Dr. Rick Dina, D.C. has been studying health and nutrition since 1986 and has been a raw food vegan since 1987.  He worked at Hippocrates Health Institute in 1991 and then traveled the country with the Juiceman company teaching the benefits of raw fruit and vegetable diets before entering chiropractic school in 1992. 

After earning his doctor of chiropractic degree in 1997, he practiced at True North Health Education Center, a multi-disciplinary holistic health facility in Santa Rosa, CA.  At True North he practiced outpatient chiropractic care, as well as nutrition and lifestyle consulting at their associated residential health care facility; routinely helping patients recover from high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and other nutrition and lifestyle related ailments.

In 2002, he taught a required course, "The Determinants of Health," at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA; the flagship 4-year Naturopathic Medical School granting Doctorate degrees in Naturopathic Medicine.

In 2004, he founded Living Health Chiropractic and Wellness Center (formerly Vitality Wellness Center) in San Rafael, CA where he offered chiropractic care, massage therapy, and educational programs with his wife, Dr. Karin Dina, D.C.

Dr. Karin Dina, D.C. has been studying and practicing raw food nutrition since 1990. In 1997, she earned her second undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado in Biology with Magna Cum Laude honors. In 1999, she began the naturopathic medicine program at Bastyr University.  In 2002, after 2.5 years at Bastyr, she transferred to Palmer College of Chiropractic West to receive her doctor of chiropractic degree and graduated with Magna Cum Laude honors in 2005. 

The Dinas are faculty members of the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in Fort Bragg, CA, where they teach four science-based raw food courses: Introduction to Raw Food Nutrition, Science of Raw Food Nutrition Levels I, II, and III, the Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Course and the Advanced Raw Food Nutrition Educator Course.

The Dinas teach Introduction to Raw Food Nutrition, Science of Raw Food Nutrition I, and their new course, Foundations of Raw Food Nutrition, at various venues throughout the U.S. Please click here for a current teaching schedule.