Frequently Asked Questions

Our holistic, science-backed approach to nutrition is effective at managing persistent symptoms and chronic conditions—most of which can be reversed or healed with lifestyle changes.

This program is great for:

• Digestive issues
• Mental wellbeing
• Fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care
• Metabolism and weight management
• Heart and metabolic health
• Hormonal health
• Autoimmune and inflammatory conditions
• Skin conditions
• Unexplained symptoms

The 3-month in-person/virtual membership includes:

• An initial consult, with Kripa
• 6 follow-up sessions, with Kripa
• Personalized health plans that address nutrition, sleep, movement, and mental fitness
• A thorough review of lab work
• A detailed supplement prescription, updated as needed
• Customized recipes
• Educational guides
• Convenient online scheduling
• Unlimited email support, with Kripa

Some costs are not included in your membership and require out-of-pocket expenses:

• Lab tests
• Consults with doctors
• Non-medical services like fitness classes and supplements

• Step 1: Getting Started – Complete the recommended blood work and have your initial consult with Kripa to understand your health concerns, review lab work, and receive initial recommendations.
• Step 2: Insights – Get your personalized health plan to address any underlying conditions with appropriate recommendations for better nutrition, sleep, stress management, healthy movement, and incorporate supplements as needed.
• Step 3: Progress – Begin your health journey and track progress on your personalized tracker. Thereafter, review your progress and make updates to your plan during follow-up sessions, every 2 weeks.
• Step 4: Support & Results – Experience a decrease in your symptoms and reduce reliance on prescription medication, under the supervision of your doctor. Meanwhile, reach out to us with questions via email, in in-between visits.

You will work directly with Kripa for all thing’s nutrition: your initial consult, follow-up sessions, personalized plans, and questions between visits.

At Burgers to Beasts, we only recommend eliminating foods that you are allergic to. Because typically, we only tend to binge on the foods we restrict.

However, for certain health conditions – we may temporarily recommend an elimination diet. Many suffer from these symptoms for long periods without realizing the connection to food. It isn’t until a food is eliminated from the diet, that the connection with symptoms can be made. After a brief elimination period, a personalized food reintroduction is a next step. Reintroduction involves adding back one food at a time to observe whether that food causes symptoms.

Individuals are unique! So, their care should be too. Each plan is thoroughly personalized – keeping in mind your likes, dislikes, intolerances, and importantly, convenience. Whether, you are paleo, vegan, pescatarian, or vegetarian, we’ve got you covered!

We do not run bloodwork in-house. However, we do recommend a list of tests before your initial consult. This complete blood profile test will assess your overall blood and cellular health as well as the risk of disease. Once this information is collected, we can keep it on file to track changes over time.

Today, far too many diets are created solely from the perspective of weight loss. As a result, individuals tend to experience several symptoms like hair fall, acne, low energy levels, and missed periods, as a side effect. Instead, we focus on your health and let weight change be a by-product of that. That being said, we think the human body can safely lose 2-3 kgs/month sustainably.

Individual results and progress differ wildly, from person to person depending on several factors: inclusive of but not limited to the severity of the condition, medication, sleep, stress levels, movement, etc. However, typically most people witness a change in symptoms within the first few weeks of working together.

We stick to our area of expertise – which is designing stellar nutrition protocols. That being said, we make sure to customize our suggestions to support your training regimen and may make recommendations for you to switch up your exercise routine, if necessary.

No. We strongly believe that 365 days of health can’t be created in 7-, 14-, and 21-day plans. This particular holds for health issues – wherein the body takes longer to heal (symptoms like chronic gas and PMS would count too.) Importantly, this is root cause treatment – which does not act as rapidly as conventional medicine.

We understand that real life can quickly derail the best laid-out plans. Therefore, we offer a 2-4-week grace period (depending on the case) for you to redeem all your sessions.

Both programs have the same offerings. However, the in-person program offers the body composition analysis test – utilizing the InBody 270 apparatus.

If you’re ready to have the body you deserve and get control of your health and fitness once and for all, we’re here to help you. No restrictive dieting. No all-or-nothing workouts. Just a science-proven program that fits seamlessly into your lifestyle—and a coach that’s there to support you, every step of the way.

