NUTRITION TEAM

Jennifer Broxterman, MSc, RD

CEO of NutritionRx, Registered Dietitian & Sports Nutritionist

Areas of Expertise:

• Healthy eating
• Weight loss
• Sports nutrition
• Eating disorder recovery and developing a positive relationship with food, exercise, and body image

About Jen:

Jennifer Broxterman is the founder and head Registered Dietitian at NutritionRx, which she opened in 2010. Her approach encourages people to build a happy and healthy relationship with food through habits-based behaviour change, mindset shifts, and creating supportive environments. With so much client success and incoming referrals, she's grown her team to bring on more like-minded RDs. Over the years she’s worked with thousands of people, ranging from everyday folks to NHL hockey players and Olympic athletes, supporting their healthy eating and performance goals.

Beyond NutritionRx:

Jennifer has worked as a Foods and Nutrition university professor at Western University (Brescia campus), winning the esteemed Excellence in Teaching Award. She's also a researcher and nutrition content writer for Precision Nutrition, and the course creator for Two-Brain's online Nutrition Coaching Course. She brings her athletic background as a dual varsity athlete (hockey and rowing), along with her experience of being a 4x national level CrossFit athlete.

Jen's Cancer Story:

At age 34, Jen was unexpectedly diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Despite being given less than a 9% chance of living past 5 years, within a few months of her cancer removal surgery she achieved RADICAL REMISSION and is still cancer-free to this day! Jen is one of the most positive, hard working, and resilient people you'll ever meet, and is grateful that she's still here to keep sharing her passion for healthy living with others.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science (BSc, Life Sciences) – Queen’s University
• Honours Bachelor of Science (BScH, Foods & Nutrition) – Western University / Brescia
• Masters of Science (MScFN, Foods & Nutrition) – Western University / Brescia
• Dietetic Internship (1800+ hours of training) to become licensed as a Registered Dietitian – London Health Sciences Centre
• Certified Level 1 Precision Nutrition Coach
• Active member of Dietitians of Canada & The College of Dietitians of Ontario

Bethany Staubitz, BScFN, RD

Registered Dietitian & Sports Nutritionist

Areas of Expertise:

• Healthy eating
• Weight loss
• Sports nutrition
• GI & Digestive Disorders: IBS, GERD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, low FODMAP and FODMAP reintroduction
• Plant-based eating: vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian (Beth eats this way herself!)

About Beth:

Bethany is a super smart and caring Registered Dietitian. She loves to nerd out and explore the science and interconnection between nutrition, sports performance, medical conditions and tricky digestive concerns, along with her passion for following a pescatarian eating style and reducing her ecological footprint. She's worked as a high level rock climbing coach with national team athletes and knows how to help her clients maximize their success and achieve peak performance.

Beyond NutritionRx:

Bethany also works as a Registered Dietitian at London Health Sciences Centre in a wide range of departments, including general medicine, surgical care, and renal. When she’s not working with nutrition clients, there’s a good chance she’s coaching rock climbing at Junction Climbing Centre. A competitive rock climber herself who has spent considerable time at crags and in climbing gyms, Beth follows a mostly plant-based diet and loves working with athletes and active individuals to help them eat and feel better.

Education:

• Honours Bachelor of Arts, double major (BAH, Anthropology & English) – McMaster University
• Honours Bachelor of Science (BScH, Foods & Nutrition) – Western University / Brescia
• Dietetic Internship (1800+ hours of training) to become licensed as a Registered Dietitian – London Health Sciences Centre
• Active member of Dietitians of Canada & The College of Dietitians of Ontario
• Level 1 Instructor with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides

Samantha Breau, BScFN, RD

Registered Dietitian & Sports Nutritionist

Areas of Expertise:

• Healthy eating
• Weight loss
• Eating disorder recovery, including overcoming anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and yo-yo dieting

About Sam:

Samantha is passionate about all things food, and loves cooking and trying new recipes. She follows a non-dieting nutrition approach and strives to help her clients strike the right balance between the foods they love and the foods that fuel them to better health. Sam is especially committed to helping her clients work through the mental health component of how food shapes their lives, guiding them to a peaceful relationship with weight and body image.

