Shannon Cook

Shannon provides Nutritional Services advising clients on food choices and their effects on health and well-being. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Nutrition from the University of Guelph.

After 24 years of working with chronically ill patients in a hospital setting, she felt her knowledge and personal philosophy regarding human optimization could be best used to serve the community in positive ways outside of the medical industry.

Shannon sees health as foundational to everything. She has always been a health enthusiast, and her own health issues amplified her innate curiosity and detective work about how to optimize health further. She sees the body as a system of systems with real food harmonizing the connection between these systems. Food choices affect everything, including mood, strength, stamina, digestion, resilience, and life force.

Whether it’s assessing blind spots in dietary choices, a complete overhaul, or anything in between, she can help in finding the right pieces of the puzzle to empower clients to feel their best. Although each client is unique and a treatment plan is individualized based on careful listening, there are general principles to health including maximizing nutrient density, blood sugar regulation, and managing/minimizing inflammation.

Suggestions on practical, sustainable lifestyle options are shared in a framework that can be modified to best meet individual goals and desired outcomes. Strategic use of quality supplementation can also be utilized to fill in gaps and complement diet to minimize inflammation and support cellular health.

Shannon enjoys exploring new avenues of bio-harmonization – ways to continually improve and up-level as a human, and being outside in Nature as much as possible. She currently resides in Burlington with her favorite people – husband (Brad) and teenage daughter (Ava) – where they all cater to their pampered pup (Mesa).

“The right fuel allows us to communicate with our body in a language it understands."