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Vancouver Dietitian A Registered Dietitian Nutritionist since 2003. Haley Vilhauer is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Haley works with teams, companies and high -performing individuals to help them elevate their health and optimize their performance. She obtained a degree in Food Science & Human Nutrition, from Washington State University in 2002. Since then Haley has continued her passion by continuing her education and work in the realm of functional nutrition, intuitive eating and autoimmune/food sensitivities

. Haley LOVES to help others improve their quality of life through eating and living well and learning to care for themselves!! Haley works with individuals and families as they move through a transformation process that includes shedding unwanted layers, increasing the intention and awareness in their lives and properly caring for the unique body that they were given. Haley also believes that you can facilitate a lot of growth by being a little uncomfortable, so in addition to being a wife and mother of three kiddos, she has found a passion in CrossFit and marathon running, all of which have exposed her to the power of achieving hard things. Haley values community and is the director of a local Faith Rx'd Vancouver, WA chapter that works to "Strengthen the Fitness Community Through Christ-Centered Living & Impact". If you choose to work with Haley, you will be treated with kindness, compassion, love and grace.

08/30/2026

She said it quietly at the end of our first session. Almost as an aside. 💛
I have one good summer in me and I want this to be it.
Not one summer left. One summer where she was actually in it — fully, physically, energetically present — rather than managing through it from the edges the way she had for the last several years.
She was not being dramatic. She was being honest in the way people are when they have finally stopped pretending the management is working. 🌿
We ran her labs. The cortisol pattern was significant. The gut markers told a story nobody had ever read before. Three nutritional insufficiencies that explained the afternoon crash and the sleep quality and the mood dip that she had been attributing to personality for so long she had stopped questioning it.
We addressed the whole picture. In sequence. With data to guide every decision.
By July she told me something had shifted that she had stopped expecting to shift. 💫
Not everything. The work takes the time it takes. But the morning — that specific window between waking and the day’s first demand — felt different. Like it belonged to her again.
That is where it starts. Not the dramatic transformation. The quiet morning that feels like yours. ☀️
You still have August. There is still time for your version of that morning.

Not the drop off. Not the homework. Not the permission slips you forgot to sign. 📋The lunchbox.The specific paralysis of...
08/27/2026

Not the drop off. Not the homework. Not the permission slips you forgot to sign. 📋

The lunchbox.

The specific paralysis of standing in front of the refrigerator at 7am with eleven minutes before the bus and a child who has opinions about absolutely everything except what to eat. 🧒

And somehow in those five minutes you are supposed to produce something that is nutritious and appealing and nut-free and not the same thing you packed on Monday and actually gets eaten instead of traded for someone else’s Oreos.

Here is what twenty years of nutrition practice and being a mom has taught me about that five minute window: 👇
The lunchbox is not just lunch. It is blood sugar regulation for the afternoon. It is the protein that determines whether your kid can focus during the last two periods or is running on fumes by 1pm. It is the gut-supporting foods that affect their mood, their immunity, and their sleep in ways most parents never connect to what went in the box that morning. 🧬

And while you are standing there packing all of that for them — what are you eating for lunch today? 🙋‍♀️

Because in twenty years of practice the most consistent thing I have seen is this: the parent who is most intentional about their child’s nutrition is almost always the least intentional about their own. The lunchbox gets the thought, the planning, the real food. And by noon the adult who packed it is eating whatever was left on the counter or skipping it entirely because there was no plan for themselves.

Your cortisol needs protein too. Your gut needs fiber too. Your afternoon needs blood sugar stability too. 💪

The guide I made works for everyone at the table — not just the ones with the cartoon lunchbox. 🌿

Comment LUNCH below and I will send you the free recipe guide — fast prep, real food, blood sugar stable all afternoon — for the kids AND the adult who keeps forgetting to eat. ☕

Your body has been communicating with you all summer. 📡Not dramatically. Quietly. In the language it always uses when th...
08/23/2026

Your body has been communicating with you all summer. 📡

Not dramatically. Quietly. In the language it always uses when the picture has never been whole and the pattern has never been addressed at the right level.
The fatigue that coffee manages but does not fix. ☕

The digestion that requires monitoring at every meal.

The sleep that does not restore no matter how many hours you protect.

The mood that dips in the afternoon with the reliability of a tide.

The body that has not responded to the effort the way the effort deserved. 💪

These are not random. They are not aging. They are not stress. They are not things you manage better with a new supplement or a stricter routine.

They are signals. Specific, consistent, biological signals from a whole-system pattern that has been running long enough to feel like your personality — when actually it is just your physiology asking for something more specific than what it has been given. 🧬

The end of summer is a natural audit point.

Not to make yourself feel bad about what the season looked like. To get honest about what the signals have been saying — and what it would mean to actually listen to them this time rather than manage around them into autumn. 🍂

Your body is not broken. It is communicating. 📣

Comment SIGNAL and let’s find out what it has actually been trying to tell you. 🔍

08/21/2026

I run functional labs on myself regularly. Not because I am chasing a number — because I believe in practicing what I preach and because the data always tells me something the symptoms alone would not. 🔬

This August I ran a full panel. Cortisol rhythm. Gut markers. Inflammatory picture. Biological aging indicators.
My biological age came back at 33. My calendar age is 46. 📊

I share that not to perform wellness. I share it because I want to be specific about what produces that number — because it is not what most people assume.

