Welcome to our Nest!

If you’re struggling with PMOS (formerly PCOS), perimenopause, menopause, pre-diabetes, diabetes, or fatty liver disease — or if you simply want to age vibrantly with steady, lasting energy — you’re in exactly the right place!

Here’s a number that still stops me in my tracks: 88% of US adults are metabolically unhealthy. That’s not a small problem, and it’s not one we’ll solve with more calorie-counting, deprivation, or highly processed “health food.” At Nest Wellness, our mission is to change that statistic starting in the home kitchen. Because good health isn’t just possible, it’s absolutely delicious.

We create recipes that inspire you to eat well, feel amazing, and nourish, energize, protect, and heal your body with real food. Teaching people to use food as medicine, and making that medicine genuinely craveable, is what drives everything we do.

Our Journey to Real Food

Our path here wasn’t traditional, but it was deeply personal. It grew out of a shared necessity to heal our own family and a desire to change how we think about chronic health.

My own food journey started 25 years ago, when I was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse syndrome. I was living with chronic, mysterious chest pain and finding very little in the way of answers from conventional medicine. When I came across a suggestion to cut refined sugar from my diet, I was willing to try anything. So at 35, I made the switch, and I’ve been free of chest pain ever since.

Mike is an orthopaedic surgeon, but nutrition wasn’t part of his medical school training. So, together, we studied it, first to heal our own bodies and support our children, and then because it started changing the outcomes of Mike’s patients. I became a certified holistic nutritionist and integrative health practitioner, and began sharing my metabolic wellness tips and recipes more widely.

What began as a personal necessity quickly became a creative obsession: how do you recreate the comforting, crowd-pleasing meals your family loves, using ingredients that actually love your body back?

I went deeper, experimenting with vegetables, fruit, healthy fats, nuts and seeds, regeneratively raised meat, wild-caught fish and seafood, and pastured eggs. Every recipe I create is unprocessed, gluten-free, A1 dairy-free, and refined sugar-free. It has been my great pleasure to create blood sugar-friendly, nutrient-dense recipes for Levels Health, and for you.

Real Data Meets the Home Kitchen

I don’t believe in guesswork. The real turning point in my practice came when I started wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) to track exactly how different foods affect blood sugar in real time. That data changed everything.

Today, every meal, framework, and sweet treat I develop is low-glycemic and CGM-tested, designed to keep your glucose steady without sacrificing a single bit of flavor.

What that looks like in practice:

- Tested on my family and my CGM first. Every recipe goes through at least 3 to 5 rounds of testing before it reaches you. I’m aiming for a glucose rise of no more than 30 points above baseline. If it clears that bar at my table, it’ll work at yours.
- Free from the refined sugar, highly processed seed oils, and refined grains that disrupt metabolic stability. We don’t miss them.
- Built around protein and fiber. Each meal is designed with muscle-preserving protein (24–30 grams) and gut-supporting fiber to naturally blunt blood sugar spikes and keep you satisfied until your next meal.
- Easy to adapt. Every recipe includes substitution notes so you can navigate food sensitivities or picky eaters without losing the blood sugar benefit.

Whether you’re looking for a complete metabolic reset, tried and true recipes that won’t spike your blood sugar, or a nutrition approach that supports your hormones, bone density, and energy through menopause and beyond, you’ve found your people.

In health and wellness,
Beth and Mike