About Alisa Turner, Functional Nutritionist and Metabolic Health Specialist
About Alisa
Alisa Turner is a functional nutritionist and metabolic health specialist who mentors clients on a daily journey of optimizing metabolic health and healing their relationship to body and food. Her “hands-on” approach blends nutrition science, psychology, and nervous-system regulation to restore balance through incremental, synergistic habit shifts rather than restrictive protocols or symptom chasing.
Alisa’s work was born from lived experience. For years, she searched for health and happiness in every extreme — controlling, pleasing, restricting, and medicating — trying to find a version of herself that felt at home in her body. That path took her through disordered eating, addiction, metabolic dysfunction, and ultimately burnout from the exhaustion of doing everything “right” yet still feeling unwell. When her body began to break down under the stress, she learned that healing wasn’t about more discipline—it was about listening.
Through recovery, self-study, and spiritual guidance, she came to understand how profoundly trauma and stress imprint the body, and she began to see metabolism as the body’s language of safety and connection. She realized that true nourishment involves more than food —it includes rest, strength, boundaries, and self-compassion. That realization reshaped her life and became the foundation of Alisa Health.
Today, Alisa helps women—especially those navigating metabolic dysfunction, perimenopause, or recovery from addiction—rebuild trust with their bodies and restore their metabolic rhythm. She teaches a six-week nutrition education course at Lantana, an outpatient drug and alcohol rehab facility in Charleston, where she translates complex metabolic science into simple, trauma-informed tools for recovery and resilience.
Her practice is rooted in the belief that healing begins when the body feels safe enough to receive it. Through personalized nutrition strategies, nervous-system support, and mindset work, she guides clients to stabilize energy, improve metabolic function, and reconnect with their natural vitality.
Alisa lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina with her sweet boy and their dog where she continues to explore the intersection of science and spirit through her upcoming supplement line, beginning with Metabolic Sleep Restore—a formula designed to support circadian rhythm, recovery, and deep rest.
Her story is one of remembering: that healing isn’t about perfection—it’s about coming home to your own energy.