It is not the perfect diet. I live with chronic pain. I have seasons where the foundation requires more active maintenance than others. I sauna daily as part of managing that pain — not because it is trendy but because the heat genuinely moves the needle on inflammation in a way nothing else has matched for me personally. 🔥

The number is 33 because for twenty years I have been addressing the whole picture. The gut. The cortisol. The nutrients. The sleep. The stress response. The lifestyle pillars working together as a system rather than a collection of individual good habits. 🌿
Functional lab testing is how I know — specifically, objectively, without guessing — what the picture actually looks like and where it needs attention before the symptom becomes the signal I can no longer ignore.

This is available to you too. Not the number — your number. Whatever your body is actually running at and where the trajectory is actually pointing. 🧭

Comment LABS and I will walk you through exactly what we test and what it shows. 💬

08/21/2026

Enjoying every bit of summer ☀️ 🚲 🏔️

08/17/2026

Every summer the advice is the same. Drink more water. Stay hydrated. Eight glasses a day. 💧
And you’re probably doing it. And you’re probably still exhausted, still getting headaches, still feeling the afternoon crash that everyone blames on the heat.
Here’s what’s actually happening: hydration isn’t just about water volume. It’s about your body’s ability to USE the water you’re drinking — which depends entirely on your electrolyte balance, your cortisol rhythm, your adrenal function, and the integrity of your gut lining. 🧬
If your adrenals are dysregulated — which they often are in people running a chronic stress and fatigue pattern — your body loses sodium and potassium faster than hydration alone can replace. You can drink water all day and still be functionally dehydrated at the cellular level.
This is why that “drink more water” advice lands as both technically true and completely insufficient. 💦
True hydration is a whole-system issue. It involves electrolytes, mineral balance, cortisol regulation, and gut health working together. None of that comes from drinking an extra glass at lunch.
Summer is the season that makes this visible — because the heat amplifies everything your system is already struggling with. ☀️
Comment HYDRATE and I’ll tell you what I actually do — and recommend — for real cellular hydration. 🙌

08/15/2026

Smaller clothes. More skin. Less structure. Social events built around food and drinks and bodies in motion.
Summer has a specific way of making everything you’ve been managing all year suddenly very visible. 👀
Not the symptoms exactly. The gap.
The gap between how you feel and how you want to feel. Between the energy the season is asking of you and the energy you actually have. Between the version of yourself that wants to be fully in it — the trips, the lake days, the long evenings — and the version that is quietly calculating whether you have enough. 😔
Summer doesn’t create that gap. It just removes all the layers you’ve been using to manage around it.
The extra coffee. The careful scheduling. The routines that kept things functional enough that nobody — including you — had to look at it directly.
Those routines break down in summer. And the gap becomes undeniable.
Here’s what I want you to hear: that undeniable feeling isn’t a problem. It’s information. The most useful kind — the kind that finally makes the next right step obvious.
You’ve been managing this long enough. ☀️
Comment SUN below and let’s start the conversation. 💬

08/14/2026

you can pay the farmer now or Big Pharma later. 😏🌱

Just your friendly reminder that “healthy eating” doesn’t have to mean fancy powders and $18 smoothies.

We’re pretty lucky to have the Vancouver Farmers Market open year-round, making it way easier to shop local, eat seasonally, and actually know where our food is coming from.

A few of my current favorites:

🥩 Windy River Farm — all things meat
🌭 Scratch Meats — the yummiest chicken sausage

Because investing in quality food now > waiting until your health gives you a reason to care later.

Go support your local farmers. Your future self will thank you. 😉

08/08/2026

I have had a lot of questions about creatine, so hopefully this helps!

Creatine isn’t just for bodybuilders. 👀

One of the most misunderstood supplements is also one of the most well-researched.

Yes, creatine can help support muscle strength, power, recovery and lean mass — but its benefits go beyond muscle.

Creatine also plays a role in cellular energy production, including in the brain. Research has looked at potential benefits for cognitive performance, memory, mental fatigue and overall brain energy — especially when demand is high.

And this is one supplement I’m comfortable having in our household for different reasons.

My 16-year-old takes no-added-sugar creatine chews to support his training and building muscle as he grows and develops.

And I personally take Thorne creatine because my goals aren’t about getting “bulky.” I want to support muscle as I age, strength, recovery and healthy longevity.

Because maintaining muscle isn’t just about how you look.

It’s about being strong enough to carry your kids, hike the trail, play on the floor, travel, lift weights and keep doing all the things you love for decades to come.

Creatine is a tool — not a shortcut. And like any supplement, the right choice depends on the person, their goals, diet, training and overall health.

Save this one for the next time someone tells you creatine is “just for muscle.” 😉

08/06/2026

She wanted the easy version. A PDF. A list of foods. Tell me what to eat and I’ll eat it.

I understand the appeal completely. It’s simpler. It’s faster. It feels like progress because you’re DOING something immediately. 📋

I still said no.

Because a meal plan built without knowing her gut health, her blood sugar pattern, her cortisol rhythm, or her actual nutrient status isn’t personalized — it’s a guess with good formatting. 🧬

The thing about generic plans is they work just well enough to keep you hooked, and just incompletely enough to never actually solve anything. You follow it. You feel slightly better. You plateau. You wonder what you’re doing wrong.

You’re not doing anything wrong. The plan was never built for your body specifically — it was built for “bodies like yours,” which is a very different thing.

If you’re ready for something built around YOUR data instead of generic best guesses — comment MINE and let’s talk about what that actually looks like. 🔍

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