Bio – Taylor Ramsay (Nutritionist)

Taylor Ramsay

Nutritionist

Nutritionist and lifestyle guide, enthusiastic lifelong student of habit-building and meaning-making, wife, mom, and follower of Christ.

Where She Came From

Just a few years ago, you would have found Taylor working at an International NGO based here in Houston. But even as a teenager, something in her would light up when it came to food, food systems, fueling our bodies. She was fascinated by the effect that our lifestyle and consumption habits have on our present wellbeing and longevity. She used all her reading time on new releases like Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan or the not-so-new Fasting and Eating for Health by Joel Fuhrman, and only cliff notes for American Literature class. She even made her own diet recommendation handouts for members of her cross-country team. Her parents, no doubt, were grateful she passed literature class, and that she still had friends.

Despite entering a liberal arts degree program at Texas A&M that had nothing to do with nutrition, she used all her elective credit hours (and then some) on Nutrition, Agriculture and Permaculture, a pilot Sustenance and Sustainability class, Honeybee Biology, and more similarly “crunchy” courses. She stayed up past her bedtime binging science videos from nutritionfacts.com or TED.com. Her freshman year, she never went to the cafeteria, instead cooking out of a crockpot in her dorm, and took fellow students on tours to the grocery store to introduce them to navigating the perimeter to find healthy food they could prepare easily. Most popular of all was her “Crepes and Yoga” on Saturday mornings where all you needed were comfy pants, and a fresh crepe topping to contribute. She evangelized her mother regarding the horrors of hydrogenated oil, GMO corn, un-pastured eggs, and her family’s diet back home changed too.

The thread continued into young adulthood, and about 7 years into her career at the NGO, two things happened that finally opened her eyes to the obvious: deep down, she was a Nutritionist.

The first was her 45-year-old mother’s diagnosis with breast cancer. During her time battling cancer, Taylor would come up with custom smoothies and porridge type bowls augmented with supplements and superfoods that accommodated her mother’s dietary needs and complicated food aversions due to the treatments. The circumstances were horrible, but it felt natural to investigate PubMed or other resources after a recap from one of the doctor’s visits and try to figure out a practical next step for her mom’s diet. The unraveling of her mother’s life before her eyes left Taylor with a deep knowing that it didn’t have to happen this way. She saw plainly that there was so much lacking in the care her mother received not just during cancer, but going back to her mother’s childhood. She now views her own nutrition as fundamental in preventing breast cancer and disease, and she is grateful for the opportunity to honor her late mother each time she is given the opportunity to help others prevent cancer.

The second thing was that a friend and member of a local ministry lost his job of several years as a Chick-fil-a hospitality manager due to his worsening diabetes. Taylor became fed up with routinely watching poor health be a thief of the progress made by the men of the ministry her husband directed– the members are formerly homeless, incarcerated, addicted, or all three and have an uphill climb when it comes to overcoming life-long assaults on their health. Their stories are painful and beautiful, and when some make it to a place of stability, they struggle to stay there because of preventable illnesses.

We are often called to spaces near to our own pain, or where we see injustice. Clearly, given the great lament she felt over the broken healthcare system, preventable diseases, and harmful food and lifestyles, this was a passion.

It was just time to name it. Her husband brought this up and encouraged her to enroll in a post-graduate nutrition program.

Finding Whole Health

Taylor’s journey to join the staff of Whole Health was a surprisingly quick one. She had been a patient since 2018 due to mysterious symptoms (later found to be mold toxicity), and a desire for preventative medical care. She benefitted from the care of Dr. Wells, and so in 2023 she brought her daughter in to become a patient at just 9 days old. While in for one of her daughter’s check-ups in January of 2025, Taylor mentioned that she planned to figure out her next steps of going back to work later in the spring. Megan Runge, our pediatric care specialist, said “What kind of work?” … little did Taylor know that Whole Health had been searching for a Nutritionist for several months. A few emails, long phone calls, and interviews later, Taylor joined the team in February. “I am overjoyed to be working somewhere where I have the freedom to provide nutritional consultation that is functional, holistic, and in line with my core convictions.”

Her Philosophy and Areas of Expertise

Taylor approaches nutrition therapy with the underlying belief that all of us contend with a disordered relationship with food and our environment in various ways. This rupture is described in Genesis 3 of the Bible, and so we should not be surprised that we can’t seem to make ourselves do what we want, or be ashamed that we misuse food, ourselves, and our surroundings. BUT it is also true that Jesus has told us: “The kingdom has come [already],” and that He came to restore all things and that we may “have life abundantly.” This means we are invited to begin the work of restoring our relationships with food and our surroundings in the here and now– not from a place of shame, but with the strength and optimism that this is God’s deep desire for us, and He already delights in us.

When she works with clients, she stays curious throughout the process and provides tools specifically designed to make lifestyle changes achievable. She gives insightful nutritional advice and education, provides practical recipes, protocols and eating plans, while also helping people strategically build habits for steady, long-term positive change. She works with clients to examine many of the things they “intake” into their body, and how it affects them– not just food. She recognizes that the space of one’s health is vital, but often fraught with discouragement or confusion (there is too much information out there!) and seeks to support every client in a compassionate, informative, and practical manner.

A Little Extra Info...

- She married Jonathan in 2017, and they live just east of the medical center with their delectably chubby toddler named Sybil June and two huge dogs. Their first-born daughter, Josephine, is in heaven. They talk about her often and wait patiently for the day they’ll be joined with her again.
- She was born in Arizona, but when she was twelve, her family moved to the Middle East, splitting their time between Bahrain and Iran until she was 16 (she learned to drive with roundabouts, had a man offer her father camels in exchange for a betrothal, and used to be on the teen Rotax racing team). After that, they moved to Houston.
- She enjoys lazy gardening, golfing with her husband, and generally spending time outside doing anything- as long as it is outside! She is eager to ferment all kinds of things, and she’s recently ventured into brewing beer.
- She yearns for the people of God to embrace their identity as healers in the world, particularly in the realms of healthy living, recovering from addiction, dying well, celebrating and feasting well, taking time to lament, and time to rest.
- Some of her favorite foods… Leafy vegetable: arugula. Grain: purple/forbidden rice. Meat: grass-fed beef filet. Other vegetables: purple cabbage, garlic, and roasted radishes. Snack: eggs, good cheese, or macadamia nuts.
- Because she was a daughter of teen parents, Taylor gets to enjoy 3 siblings much younger than her. Her father married a widow after her mother’s death, and that added 7 more siblings under the age of 20. With grandparents and aunts and uncles also living near the family in eastern Tennessee, it’s a big and wild crew when Taylor, Sybil, and Jonathan go to visit.

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