Meet Lindsay

Meet Lindsay Stenovec, MS, RD

I came to this work the way many of us come to the things that matter most – through my own experience of not being well served.

I have endometriosis. I know what it’s like to grasp for answers, try something that was promised to help, and still be in pain. I know the particular exhaustion of wading through contradictory and overwhelming advice – go gluten-free, go low FODMAP, try this supplement, cut that food – and the frustration of realizing there isn’t a single thing that’s going to fix this.

It felt like a calling. One I never saw coming – much like my endo diagnosis itself. And yet my entire career had been setting me up for it.

Ever since my own diagnosis, I’ve been steeped in learning and navigating the endo landscape, while watching women with endo do extraordinary things – building research initiatives, creating community, pushing for better care, giving this disease a voice – while managing significant symptoms. There’s a saying I hear often in the endo community: “No one is coming to save us.” So women and people with endo have decided to do something about it instead.

I’m a registered dietitian with nearly two decades of clinical experience, almost all of it spent sitting with women in vulnerable conversations around food, body, pain, fear, and the exhausting work of trying to feel better. That time taught me something I couldn’t have learned from a textbook: that changing how you eat is rarely as simple as knowing what to do. It’s tangled up in how your body feels, what you’re afraid of, what you’ve already tried, and how many times you’ve been let down.

That’s what I bring to endo and GI nutrition care. Not a copied protocol. Not a promise that what you eat will fix everything. A realistic, honest approach that does everything possible to improve your symptoms, reduce your pain, and leave you feeling calmer and more confident with food while also supporting you through the parts that don’t resolve, because that’s the reality of this diagnosis for most of us.

I see women with a wide range of symptoms related to women’s health issues via telehealth across California, and I work with a small caseload intentionally. If I sound like the dietitian for you, I truly can’t wait to meet you.