September 17, 2025 • 11 mins
Ever wondered if those persistent health issues might be connected to what's on your plate? Britt Kaylor's story will make you rethink everything you know about food and wellness.
Kaylor, founder of Vivante Nutrition and Lifestyle Consulting, shares her remarkable journey from suffering twelve sinus infections yearly to discovering the food allergies that were silently sabotaging her health. Her personal transformation—eliminating seven trigger foods that resolved her joint pain, fatigue, and digestive issues—sparked a passion that evolved into her current nutrition practice.
With a master's in human nutrition and functional medicine, Kaylor brings scientific rigor to a field often mischaracterized as lacking evidence. "Functional medicine is very based off of biochemistry and peer-reviewed journal studies," she explains, debunking the myth that nutritional approaches are merely "woo-woo" or pseudoscientific. Her practice offers personalized strategies ranging from dietary modifications to stress reduction techniques, all tailored to each client's unique biochemistry.
What's particularly empowering about Kaylor's approach is her emphasis that genetics account for only 20-30% of our health outcomes. The remaining 70-80%? Those are factors we can actually control. Whether you're struggling with chronic inflammation, digestive issues, or simply want to optimize your wellbeing, Kaylor's expertise demonstrates how targeted nutritional interventions can create profound changes in how you feel every day.
Ready to take your health into your own hands? Visit vivantenutrition.com to learn how Britt Kaylor's science-based approach might help you discover your path to wellness. The solution to feeling better might be closer than you think.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Nick George.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast.
Are you in need of nutritionand lifestyle consulting?
Well, one professional might becloser than you think.
Today I have the pleasure ofintroducing your good neighbor,
Britt Kahler, with VivanteNutrition and Lifestyle
Consulting.
Britt, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Great.
Thank you, Nick.
It's a pleasure to be here.
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm doing great.
We're excited to learn allabout you and your practice.
Please tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So Vivante Nutrition and Lifestyle Consulting is my
nutrition practice, where Iprovide one-on-one coaching and
strategies to help clientsaddress certain health struggles
or goals from an integrativeperspective.
I have a master's in humannutrition and functional
medicine, and that education hasgiven me the background to use
(01:03):
various options such as dietarystrategies, supplementation,
stress reduction andenvironmental changes to help
clients improve their health andwell-being.
I see clients who may want toimprove sport performance or are
struggling with certain issueslike hypertension, poor kidney
function, inflammation.
My greatest area of expertiseis in digestive issues and
(01:26):
regaining tolerance to foods,and I've seen over and over the
power of using food as medicine,and so we discuss foods,
nutrients that are specificallybeneficial to each individual.
We might go over breathingtechniques or other stress
reduction techniques or ways tolimit environmental exposure to
pollutants that could becontributing to a health
condition, so I employ a widevariety of strategies to help
(01:49):
clients feel better in their ownbodies.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
How did you get into this business?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, my practice was born out of my own personal
experience.
I was a pretty sick kid.
I grew up with monthly sinusinfections.
I was a pretty sick kid.
I grew up with monthly sinusinfections, digestive issues,
(02:17):
brain fog, fatigue, joint pain.
It was a pretty rough childhoodin some ways.
So, despite the fact that I wasactive as a gymnast and we ate
a fairly balanced diet, I justdidn't feel good.
Right before I left for college,I had a doctor recommend that
when I had a sinus infection,that I shouldn't eat dairy
because it thickens the mucus,and I thought well, maybe if I
don't eat dairy, I won't needantibiotics and I won't have to
(02:38):
get a doctor while I'm away.
I didn't want to have to gothrough that hassle.
Maybe I'll just get over it onmy own.
But lo and behold, when I cutout dairy, I ended up going from
12 sinus infections a year toone, and so I inadvertently
discovered that I had a dairyallergy.
Not too long after that, I hada friend recommend that I go see
(03:02):
a naturopath, who helped meidentify seven different foods
that I was reacting to, and onceI cut those out of my diet the
joint pain, the fatigue, thedigestive issues they all went
away and I felt like a brand newperson, and so that catapulted
me on this lifelong quest tolearn as much as I could about
(03:22):
the human body and differentways to impact it.
About 10 years later, I had afriend recommend that I look
into getting a master's innutrition, and initially I
thought, oh no, no, I do notwant to be counting calories and
carbs, that sounds terrible.
(03:43):
But it did end up piquing myinterest and I found a program
that really aligned with what Ihad already learned you know,
learning how to eat foods thatwe, that our ancestors, ate, and
you know, coming from a moreholistic perspective, and that
program was just absolutelyamazing.
