Cut cravings,
Lose body fat,
Build muscles,
Build strong bones.
Eat foods you love, foods that heal and foods that balance your blood sugar and keep you full.
Feel amazing and heal your body with my proven 10-step method to create a wellness routine that works and habits that stick.
Balance blood glucose, Improve Insulin resistance. Treat pre-diabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease & cancer.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Cheryl.
I'm a leader in nutrition medicine with a doctor of clinical nutrition from Rutgers and registered dietitian trained at Loma Linda University, a cookbook author with 2 million+ books sold.
I'm your dedicated partner to live your best life bringing you 20+ years of clinical expertise backed by a trusted legacy providing transformative care to thousands.
Over the past 2 decades I've learned some big lessons from my personal life and wellness journey, and from my clients about how important it is to create a wellness lifestyle that works for us to succeed on the path to live our healthiest and happiest life at every stage of life.
I've created a wellness formula on how to eat and live life everyday to the fullest with the biggest impact... beyond a diet, beyond a diagnosis, beyond a theory. And most of all I've learned it's a lifetime journey unique for each of us.
It is my honor to share these insights, wellness method, expert solutions, and innovative tools to inspire millions of people around the world through the Dr. Cheryl Wellness Method.
Scroll down to read more about my personal story and the mission of Dr. Cheryl Wellness.
The "HEART" of Dr Cheryl Wellness.
Bringing a legacy of trust and transformative care through personalized nutrition and wellness wisdom to the world to help people live their best life.
What I have learned in the past two decades both personally and professionally:
To transform our body, regain our energy, and transform our health.. it's all about what we eat, how we live and what's eating you. I've created the Dr. Cheryl Wellness Method with 10-habits and foods all focused on lowering the blood glucose curve after meals by what we eat at our meals and simple hacks and habits that heal our body and balance our blood glucose, improve our blood pressure, build muscle, heal our gut and help us feel amazing.
I am here to support, motivate and inspire you wherever you are in your wellness journey and help you create a wellness lifestyle and succeed on the path to live your best life.
Wondering where to start?
If your ready for support, inspiration and get super-charged motivation to try the Dr. Cheryl Wellness Method and see how it works for you, I would like to personally invite you to join me in the Dr Cheryl Wellness Membership. After 4 weeks implementing these foods, hacks and habits into your life, you choose whether you want to make them part of your lifelong wellness routine.
It's my bet you will...
I'd love to meet you on the inside.
The #1 wellness tool empowering you to transform your body and reclaim your health.
(Psst. Check out the Dr. Cheryl Wellness Method. Eat some blueberries and track your wellness habits)
My Story & My Journey: The Heart & Inspiration Behind Dr. Cheryl Wellness
Hello, I'm Dr. Cheryl. Two decades ago, I began my journey
as a registered dietitian and cookbook author, driven by a
passion for food as medicine and a desire to help people eat better,
live well, and enjoy delicious, healthy meals.
My curiosity about food as medicine and wholistic wellness led me to dive deep into nutrition science to become a trusted expert and to find proven solutions and innovate better tools to help make a real difference in people’s lives.
In 2005, my life changed forever when my 17-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare cancer. After a heartbreaking 9-month battle, she passed away. This profound loss challenged everything I knew and ignited a mission within me. I pursued a doctorate in clinical nutrition at Rutgers to discover foods and wellness habits more powerful than conventional treatments.
In my first decade as a dietitian, I published several best-selling cookbooks, including “More Choice: Eat Well, Live Well,” authored as Cheryl Thomas Peters. Inspired by my mother who showed me that food was more than nutrition; it was for enjoyment, comfort, and love. I focused on creating recipes that were both healthy and delicious, helping people find meals find breakfasts, lunches, and dinners they loved to eat and would move to their weekly family favorite meals. This was the first step in creating a sustainable wellness routine beyond dieting.
During my doctoral training, I developed an innovative, science-backed wellness method with my nutrition prescription outlined in the "Wellness Score". It's a metabolic health assessment tool summarized in a 20-point score. It identifies the healing foods and habits at the optimal daily dose and makes up the foundation of the Dr. Cheryl Wellness Method. The full member version of the score tracks success and gauges progress. I designed this tool to help people create a personalized daily wellness lifestyle tailored to their tastes, lifestyle, and goals. Higher daily scores over time correlate a greater impact on improving metabolic health, transforming the body, building muscle, preventing or managing existing risk factors and adding more vibrant years of life.
To complement the Wellness Score, I created the Dr. Cheryl Plate. It's my meal planning tool which incorporates the top ten foods from the Wellness Score to help you build meals designed to cut cravings, reduce the glucose curve, balance blood sugar, build muscle, boost energy, heal and combat disease.
