years on her bike, Regina turned to long course triathlon. She competed in her first half and full Ironman in 2006, with her favorite Ironman course being Ironman Lake Placid.
Regina took a break from racing long course triathlon to obtain her Master’s Degree in Sports Nutrition. Her passion for sports nutrition evolved while she was bike racing and habitually overtrained. She wanted to learn how to fuel for training, racing and recovery. During this time she tested out gluten free diets and realized that avoiding gluten without alternatives, greatly reduced strength, energy, and overall cycling performance. This inspired her interest in functional nutrition and how to incorporate it into evidence based sport nutrition.
Her passion for sports nutrition began with triathlon, but has evolved into ultra racing (biking, trail running) as she completes 12 to 13 hr summits of Mt Whitney and the Pikes Peak Ascent. Creating personalized nutrition plans begins with reviewing athlete annual training plans to determine primary and secondary performance goals. Nutrition goals may be defined by performance, body composition or health-wellness.
You can find her cycling the roads along the coast of San Diego, trail running in the Grand Canyon, the Sierra Nevada’s, the Rocky Mountains and mountain biking anywhere there is dirt and red rocks in Arizona and Utah.
