Nutrition Foundation

Personalized Brewer Diet Coaching and Implementation Strategy

A Proactive Approach to Pregnancy Nutrition

Nutrition is not just a preference—it is the physiological foundation of your pregnancy.

To maintain a "low-risk" status and support a healthy birth, your body must perform an incredible feat: expanding your blood volume by nearly 50%. This expansion is the primary mechanism that ensures your baby receives constant oxygen and nutrients while protecting your own blood pressure and organ function.

The Brewer Pregnancy Diet is a science-backed protocol specifically designed to facilitate this expansion. It is rooted in the understanding that many pregnancy complications are not inevitable, but are often “diseases of malnutrition.” By prioritizing high-quality protein, calories, and salt, you provide your body with the exact building blocks it needs to expand blood volume and meet the high demands of pregnancy.

I provide the expertise to help you navigate this protocol with precision, avoid common pitfalls, and gain the tools you need to fuel the biological demands of your pregnancy.

The Science of Resilience: A Legacy of Prevention

The Brewer Diet is not a modern "trend"; it is a targeted clinical protocol developed by Dr. Thomas Brewer, an obstetrician who devoted his career to researching what we now call preeclampsia. Hypothesizing that this condition was primarily a "disease of malnutrition," Dr. Brewer created a nutrient-dense, well-rounded protocol designed to provide the body with the exact building blocks required for a healthy pregnancy.

The Contra Costa Clinical Success Over 12.5 years during the 1960s and 70s, Dr. Brewer supervised the prenatal care of over 7,000 women in the San Francisco Bay area. By every medical metric, his patients were at the highest risk for complications; they were low-income, ethnic minority, first-time mothers, and two-thirds of those first-time mothers were teenagers.

  • The Baseline: At the time, similar high-risk populations saw preeclampsia rates of 20–35%. The current preeclampsia rate in the United states is still 8%, with at-risk populations showing higher rates.

  • The Brewer Result: Under Dr. Brewer’s nutritional care, his patients had a preeclampsia rate of only 0.5%.

  • Zero Eclampsia: In his entire 12.5-year study, not a single patient reached the life-threatening state of eclampsia (seizures).

A Proven Clinical Foundation Despite these remarkable outcomes, the NIH declined to publish his work because Dr. Brewer refused to conduct a randomized controlled trial—he believed it was unethical to withhold this life-saving nutritional counseling from a "control group" of pregnant women.

This legacy was furthered by Dr. Robert Bradley, who applied these principles across 22,000 births with similar near-zero complication rates. This is not a restrictive diet; it is a varied, inclusive, and metabolically supportive framework that empowers you to build the strongest possible foundation for yourself and your baby.

Your Nutritional Strategy Session

This coaching is a deep dive into the mechanics of your health, giving you the data and the tools to take full ownership of your prenatal wellness.

  • Detailed Dietary Assessment: An in-depth audit of your current intake to accurately assess your current nutrition.

  • Personalized Protein & Caloric Mapping: Precise calculations of your unique daily needs based on the original Brewer principles.

  • Biomarker & Lab Analysis: We walk through your current lab values together, discussing how your nutrition directly impacts your blood markers and your body’s ability to sustain a healthy blood volume.

  • Strategic 1-Hour Consultation: This one-hour session is where everything comes together in a sustainable daily routine. Prior to our call, I use your questionnaire data to calculate your specific protein and caloric needs according to original Brewer principles. During our meeting, we perform a detailed assessment of your current diet to see where you stand. Together, we’ll troubleshoot your specific hurdles, identify areas for improvement, and uncover surprising things that might be working against your goals to ensure that you can follow the protocol as accurately as possible for the duration of your pregnancy.

  • The Clinical Resource Kit: To ensure you have everything you need to succeed moving forward, you’ll receive an easy-to-use daily tracking checklist, a Brewer Diet approved shopping guide, and meal recommendations that follow Brewer Diet principles.

Investment: $147

($87 when bundled with Signature Support Package)

Take Charge of My Nutrition

Note: Brewer Diet coaching is educational only and is not intended as medical advice. This service provides nutritional information to support your biological health alongside your primary medical care.

FAQs

  • Standard prenatal advice often focuses on "what to avoid" or restricting weight gain. Dr. Brewer’s research proved that restricting calories and salt actually causes the very complications doctors are trying to prevent. The Brewer Diet is a proactive, additive protocol. It was clinically shown to virtually eliminate preeclampsia and sharply reduce the rates of premature birth and low birth weight by focusing on blood volume expansion—ensuring the placenta is perfectly perfused and the mother’s liver and kidneys are fully supported.

  • Actually, it is quite the opposite. Unlike many modern diets that focus on cutting out food groups, the Brewer Diet is an inclusive and varied protocol. It doesn’t ask you to fast, restrict calories, or eliminate carbohydrates. Instead, it is an additive approach that ensures you are getting a wide variety of whole foods—including dairy, eggs, grains, and salt—to meet the high physiological demands of pregnancy. It’s about abundance, not deprivation.

  • The Brewer Diet is designed to be followed starting at 12 weeks gestation and continued through 4 months postpartum, but it is never too late to start providing your body with better raw materials. Many women notice early warning signs of complications, but are told that there’s nothing they can do until they’re diagnosed. Wherever you are in pregnancy, starting a proactive nutritional plan now can still make a significant impact on your birth and your recovery postpartum.

  • I am not a medical provider and do not use your labs to diagnose or treat disease. Instead, we use your lab tests as a tool for health literacy. We will analyze a few specific lab values, discuss what your tests are actually measuring, and how those markers relate to your metabolic health. While a provider might simply say your results are "normal," we look at the difference between a standard lab range and an optimum range for your specific circumstances—considering factors like altitude or individual patterns. By identifying borderline values or falling trends before they become a "problem," you gain the clarity needed to have proactive, informed conversations with your medical team.

  • The Brewer Diet is a high-protein, nutritionally dense protocol. While it is easiest to follow when all food groups are included, it is absolutely possible to succeed with restrictions like non-dairy, gluten-free, or while managing strong aversions. However, it does require a higher level of motivation and strategic planning to ensure you are meeting your daily biological markers without the "easy" sources of protein and calories. During our session, we will identify the most efficient swaps for your specific needs, creating a realistic path to follow the protocol accurately without compromising your dietary requirements.