Our focus works because it is holistic and accounts for all of you.  Not just healthy food, but healthy relationships, healthy movement, a meaningful spiritual practice, an inspiring creative outlet, and an understanding that there can be emotional roots to physical illness.

We don’t mask your problems.  We address them.  If you have a rock in your shoe, is it better to take off your shoe and remove the rock, or take painkillers to mask the discomfort?

By creating a balance between the clinical aspects of health, primary foods, and the foods you eat everyday; you’ll experience steady changes in your health and wellbeing that you’ll be able to maintain for life.

It was raging Candida, a leaky gut from extensive antibiotic use, and the brewing thyroid and adrenal imbalance I wouldn’t discover for another 8 years. Yet I thought I was “normal” because I was “healthy” by my doctors standards; so I pressed on.

After earning a degree in business from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, I worked in International Relations for a few years, which inspired me to enroll in graduate school and pursue International Peace and Conflict Resolution.  While awaiting my acceptance to grad school, I decided to pursue a real world education and hit the road to explore our beautiful planet.

This is when my education really began.

My Life Changing Moment

My Life Changing Moment

Three weeks later, in a tiny South African town, the owner of a local health food store took me to a life-defining workshop called “Optimal Nutrition for The Mind” led by Patrick Holford of the Brain Bio Centre in the UK. Holford described the power of nutrition to transform lives. I was blown away by how much power and control we have over our full experience of life,  influenced mostly by how we choose to address and maintain our physical health.

I put this new knowledge to the test and got off all sugar, caffeine, and refined foods. I limited my alcohol consumption and added in key nutrients specifically for my brain, nervous system, and later my digestive system. I fell in love with yoga, and worked out 5 days a week with joy. Because of an inextinguishable spark of inspiration I acted upon, my life completely transformed from the inside out. 

For the first time in my life, I experienced energy all day long, enthusiasm for the little things, a profound sense of peace no matter what was happening around me, great digestion, deep sleep, and I finally lost those pesky 15 lbs, boosting my confidence. I couldn’t have imagined what true health really felt like – I wanted to share it with everyone I knew…including you.

I started to struggle with the guilt that I couldn’t accept all the clients that were referred to me. So in 2012, I made the difficult decision to leave private practice to help more people than was possible in a one-on-one setting.

I also wanted to make a greater contribution to the state of health care and become a voice for protecting and improving the food supply.

That led me to create a weekly TV series on FOX, called Food as Medicine, where I take complicated health topics and break them down in ways that are fun, motivating, and easy to understand. Later, I started the nationally syndicated Randy and Christa Show: News that Makes You Healthier and most recently, I have started my own online show called Food as Medicine TV.

I’ve also had the honor of sharing my work as a guest at TEDX, The Doctors, The Real, SHAPE, NY Post, Redbook, and ESPN.

My Highest Goal

My Highest Goal

I quickly realized though that I could actually use the internet for good. Now, having helped over 25,000 individuals truly change and improve their lives with our paid programs, and millions more with our free content, I realize I made the right choice. It would have taken me several lifetimes to help the same number of people working one-on-one.

I’m sharing this with you because my highest goal is to contribute to your wellbeing and to serve you in the way you need to be served to benefit in a lasting way. To guide you, protect you, and to help you advance your life to a higher level.