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Led by Steph Lowe and Elly McLean, The Natural Nutritionist is a hub for celebrating the importance of real food. With a passion for spreading a positive message about real food and the incredible affect it has on health, fertility and performance, Steph launched The Natural Nutritionist in 2011 and is on a mission to inspire others to make health a priority in their lives.

09/04/2026

Tell me what number surprised you the most below? 👇🏼🤍 It’s #18 for me.

The average woman spends 4–6 years in perimenopause before she gets an accurate explanation for what she’s experiencing. Four to six years of being told it’s stress, anxiety, depression, burnout - or simply getting older.

If you’re 38 or older and something feels fundamentally different - your mood, your sleep, your cycles, your capacity - this transition is worth investigating. Not dismissing.

Comment PERI and I’ll send you the details for my Understanding Perimenopause Masterclass - everything you need to navigate this transition with clarity and confidence.

07/04/2026

Your PMS symptoms might not be a PMS problem.

Migraines at ovulation. Rage in the week before your period. Bloating, insomnia, anxiety that disappears the moment your period arrives.

That’s not random. That’s a pattern. And the pattern has a name: the estrogen-histamine loop.

Here’s what’s happening:

👉🏻 Estrogen stimulates mast cells to release histamine.
👉🏻 Histamine signals your ovaries to produce more estrogen.
👉🏻 Estrogen impairs the enzyme that breaks histamine down.
👉🏻 Low progesterone removes the only brake on the cycle.

The result is a self-reinforcing loop that peaks at ovulation, and again in the mid-to-late luteal phase - right when your symptoms are at their worst.

You don’t need an allergy. You don’t need to be reacting to food. If your hormones are dysregulated, you may have a histamine problem that no allergy test will ever identify.

I’ve created a free PMS & PMDD Histamine Cheat Sheet that walks you through exactly what’s driving your symptoms, how to map them to your cycle, and the first steps to break the loop at the root cause level.

Comment HISTAMINE below and I’ll send you the link.

02/04/2026

A mid-luteal progesterone of 13.3 nmol/L is not optimal.

It might be “in range” on a standard lab report, but in range is not the same as optimal - and your symptoms are telling you that.

Sub-optimal progesterone looks like:

IN YOUR BODY:
- Anxious, wired but tired
- Struggling to fall or stay asleep in the second half of your cycle
- Shorter cycles than usual (less than 26 days)
- Spotting before your period arrives
- PMS that’s getting worse with age
- Feeling like yourself for about one week a month

ON YOUR LABS:
- Mid-luteal P4 under 30 nmol/L
- P4:E2 ratio below 10:1
- Low or absent LH surge on OPK

The goal? Progesterone levels of 60–85+ nmol/L mid-luteal - achieved through consistent ovulation and, where needed, body identical progesterone.

I have clients who’ve moved from 13 to 64 to 85 nmol/L through targeted clinical support. It is absolutely achievable.

🎓 Comment MASTERCLASS below and I’ll send you the details for my Hormone Mastery Masterclass - a deep-dive clinical training on what’s actually driving your symptoms, what to test, and what to do with the results.

01/04/2026

If your histamine symptoms are worse in the lead up to your period or around ovulation I promise you it’s not a coincidence.

When estrogen isn’t clearing efficiently, histamine builds. The same food, the same life, can suddenly feel intolerable.

It’s not about eliminating everything.

It’s about finding what’s actually driving it.

Comment GUIDE and I’ll send the free testing guide straight to your DMs 👇🏼🤍

26/03/2026

Standard blood tests are designed to detect disease. They are not designed to tell you why you feel the way you do.

That gap - between "not sick" and actually well - is where I work.

Functional testing is not about ordering more tests. It's about ordering the right tests, at the right time, with the right preparation, and interpreting them against optimal reference ranges - not a population average that includes a lot of unwell people.

Here's what that looks like in practice:

👉🏻 Progesterone tested mid-luteal - not "Day 21", because not every woman ovulates on Day 14. Timing the test correctly is the difference between a meaningful result and a completely useless one.
👉🏻 A full thyroid panel - not just TSH. Free T3, free T4, reverse T3 and antibodies. Because a normal TSH tells you almost nothing about how your thyroid is actually functioning.
👉🏻 Full iron studies - not just ferritin. Because a GP will find low ferritin and hand you an iron supplement or refer you for an infusion without ever asking why it's low in the first place.
👉🏻 Fasting insulin alongside fasting glucose - because insulin resistance shows up in insulin years before glucose shifts out of range.

