About the Living Plate Rx Expert Advisors

Shefaly Ravula, PA-C is the founder of Precision Metabolic Health, a virtual health optimization and functional nutrition practice, which at its core uses a culinary medicine toolkit for improving digestive and metabolic health outcomes.

With a background in conventional gastroenterology as well as experience as a cooking instructor and kitchen coach, Shefaly intertwined the two to create Precision Metabolic, where she helps guide patients in a medical and nutrition philosophy that is an intersection of lifestyle medicine, functional medicine, prevention medicine, and the burgeoning field of nutrigenomics.

The foundation of empowering people to take control of their health is “food as medicine” and so she simultaneously launched the Food-as-Medicine Academy, a virtual cooking academy teaching nutrition WITH cooking—and learning to apply it in the kitchen. Precision Metabolic has a variety of service options for all states in the USA and globally, as we are a virtual practice.

Jen Haugen, RDN, LD, is an author, registered dietitian nutritionist and Midwest mom specializing in helping busy women simplify meal planning and confidently cook a healthy meal in minutes. She offers virtual cooking classes at her Midwest Cooking School, personalized nutrition appointments and menu planning services.

Celine Thompson is a registered dietitian nutritionist and a functional nutrition practitioner. She completed her undergraduate and master of science degree in dietetics from South Dakota State University.

She helps couples leverage the power of nutrition and lifestyle changes to maximize their chances of conceiving healthy babies naturally or through IVF.

Celine is the founder of Fueling Fertility LLC and creator of the Restore Fertility Roadmap TM , a 12 week evidence-based online program designed to optimize fertility by incorporating nutrigenomics, and addressing the root causes of each couple’s fertility struggles.

Keren Reiser is a Registered Dietitian specializing in gut and digestive health, nutrition therapy for IBS and low FODMAP diet, nutrigenomics, food intolerances, food sensitivities, body image weight issues, and disordered eating.

Keren Reiser’s passion for helping others has led her to start a virtual nutrition private practice focused on a personalized approach to each client and working closely with them to develop a plan that fits their lifestyle and goals. Her tagline, “Every gut has a story. Let’s explore yours.” emphasizes her dedication to listening and understanding each client’s unique needs.

Over the last 3 years, Keren has been a contributor to the Scale Your Nutrition Facebook group and has helped many practitioners navigate Living Plate Rx Prime as well as integrate it within Practice Better.

Zarana is a Functional Medicine Dietitian with over 25 years experience. She specializes in gut, autoimmune, and metabolism disorders.

Ini Isangedighi is the founder of Naija Goddess Inc., a health and wellness clinic that provides holistic education about natural remedies and food as medicine that is easy to understand and implement through personalized coaching, online videos and culinary education.

Before devoting her time to the Naija Goddess Health & Wellness Clinic as a Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Certified Herbalist, Ini worked as a pastry chef and caterer. In addition to her kitchen prowess, Ini has a sprawling online apothecary and dispensary where she further supports her clients with natural remedies and supplementation needed to quickly achieve client health goals.

Naija Goddess is well established within the local community as a source for the natural approach to healthy living.

Teresa Pangan, PhD, RDN is a professional speaker, “good stress” advocate, and gratitude enthusiast focusing on empowering people to feel better in themselves through regulation of their nervous system both in their body and mind.

She gives keynote presentations to the public and worksite groups empowering them to reduce their stress response and stressors, practice long-term resilience habits, and put positive psychology research into action.

Teresa received her doctoral degree in nutrition from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. She completed two Bachelor of Science degrees from Iowa State University. Teresa also has completed certification in Tiny Habits from BJ Fogg focused on building new habits for better health and Advanced Practitioner Certificate in Functional Imagery Training from Plymouth University.

Teresa has four children currently sprinkled throughout the Midwest. She enjoys spending time with them, traveling, experimenting with recipes, writing in her gratitude journal, and enjoying a glass of Malbec wine.

Jeanne brings more than 25 years of experience as a private cooking instructor to her second career as a registered dietitian. Incorporating food experience into the nutrition care process is the foundation for her professional contributions, which include participation in research, development of transformational meal planning software for dietitians and creation of an evidence-based, consumer-facing digital library.

As a leader in digital content creation for nutrition professionals, Jeanne has created more than 30 digital culinary nutrition courses and thousands of pieces of content that she shares with colleagues. She supports her professional community with training on best practices for the development and facilitation of evidence-based content so they can scale their practices with integrity.

Jeanne received her MS degree in nutrition education from Teachers College, Columbia University and is the founder and managing director Living Plate Rx, Your Complete Nutrition Content Solution.TM

Meggie is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Culinary Nutritionist who helps individuals with PCOS and chronic dieters go from confused, frustrated and exhausted to confident and balanced.

She holds a Master’s of Science and Bachelor’s of Science degrees in Dietetics from D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY.  Her research focused on identifying the perceived risk for developing type 2 diabetes in women with PCOS. Her first love has always been food, so before becoming a dietitian, she received a Bachelor’s of Science in Hospitality Management from UCF.

Her experience as a dietitian has ranged from private practice, clinical nutrition, bariatric weight loss centers, dialysis, food service management and LTC. She finds nutrition coaching to be the most rewarding job as she helps individuals fall in love with food again.

When she is not saving individuals from a life of bland and boring food, she is a mother, wife, and PCOS advocate. She enjoys reading, cooking, baking, sewing, traveling, thunder storms, yoga and strength training.  

Amber is a Certified Online Business Manager with over 14 years of administrative support experience, including 7 years in the online world as an admin and tech VA for 6 & 7 figure coaches.

Amber works as the Business Manager for Living Plate Rx to help remove some of the day-to-day operational hassles that often tie Jeanne up, freeing her to be the visionary for the business. 

With experience in over 40 online systems, she will be working with the board to not only contribute content ideas for the Living Plate Rx community but also to document, organize, and systematize the work that the Content Development Board is doing.

Lorraine is the CEO of New York City Nutrition. Her passion is in female hormonal health, autoimmune disease, and providing personalized nutrition support to her clients so they can live a life of nourishment.

 I’m passionate about food enjoyment AND food-as-medicine. 22 years as a practicing Physician Assistant, plus being a Registered Dietitian, and life-long avid cook, it seems only natural that what I bring to the table is “Food-As-Medicine for Foodies.”