Meet Our Team

Krista Pereira is a Functional Nutritionist and a Master Restorative Health Practitioner. She enjoys supporting individuals of all ages to find resolution to their health concerns and to feel their best. She utilizes a root cause approach which focuses on clearing the terrain, a nutrient dense diet and resolving underlying infections.

Krista’s journey into nutrition began as a young girl as she watched her grandmother, who had suffered a severe brain aneurysm in her late 40s, heal herself by implementing whole and nutrient dense foods, herbs, and daily meditation. She taught Krista the healing power of these foods as well as how to look for hidden chemicals, food colorings and potential toxins and encouraged her to choose “clean” skin care products and cleaning products. While her thinking was certainly before her time and may have driven the rest of the family crazy, Krista was fascinated by these teachings as well as the body's inherent ability to heal itself and was often found nose-deep in books on herbalism and nutrition.

However, upon graduating high school and leaving home, Krista began to skip meals and crave sweets! Caramel latte’s and Pizza Hut became her new favorites. Consequently, she began to experience severe and debilitating panic attacks that left her in bed and unable to attend her classes. She quickly began to make changes to her diet and immediately upon removing these foods, Krista was surprised and impressed that the panic attacks instantly resolved.

This experience taught her once again, the undeniable importance of what we eat and how severely food additives, preservatives and blood sugar imbalance can affect the brain and the way that we feel. Wanting to learn more and eventually help others who might be trapped in a diagnosis of depression or anxiety based disorders, she decided to pursue a B.A. degree in Transpersonal Psychology. She then went on to study Biochemical Nutrition where she began to support individuals suffering from addiction and mental health disorders.

Unfortunately, in her mid-20’s, Krista started to become very ill. She was a single mom to her son and undergoing extreme amounts of stress. She could barely walk up a hill without fainting and was constantly sick. After fighting to get answers and seeing countless practitioners, she was diagnosed with chronic EBV, severe histamine imbalance, and Dysautonomia. As she searched to get to the bottom of her health issues and resolve the chronic infections to restore her energy, she began studying and consulting with a wide variety of practitioners including, functional medicine practitioners, naturopaths, and clinical nutritionists. This led her into further training and certifications in functional nutrition, women’s hormone health, addressing stealth infections, gut healing, mold/mycotoxin associated illnesses and autoimmunity. Through the use of a nutrient dense diet and herbs, she was able to clear the EBV and resolve many of the symptoms associated with the Dysautonomia.

However, after the birth of Krista’s second child, she received a diagnosis of Graves disease as well as her 1 year old daughter began to show signs and symptoms of MCAS, along with PANS. An OAT Test and Strep Antibody Testing and a Mycotoxin Test revealed significant mycotoxin exposure and evidence of chronic infections. This led her to continue deepening her knowledge and mentoring with many of your nation's top Functional Medicine Professionals, with an emphasis on mold/mycotoxin illness, chronic infections and HPA axis dysfunction. Krista’s daughter soon became her best teacher and through implementation of all that she had learned over the years, many of the symptoms that her daughter was experiencing such as eczema, tics and speech issues were resolved. Krista was also able to address her Autoimmune Thyroiditis without medication.

Today, Krista’s work involves over 15 years of devotion and exploration in supporting those with complex and chronic health conditions.

She thoroughly enjoys working with adults and children of all ages and has a big soft spot for those dealing with MCAS and histamine imbalances as well as specializes in working with those struggling with thyroid disorders, mycotoxin associated illnesses, leaky gut, mental health and gut-brain axis disorders. With the use of therapeutic nutrition, functional lab testing and gentle detoxification, she is able to facilitate deep and lasting healing.