Michelle Routhenstein, MS, RD, CDE, CDN

Michelle is a Preventive Cardiology Nutritionist, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, and Cardiology Dietitian. Michelle’s goals are to inspire, empower, educate, and help individuals take a proactive role in their heart health by optimizing risk factors, improving blood flow and blood vessel health and reducing any strain on the heart so it can do its job more effectively. Her work is focused on reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes, and increasing quality of life through science based nutrition and lifestyle management.

Michelle has more than a decade of experience successfully improving her client's laboratory parameters, mitigating risk factors, and maximizing heart function to avoid and treat heart disease and its related chronic illnesses. She takes a whole person personalized approach to long term nutrition and lifestyle change by merging the science with her client's lifestyle. Michelle believes in the importance of explaining the why behind all her recommendations for her clients to be an active participants in their care to truly optimize each person's heart health and increase their longevity.

She is also the author of Truly Easy Heart Healthy Cookbook, and shares her passion for heart disease prevention on her Instagram platform @Heart.Health.Nutritionist.

Credentials:

MS RD CDE CDN

MS and Undergraduate in Clinical Nutrition from NYU

Dietetic Residency in Clinical Nutrition from NYU