Nature Got It Right - Lifestyle is Medicine
Nutrition / Culinary
Wellness
Nutrition / Culinary Wellness
LENGTH
From 30 - 90 days
Nutrition / Culinary Wellness
Nature Got It Right - Lifestyle is Medicine
At Wellness Academy USA, we believe optimal health begins with a healthy brain, gut, heart, and spine. Our Nutrition and Culinary Wellness program draws inspiration from hunter-gatherer societies, pre-agricultural cultures, and modern Blue Zone populations—communities known for longevity and low rates of chronic disease—integrated with peer-reviewed science.
These populations thrived on diverse, nutrient-dense whole foods that supported microbiome health, metabolic balance, strong circulation, and sustained energy. Using this framework, our personalized programs restore microbiome diversity through real foods, thoughtful menu design, and daily movement—supporting bone density, cognitive function, cardiovascular health, spinal integrity, and metabolic resilience.
By combining ancestral nutrition principles with modern medical collaboration, health coaching, and personal training, we promote safe weight loss and measurable cardiometabolic improvements in a relatively short period. This integrated approach activates the body’s natural healing capacity and can support reductions in medications under physician supervision.
Why Choose Our Program?
Concierge Cardiometabolic Coaching: A holistic approach to on-demand coaching that shifts the focus from treating a disease to treating the whole-body.
Comprehensive Health Evaluations: We start with in-depth health screening & assessments to improve biomarker profiles.
Blood Chemistry & Toxic Metal Testing: These pinpoint underlying imbalances that may affect your health in the present and future.
Ongoing Remote Biomarker Profile Monitoring: Continuous tracking and measuring to ensure your biomarker profiles improve.
Micro/Macronutrient Analysis: Detailed breakdown and tracking of your nutrient intake, ensuring the right balance for longevity.
Farmers Market & Online Shopping: Day walking and shopping trips to local farmers & fish markets and virtual online shopping assistance.
Expert Coaching: Our concierge medical doctor (s) and lifestyle wellness coaches help foster healthy behaviors, motivation and results.
Customized Organic Nutraceuticals: We design your organic farm-based vitamin & mineral formulas based on nutraceutical derivatives, (fruit, vegetables, roots, herbs, fungi, algae, seaweed) to provide therapeutic whole-food nutrition for cellular physiology health.
Goals
Weight Loss
Our nutrition and culinary wellness approach uses organic, whole foods and personalized guidance to support safe, sustainable weight loss while improving metabolic balance, energy, and vitality.
By restoring the body’s natural relationship with food, clients achieve lasting results that enhance both health and confidence.
Culinary Wellness
Culinary wellness is the art of using food as nourishment and medicine—understanding how foods support the body while honoring the pleasure and culture of eating.
At Wellness Academy USA, our approach is inspired by ancestral nutrition patterns seen in long-lived populations and guided by modern science.
Our Methodology
Wellness Academy USA methodologies are based on >40 years of experience improving biomarker profiles, bone, brain, heart, microbiome and spine health. We work with doctors, patients and clients to clinically improve health outcomes. Our methodologies are based on evidence-based, peer-reviewed scientific studies on chronic metabolic disease prevention which align with our experience in nutrition intervention, health & wellness coaching, personal training and lifestyle wellness practices. These studies include The Mediterranean Diet, (MedDiet), The Adventist Health Study, (1 & 2), and The DASH Diet, (The Dietary Approaches To Stop Hypertension).
In addition, we use anthropological data from present day hunter-gatherer-forager populations, and cultural longevity blue zone locations around the world where people live longer, happier disease free lives. We use this data to enhance our personalized health programs including meals, nutraceuticals, and physical activity plans. These approaches are widely recognized for their ability to reduced whole-body inflammation, increase microcirculation, improve bone, brain, heart, musculoskeletal strength and spine health which leads to an increased in longevity.
Our healthy nutrition / culinary wellness program significantly impacts biomarker profiles, blood chemistries, heavy metals, and pesticides inside the body in a short period of time.
We work with clients in the home, remotely, or at one of our great out door adventure walk locations, helping you to increase daily movement, which synergistically improves the gut microbiome, and helps the weight losss and balance.
Boosting microcirculation improves the delivery of nutrients and oxygen throughout the whole body, increasing the rate of detoxification, thus improving bone, brain, heart microbiome and spine health at a cellular level.
Program Content
Whether your goals are to reduce weight, targeted biomarker profile improvements for arthritis, hypertension, heart disease, cognitive loss, and spine health, we teach you how to master healthier habits, learning what foods eat and how to prepare healthy meals. Our health programs are tailored to support your journey every step of the way leading to the safe reduction and elimination of prescription drugs with medical oversight and your own personal board-certified health & wellness coach. (NBC-HWC)
What To Expect Using Our Program
Comprehensive Health Assessment and Monitoring
Health Screening and Biomarker Profile Monitoring: Gain insights into your overall health with advanced screenings and ongoing remote monitoring with medical oversight.
Blood Chemistry & Nutritional Analysis: Understand your body’s unique needs with detailed micro/macro nutrient assessments.
Toxic Metal Testing: Identify and address potential toxic metal exposures affecting your wellness.
Personalized Nutrition and Lifestyle Wellness Education
Culinary Nutrition Education: Learn the principles of nutrient-rich eating for long-term weight loss.
Healthy Cooking Classes: Discover how to prepare delicious, healthy meals with expert guidance.
Smoothie Science: Master the art of making organically balanced, nutraceutical nutrient-packed smoothies tailored to improve bone, brain, gut and heart health.
Targeted & Remote Monitoring Health Solutions
Wearable Remote Monitoring: We check in daily and monitor biomarkers like blood pressure & sugar, steps, sleep and Vo2 to improve brain, gut and heart health.
What's Included In Our Program
Safe Weight Loss Program
Achieve 15-20% sustainable weight loss results without compromising your health and without medications.
Work with our physician lead team to safely reduce and eventual elimination of prescription drugs.
Comprehensive Health Monitoring
Stay informed with screenings, biomarker measuring, remote coaching and continuous reassessment to quantify your personalized goals.
Safe Personalized Plans
Tailored supervised support for specific health goals, for blood sugar, brain, bone, and heart health pared with a plan to safely reduce improve gut health and whole body strength.
Why It Works
Our personalized programs are designed to accelerate weight loss, reduce stress, and improve cardiometabolic health in a relatively short period of time. Through expert nutrition counseling, culinary wellness, personalized movement, and daily motivation for up to one year, clients achieve sustainable results with measurable improvements in energy, resilience, and metabolic function—supported by medical collaboration when needed.
We combine the body’s innate capacity to heal with decades of coaching expertise, delivering exceptional outcomes at home, remotely, or through our immersive lifestyle wellness retreats. Luxury beachfront and waterfront city-view accommodations are available for those seeking a fully restorative experience.
Dr. J.D., MD
Mr. Gerald J Joseph understands the elemental components of nutrition and their relationship to disease. He is able to communicate the past evolutionary basis of biochemical nutrition. Understanding nature’s long evolutionary curve, contemporary cultural and logistic personal behavior, and prevalence of disease, he directs individuals back into health and metabolic harmony. While I think this last statement may sound theatric, my experience over time builds my confidence in his innovation and target. Within this biochemical nutrition, he understands and demands attention to quality food substrate and the probiotic mechanisms. This attention to the science yields results; lasting results are the measure of personal health objectives and of lasting therapeutic programs.
Nature Got It Right - Lifestyle is Medicine
