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At Nutristratera, we provide our clients with bio-individually designed therapeutic food protocols for chronic and autoimmune illnesses. These include tube feeding, pre- and post-surgery protocols, pre- and post-chemo and radiation therapy protocols, as well as other personalized dietary and lifestyle recommendations. We also work with gastrointestinal issues and eating disorders, and advise on preventive and prophylactic care.

About Nutristratera

The name Nutristratera comes from the Latin words nutrire (to feed, nourish) and stratera (balance). It reflects our philosophy of using a bio-individually balanced diet to therapeutically support the healthy functioning of cells. Our methods, however, go beyond that of nutrition and include a person’s entire lifestyle, which must be balanced in order to achieve desired health outcomes.
Our holistic approach is founded upon the insight that diseases occur inside individual bodies, each with its own history, habits, and needs. To fight disease, we have to look beyond the symptoms, discovering what makes every individual body as a whole function at its best, and how to help that body heal itself.

We deeply analyze body and organ function, down to the cellular level and genome [see Testing].
This multifaceted approach allows us to determine how a client’s symptoms actually interrelate, and the genuine causes of their occurrence. The resulting dietary and lifestyle plan consists of a targeted nutritional therapeutic protocol, prepared daily regimen, and supplements selected with the client’s precise needs in mind. Our recommendations emphasize organic foods and the highest quality supplements, as well as lifestyle changes that take into account every client’s particular life situation.

Our mission is to help clients get to know themselves better, to manage stress and maintain proper bodily functions, and get their lives back just when they might be losing hope. A diagnosis is not the beginning of the end. It is a new beginning of a new relationship between your body and mind. Some people describe it as an awakening or a reconnection. Nutristratera is here to help you navigate this transition with the utmost care.

About the Founder
Natalya Vilkova
In 2006, a mysterious medical condition led Natalya to seek help from the best conventional doctors she could find. After undergoing a series of tests, she was diagnosed with an unspecified autoimmune disorder and offered hospitalization and hormone therapy.

Distressed that such radical measures with such uncertain outcomes were being prescribed for a condition that the doctors themselves did not fully understand, Natalya sought a second opinion, which would change her life.
The opinion came from a naturopathic doctor, who correctly identified her condition as Hashimoto disease and prescribed a three-month treatment that focused on lifestyle changes, diet, and food supplements.
The first two weeks of the treatment were brutal, as Natalya continued working, attending school, and parenting. By the third week, Natalya felt herself transforming. By the end of the third month, her bloodwork results came back perfect – she was cured.

While she was thrilled about her recovery, Natalya became concerned about the medical care other patients were being offered. Did their doctors also prescribe radical forms of treatment without fully investigating their conditions? Could science-based diet and lifestyle changes enable people to fight disease without disrupting their ability to work, study, and parent?

To answer these questions, Natalya went back to school to study nutritional science. Now, however, there was another tragic factor driving her pursuit.

At the age of three, her son began suffering from a respiratory illness called croup, as well as recurring cases of strep throat. He was subjected to several rounds of antibiotic treatment by conventional doctors, following which he developed one allergy after another, and eventually asthma. This left him fighting for his life, dependent on four different medications by age five.
Natalya tried to help her son using some of the insights from her own naturopathic treatment, and soon discovered that every person’s nutritional needs are highly bio-individualized. What had worked for her would not necessarily work for her child.

Dietary and lifestyle changes should be made only after carefully studying a client and identifying their unique needs. This means that veganism, vegetarianism, intermittent fasting, keto, gluten substitution, and other fashionable adjustments can be extremely harmful when taken up by people who have not properly determined that their bodies can handle them. Even the exact way in which one cuts out gluten or engages in intermittent fasting should vary from person to person.

Natalya thus became a student not only of nutrition, but also of her child.

On the one hand, this meant crafting a specialized diet at home, using many of the diagnostic techniques she uses with her clients today.

On the other hand, it meant navigating the world of school lunches, friends’ birthdays, and afterschool activities, rife with potential allergens and health risks. In the process, she learned to make allergen-free pizzas, ice creams, and other children’s staples.
She understood that, regardless of his condition, her son needed to live his life as a person, not a patient, and that her responsibility as a parent was not to create a treatment, but a sustainable and fulfilling lifestyle.

It worked. Today, he is twelve years old, healthy and symptom-free, active in sports and able to travel again.

Natalya has since made it her mission to help others discover the healing power of bio-individualized nutrition. Her practice brings together science-based recommendations with a profound sensitivity to every unique case – the pain of families struggling to help their loved ones, and the joy of finding one’s feet on the path to recovery.