After 32 years watching people die from preventable things, Dr. Brooks decided to start preventing them.
Firefighter, EMT, Naturopath, Herbalist. Founder of Roots Nutrition. Inglewood, California.
- 32 yrs frontline
- Ph.D. Naturopathy
- Iridologist
- Herbalist
The first patients he couldn't save were his own parents.
Romeo Brooks spent more than three decades as a firefighter and EMT — the man strangers called on the worst day of their lives. He answered tens of thousands of those calls.
And in most of them, by the time he arrived, the damage had already been done — not by the emergency that hour, but by years of small, preventable decisions before it.
Then it became personal. He lost his father to emphysema. He lost his mother to a blocked intestine and kidney failure. Both of them, slowly, from conditions he had spent his career watching come to a head in the back of his ambulance.
He didn't want one more family to live what his had.
He went back to school. For the next twenty years.
Dr. Brooks studied to become an Iridologist. Then a Natural Hygienist. Then a Herbalist. He earned a Ph.D. in Naturopathic Medicine. He trained at the Herbal Healing Academy in Arkansas, at Cal State LA, and at Southern California College — and apprenticed under some of the most respected names in holistic healing in the country.
Twenty-plus years of learning what the emergency room never taught him: that the body, given the right inputs, will heal itself almost every time.
Food is the first medicine.
What you eat is either fighting the problem or feeding it. The products are designed to do the fighting.
The body wants to heal.
Given the right inputs and removed of the wrong ones, it will. Our job is to give it the room.
Healing is a community thing.
No one heals alone. Roots is built to be a place — in Inglewood and online — where people learn together.
Faith and health are not separate.
A healthy body is what we offer back. The mission is bigger than any one bottle.
A storefront in Inglewood. A practice that started in his community.
Roots Nutrition is a brick-and-mortar in Inglewood, California — and every formula on this site was developed there, by Dr. Brooks, for the people who walked through his door. Each one targets a real condition he saw, again and again, sitting across from him in his consultation room.
Roots is bigger than the counter.
Roots Nutrition grew out of one hard truth Dr. Brooks saw on every shift and across the counter: the communities that need root-cause care the most are the ones the health system reaches last. Black and brown families carry a heavier burden of preventable disease — diabetes, hypertension, heart disease — with far less access to the plant-based, whole-body care he spent his life practicing.
Roots is how he's working to change that. Every formula is built to be effective and affordable, paired with plain-language education — so real health isn't a privilege a few can buy, but something our communities can understand, claim, and pass down for generations.
A healthy temple.
Dr. Brooks is God-centered and humble about the mission. His work is grounded in the belief that the living sacrifice we're called to offer should be a healthy one — not a toxic, disease-ridden one. That conviction is in every formula and every consultation.
Three ways to start.
Take the quiz
Not sure what your body needs? One minute, and we'll match you with the formulations Dr. Brooks built for what you're feeling.
Shop the formulations
Seven formulas. Each one targets a real condition Dr. Brooks saw, again and again, across the counter.
Book a consultation
Sit across from Dr. Brooks himself — in Inglewood or by video. He'll read your iris and build you a plan.