Erica Zellner Nutrition

11/29/2025

I'm thrilled to share that my nutrition practice is now open, and I'm celebrating Small Business Saturday with a special offer! As a passionate advocate for empowering health, I'm dedicated to supporting you in achieving your wellness goals, whether that's optimizing your gut health, navigating pregnancy or postpartum, or simply feeling your best. To mark this exciting milestone, use code CYBER20 for a 20% discount on any of my packages. Visit www.ericazellnernutrition.com to get started on your transformative journey! 🙂

Your Path to a Healthier Life

11/05/2025

💛 You shouldn’t have to piece together care from different providers during the most important time in your life.

🤰 If you’ve ever moved through pregnancy and postpartum care, you probably know what it feels like to fall through the cracks.

🩺 One provider for fertility.
🤰 Another for pregnancy.
🍼 A new one for postpartum.
🥗 And then—when you’re finally ready to focus on your own nutrition again—you’re starting over with someone completely new.

💛 Each person means well.
✅ Each is doing their best.
⚠️ But no one is seeing you — your whole journey, your whole body, your whole story.

👶 Most traditional models of care stop the moment the baby is born.

🛠️ But that’s when you need support the most — when your body is rebuilding, your hormones are recalibrating, your sleep is fractured, and your nutrient needs are sky-high.

🤱 When I went through my own pregnancies, I felt this firsthand.

✨ So I built the program I wish I had.

💛 The First 1000 Days Program 💛

👶 A continuous, evidence-based, deeply supportive nutrition program that walks with you from preconception → pregnancy → postpartum → baby’s first two years.

🔄 It’s designed to eliminate the gaps — so you don’t have to keep starting over with new providers, retelling your story, or guessing what your body needs at each stage.
📖 Instead, you get one provider (me) who knows your history, understands your body, and can guide you through every transition — with care that evolves as you do.

✨ Because your body deserves more than piecemeal advice.
💛 You deserve continuity.
💪 You deserve confidence.
🌱 You deserve care that honors the magnitude of this season — the season that builds the foundation for generational health.

⏳ This is a high-touch program with limited spots available, so I can focus completely on each patient and give you the time and attention you deserve.

🌿 If you’re thinking about conception, pregnant, or in your postpartum chapter — this program was built for you.
🔗 Tap the link in my bio to learn more about The First 1000 Days, and let’s walk this journey together.

01/20/2022

Is it fair to say that our healthcare system is broken?

That was the opening question to a recent panel I had the privilege to sit on…and it’s a damn good question!

Today’s healthcare system is reactive rather than preventative.

It rewards episodic, transactional care as well as over-referral to specialists, all of which drive up costs.

It’s designed to ignore the largest culprits of poor health- what we eat, how we move, how we’re managing (or not managing stress), how much and how well we’re sleeping, and our environment. And further, it views the human body as a segmented group of isolated systems that do not interact with one another- which is a fundamentally flawed system.

The current healthcare system is fantastic at handling acute, emergent situations, but the reality is that 6 in 10 Americans have a diagnosed chronic condition, many more are undiagnosed or waiting to meet diagnostic criteria, all while their health continues to decline with little to no support or direction from their care team as to how they can take ownership for their health.

And that’s a huge problem that we’re working to fix.

05/28/2020

New blog post! What is Nutrient Synergy and how can you use it to optimize your health?!

Throughout time, there have been some classic food pairings that just seem to survive. Peanut butter and jelly. Mint and dark chocolate. Guacamole and basically anything. While taste is often a definitive factor in food pairings, in many cases, nutrient bioavailability (your body’s ability to abso...

04/03/2020

Does "normal life" feel like a thing of the past? Are you struggling with finding your balance amid ? Read my latest for tips to help combat these stressors!

Learn the power of habit and how keeping a routine and maintaining a sense of normalcy can do big things for your physical and mental health during difficult times.

03/15/2020

This is in the top 10 of recipes I've ever made/created. Enjoy.

I promise to never ramble at you about the recipe I made. I promise to always get right to the point.

02/18/2020

Let's talk Transit Time! In my latest post, we'll dive into all things constipation, transit time, and how beets can be a surprising tool to discover if you're dealing with sneaky constipation.

Question: Can you be constipated, even if you “go” every day? The answer to that question is a resounding yes! When we think about constipation, we think about days upon days with pressure and pain in our bowels but no movement to relieve our suffering! And while that is definitely ONE version o...

01/24/2020

My dear colleague Bryna of The Simple Leaf wrote about a topic that is so important in the health and wellness space: do we need to be thin to be healthy. I HIGHLY recommend reading this piece!

By: Bryna Gavin, MS, CNS

01/22/2020

ericazellnernutrition.com/blog/2020/1/21/eating-regeneratively

Eating well, building soil, and saving the planet through intentional eating choices. In 2018, I had the privilege of attending a talk by Paul Hawken, editor of Drawdown , the book overview of the collection of research by Project Drawdown- a 30-year plan to reverse global warming. In this book,

01/06/2020

I'm starting a blog series called in an effort to help you know your body better! In the first installment, we're looking at stomach acid production! Are you suffering from low stomach acid? Are you sure? I give an easy at-home test that you can do tomorrow morning to find out!

Are You Suffering from Low Stomach Acid? Hydrochloric acid (HCl) or stomach acid, is absolutely critical for proper digestion. Yet so many people I work with are unknowingly suffering from low stomach acid (hypochlorhydria). Without enough stomach acid, you can't digest protein and absorb minerals