The Medical Nutritionist

09/16/2025

Home made citrus-mustard vinaigrette is easy to make. I love salads and have 1-2 per day.

Champagne Citrus Mustard Vinaigrette:
2 parts oil (olive, avocado, Udo's oil)
1 part vinegar
dash of mustard
dash of raw honey
fresh herbs from the garden (optional)..and viola!....

You'll never buy store bought salad dressing in a bottle EVER again after tasting the lightness and delicateness and freshness of homemade. You can whip one up in about 1 minute once you get the hang of it.

A simple balsamic vinaigrette:
2 parts olive oil
1 part balsamic vinegar
2 tsp smooth mustard, dijon or stone ground

I don’t follow recipes for my salads, I just throw in whatever looks good into my salads. Sometimes I even add left over roasted broccoli, carrots, and garlic, or whatever roasted veggies I have on hand.

Today's lunch is my version of a chicken Waldorf salad:

Avocado
Bell Pepper
Walnuts
Apple
Chicken
Blue Cheese
Greens
citrus- mustard vinaigrette

It takes about 5 minutes to assemble a salad when everything is on hand, prepped, and ready to go in your refrigerator.

My dinner salad tonight will be:

Greens
Beets
Carrots
Ground Turkey
olives
Bell Pepper
Balsamic vinaigrette made in the kitchen
w/ side of roasted Brussel sprouts and shallots

I want a vibrant happy healthy body that's brimming with life force and energy.

09/15/2025

The Summer Garden is winding down. It's a delight to have meals from the garden every day.

10/30/2023

Lets get you feeling fabulous again! Book your Saturday Clinical Nutrition appointment. Www.TheMedicalNutritionist.com

05/18/2022

If you need a health tune-up or would like a custom supplement protocol, you can book a 30-minute zoom session directly on my website www.TheMedicalNutritionist.com

I am offering 2 appointment types:

1) Health Consultation & Custom Standard Process Supplement Protocol ~ During this appointment we will have time to focus on one-to-three of your health care issues and symptoms. You will receive a therapeutic custom Standard Process supplement protocol that you can begin immediately to address your current health issues. These protocols are fast acting and effective.

2) Review Blood Labs & Custom Supplement Protocol to Restore Blood Chemistry ~ This appointment is for a Lab Review Consultation of any recent blood work. I will analyze your labs from a functional medicine perspective. Out-of-range values will be addressed and I will explain any patterns or trends I see developing. A custom supplementation protocol using nutritional and herbal therapies to help correct your blood chemistry will be created.

All appointments are 30-minutes in length.

During our Zoom session we will do a screen share and I will show you your new supplement protocol and review doses and recommendations with you before our session together ends.
I will email you a copy of your custom protocol.

You may continue to purchase your Standard Process supplements directly through your individual Patient Direct accounts or through my website.

All appointments are now being booked online. I no longer have an office phone number.

Here is the link to get scheduled https://TheMedicalNutritionist.as.me/

Have a beautiful summer!

Sarah J. Loren

05/14/2022

I want to personally thank the community of Ukiah for 7 wonderful years practicing Clinical Nutrition & Functional Medicine in our sweet little town. I met incredible people during my time in clinical practice and after thousands of in-person office visits, I made the decision to close my brick and mortar Ukiah location and move to a virtual zoom practice.

2 years ago, I moved to Sebastopol. Life was calling me back to my childhood hometown, and I made the decision this year that it was time for me to live my life full-time in Sebastopol. Hence the decision to close my practice in downtown Ukiah and reopen as a virtual Medical Nutrition practice. The new business name is The Medical Nutritionist and the website is www.TheMedicalNutritionist.com.

I am now working via zoom, and with my new virtual medical nutrition practice, I will be creating custom Standard Process protocols for people throughout the United States who love Standard Process as much as I do!

I think back to when I first opened Ukiah Nutrition in 2014 and I was working out of my little cottage on S. Pine St! The waiting room was the front porch, and people would do supplement pickups in brown bags left out on the front porch and they would pay me by leaving cash in my mailbox! Not once did anyone ever steal. Almost daily I would come home and find roughly 10 envelopes filled with cash and checks in the mailbox and no one ever pocketed a little extra spending money from the front porch pick-ups! This makes me smile fondly now - Ohhh these are the experiences that make small town life so precious.

And so, today I say thank you to each of you whom I crossed paths with during my time in Ukiah. What an incredible time it was in my life to live my passion, share my medical knowledge, embrace my spiritual gifts, and be whole heartedly welcomed by this special community. Thank you for accepting me and thank you for being delighted with our work together. You will always remind me of the first time all of my dreams came true.

