Take Your Health Into Your Own Hands
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This is place to find healing, relief, and a renewed relationship with food, your body, and your life.
Did you hit your mid-forties and notice some aspects of your health declining? Mood, libido, sleep, energy? Hair disappearing from places you want it & reappearing elsewhere? You may have found medications not solving the problems completely, your symptoms dismissed by doctors, or your blood results coming up fine, all while your issues worsen. Or perhaps you are confused about what to eat anymore? All the things that used to give you energy now leave you feeling sluggish, bloated and inflammed. Many of my clients have gone from Doctor to Doctor looking for a top-down approach, someone who would have the simple, powerful answer to end their symptoms quickly. The truth is: the most powerful approach is to learn what you have control over first. And this takes time & iteration with a guide by your side—something you will never find at the Doctor’s office.
You have come to the right place: nutrition is the first realm to look for answers about your health. Through gently rearranging how and what you eat, you can set your digestion back into balance and eradicate symptoms that have troubled you.
The answers to many of your health mysteries are all already contained within your body. Through short, targeted trials with food and lifestyle change, we will tease them out, and you will discover a new way to listen to your body.
Many clients have told me they are afraid that working with a nutritionist will reduce one of the great joys in life, eating. What I’ve learned is this: Our sensory enjoyment of our food increases as we eat the way our bodies want us to.
I’ve spent over twenty years in the food industry— owning a bakery, a food truck, a catering company and a meal delivery service. Since leaving the food industry, I studied at the best nutrition school in the country, the Functional Nutrition Alliance. Fusing the culinary and nutrition worlds while minding to your own innate bio-individuality, together we can map out a delicious, vibrant next chapter. I would be honored to be your guide.
40+? It's time to Upgrade Your Pantry
Midlife is a call to deeper self-care.
And there’s no better place to begin than the kitchen.
Start with your pantry: the easiest way to make sure what you eat is fueling your body, nourishing your cells, and supporting your hormones during this second phase of life.
With just a few thoughtful changes to what you reach for every time you cook, you can transform your gut health—without a complete overhaul of your kitchen.
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Functional nutrition is slow medicine centered on your unique body, your health history, and your goals.
A lot of holistic medicine models operate just like traditional Western ones—with only 15 minutes or so to assess your situation, they dive right into testing and supplement suggestions without getting the full picture of who you are. In both models, the driving force of profit gets in the way of your true healing.
Before laying out the road map towards achieving your goals, we begin with a comprehensive evaluation of your past and current health history. Using your symptoms as guides, we will test different diet and lifestyle changes over short periods of time to learn more about your body’s true needs.
TRACI PRENDERGAST
FNLP (Functional Nutrition Licensed Practitioner)
CFNC (Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor)
CC (Certified Culinarian)
I didn’t originally set out to become a nutritionist. I began as a chef — someone who was captivated by the alchemy of a good meal. Like Babette in Babette’s Feast, I’ve always been fascinated by the way ingredients transform, how a meal can communicate love, creativity, and comfort, and how food can shift the energy in a room.
After twenty-five years in the culinary world — as a chef, bakery owner, and caterer — I watched people’s struggles with food grow more complex. Allergies, intolerances, chronic inflammation, hormone imbalances, digestive issues… things our grandparents rarely dealt with. When an injury ended my cooking career, I finally had the time and space to ask the questions that had been simmering for years:
Why can’t most of us eat the way we used to?
Why are so many people dealing with autoimmune-like symptoms?
Where is all this discomfort coming from?
My search for answers led me to Functional Nutrition. For the first time, I found a framework that explained the why, and — more importantly — offered a way to address each person’s unique physiology, lifestyle, and history. These tools changed my own life: I reversed severe seasonal allergies, uncovered the root cause of debilitating cramps, healed persistent skin rashes, transformed my sleep through perimenopause, corrected pre-diabetes blood sugar levels, and learned how to nourish and move my body for the stage of life I’m in now.
I’ve guided clients through hormone imbalance, Candida, gut dysbiosis, IBS, interstitial cystitis, chronic migraines, SIBO, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, persistent inflammation, and more. My work is deeply practical: real food, real habits, realistic change that actually works.
But there’s a quieter layer woven through everything I do — one that many of my clients feel but don’t always have words for. My background in embodiment work, nervous system regulation, and spiritual growth shapes the way I guide women. I hold a grounded, attuned presence that helps people slow down enough to hear their own bodies again. The transformation isn’t just nutritional; it’s energetic. It’s a return to aliveness.
I believe pleasure is a core part of healing — that food should feel like nourishment and connection, not punishment. My aim is to help you create a relationship with food and your body that is both supportive and deeply enjoyable.
I live in West Marin with my husband and two children. I’m fluent in Spanish and have traveled extensively through Latin America — on foot, in the backs of trucks, on river pangas, in cattle cars, and sometimes hitchhiking. One of my greatest adventures was living (and cooking!) on a sailboat with my family for two years. These experiences shape the way I see health, resilience, and the rhythms of a well-fed life.
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