I am a “generation X”, Barcelona-based trilingual (English, Spanish and Portuguese) certified integrative nutrition health coach, plant-powered athlete, plant-based nutrition and genomics expert with 20-plus peer-reviewed publications in various high-impact journals, such as Nature and Science.
Having been at the forefront of scientific research for many years, with a track record of publications at the highest impact journals my purpose is to guide individuals attain their best-self based on the most up-to-date and strongest science-driven evidence for the specific changes that can make the biggest positive impact tailored to their individual condition and goals.
I am a lifelong learner and world traveler who has lived in nine countries and visited more than fifty. I am a McGill University (Canada) Microbiology & Immunology graduate (BSc & MSc), I hold a Genomics/Computational Biology MSc from the University of Manchester (UK) and a project management certification from the University of Berkeley (USA). Furthermore, I hold a nutrition certificate from eCornell and after half a decade of helping people improve their nutrition and increase their physical activity I officially started health-coaching part-time a few months after enrolling in the highly reputable nutritional health coaching program of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN, New York, USA), which I completed in April of 2021.
I’ve had a lifelong passion for most things related to personal fitness, sports, nutrition, anti-aging research and healthy living in general and I have strived to keep up-to-date on the latest scientific knowledge on these topics over the years. I am also a strong believer that an optimal nutrition and lifestyle have immense weight on extending one´s healthy lifespan and improving overall wellness.
In 2015, my mother, a person still full of vitality and in her mid 60s was diagnosed with an aggressive early-onset Alzheimer’s-type dementia and subsequently I found out that I am a carrier of two copies of the ApoE4 allele meaning that I have 12x-19x higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s in the course of my life than the general population. Almost concurrently another close family member was hit with a stage IV colon cancer diagnosis. These are both terrible conditions with an overwhelming impact on the patients and their families and at this difficult juncture of my life, I started delving deeply into science behind the role of nutrition and lifestyle in the development, prevention and management of chronic diseases. This led me to come across an ever-increasing body of scientific evidence suggesting that diseases such as colon cancer or Alzheimer’s can often be avoided or at the very least greatly delayed by taking appropriate measures.
Eventually I decided to use all my accumulated scientific analytic “know-how” to help people achieve their best-self and through effective prevention strategies avoid eventually being victims of what are often largely preventable lifestyle-related diseases and behaviors that lead to premature aging. With that purpose in mind, I officially started health coaching a selected group of individuals on a part-time basis with excellent results. I am currently still coaching part-time and also working as a biodiversity genomics scientist.
Eventually I decided to use all my accumulated scientific analytic “know-how” to help people achieve their best-self and through effective prevention strategies avoid eventually being victims of what are often largely preventable lifestyle-related diseases and behaviors that lead to premature aging. With that purpose in mind, I started health coaching a selected group of individuals on a part-time basis with excellent results. I am currently still coaching part-time and also working as a biodiversity genomics scientist.