It gave me a real greatfoundation to be able to help
(04:06):
other people, from a scientificbasis, make real specific
changes in their lifestyle thatcould impact their health.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You might have already answered this next
question, but what are somemyths and misconceptions in your
industry?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh, you know, I think one of the biggest
misconception is that thelifestyle space and nutrition
space is woo, woo orpseudoscientific.
In my own program, we were notallowed to post a single
(04:46):
assignment or even just make apost on our weekly posts in the
classes that were not backed bymultiple high quality studies
that were published inpeer-reviewed journals.
And so functional medicinespecifically is very based off
of biochemistry andpeer-reviewed journal studies,
(05:07):
and so you can be assured thatif you're going to see somebody
who is practicing from afunctional medicine perspective,
that what they're recommendingis science-based.
To be sure, there's a lot ofunsubstantiated things out there
on the internet that you got tobe careful about, but if you go
(05:29):
to somebody who has a goodbackground, they're going to be
recommendingscientifically-based studies and
interventions.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Those foods that you found out that you were, or the
things that you found out youwere incompatible with those
seven things?
Did they use muscle testing toget to arrive at that?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They used a form of muscle testing.
It was actually computer basedand at first, when they were
doing this for me, I thoughtthis is crazy.
There's no way that this works,except for they identified
something that I knew, that Ireacted to, that no one else
knew, and it was apples.
And that's really random.
(06:10):
Not very many people react toapples, and they identified that
as one of my problem areas andso I don't know.
To be fair, I don't use thatmethodology.
But their methodology worked.
It was amazing.
I did.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I had the exact same success story you did and I
still can't explain how theywere able to figure those things
out.
But once I started running theother direction from anything
that might have pesticides in itor gluten even though I don't
have celiac disease, I'm just anold Irish guy but apparently
gluten really bothers us andmost of us are never diagnosed
(06:44):
with that as being an issue, butit was life changing when I
changed my food.
So I hear you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It makes a huge difference.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
We know that marketing is the heart of every
business.
So who are your targetcustomers and how are you
attracting them now?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So currently most of my clients come from word of
mouth or my website, so they'llhop onto my website and they'll
see.
You know that I help a lot ofpeople with digestive issues and
food intolerances and or justthat I'm a nutritionist in the
area and so I do a lot ofgeneral nutrition and a lot of
(07:24):
um digestive and uh gainingtolerance to foods, and it's all
been word of mouth and mywebsite.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Have you ever thought about doing a podcast?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, I have been on one other podcast before and now
this one, and I'm I'm thrilledabout it, so I may do some more
in the future.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Go ahead and plug the other one.
What was that one?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So that was a Love Covered Life podcast and that's
a fantastic podcast, but it's alittle bit more on the spiritual
side and so-.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But did they focus on you or were you just kind of
like a guest that they talked tobriefly or-.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was a guest.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay, cool, yeah, yeah.
Well, it didn't seem like itwas your first rodeo Outside of
work.
What do you do for fun?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh gosh, outside of work, probably the biggest thing
that I'm doing right now istransforming my backyard into an
edible landscape, and so I'vegot so many trees, bushes,
plants, flowers back there.
My daughter and I are pullingsomething out of the garden
almost every single month of theyear, and it's been really fun
(08:31):
to see her learn which flowersare edible, and she knows where
all the plants are.
She's really excited about thegolden raspberries right now.
Um, so that's my biggestproject that we've had fun doing
.
And then we're just now gettingback into rock climbing.
I took a hiatus after mydaughter was born, but we've
just started back up, and Iabsolutely love rock climbing
(08:54):
for the ability to get astretching workout, cardio,
strength and balance, and ifyou've got a good partner on the
other end of your rope whichyou should have a good partner
you get talk therapy all in oneevening.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So those are my two things.
I'm jealous of your backyard.
That's the project that me andmy kids and wife have talked
about a lot.
You know, permagardening kindof sounds the same.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, yeah, I've employed a lot of permagardening
techniques back there.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So, Britt, tell our listeners one thing they should
absolutely remember aboutVivante Nutrition, Lifestyle
Consulting.
Nutrition and LifestyleConsulting Sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, you know, I think this applies to the
nutrition space in general but,you know, a while back, people
thought that genetics was theend all be all.
You know, if you family had, ifyou had a history of heart
disease, you're going to getheart disease.
And now that the human genomehas been sequenced, they've
really discovered that yourgenetics is really only 20,
(10:03):
maybe 30% of your overall healthpicture, and the rest is
usually something that you cancontrol, like your nutrition,
like your lifestyle, exercise,and so what I want people to
know is that they can beempowered to take their health
into their own hands, and ifthey get stuck in this specific
area, that's where the BivantiNutrition comes in, or other
(10:25):
functional medicinepractitioners or integrative
practitioners can come in andhelp you really pinpoint very
specific strategies that canhelp make a huge difference.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
And how can our listeners learn more about
Vivante Nutrition and Lifestyle?
