Functional nutrition is how care shows up in your daily life
How nutrition coaching supports your care at Parsley
Most health plans tell you what to do. Parsley helps you follow through.
Nutrition coaching is where your care plan becomes real life. Your Functional Nutrition Coach works alongside your clinician to translate labs, diagnoses, and symptoms into practical daily choices and sustainable habits. Instead of generic diet advice or a one-time meal plan, our nutrition coaching offers personalized, expert guidance aligned with your clinical care plan to help you make meaningful, individualized nutrition changes and build a strong foundation for progress.
Part of your Parsley care team
Your care is delivered by a collaborative team working together to coordinate your care. They share notes, align on goals, and adjust recommendations together to serve you.
Tailored approach
Nutrition guidance informed by your symptoms, labs, and diagnoses
Tailored approach
Nutrition guidance informed by your symptoms, labs, and diagnoses
Connected to care
Clear priorities tied to your clinical treatment plan
Connected to care
Clear priorities tied to your clinical treatment plan
Sustainable changes
Small, daily habit changes that add up to long-term progress
Sustainable changes
Small, daily habit changes that add up to long-term progress
"Functional nutrition starts with understanding the root causes behind your symptoms, your individual response to different foods, and what your labs and health history reveal about your body. From there, we translate those insights into a nutrition plan that fits your life and promotes lasting healing."
Kelly Candela, RD
Director of Functional Nutrition Coaching
Included with Parsley care
Functional nutrition coaching is a core part of Parsley’s Care Membership.
It’s designed to work alongside your clinician and care plan. This integrated approach allows us to support measurable, lasting health improvements.
Additional coaching sessions are available for members who want more frequent or deeper support.
Your nutrition coach helps you:
Restore steady energy and reduce fatigue
Support gut health and ease digestive symptoms
Balance blood sugar and inflammation
Navigate hormone changes (PCOS, PMS, fertility, perimenopause, menopause)
Strengthen immune and metabolic health
Build sustainable eating patterns that fit your life
"My doctor listens and truly cares about my wellbeing and my health coach always shares new information and tips to further improve my health."
Priscilla C., Parsley member
What to expect from nutrition coaching
Your coaching sessions focus on progress, not perfection. Together with your coach, you'll:
Identify realistic, high‑impact changes
Break complex guidance into clear action steps
Adjust your plan as your symptoms, labs, or life change
Build confidence navigating food in the real world: at home, at work, out to eat, and while traveling
"My positive experience with Parsley Health owes a great deal to all the wonderful health coaches I've had over the years."
Jason K., Parsley member
Frequently Asked Questions
Nutrition coaching is an integral part of the care membership experience. Functional nutrition coaches work alongside clinicians to help translate medical insights, lab results, and care plans into practical, day-to-day guidance around food and habits.
