Our Team
The dietitians who see you in hospital and after
Reset Health was founded in 2022 by Valpre Huisamen and Saskia Zietsman, two clinical dietitians with a shared passion for evidence-based medical nutrition therapy. Every practitioner is HPCSA-registered, and every plan is personal.
Valpre Huisamen
Clinical Dietitian · BSc Dietetics (University of Pretoria)
HPCSA-registered
Valpre co-founded Reset Health Dietitians in 2022 with a focus on clinical and ICU-level nutrition care. Her practice spans critical care, oncology, surgery, diabetes, cardiac conditions and complex metabolic disease, the full breadth of inpatient dietetics at Mediclinic Louis Leipoldt, where she leads the inpatient nutrition service.
“I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all nutrition.” She founded Reset Health to bring hospital-grade clinical care into the outpatient setting, planned around each patient’s medication, blood work and circumstances.
Areas of focus: ICU & critical care nutrition · oncology · women’s health & endocrinology · PCOS · weight management · GLP-1 support.
Saskia Zietsman
Clinical Dietitian · B.Dietetics (University of Pretoria) · 14+ years’ experience
HPCSA-registered
Saskia co-founded Reset Health in 2022 and leads our Durbanville practice, with inpatient dietetic cover at Mediclinic Durbanville and Mediclinic Cape Gate. With more than 14 years in clinical practice, her particular strengths are in IBS and gut health and cancer nutrition.
Saskia’s approach pairs careful clinical assessment with plans patients can live with. Most gut problems, in her experience, do not need a shorter food list. They need the right one.
Areas of focus: IBS & gut health · oncology nutrition · chronic disease management · inpatient dietetics · women’s health.
Carike Odendaal
Clinical Dietitian · B.Dietetics (University of Pretoria)
HPCSA-registered
Carike came to Reset Health in 2025 and splits her week between our Bellville office, online consultations and inpatient ward rounds at Mediclinic Louis Leipoldt. She is strongest where several chronic conditions overlap: diabetes, liver disease, oncology and weight management.
She’s known for building practical, sustainable plans that fit her patients’ culture and budget, not aspirational meal plans that get abandoned by week three.
Areas of focus: Diabetes (T1 / T2 / GDM) · liver disease (NAFLD, hepatitis) · cancer nutrition · weight management · chronic disease management.
Carli Loots
Clinical Dietitian · BSc Dietetics (North-West University)
HPCSA-registered
Diabetes and insulin resistance are where Carli does her best work. Since joining Reset Health in 2025 she has become our most widely travelled dietitian, consulting at Durbanville and Panorama as well as online, with inpatient ward rounds at Mediclinic Louis Leipoldt. She takes particular care to help patients understand the relationship between their medication and what they eat.
Areas of focus: Diabetes (T1 / T2 / pre-diabetes) · insulin resistance & PCOS · weight management · GLP-1 medication support · chronic disease.
Professional standards
Every Reset Health dietitian is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and practises strictly evidence-based medical nutrition therapy aligned with current international guidelines.
Choose your dietitian, book your time
Bellville: Valpre or Carike. Panorama: Carli. Durbanville: Saskia or Carli.