This program is great for those who are:

• Fed up with jumping from diet to diet, looking for answers
• Struggling with their body image and food-induced guilt
• Recovering from an eating disorder
• Looking to achieve their goals even when life gets busy
• Hoping to learn how to improve their health with simple strategies
• Eager to eat better, without feeling deprived
• Coping with emotional eating and bingeing
• Wishing to get active, regardless of current body size
• Gunning to learn how to eat intuitively and let go of food rules

The 3- and 6-month in-person/virtual membership includes:

• 75-minute initial consult, with Kripa
• 6/12 x 30-minute follow-up sessions, with Kripa
• Personalized protocol that addresses nutrition, sleep, movement, and mental fitness
• Supplement prescription
• Weekly journal review & personalized feedback
• Tools, practices, worksheets & reflection prompts
• Convenient online scheduling
• Unconditional email support, with Kripa

Some costs are not included in your membership and require out-of-pocket expenses:

• Lab tests
• Consults with doctors
• Non-medical services like fitness classes and supplements

• Step 1: Start where you are – Determine the approach that best matches your lifestyle, goals, and preferences. For most people, this means a combination of methods.
• Step 2: Do what you can – In place of overhauling your life, we find one small thing you can do right today, to yield maximum physiological change.
• Step 3: Monitor & Adjust ¬– Once we figure it out, we give you that one small thing to work on for a few weeks until you master it. Then another. Then another.
• Step 4: Find Your Sweet Spot – As you reach your goals, you can fully transition to self-regulation i.e. move on with the skills and habits necessary to look and feel your best, for life.

You will work directly with Kripa for all things nutrition: your initial consult, follow-up sessions, personalized protocols, and questions between visits.

At Burgers to Beasts, we don’t believe in labeling foods as “good” and “bad” – because inherently, food has no moral value. It’s the context, dosage, and frequency in which a said food has been eaten, that truly has an impact on your health status.

We only tend to binge on the foods we restrict. So, we refrain from dictating terms on foods that you can and cannot eat. In general, we only recommend eliminating a food if you’re allergic to it.

Individuals are unique! So, their care should be too. Each protocol is thoroughly personalized – keeping in mind your likes, dislikes, intolerances, and importantly, convenience. Whether, you are paleo, vegan, pescatarian, or vegetarian, we’ve got you covered!

We do not run bloodwork in-house. However, we do recommend a list of tests before after initial consult. This complete blood profile test will assess your overall blood and cellular health as well as the risk of disease. Once this information is collected, we can keep it on file to track changes over time.

You might assume by talking about this non-diet philosophy, we’re advocating for an anti-weight loss approach.

We’re not.

It's pro-health.

Here, by taking the focus off of weight loss and body composition, and instead concentrating on developing a positive relationship with food, you can avoid the emotional roller coaster associated with the dieting mindset while improving overall health and wellness.

We stick to our area of expertise – which is designing stellar nutrition protocols. That being said, we make sure to customize our suggestions to support your training regimen and may make recommendations for you to switch up your exercise routine, if necessary.

No. We strongly believe that 365 days of health can’t be created in 7-, 14-, and 21-day plans. Moreover, behaviors and thought processes are built over years – they can’t be modified with short-term protocols or quick fixes.

We understand that real life can quickly derail the best laid-out plans. Therefore, we offer a 2-4-week grace period (depending on the case) for you to redeem all your sessions.

Both programs have the same offerings. However, the in-person program offers the body composition analysis test – utilizing the InBody 270 apparatus.

The single session is perfect for anyone looking to obtain a deeper understanding of their current lifestyle/health status, those who are looking for answers to health-related questions, and/or for past members hoping to modify previously prescribed protocols.

Here, we’ll do a deep dive into your questionnaire, dietary assessment, and past medical history, provide education depending on your focus area, review any labs available (as needed) and wrap up by agreeing upon several foundational goals to get you on track and feeling great!

Your consult and customized guidelines will be respectively conducted and designed by Kripa.

• Consult and Q & A’s, with Kripa
• Review of lab work, if applicable
• Personalized guidelines that address nutrition, sleep, movement, and mental fitness
• Supplement prescription

Some costs are not included in the consult and require out-of-pocket expenses:

• Lab tests
• Consults with doctors
• Non-medical services like fitness classes and supplements

Above and beyond the personalized guidelines, no meal plans, eBooks, trackers, or follow-ups are provided after the session.

If you’re looking for more comprehensive guidance, meal plans, and ongoing support – please take a look at our medical nutrition therapy program or weight-neutral counseling module

After the one-time consult, you may see benefit it working with us for a longer duration. In that case, you may upgrade to the medical nutrition therapy or weight-neutral counselling programs (hyperlink). You can simply pay the difference between the program and the wellness consult. However, the decision to make the switch needs to be made by the end of consult/before any material is sent out.

After the one-time consult, you may see benefit it working with us for a longer duration. In that case, you may upgrade to the medical nutrition therapy or weight-neutral counselling programs (hyperlink). You can simply pay the difference between the program and the wellness consult. However, the decision to make the switch needs to be made by the end of consult and/or before any material is sent out to you from our end.

While our one-time wellness consult, medical nutrition therapy, and weight-neutral counseling programs entail real-time interactions with a nutrition coach to receive hyper-personalized feedback and protocols, SHIELD is a self-paced web application – which helps you improve your health on your own time. It provides the foundational set of skills that most people can benefit from – no matter who they are, what they do, or what their health history is.