After earning my doctorate, I co-created the TakeTEN 10-day Nutrition & Lifestyle Program with my late spouse, Dr. James Peters. This immersive wellness program was the pilot experiment for the Dr. Cheryl Wellness Method and demonstrates the power of the Method to eat meals and practice habits that will balance blood glucose and transform health. Over 2000 clients achieved remarkable improvements in their Wellness Scores, moving from an average of 7 to 19+ points in just ten days. The impact of this health transformation empowered people to score up their daily wellness routine with the daily Wellness Score and score up their plate using my simple meal planning tools the Dr. Cheryl Plate meal to build meals they love and help them live their best life. This pilot experiment shows the power of the Dr. Cheryl Wellness Method delivered in a online program and membership.
My mission-driven Dr. Cheryl Wellness brings it all together with a simple path and proven strategies with hacks, habits and foods and the super-charged motivation to heal and feel amazing. Dr Cheryl Wellness was built on empowering people to take charge of their wellness and providing them the support, inspiration and proven strategies, expert training, innovative tools, resources for transformative care they can trust.
The Dr. Cheryl Wellness Membership helps you build a wellness lifestyle to balance your blood glucose and heal your body with a 10-habit 10-food method to score up your wellness and live a life you never thought possible. You'll get my support and proven strategies to set you on a path to succeed in optimizing your best health. It takes you on a virtual journey of a client in the TakeTEN program, with my Dr Cheryl's Personalized Nutrition & Wellness Masterclass in a 10+video course, with interactive workbook (coming soon), innovative tools, resources and expert coaching. It's delivers the proven Dr. Cheryl Wellness Method to your home, your mobile device, your wellness routine, your table, and your family’s story.
My Personal and Professional Takeaways From the Last Two Decades:
Optimal health and living younger longer is about creating a wellness lifestyle with a formula build on what you eat, the food combinations on every plate, how you live, and what's eating you. Our stories go beyond our plates, and each unique journey impacts our health and happiness. I'm here to help you create a personalized wellness lifestyle that includes daily habits to help shift our mindset, cope with daily stress, adding a daily dose of joy to every day.
My greatest accomplishment is bringing my proven program with hacks, habits and foods to help them create their wellness lifestyle and feel amazing.
I'm here to support & inspire you wherever you are in your journey.
What type of doctor is Dr. Cheryl?
If I follow Dr. Cheryl’s prescription, will I still need to take my
prescribed medicine?
How can I integrate Dr. Cheryl’s personalized wellness score with what my
provider has planned for me?
I have a new diagnosis and my doctor told me I needed to eat better and lose
weight, but I don’t know where to start.
Dr. Cheryl is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition from Rutgers University and a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist from Loma Linda University. She is a leader in nutrition medicine backed by twenty years of nutrition medicine and a legacy of transformative care. She is the founder of TakeTEN® program, 10-day personalized wellness nutrition program and creator of Dr. Cheryl Wellness Membership. She brings the proven strategies from TakeTEN to the Dr Cheryl Wellness membership with a personalized nutrition and wellness lifestyle masterclass in a 10+ video series, proven strategies, innovative tools to create a wellness lifestyle and help you make your new healthy habits stick. You get the Dr. Cheryl simple meal planning tools, loads of healthy and delicious recipes, blogs, members only podcast "Ask Dr. Cheryl" and weekly coaching with a weekly dose of inspiration delivered to your inbox to keep you inspired and on track.
Yes, you should consult your personal health care provider or MD before making any changes to your medications. Dr. Cheryl Wellness is all about bringing you the foods and habits with the power of medicine to help you turn on your body's natural healing. Please let your health providers know what changes you are making to your diet and daily habits to help them adjust medications as needed to best meet your wellness goals. Dr Cheryl Wellness is meant to augment your traditional medical care plan to unlock your full health potential. Show your provider your new wellness routine and meal plans and let them know this is the healthy diet and lifestyle habits you are aiming for to be the healthiest version of yourself. I think they will love seeing your new wellness routine and healthy meals and will cheer you on in upping your daily wellness scores and supporting your success.
Dr. Cheryl's personalized Wellness Score is made up of 10 foods and 10 habits that make up the Dr. Cheryl Wellness method. This method has been proven to have the superstar power of medicine to transform your body and reclaim your health and energy. Raise your Wellness Score over time and drop your risk factors for disease. Discover the only proven method for to balance blood glucose, heal your body and feel amazing. Psst. You don't have to give up eating carbs to reach your wellness goals. I'll show you which carbs are best and and how to build them into your meals. You should always notify your provider of all your diet and wellness habit changes so your provider is aware and can integrate with your provider's plan to better support you in reaching your targeted health goals and total body wellness.
You’re in the right place. Welcome to Dr. Cheryl Wellness. I personally invite you to join my Wellness Membership were you will find my proven method with the guidance, expert coaching, with the tools and resources you need to start your new wellness journey. If you prefer to start with my free resources, get your free Wellness Score and listen or watch my podcast "The Wellness Table" and join my weekly email community to stay inspired along the way.