Our relationship with food is incredibly important because it has a direct effect on our physical and even mental health. However, nutrition is not always easy to hack! Additionally, we often need help understanding what our bodies need so we can reach our goals.
Nutrition and dietetics experts offer expert guidance and support, allowing us to heal our relationship not only with food but also with our bodies. Whether you’re working towards fitness goals or just need to be a bit healthier, you’ll find what you need among these top 10 nutrition and dietetic experts!
Whole Food Nutrition
Founded by Nutritional Medicine Expert, Author, and Presenter Sal Prothero, Whole Food Nutrition is a company that specialises in gut and mental health. They help clients beat ADHD, depression, and anxiety by leveraging diet, nutrition, lifestyle, and powerful mindset techniques for a long-lasting change. Sal has 6 years of experience as a Clinical Nutritionist, so she knows exactly how to help clients achieve their mental and physical health goals.
Whole Food Nutrition’s approach is educational and based on a unique system that allows clients to take control of their health. Sal provides clients with the knowledge and motivation they need to seamlessly implement positive changes to their daily routines and create long-lasting results.
She believes in the power of “food as medicine” and helps people understand it through workshops, seminars, and webinars such as ‘Feed Your Body and Mind’ and ‘Happy Gut, Happy Brain’, as well as podcasts. Additionally, Sal has co-authored two books, ‘Change Makers’ and ‘Journey to Me – A Discovery of Self’ to inspire people to make the changes they need.
One of the things that set Whole Food Nutrition apart from the competition is Sal’s signature online program, ‘Eat to Beat Depression’, which helps men and women move past their helplessness and gain the confidence they need to live the life they want. Sal approaches clients with care, kindness, and compassion to help them unlock the power of making healthy diet, nutrition, and lifestyle choices.
Claudine Grace
Clinical nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner Claudine Grace specialises in helping people to manage and reverse their complex and chronic health concerns. She has helped over 500 clients through cancer, autoimmune diseases, gastrointestinal issues, and more.
Her services are focused on reducing inflammation (the main culprit of modern disease today) and she believes stress, poor food choices, and a busy lifestyle are at the centre of the current illness epidemic. “Chronic illness doesn’t arise overnight and neither does healing,” says Claudine, who guides her clients to make healthy choices, understand their triggers, and follow an anti-inflammatory protocol.
Claudine brings to her patients a decade of professional experience as an integrative health coach and certified meditation teacher, as well as personal experience overcoming two cancer scares and an autoimmune disease that almost left her wheelchair-bound.
Support is at the cornerstone of Claudine’s programs which help clients discover that healing is possible not only through expert nutritional consultations and wellness programs but also through individual attention. That’s why she developed her successful 12-week 1:1 signature wellness program, Vitality by Design™, which provides clients with a personalised platform for healing.
Claudine and her clients have experienced the frustration of how challenging illness can be—as well as the freedom and relief that come with healing.
Reclaim Your Body
Led by Head Coach Tom Watkins, Reclaim Your Body is a group of professionals who specialise in lifestyle illnesses and help clients overcome them. Lifestyle illnesses are the consequences of the way we use and treat our body today, as opposed to the way we used to through most of our evolution. Tom and his team understand that people are tired of traditional dieting, temporary fads, and unsustainable habits to achieve a calorie deficit.
Reclaim Your Body provides a more effective and long-lasting solution by helping clients build healthy lifestyles. To accomplish that, Tom focuses his approach on three main areas; Nutritional Wellness, Physical Wellness, and Mental Wellness.
The team behind Reclaim Your Body consists of experts in each field who can provide the guidance people need to make healthy and sustainable changes to reach their goals. They help clients learn more about themselves and understand their bodies so they can learn to make the best decisions for themselves.
Reclaim Your Body focuses entirely on lifestyle illnesses and they continue to research this new area of science to support clients with confidence. The thing that sets Reclaim Your Body apart is that they remove the polarisation of health from the equation. There are no black and white and people are not defined by their current state. It’s a temporary condition and it can change! Tom and his team provide the guidance to help you make that happen.
Kimberley Staneke
Founder and Director of Thrive Dietetics, Kimberley Staneke is a passionate nutrition and dietetics expert with a Bachelor of Nutrition & Dietetics from the University of the Sunshine Coast. She started her career working as a Clinical Dietitian in North Queensland’s Townsville Hospital before relocating to Sydney’s Mona Vale Hospital.