Counseling online or consultingonline and by phone number?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So my website is wwwvivantenutritioncom.
My phone number is 970-481-8156.
And most of my information ison my website.
My email address is there too,if they prefer to reach out that
way, and that is Britt atvivantenutritioncom.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, Britt, I really appreciate you being on the
show and we definitely wish youand Vivante the very best moving
forward.
Well, thank, I reallyappreciate you being on the show
and we definitely wish you andVivante the very best moving
forward.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Well, thank you very much.
It's been a pleasure to meetwith you, Nick.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor
podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go toGNPFortCollinscom.
That's GNPFortCollinscom, orcall 970-438-0825.
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Nick George.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast.
Are you in need of nutritionand lifestyle consulting?
Well, one professional might becloser than you think.
Today I have the pleasure ofintroducing your good neighbor,
Britt Kahler, with VivanteNutrition and Lifestyle
Consulting.
Britt, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Great.
Thank you, Nick.
It's a pleasure to be here.
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm doing great.
We're excited to learn allabout you and your practice.
Please tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So Vivante Nutrition and Lifestyle Consulting is my
nutrition practice, where Iprovide one-on-one coaching and
strategies to help clientsaddress certain health struggles
or goals from an integrativeperspective.
I have a master's in humannutrition and functional
medicine, and that education hasgiven me the background to use
(01:03):
various options such as dietarystrategies, supplementation,
stress reduction andenvironmental changes to help
clients improve their health andwell-being.
I see clients who may want toimprove sport performance or are
struggling with certain issueslike hypertension, poor kidney
function, inflammation.
My greatest area of expertiseis in digestive issues and
(01:26):
regaining tolerance to foods,and I've seen over and over the
power of using food as medicine,and so we discuss foods,
nutrients that are specificallybeneficial to each individual.
We might go over breathingtechniques or other stress
reduction techniques or ways tolimit environmental exposure to
pollutants that could becontributing to a health
condition, so I employ a widevariety of strategies to help
(01:49):
clients feel better in their ownbodies.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
How did you get into this business?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, my practice was born out of my own personal
experience.
I was a pretty sick kid.
I grew up with monthly sinusinfections.
I was a pretty sick kid.
I grew up with monthly sinusinfections, digestive issues,
(02:17):
brain fog, fatigue, joint pain.
It was a pretty rough childhoodin some ways.
So, despite the fact that I wasactive as a gymnast and we ate
a fairly balanced diet, I justdidn't feel good.
Right before I left for college,I had a doctor recommend that
when I had a sinus infection,that I shouldn't eat dairy
because it thickens the mucus,and I thought well, maybe if I
don't eat dairy, I won't needantibiotics and I won't have to
(02:38):
get a doctor while I'm away.
I didn't want to have to gothrough that hassle.
Maybe I'll just get over it onmy own.
But lo and behold, when I cutout dairy, I ended up going from
12 sinus infections a year toone, and so I inadvertently
discovered that I had a dairyallergy.
Not too long after that, I hada friend recommend that I go see
(03:02):
a naturopath, who helped meidentify seven different foods
that I was reacting to, and onceI cut those out of my diet the
joint pain, the fatigue, thedigestive issues they all went
away and I felt like a brand newperson, and so that catapulted
me on this lifelong quest tolearn as much as I could about
(03:22):
the human body and differentways to impact it.
About 10 years later, I had afriend recommend that I look
into getting a master's innutrition, and initially I
thought, oh no, no, I do notwant to be counting calories and
carbs, that sounds terrible.
(03:43):
But it did end up piquing myinterest and I found a program
that really aligned with what Ihad already learned you know,
learning how to eat foods thatwe, that our ancestors, ate, and
you know, coming from a moreholistic perspective, and that
program was just absolutelyamazing.
It gave me a real greatfoundation to be able to help
(04:06):
other people, from a scientificbasis, make real specific
changes in their lifestyle thatcould impact their health.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You might have already answered this next
question, but what are somemyths and misconceptions in your
industry?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh, you know, I think one of the biggest
misconception is that thelifestyle space and nutrition
space is woo, woo orpseudoscientific.
In my own program, we were notallowed to post a single
(04:46):
assignment or even just make apost on our weekly posts in the
classes that were not backed bymultiple high quality studies
that were published inpeer-reviewed journals.
And so functional medicinespecifically is very based off
of biochemistry andpeer-reviewed journal studies,
(05:07):
and so you can be assured thatif you're going to see somebody
who is practicing from afunctional medicine perspective,
that what they're recommendingis science-based.
