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About John Bagnulo and Jan Buhrman

John Bagnulo and Jan Buhrman. Together John and jan have been offering health and wellness retreats since 2009.

John Bagnulo has an MPH from the University of North Carolina and a Doctorate of Human Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Maine. He has worked as a researcher, a university associate professor, and a clinical consultant for the past 24 years. He currently serves as the Director of Nutrition for Nutritional Medicinals, a faculty member for the Center for Mind Body Medicine, Washington DC, and has a clinical practice in Middlebury VT. Much of his clinical practice is with athletes and those involved in physically demanding sports.
Jan Buhrman, M.S. Ed., was the founder and owner of the full service farm to table catering company, The Kitchen Porch, on Martha's Vineyard. Jan has become a food advocate and authority on local sourcing and sustainable agriculture with her years of sourcing foods for her catering business from local fishermen and farmers. Jan has taught thousands of classes on technique and the importance of knowing where your food comes from.  She has raised pigs and chickens and gardens, feeding her family while nourishing the land. In addition to cooking, preserving and techniques, she teaches about the connections of food and health and about composting and soil regeneration.

John brings the nutrition and the science behind our philosophies and Jan ties in the practical “how-to” of incorporating healthy recipes and lifestyle into one's life. John explores the science behind these approaches to healthy living and presents the latest research to the classes  in fun approachable ways. Jan puts it all together by teaching how to incorporate it into your daily life.

In our classes you will learn about the plant based diet and how the nutrients and fibers are vital to our gut. We explain how to incorporate animal protein into our diet, by eating animals that are grown in the wild or on pasture.It is all related; our heart, brain, and gut health are directly related to our diet and lifestyle and if it is healthy for the soil or the animals, it’s a good bet it’s healthy for us and the planet too…. Food is medicine, lifestyle is medicine, you get to choose everyday!

Our classes strive to create a balanced way of living through diet and lifestyles.

We offer retreats and workshops throughout the year on Martha’s Vineyard, in Vermont and in Costa Rica. These retreats are building on the foundation of health that begins with our 21 Day Cleanse.

Living in balance is about so much more than what you put on your plate. It is also about eating a plant based diet with 60 – 80 varieties of plants a week, eating only the best sourced animal proteins, getting loads of exercise, slowing down, taking the time to be, laughing, and surrounding yourself with loved ones.

Each of us is different and we have different metabolic constitutions. Diaeta is finding the way. We created the 21 day cleanse as a beginning. It is called The Journey of Renewal. We take our lead from you, our followers, when you ask questions and join us in the discussions. We are encouraged by your questions and the questions are often our next blog post or podcast. We hope we will continue on this journey together, this life-long process.

We promote the importance of …

• buying food grown close to home

• getting loads of exercise

• eating a variety of plants (a minimum of 40 a week!)

• eliminating stress

• limiting exposure to toxins and chemicals

• prescribing to functional medicine  

 … and finding gratitude in one’s daily life.

We are John Bagnulo and Jan Buhrman.

John brings the nutrition and the science behind our philosophies and Jan ties in the practical “how-to” of incorporating healthy recipes and lifestyle into ones life. John explores the science behind these approaches to healthy living and presents the latest research to the classes  in fun approachable ways. Jan puts it all together by teaching how to incorporate into your daily life.

In our classes you will learn about the plant based diet and how the nutrients and fibers are vital to our gut. We explain how to incorporate animal protein into our diet, by eating animals that are grown in the wild or on pasture.

Gut health is an important focus.

• Get out there and get in the dirt

• Breathe in the woods

• Get the heart pumping

• Eat loads of organic kimchi and yoghurt from heritage breed sheep, goats or cows

These are just a few of the understandings that participants walk away with after a workshop with John and Jan.

It all began in 2009 with a series of classes called When Science Hits the Pan….

We have come to offer our classes, retreats and workshops based on what participants ask for. We find our selves getting carried away with some of the ideas…

We joke about that one day we will have a class that will take a whole season – a start to finish pizza class. Start with seeds for wheat, grow the wheat, and the San Marzano tomatoes . Then “dry farm” the tomato, forage for the mushrooms,  and milk the cow, making the mozzarella from a local Guernsey cow…. we could call it  “The Slow Pizza” …