Beyond NutritionRx:

Samantha brings extensive experience working in eating disorder recovery. She's worked as a Mental Health Support Worker at LHSC's Adult Eating Disorder Recovery Program, and more recently, she stepped into a Registered Dietitian role at the same centre working with in-patient and day-treatment ED patients. Sam also loves being active; she grew up playing competitive women’s volleyball and recently picked up tennis and CrossFit.

Education:

• Honours Bachelor of Science (BScH, Foods & Nutrition) – Western University / Brescia
• Dietetic Internship (1800+ hours of training) to become licensed as a Registered Dietitian – Hamilton Health Sciences Centre
• Active member of Dietitians of Canada & The College of Dietitians of Ontario
• Level 1 Precision Nutrition Coaching Certification (in progress)

Olivia McAllister, MScFN(c), RD(c)

Registered Dietitian & Sports Nutritionist

Areas of Expertise:

• Healthy eating
• Weight loss
• Concussion recovery
• Plant-based eating: vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian (Liv eats this way herself!)

About Liv:

Smart and super sweet, Liv is passionate about providing the most evidence-based nutrition information to her clients. She is able to translate the science of nutrition into practical, easy to follow advice. During her Master’s education, Liv researched the role of nutrition in concussion recovery and continues to be devoted to helping people get better from traumatic brain injures.

Beyond NutritionRx:

Liv loves to cook and bake and especially enjoys “healthifying” classic recipes that support her mostly plant-based, flexitarian eating style. She played rep basketball most of her life but sprinkled in a variety of other sports including soccer, volleyball, and rugby to keep her active and social. Not only does Liv coach nutrition clients, but she's a long-time fitness instructor too! She's been teaching group fitness classes since 2013 and holds her fitness instructor certification.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science (BSc) with major in Medical Sciences and a minor in Psychology – Western University
• Honours Bachelor of Science (BScH, Foods & Nutrition) – Western University / Brescia
• Masters of Science (MScFN, Foods & Nutrition) (c) – Western University / Brescia with combined Dietetic Internship (1800+ hours of training) to become licensed as a Registered Dietitian (expected graduation date: April 30, 2021)
• Active member of Dietitians of Canada & The College of Dietitians of Ontario
• Fitness Instructor Specialist – CanFitPro

Dave Henry

CrossFit London Owner, Personal Trainer & Head Coach

About Dave:

Dave is the owner and Head Coach of CrossFit London, and he brings a wealth of training knowledge to the NutritionRx team. He's been coaching fitness since 2003, and offers our NutritionRx clients personal training workouts (in-person and virtual) as well as fun and productive HITT and strength-based programming to help you lose weight, build muscle, and optimize your body composition.

Education:

• CrossFit Level 1
• CrossFit Level 2
• CrossFit Endurance
• CrossFit Powerlifting (westside barbell method)
• CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting
• CrossFit Mobility & Recovery
• CrossFit Rowing
• CrossFit Judges Course
• Ontario Weightlifting Association (Club Coach)
• NCCP Coach (National Coaching Certification Program)
• Poliquin PICP Level 1
• Poliquin Instant Muscle Strengthen Techniques
• Poliquin Fascial Abrasion Technique
• Infantry Seargent
• Motivational Interviewing Level 1
• Motivational Interviewing Level 2
• Motivational Interviewing Level 3
• Reflexive Performance Reset

Carly

Emotional Support Office Dog, Black Lab and #1 Cuddler

About Carly:

Carly is a black lab who has been with Jen and NutritionRx since 2009. She was originally being trained to be an autism guide dog, but unfortunately flunked out of service dog school because of her overly-friendly personality (as if that’s even a flaw!), and was adopted permanently by Jen.

Carly loves swimming, chasing balls and sticks, snuggling with her favourite humans, and offering kisses and tail wags to new clients.

As a dog-friendly office, Carly hangs out at NutritionRx whenever Jennifer is counselling her nutrition clients. Although Carly may be a failed service dog, she has embraced her role as a ‘therapy dog’ with her whole heart and will give you abundant love and support as you work hard to accomplish your nutrition goals. She usually sleeps in the corner of the NutritionRx office on her bed during client sessions. If you have an allergy or fear of dogs, please alert our team prior to your initial assessment and arrangements can be made to have Carly stay at home.