About Me

I grew up in New York City in a low-income household and taught myself enough technology and engineering to enter the IT field in 1996. The job took me across the country. It also taught me a habit I never lost: when something isn't working, find the root cause and fix it there.

In 2008 I gained custody of my son. He had learning disabilities and was later diagnosed with autism. Looking for answers for him, I went deep into nutrition and gut health. Something I didn't expect happened on the way — while researching for him, I healed my own chronic stomach issues. Same root-cause thinking. Different system. Both worked.

I'm a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner trained through the Nutritional Therapy Association, and I lead the Weston A. Price Foundation, Hartford CT chapter — where I put this philosophy into practice in the community.

My approach is animal-based first. Beef, eggs, butter, bone broth, organ meats, raw dairy where you can get it, wild fish — ideally from local farms you can drive to. Plants alongside, not in charge. Simple food. Real food. Old-fashioned food. The stuff that built every healthy traditional culture on earth before the industrial era came along and told us to eat margarine and seed oils.

My mother came to this country as an adult from the Dominican Republic. She kept a jar of filtered pork or beef fat on the kitchen counter and used it to fry eggs the next morning. As a teenager I thought that jar was gross. I had grown up looking at clean clear bottles of corn oil and that's what "healthy" looked like to me. Years later, reading Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions, I finally connected my mother's kitchen to a tradition that went back thousands of years across every continent. The jar wasn't gross. The corn oil was the problem.

I write the way I wish someone had written for me when I was starting out — no jargon, no fence-sitting, no thirty disclaimers per sentence. If you need a medical dictionary to read a nutrition article, I failed.

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." — Hippocrates

The journey continues.

Questions or just want to say hello? Reach me at office@realfoodnourishment.com or 860-288-8699.