Nutrition Services

At Pinnacle Hill Chiropractic, we understand that nutrition plays a crucial role in overall health, healing, and performance. Through personalized, evidence-based nutrition counseling, Dr. Rachel Stummer helps you build sustainable eating habits that support your health goals for long-term wellness.

The Power of Individualized Nutrition

Achieve better health with a personalized nutrition plan designed for your unique needs. With the right guidance, you can:

  • Balance hormones naturally: Support fertility, manage menopause, and support postpartum recovery.
  • Reduce inflammation: Ease symptoms of chronic inflammation like fatigue, brain fog, pain, or headaches.
  • Optimize digestive health: Reduce food sensitivities and improve gut function and microbiome health.
  • Stabilize blood sugar levels: Reduce energy crashes and improve metabolic health.
  • Support energy, performance, and overall wellness: Fuel your body for athletic or everyday success.
  • Mindfulness and body connection: Support your nervous system and improve your overall outlook on nutrition.

By developing sustainable nutrition habits, you can enhance your body’s natural healing processes. Dr. Rachel’s comprehensive approach to clinical nutrition doesn’t just address immediate health concerns—it helps establish a foundation for lifelong health.

Specialized Focus Areas

Dr. Rachel provides tailored care to meet the unique demands of different life stages and health conditions:

Digestive Health
  • GI symptom resolution
  • Food sensitivity management
  • Gut health optimization
  • Anti-inflammatory nutrition strategies
Women’s Health
Performance and Wellness

Our Approach to Nutrition

Dr. Rachel considers your whole health picture when creating sustainable, personalized nutrition plans that work with your lifestyle, not against it. Her approach focuses on teaching you how to make informed choices about your diet, understanding how to connect with your body, and developing healthy eating habits that last a lifetime.

Comprehensive Initial Assessment

Dr. Rachel will begin with a thorough evaluation of your:

  • Current and past eating habits
  • Detailed health history evaluation
  • Lifestyle factor analysis
  • Assessment of stress and sleep patterns
  • Personal health goals and challenges
  • Relationship with food
  • Food preferences and restrictions
Personalized Nutrition Planning

Based on your initial assessment, Dr. Rachel will develop a customized nutrition plan for you. You will receive a detailed document outlining jumping off points to help you reach your goals as well as recommendations for follow up appointments or a long-term nutrition program.

Support and Education

Dr. Rachel provides the tools and guidance you need to succeed, including:

  • Practical guidance: Implementation tips and regular communication via email.
  • Plan adjustments: Updates based on progress and changing needs.
  • Mindful eating: Support for mindfulness and intuitive eating practices.
  • Nutrition education: Resources on building balanced, nourishing meals.
  • Meal planning: Grocery shopping tips, recipe ideas, and meal inspiration.
  • Dining out guidance: Strategies for eating out and navigating special occasions.
  • Lifestyle support: Sustainable changes and supplementation recommendations, if needed.

Dr. Rachel emphasizes a sustainable approach to health, helping you build confidence and maintain long-term nutrition success.

Other Factors Affecting Your Overall Health

We recognize that nutrition doesn’t exist in isolation. Your overall health and wellness are influenced by numerous interconnected factors that we consider in your nutritional care:

Internal Factors

Your body’s unique characteristics and functions play a crucial role in how you process and utilize nutrients:

  • Genetic predispositions
  • Hormone balance and regulation
  • Digestive system function
  • Individual metabolism
  • Immune system response
  • Nervous system dysregulation
Lifestyle Factors

Daily habits and routines significantly impact your nutritional status and overall wellness:

  • Dietary patterns and food choices
  • Physical activity levels and types
  • Sleep quality and duration
  • Stress management
  • Work-life balance
Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

Your mental state directly affects your physical health and nutritional needs:

  • Stress levels
  • Emotional eating patterns
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Social support systems
  • Overall life satisfaction
Environmental Influences

External factors in your daily environment can affect your health:

  • Air and water quality
  • Exposure to toxins
  • Seasonal changes
  • Workplace environment
  • Living conditions

Understanding these interconnected factors allows Dr. Rachel to create more effective, personalized nutrition plans that consider your whole health picture. She will help you identify which factors may be impacting your wellness and develop strategies to optimize them alongside your nutrition plan.

Meet Our Nutritionist

Dr. Rachel combines advanced clinical training with a holistic understanding of wellness to provide comprehensive care. She specializes in creating sustainable nutrition plans that address root causes of health concerns, with particular expertise in mindfulness, hormone balance, digestive health, and prenatal/postpartum nutrition. Her approach emphasizes compassion, patient education and autonomy, helping you better understand your body while developing lasting healthy habits.

Rochester Chiropractor and Rochester Nutrition Dr. Rachel Stummer

Dr. Rachel Stummer

Getting Started With a Free Consultation

Begin your journey to better health through improved nutrition. Schedule a complimentary 30-minute consultation to find out how Dr. Rachel’s nutrition counseling can help you.

UPCOMING NUTRITION WORKSHOP

Please stay tuned for future events and dates.

Frequently Asked Questions

I offer complimentary virtual consultations to allow us to both get to know each other, discuss your concerns and/or goals for nutrition counseling, and determine if I can assist with what you are looking for. You can book this consultation on our website or by calling our office!

Currently, all nutrition appointments are done virtually to allow for ease and convenience into your schedule. I also want it to be a casual environment, feeling free to eat a snack or lunch during our appointments, and be able to easily show me things in your kitchen & life to help answer questions or concerns in real time.

When you book your initial appointment, you will be sent an intake form to your email to fill out prior to your appointment. I admit that it is quite lengthy, so that we can get a detailed picture of you as a whole person. Once that is completed, I will then review it prior to our appointment. The initial appointment is 90 minutes, and allows us plenty of time to go through your concerns, goals, and begin to discuss a plan moving forward that will lead you toward sustainable health. I will then compile the information, notes, and plan that we discussed into an organized nutrition guide for you to use as a foundation and reference on your health journey. It includes individualized nutrition recommendations, nutrition education, mindfulness and intuitive eating practices, meal inspiration and recipes, ways to apply these practices slowly, clickable resources for further education, supplement recommendations, and where we will be heading. I will send you any supplement recommendations via Fullscript. I will also be available via email while I am compiling your nutrition guide for any additional questions from our appointment.

Depending on each person’s individual needs, I offer 60 minute follow up appointments, 3 month programs, and 6 month programs. The programs are 30 minute virtual appointments, approximately every other week for the duration of the program. All appointments will always include resources and notes sent afterward via email that may include things to practice or read before the next appointment, to allow for sustainable changes to reach your specific goals. All nutrition programs include email availability to ask me any questions in between our appointments.

As a nutritionist in NYS, I am unable to accept insurance for nutrition counseling. However, if you have a HSA or FSA, you can use that to cover nutrition counseling costs.

“Food and nutrition can be complex when you don’t know where to begin or what the first step is. Her approach is holistic from looking at the physical symptoms to the mental piece that we often overlook. She listens to what you need and provides countless resources, support, insight, and her own experiences in order to best serve her clients.”