• Weekly goals
• Weekly videos
• Educational material that addresses nutrition, supplementation, recipes, and mental fitness.
• Daily workouts
• Online Forum
• Private Journal

No individual consults, reviews of lab work, or personalized meal plans. Additionally, costs associated with non-medical services like supplements may require additional out-of-pocket expenditure.

• Step 1: Sign up anytime, from anywhere and instantly receive access to the prep week.
• Step 2: Focus on making a singular change every week. This change is supported by a huge amount of resources including videos, reading material, and daily workouts.
• Step 3: Unlock weekly material as you go through the program.

While you can sign up for SHIELD, regardless of pregnancy/existing health issues, we believe that you would benefit more from our Medical Nutrition Therapy program – which is personalized to individual needs.

Absolutely! SHIELD was designed keeping in mind the frequent-flier, the busy-bee, and everyone in between. The eating guide is super flexible and can be followed from anywhere in the world, even with limited resources. Either way, the focus remains on the weekly goals!

You have access for a total of 77 days to the SHIELD platform. However, the educational guides (which are available for download) and online forum, stay with you for life!

No! To strengthen the security of your account, we require two-factor authentication every time you log in. Once you have entered your password, a code will be emailed to your registered email. This secures your login and prevents attackers from exploiting weak credentials.

Additionally, each member only gives YOU access to the online forum – from where you can interact with other members. Importantly, as a member, you will also have your journal and e-notepad inside the platform.

Whether you are plant-based, love meat, or have food allergies or intolerances, we respect your cultural, ethical, and dietary preferences and have got them covered. The program contains flexible eating guidelines that you can customize to your preferences. Additionally, the recipes come with vegetarian, vegan, as well as non-vegetarian options. They’re suggestions – not mandates!

While we provide daily workouts (based on the principle of progressive overload,) you can most certainly follow your training plan. All you need is a part of dumbbells if you don’t have access to a gym. This is simply a suggestion for anyone looking for structure, anyone starting, and/or anyone looking for a new way to move!

Given that we’re looking at this program as a model for a sustainable life, you can drink alcohol/indulge in your favorite foods if you choose to! We don’t want you to feel burdened by the suggestions we’re making; we want you to feel excited about the possibility of change! Therefore, we will go over how you can incorporate indulgences into your lifestyle and still achieve what’s best for your body, guilt-free!

While you have access to an exclusive online community, we encourage you to reach out to us via email, whenever you need. You will typically receive a response within 24 hours (on business days.)

Several of our clients notice a significant non-tangible change within the first few weeks of working together. Some indicators like blood markers may take longer to heal than symptoms like energy levels and brain fog. You can find out more about what our clients have to say, here.

The truth is we don’t necessarily need supplements. We survived decades without pills and powders. However, we don’t necessarily breathe clean air, hunt for our food, get adequate sunlight, or even sleep enough. So, they’re great at filling gaps in our lifestyles.

Our take is simple – If you need them, take them – and if you don’t need them, don’t take them.

Our food-first approach recommends that you try and meet your needs naturally. But, if you struggle to obtain good quality nutrients through food – we may recommend a few supplements to help.

Importantly, we don’t partner with or promote any brands – so we are never financially incentivized to prescribe supplements. However, we may search the market to find certain supplements that are safe for consumption/third-party verified, for the best effect.

As a B2B member, you can connect with us any time via email with questions between visits or updates on your health status in response to the treatment prescribed. You should get a response within 24 hours, but usually sooner.

Please note that unlimited messaging is not for emergency care. If you require immediate medical attention, please contact a physician/hospital.

Once you have signed up for any of our programs (besides SHIELD, which is self-paced) - you will be able to view and book a slot, based on our mutual availability. Currently, the wait time is 5-7 days from the date of sign-up.

If you live in Mumbai, you have the option of in-person appointments. If you don’t live nearby or would prefer the convenience of virtual appointments, you can sign up for our virtual programs which entail secure, face-to-face video calls on your phone, tablet, or computer.

No! We require complete payment before beginning any program.

As soon as you book your appointment (besides SHIELD, which is self-paced,) you will receive an email confirmation with details about your visit. If you have opted for an online program – the Zoom link will be provided in the same email. If in person, you will receive the address for your visit to our Mumbai clinic.

We understand that 'real life' can quickly derail the best laid-out plans and tight schedules. So, to change your visit from in-person to virtual, please drop us an email at nutrition@burgerstobeasts.com. Please note, that the reverse is applicable at an additional fee i.e. if you have signed up for an online program and wish to switch to in-person – you would be required to pay the difference in cost between the two programs.