Should you ever need me, you can find me down the road at www.TheMedicalNutritionist.com. I’ll meet you there on Zoom.

With Great Gratitude & Love,

Sarah J. Loren
Sebastopol, CA

07/07/2021

06/21/2021

If you suffer with skin conditions such as skin allergies, dermatitis, eczema or hives, the issue is more than skin deep. Like a mirror, the state of your skin on the outside is a reflection of the inside.

We can help you look below the surface to explore the many factors that may be triggering your skin condition or making it worse, such as:

• Environmental allergens
• Food allergies and intolerances
• Immune reactivity
• Gut dysfunction
• Microbiome imbalances
• Poor detoxification and elimination
• Stress and poor sleep
• Nutritional deficiencies

By improving how each body system functions, you can feel healthier on the inside and your skin will look healthier on the outside.

Additionally, herbs and nutrients can provide symptomatic relief, reducing redness, itching and swelling, and promote skin healing.

06/20/2021

New patient appointments are booked out for the next 2 months. If you are thinking about signing up as a new patient and establishing care at Ukiah Nutrition, we suggest you call and add your name to the waiting list.

People often tell us “I’ve been thinking about calling for a while, I wish I had called when I first thought about this because then I’d be getting in now to see you instead of waiting 1-3 more months.”

Once spots become available, we will go down the list in order and get everyone scheduled. Thank you for your patience!!

If there is a cancellation, we will pull from the new patient waiting list to try to fit someone into the available spot.

Happy Summer!

Sarah Loren

06/17/2021

Digestive issues account for more than 75% of the cases we see at our office.

IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s, Constipation, and many other bowel issues are becoming commonplace, but they’re not normal. Not for you. Not for your child. Not for your baby.

Conventional treatments like MiraLAX (look it up and you’ll find a whole slew of negative side effects) or stool softeners are not the answer.

It’s not normal to feel sick after you eat. It’s not normal to be gassy, or bloated, or “burpy”. It’s not normal to not be able to go to the bathroom. It’s not normal to have daily nausea.

It’s not normal, so why do we put up with it?

Let us help you get to the root cause of your digestive issues so you can experience for yourself how amazing a healthy gut feels!

Call us to change your health and get started on a gut restoration program. 707-234-3310

06/10/2021

My new Facebook. I deleted everything. Every group, every page I followed. And I turned off gmail notifications. No more alerts or anything on my phone. I deleted all social media apps too.

Wow. I feel like a kid who just got let out for summer. There’s this freeing sense of... anticipation. What will life be like with out all that stuff? I’ve been wasting time with technology daily for 10 plus years.

I’m excited to see who I become again. Maybe a bee keeper, maybe a jam preserver, maybe a morning journal writer. Who the hell knows but I do know I’ll be back to basics in my home and garden really living more deeply.

More connected to my body, soul, and this human experience.

What a BIG summer experiment!!

My wish for myself is that I succeed and never go back.

Here’s to summer 2021 skipping in my shorts down to the pool sans phone.

**I am keeping my Ukiah Nutrition business page and that's it!!

06/08/2021

Ohh Really?? 49-year-old female patient testimonial. At her first 30-day checkup, I asked her what I ask everyone.

Sarah: "So, how's it going?"

Patient: "Great! I'm feeling better than I have in a long time and I'm finally starting to want to have s*x with my husband again! He's happy about that."

Sarah, who's taking notes on the computer stops typing, pauses and looks over and says "Oh really? Now isn't THAT wonderful!"

It’s very common for women to report this to me once they've been on their customized hormone balancing protocol for 1-3 months. As we strengthen the hypothalamus, adrenal and thyroid glands, clean out the liver, and correct any other major weaknesses or nutritional deficiencies in the body, it’s very common for the hormones to start to come back online and for people to feel a surge in their libido.

I've had women come to me who had already gone into early menopause in their early-to-mid 40's and within 1-2 months of starting their supplement protocol, much to their surprise, they started menstrual bleeding again and their monthly cycle returned because we nourished their tired s*x glands with the nutrients they needed to function properly (thyroid glandular, B vitamins, Vitamin C, hypothalamus glandular etc.). The s*x glands for women are your hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, pancreas and ovaries (te**es for men).

And don’t worry boys, there’s plenty for you! I even have natural Vi**ra for men. I'm seeing low libido in men starting as early as late-20’s to mid-30's. Low libido for men is the same root cause as it is for women, the results of stress and fatigue, and chronic exhaustion and depletion of the 6 male endocrine glands. Once we give those glands a boost, hormones are rockin' and rollin.'

Who would have thought that Clinical Nutrition was capable of this much fabulousness?