Kimberley worked in a wide variety of clinical areas, which helped her build her dietetic skills. She then leveraged those skills and her wealth of knowledge to establish her own private practice in 2020. Thrive Dietetics has provided many challenges, particularly during the pandemic, which have helped her develop her interpersonal skills to handle adversity, cultivate innovation, and drive outstanding results.
Human physiology, food, and biochemistry have always been fascinating to Kimberley. She leverages new research that supports functional nutrition to provide valuable and effective services. Kimberley believes in the power of nutrition to optimise one’s health, so she strives to help clients harness that power by helping clients create positive and sustainable habits to lead healthier and happier lives.
Her personal experience with a food allergy and gastrointestinal disorder allows her to understand first-hand just how impactful nutrition is. Thrive Dietetics is focused on exploring the microbiome and the role it plays in the body’s immune system, susceptibility to illness, and longevity. With an evidence-based approach, they provide clients with the support and self-efficacy skills to overcome challenges and gain the knowledge they need to build life-changing habits.
Paul’s Body Engineering
Bodybuilding Coach and Accredited Sports Nutritionist Paul Hooper established Paul’s Body Engineering in 2014 offering a wide range of services, including personal training, nutritional coaching, competition preparation, lifestyle coaching, and online coaching to help clients achieve the results they’re looking for. Due to his incredible work ethic, Paul has become a national leader in bodybuilding coaching, body recomposition, and sports nutrition.
Paul is a professional athlete having won his professional status in bodybuilding in 2019 at the age of 41. He has been involved in many national & international bodybuilding events, runs a private training facility on the Sunshine Coast, and he’s the host of the Paul’s Body Engineering Podcast, where he talks about all things health, fitness, and wellness, including interviews with some inspiring guests.
Paul’s Body Engineering is the result of an unbridled passion for people, nutrition, resistance training, bodybuilding, and helping others break through roadblocks by providing the tools and knowledge they need to hack their fitness and wellbeing. The online coaching platform and systems he offers are very comprehensive and provide significant value to clients of all fitness levels who want to build and maintain healthy habits.
Paul’s approach is focused on understanding ‘clients’ to get the best out of them through his effective methods and systems. Paul’s Body Engineering is built on the certainty that resistance training and good quality nutrition support people’s life and health ambitions, culminating in sustainable long-term results.
Chickpea Nutrition
Founded by Nutrition and Dietician Expert Amy Leahy, Chickpea Nutrition specialises in helping clients use diet and lifestyle to overcome their health issues and lead more inspired lives. Amy has been plant-based since 2012 and she has faced several health issues related to gut and hormonal health. She tried everything before focusing on diet and lifestyle, which proved to be incredibly effective. Today, she helps others find the same relief.
Amy completed a BHSc in Nutritional and Dietetic Medicine and she’s a Diabetes Coach for Mastering Diabetes, a coaching program founded by the authors of the New York Times best-selling book “Mastering Diabetes”, corporate speaker, and workshop facilitator. She specialises in plant-based and vegan nutrition, but she also works with non-plant-based clients to help them get more greens in their diet for greater balance.
Chickpea Nutrition provides simple, easy, and effective lifestyle and nutrition advice based on the most up-to-date scientific evidence. They leverage the power of whole foods and science to provide sustainable tools while rejecting fads, teas, supplements, and shakes. Amy leverages her personal experience, a wealth of knowledge, and expertise in gut health and hormonal health to offer valuable one-on-one coaching and consults that will help clients change their lives forever.
Fuelin
Led by Chief Nutrition Officer and Co-Founder Scott Tindal, Fuelin is a unique program that simplifies the complex world of performance nutrition to help clients focus more on training, work, and life. Scott works with endurance athletes, executives, and individuals who seek improved performance and health to reach their full potential.
Scott has successfully combined his background in physiotherapy, exercise science, nutrition, and helping top athletes achieve world-class performance to provide a unique perspective. He spent most of his career in professional sports and he has served as the head of performance nutrition and physiotherapy for many teams.
