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Name Dr Sarah Zaldivar
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB Born in September 1987. As of 2024, she is around 37 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids None
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race Middle-Eastern
Nationality Lebanese-American
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Introduction :

  • Dr. Sarah Zaldivar, is a Nutrition Professor at Miami Dade College, and holds a PhD in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition.
  • She has a popular Instagram account and YouTube channel, which features interviews and other health related content.
  • Dr. Sarah battled genetic predispositions to weight issues throughout her life, eventually achieving a remarkable weight loss transformation. Her journey from a challenging childhood marked by struggles with mental health to a thriving educator and motivator is a testament to her resilience, and commitment to personal growth.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

  • Dr. Sarah Zaldivar (maiden name Sarah Adwan) was born in 1987 in Beirut, Lebanon. There’s not much information available about Sarah’s parents and family online.
  • Sarah had a pretty happy childhood until puberty hit when she became aware that she didn’t quite fit in. Since that time and especially throughout her turbulent teenage years, she struggled with anxiety, depression and multiple suicide attempts.
  • She’s talked about how she was an overweight child and also had issues with acne. She battled anxiety and loneliness for most of her life back in Lebanon.
  • Sarah mentions how most of her issues were a direct result of not listening to her intuition and buying into the limiting beliefs of family, friends, and the society around her.
  • When enrolled at the University of Miami, she met her now husband, William Zaldivar. She’s talked about how her husband changed her life by teaching her what mental strength is and by showing her that she is limitless as long as she was committed to destroying her limiting beliefs.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

  • From 2005 to 2009, Sarah enrolled at the Notre Dame University and completed her Bachelor’s in Dietetics.
  • Post that, from 2010 to 2012, she went on to finish her Master’s in Clinical Nutrition from the American University of Beirut.
  • Immediately after that she set her sights on leaving her home country to make way for her American dream and left for Miami to enroll in University of Miami for her PhD studies in Exercise Physiology. After a gruelling 7 years, she completed her Ph.D. in 2019.
  • Dr. Sarah holds a certification as an Exercise Physiologist-Certified from the American College of Sports Medicine, which was issued in November 2014 (Credential ID: 750350).
  • She is also a Certified Personal Trainer, having been certified by the Sports Performance Institute in September 2010.

Career, Salary and Net Worth :

  • For 5 years, from Aug 2012 to Jul 2017, Sarah was a Research Assistant and Instructor at the University of Miami. Here, she taught Nutrition and Exercise Physiology Courses.
  • However, she soon realized that she couldn’t stand the thought of only a normal 9-5 employment.
  • After this realization, she drove straight into the field entrepreneurship and content creation. Her online presence spans across Instagram, YouTube, Skillshare, and Udemy, indicating her commitment to reaching and educating a diverse audience. She has been an Instagram influencer since August 2017, and a self-employed YouTuber since May 2019.
  • Dr. Zaldivar is currently an adjunct faculty in nutrition and exercise physiology at Miami Dade College, DeVry University, and ACSM.

Social Media :

  • Dr. Sarah now considers herself a weight loss coach and content creator that uses her history of being a chubby kid to set herself apart.
  • She has been an avid supporter of the “Carnivore Diet” which is similar to the Keto diet. She mentions how even though she studied Nutrition all her life, she was taught conventional things that don’t necessarily work for everyone.
  • It took her nearly two years to reach her first 1000 subcribers on YouTube but now her channel has shown tremendous growth.
  • She is currently fully focused on content creation as a YouTuber helping others find optimal health through a carnivore diet, mindset shifts, exercise, and dance.
  • An equally important component of her work focuses on antiaging and framing the aging process as a chronic disease that we can eventually reverse and cure.

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