Why I built this.

I’m Rachel. I’ve spent most of my life studying how food works — a B.S. in Dietetics, a Master’s certificate in Food and Nutrition, and a kitchen that has always been the center of my home. Then in 2020, food stopped being just my passion and became my problem to solve: I was diagnosed with celiac disease.

Here’s what nobody tells you about celiac. The hard part isn’t giving up bread. It’s that every single grocery run becomes a research project. Every sauce, every “natural flavor,” every reformulated label is a question — and getting the answer wrong means getting sick. I had formal nutrition training, and it still exhausted me. I’d stand in the aisle cross-checking a manufacturer’s website on my phone, wondering how anyone without my background was supposed to do this every day.

That’s why YogaNutLife exists. I do the checking once — properly, with sources, dated — so you don’t have to do it every time. Every verdict on this site was reviewed by me, a person who eats this way because she has to, not an algorithm guessing from a label.

The yoga half of the name isn’t decoration. I came to the mat in 2002 to avoid back surgery and stayed because it taught me to listen to my body — a skill celiac demands daily. I completed my 200-hour training in 2013, and I teach because living with this disease is as much about a calm nervous system as a clean pantry. Anxiety is half of celiac; nobody should manage it alone.

I’m not your doctor or your dietitian, and this site will never pretend to be medical advice. I’m the person who does the homework — because I have to anyway, and because I love food too much to let a diagnosis take the joy out of it. For either of us.

— Rachel Peck, founder