Additionally, he holds an MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine from the Queen Mary University of London, a BSc (Physiotherapy) from the University of Sydney, and a post-graduate diploma in Sports & Exercise Nutrition, IOPN/ISSN. He has shared his knowledge through articles for publications such as Triathlete Magazine and podcasts. Scott also sits on the Ironman Advisory Panel as one of their nutrition experts.
One of the most outstanding things about Fuelin is that it syncs directly with the athlete’s coaching plan through Training Peaks, Today’s Plan, or Final Surge. It also syncs with FitnessPal and LoseIt for easy macronutrient tracking. Not to mention it allows for an individualised and personalised nutrition that is periodised to the athlete’s training volume, intensity, and load. Overall, it’s a world-class nutrition platform and the first of its kind for Ironman, Triathletes, and endurance athletes.
Lee Holmes
CEO of Supercharged Food, Lee Holmes is an accredited clinical nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, and author of nine cookbooks. She specialises in gut health and encourages healthy eating, shares delicious gut-friendly, and anti-inflammatory recipes, and offers a range of products, including the Love Your Gut capsules, which are the number one natural gut health product in Australia.
Lee is the author of the bestselling Supercharged Food series, which includes the books, “Eat Your Way to Good Health”, “Eat Yourself Beautiful”, “Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian”, “Supercharged Food for Kids”, “Fast Your Way to Wellness”, “Heal Your Gut”, and “Supercharge Your Gut, Supercharge Your Life”.
She is also a columnist with Wellbeing and Eat Well Magazine and a regular on ABC Radio. Her articles have been featured in leading publications such as The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Express, and The Australian. Lee is known for her wonderful online health programs called Heal Your Gut, Supercharge Your Gut, and Fast Your Way to Wellness.
Supercharged Food is a heart-led business that prioritises customers. Lee has poured her heart and soul into the products she offers, which are 100% natural and aimed at solving gut health issues. She encourages S.O.L.E food, which stands for Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical, and provides recipes, menu ideas, and valuable information to help you have a nourishing, satisfying, and wholesome diet.
WIRL
Specialising in food and mood, WIRL is creating a new digital consumer category of “nutritional psychiatry”. Co-founders and Co-CEOs Alicia Holmquest and Bree-Anne Pagonis are both Accredited Practicing Dietitians with over 20 years of combined experience in food and mental health.
We’re in the midst of the global mental health crisis and scientists are finding answers in food and the gut-brain link to address it. However, there are no tools that support the implementation of those solutions in a relatable and scalable way.
That’s where WIRL comes in, which is the world’s first mental well-being platform driven by the gut-brain axis. With programs and interventions focussing on both the brain; audio exercises to rewire neural pathways, and the gut; and recipes that feed the microbiome, scientifically linked to happiness.
WIRL’s Co-Founders are passionate about creating unique IP in their clinically proven gut-brain interventions. Combined with their proprietary technology and comprehensive gut-brain population data set, they strive to create future offerings to put WIRL in the hands of billions of users across the globe.
A lot of people spend a lot of their waking hours worrying about food and how it impacts their bodies. We live in a diet-obsessed culture, which has significant impacts on mental health; linked to disordered eating, low self-esteem, and even anxiety and depression.
WIRL’s mission is to boost the world’s mood through food and to ensure food is no longer a mental health burden but a vessel to improve mental wellbeing!
Will Gold
Nutrition and Dietetics expert Will Gold is the owner of Dig In Health Co. The company launched at the end of 2021, to serve the veteran community by providing individual dietetic services, as well as nutrition and permaculture workshops. Additionally, they design and build permaculture gardens to encourage veterans, and the wider community, to consume more fresh fruits and vegetables.
Will grew up in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, and at 17 years old, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a fourth-generation veteran. There he trained as an Aircraft Technician. Additionally, Will has a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Newcastle and he’s very passionate about environmental conservation.
This passion led him to work with Aboriginal communities as an Accredited Practising Dietitian. Though after some time, and given that Will is one of the few dieticians in Australia who has served in the Australian Defence Force, he realised he had a lot more to offer the veteran community.
While most nutrition and dietetic companies focus on providing support and education from a clinic room, Dig In Health Co ventures out of the office and into the garden. This hands-on approach allows them to stand out from the competition. More importantly, it encourages purposeful connection with green spaces, where the therapeutic qualities of nature support veterans to achieve optimal physical and mental health so they can lead fulfilled lives.
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