Two women can have identical symptoms and completely different underlying drivers. This is why protocol-based medicine fails so many women. And why testing without context - or with incomplete panels - leads nowhere.

The Hormone Mastery Testing Guide covers which tests actually matter, how to time them to your cycle, how to prepare for accurate results, and how to have a productive conversation with your GP about what to order.

Comment GUIDE below and I'll send it to you.

25/03/2026

I am a Nutritionist specialising in women's hormones, with 15 years in clinical practice. I do not guess and I do not use generic protocols. I use functional pathology testing, cycle tracking data, and clinical pattern recognition to find what standard medicine misses.

Here's what that looks like in practice:
👉🏻 A mid-luteal progesterone that was never tested - or tested on the wrong day.
👉🏻 A "Day 21 progesterone" that was meaningless - because not every woman ovulates on Day 14, and mid-luteal is not Day 21. It's 5-7 days after confirmed ovulation. A detail that changes everything.
👉🏻 A TSH of 2.8 with a free T3 sitting at the bottom of range - and every symptom of hypothyroidism - reported as normal.
👉🏻 A histamine picture being treated as anxiety, IBS and food intolerance simultaneously, with no one asking why.

Real findings. Real women. Every single week.

My clients don't leave with a supplement list. They leave understanding what their body is doing, why it's doing it, and exactly what needs to change. They know how to read their own pathology. They know how to time their testing. They know which symptoms are data and which phase of their cycle is driving them.

That knowledge doesn't expire. It compounds.

If you've been told everything is fine but you know it isn't - you're not imagining it. You just haven't had the right person looking at the right things.

Comment MASTERY below and let's find out what's actually going on.

12/02/2026

What a time 🤯

29/10/2025

It’s slide #6 for me 🫣

*Don’t get me wrong, some guests are amazing… but others are questionable at best. A podcast with this level of reach has a responsibility, am I right?

21/10/2025

Hormones are messengers - and when they’re too high or too low, your body lets you know 🧬

From energy dips to mood swings to that feeling of being “off,” it’s rarely random - it’s information.

➡️ Tired, moody, or just not feeling like yourself lately? 🧠 Comment QUIZ below to take my 5-Minute Hormone Health Check and find out why.

16/10/2025

➡️ Ready to understand your hormones on a whole new level? 🎓 Comment MASTERCLASS below for access to my Hormone Mastery Masterclass - your roadmap to stable cycles, restorative sleep & balanced energy (no guesswork, no fluff).

You’re not lazy. You’re running in a loop🌀

When stress, blood sugar, thyroid, and s*x hormones all pull in different directions - your body fights to survive, not thrive.

The result? Fatigue, brain fog, cravings, irritability, and that “nothing works anymore” feeling.

This is The Hormone-Fatigue Loop. And every step is reversible - when you know where to start 💫

15/10/2025

You’re not missing motivation.
You’re missing the right markers.

These are the labs that tell the real story of your hormones, metabolism, and energy - not just the surface level ones.

💌 Want to know exactly which tests to request - and how to interpret them like a pro?

Comment GUIDE below and I’ll send you my Hormone Mastery Testing Guide (plus bonus hormone-balancing recipes 🍳).

Because optimal health isn’t guesswork - it’s data done right🩸

28/09/2025

And it’s #15 for me. What about you?

From calories to cycles, carbs to cortisol - here’s what a decade and a half as a Nutritionist has really taught me.

Not from Google. Not from trends. From actual women, real results, and the data that never lies.

Swipe, save, share 💎

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Launceston, TAS
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Tuesday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 2pm
Thursday	9am - 5:30pm

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Led by Steph Lowe and Elly McLean, The Natural Nutritionist is a hub for celebrating the importance of real food.

With a passion for spreading a positive message about real food and the incredible affect it has on health, fertility and performance, Steph launched The Natural Nutritionist in 2011 and is on a mission to inspire others to make health a priority in their lives.

You probably already know that we can help you with real food and fat loss but did you know we also specialise in:

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