While you can use it for low-carb or weight loss goals, Meal Genius goes far deeper—addressing immune issues, hormone health, brain fog, inflammation, and digestive imbalances.
Yes! Our professional version, Meal Genius Pro™, allows practitioners to prescribe personalized plans for their patients and monitor their progress.
Not at all. Our system builds your plan in seconds. You can even start with a done-for-you plan and grow from there.
Yes. We support AIP, Low Histamine, Low FODMAP, gluten-free, dairy-free, and more.
Meal Genius® is a personalized meal planning platform that creates therapeutic recipes and plans tailored to your unique biology, symptoms, goals, and preferences. Whether you’re eating for better blood sugar, lower inflammation, or hormonal balance, we help you choose the foods that work for you—not the “average person.”
Meal Genius was created by Kelley Herring, a passionate researcher with biology, chemistry and business degrees, and author of more than a dozen books on therapeutic diets for disease prevention. For over 20 years, Kelley has been helping people use food to prevent disease, balance hormones, and heal chronic symptoms through personalized nutrition.
Most meal planners are one-size-fits-all. Meal Genius® is built on 20+ years of research, a proprietary food–compound–disease database, and real-time customization. You don’t just get recipes—you get the right recipes for your body. You can plan based on genetics, intolerances, conditions, macros, and even your grocery budget.
Yes. In fact, Meal Genius was born out of personal experience with sensitivities—and designed to help people who react to common foods. Our platform supports elimination diets, AIP, low histamine, low FODMAP, anti-inflammatory, gluten-free, and more. You can filter recipes based on your unique needs.
Absolutely. Kelley Grace created the original database in 2004, linking foods and compounds to disease outcomes. She later published The Food Cure™—a disease prevention framework rooted in peer-reviewed science—and has collaborated with doctors and researchers across the U.S. to build a system that reflects both emerging science and timeless healing wisdom. Your plan is designed for you based on your responses to the meal plan quiz.
Yes! You don’t need to be a nutrition expert to benefit. Meal Genius® is designed to meet you where you are—whether you're just beginning or fine-tuning a long-term therapeutic plan. Our simple “3-Day Starter Plan” and personalized quiz results make it easy to start strong.
Diet Decode™ is the discovery tool—it helps you identify potential triggers and patterns in your symptoms or health concerns through a short, intelligent quiz. Meal Genius® is the solution engine—it uses that insight to build a personalized plan you can cook from daily. Together, they help you decode your body’s needs… and design your healing plate.
No lab testing is required to get started. Meal Genius works powerfully using just your quiz insights, food preferences, and current symptoms—no needles, no guesswork.
However, if you do have lab data—like a CGM, microbiome analysis, or genetic test—you can take it a step further. That’s where Health Decode™ comes in.
Our premium Health Decode upgrade (in partnership with Life360.bio) helps you integrate biologic data for even more precise results. And soon, Meal Genius will offer seamless integrations to support this advanced personalization—so your plan can evolve with your biology.
Your body already holds the answers. We're just helping you listen more closely.
Yes! Meal Genius® Pro is our practitioner-facing platform that allows functional medicine providers, dietitians, and integrative doctors to prescribe personalized plans to their patients. It includes symptom tracking, diet prescriptions, weekly wellness reports of nutrients, and real-time meal plan adjustments. If you're a health professional, click here to learn more.
We’re working on it! Coming soon: Meal RX™—a partnership with trusted chefs and regenerative farms to deliver fully personalized meals, based on your plan. Stay tuned and sign up for early access.
Our meal plans come with a 60 day money back guarantee.
With Meal Genius™, you are in complete control of your diet. You can change individual menus to suit your mood and change your preferences to suit new dietary needs like food allergies or doctor-recommended eating styles. Best of all, there’s no limit to the number of times you can change your plan.
Of course! With the click of a button, you can eliminate any individual food you’d like.
Going out to dinner on Friday? Having lunch with colleagues on Tuesday? With a simple click, you can eliminate the meals you don’t need, and your shopping list is automatically updated. What’s more, you can easily add the foods you’ve eaten track your nutrition.
Yes! Simply choose “dinner only” in the Personalize My Plan page.
With Meal Genius, you can customize your meals to repeat through the week, simplifying your shopping list and the time you spend in the kitchen. But that’s not all! We’ve developed a very unique tool called Meals Cubed™ which allows you to transform dinner tonight into two more unique meals. For example, your Roasted Chicken dinner on Monday night will provide leftover chicken that you can use in Chicken Tacos on Tuesday… and Chef’s Salad with Chicken on Thursday. Cook once, eat thrice!
Absolutely! We have hundreds of delicious desserts to suit wide variety of health needs – from Paleo to Ketogenic. Any day your meal plan falls short on calories, you’ll be offered a dessert option. You can also peruse our dessert menus and add them to your meal plan with our calendar tool.
Yes! In addition to the option to print your plan elements, you can also easily access your plan from your mobile device.
We are so confident that you’ll love the meals in your Meal Genius plan, we offer a 60-Day No Questions Asked Money Back Guarantee.
No, but it’s our preferred partner for ingredient quality and availability.
Coming soon! We’re working on full cart integration.
Yes. Our database prioritizes trusted brands and commonly available WFM items.