About Jessica Sylvester

Jessica Sylvester has over a decade of experience working in the field of nutrition. Her professional background includes inpatient nutrition care for acute medical conditions (including critical care and trauma patients), outpatient nutrition care for management of chronic disease, clinical nutrition research, academia, food science writing, and editorial work for peer-reviewed nutrition journals. Prior to opening a private practice, Jessica spent several years working in local hospitals as a clinical dietitian in the Intensive Care Unit. She sees both pediatric and adult patients. Her counseling focuses on connecting with each patient in order to understand their background and medical history, and how they interact to manifest symptoms. In her practice, Jessica focuses on identifying the root cause of symptoms and uses those results to determine evidence-based nutrition interventions. She describes her work as “investigative nutrition”.