To be sure, there's a lot ofunsubstantiated things out there
on the internet that you got tobe careful about, but if you go
(05:29):
to somebody who has a goodbackground, they're going to be
recommendingscientifically-based studies and
interventions.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Those foods that you found out that you were, or the
things that you found out youwere incompatible with those
seven things?
Did they use muscle testing toget to arrive at that?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They used a form of muscle testing.
It was actually computer basedand at first, when they were
doing this for me, I thoughtthis is crazy.
There's no way that this works,except for they identified
something that I knew, that Ireacted to, that no one else
knew, and it was apples.
And that's really random.
(06:10):
Not very many people react toapples, and they identified that
as one of my problem areas andso I don't know.
To be fair, I don't use thatmethodology.
But their methodology worked.
It was amazing.
I did.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I had the exact same success story you did and I
still can't explain how theywere able to figure those things
out.
But once I started running theother direction from anything
that might have pesticides in itor gluten even though I don't
have celiac disease, I'm just anold Irish guy but apparently
gluten really bothers us andmost of us are never diagnosed
(06:44):
with that as being an issue, butit was life changing when I
changed my food.
So I hear you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It makes a huge difference.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
We know that marketing is the heart of every
business.
So who are your targetcustomers and how are you
attracting them now?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So currently most of my clients come from word of
mouth or my website, so they'llhop onto my website and they'll
see.
You know that I help a lot ofpeople with digestive issues and
food intolerances and or justthat I'm a nutritionist in the
area and so I do a lot ofgeneral nutrition and a lot of
(07:24):
um digestive and uh gainingtolerance to foods, and it's all
been word of mouth and mywebsite.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Have you ever thought about doing a podcast?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, I have been on one other podcast before and now
this one, and I'm I'm thrilledabout it, so I may do some more
in the future.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Go ahead and plug the other one.
What was that one?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So that was a Love Covered Life podcast and that's
a fantastic podcast, but it's alittle bit more on the spiritual
side and so-.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But did they focus on you or were you just kind of
like a guest that they talked tobriefly or-.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was a guest.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay, cool, yeah, yeah.
Well, it didn't seem like itwas your first rodeo Outside of
work.
What do you do for fun?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh gosh, outside of work, probably the biggest thing
that I'm doing right now istransforming my backyard into an
edible landscape, and so I'vegot so many trees, bushes,
plants, flowers back there.
My daughter and I are pullingsomething out of the garden
almost every single month of theyear, and it's been really fun
(08:31):
to see her learn which flowersare edible, and she knows where
all the plants are.
She's really excited about thegolden raspberries right now.
Um, so that's my biggestproject that we've had fun doing
.
And then we're just now gettingback into rock climbing.
I took a hiatus after mydaughter was born, but we've
just started back up, and Iabsolutely love rock climbing
(08:54):
for the ability to get astretching workout, cardio,
strength and balance, and ifyou've got a good partner on the
other end of your rope whichyou should have a good partner
you get talk therapy all in oneevening.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So those are my two things.
I'm jealous of your backyard.
That's the project that me andmy kids and wife have talked
about a lot.
You know, permagardening kindof sounds the same.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, yeah, I've employed a lot of permagardening
techniques back there.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So, Britt, tell our listeners one thing they should
absolutely remember aboutVivante Nutrition, Lifestyle
Consulting.
Nutrition and LifestyleConsulting Sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, you know, I think this applies to the
nutrition space in general but,you know, a while back, people
thought that genetics was theend all be all.
You know, if you family had, ifyou had a history of heart
disease, you're going to getheart disease.
And now that the human genomehas been sequenced, they've
really discovered that yourgenetics is really only 20,
(10:03):
maybe 30% of your overall healthpicture, and the rest is
usually something that you cancontrol, like your nutrition,
like your lifestyle, exercise,and so what I want people to
know is that they can beempowered to take their health
into their own hands, and ifthey get stuck in this specific
area, that's where the BivantiNutrition comes in, or other
(10:25):
functional medicinepractitioners or integrative
practitioners can come in andhelp you really pinpoint very
specific strategies that canhelp make a huge difference.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
And how can our listeners learn more about
Vivante Nutrition and Lifestyle?
Counseling online or consultingonline and by phone number?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So my website is wwwvivantenutritioncom.
My phone number is 970-481-8156.
And most of my information ison my website.
My email address is there too,if they prefer to reach out that
way, and that is Britt atvivantenutritioncom.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, Britt, I really appreciate you being on the
show and we definitely wish youand Vivante the very best moving
forward.
Well, thank, I reallyappreciate you being on the show
and we definitely wish you andVivante the very best moving
forward.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Well, thank you very much.
It's been a pleasure to meetwith you, Nick.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor
podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go toGNPFortCollinscom.
That's GNPFortCollinscom, orcall 970-438-0825.
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