Health Extension Specialist
The guide who has made the climb.
Hi, I'm Maricel. I help busy professionals decode their biology and extend their healthspan, and I have walked this route myself: I am living proof that aging is malleable. Here is how I got here, and why this work is personal.
It started in a small town in Argentina.
I was born into a Ukrainian immigrant family in a small country town in Formosa, one of the most remote corners of Argentina. My grandmother lived with us, and I grew up inside her garden, surrounded by raw nature, watching ants march in perfect lines and studying plants I could not stop looking at. My father took me into the woods to read the trees. That early curiosity about living things never left me.
Why biology alone was never enough.
When I was at university, my cousin was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He lost his fight. I threw myself into the science, certain the answer was in biology. I studied biochemistry, earned a Master of Science in biotechnology, and worked in cancer research in Philadelphia. My research never found the cure for cancer, but it showed me a way to help prevent it.
Then life taught me the rest. My mother ate clean her whole life and moved her body every day. She is living with dementia now. The one thing she never learned to manage was stress. Watching her taught me the truth that shapes everything I do: health is body, mind, and spirit together. Decline happens in the places we ignore.
From the lab to my kitchen table.
I spent about ten years in senior management at a natural supplement company, leading teams across Latin America in three languages. After my third daughter was born, I stayed home, and I never stopped researching: functional medicine, epigenetics, lifestyle medicine.
During COVID I certified as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and chose longevity as my focus. I ran my first epigenetic test on myself, and I was hooked.
I made the climb myself first.
For four years I tested myself about every six months, changing one variable at a time. First sleep. Then nutrition. Then mindset, where some of my biomarker risk scores dropped by more than half. Then metabolic health with a glucose monitor. Each cycle, I could see the change in my own biology.
What "Health Extension Specialist" really means.
The title traces back to my mother. She worked as an extensionist for a government program in Argentina, traveling to rural areas to teach women and families about nutrition, hygiene, and home care. I see my work as the molecular evolution of her mission. She brought lifestyle education to the countryside. I bring molecular healthspan extension to the modern world.
An integrator who connects the dots.
I bring together five sources of data, functional genetics, epigenetics, the microbiome, real-time metabolic trackers, and mindset, and I read them as one connected human story. That is the difference between a pile of results and a plan you can actually live.
I am training for my own Rejuvenation Olympics alongside my clients. The summit is a healthy 100, mine and yours, and I do not intend to climb it alone.
Outside the work, you will find me with my three daughters, on my yoga mat, walking on the beach, or reading.
Let's decode your biology together.
Start with a free discovery call, or take the two-minute quiz to see where you are on the mountain today.