The Live Lightly Centre

The Live Lightly Centre Naturopathic, nutritional, herbal medicine and other complementary health services. Thyroid: this deserves a special mention as I see so much of it.

Hi, I'm Tracey Walker and I am a fully qualified naturopath (Bachelor's Degree in Health Science) and since starting I have attained a degree in life experience, particularly helping people with stubborn, often undiagnosed and chronic illnesses. I often find that I am the "last resort" after people have exhausted all other avenues and not found answers, and I am totally okay with that! In particular my strengths are as follows:

Autoimmune disease: either diagnosed or undiagnosed, I can help you wind your way through the complicated and painful world of these chronic inflammatory systemic disorders. Often they come as a package deal (ie: more than one!) so that would have you seeing several specialists at once whereas we tend to treat the body as a whole. I explain what is happening to your body, why it is happening and how we treat from a holistic perspective. Female reproductive issues: PCOS, endometriosis, heavy or painful periods, irregular cycle, how to transition off the pill successfully, fertility issues, teenage "coming of age", acne, hormonal migraines, PNDD, PMS/PMT, perimenopause and menopause. Gut issues: diarrhoea, constipation, food sensitivities, reflux, IBS, coeliac disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohns, bloating, candida, recurrent UTI's, pain, mesenteric adenitis, eosinophilic esophagitis, stomach ulcers and gastritis

Mental health issues: anxiety, depression, OCD, ADD, ADHD, migraine/headaches associated with these issues, brain fog, lack of concentration, poor memory, confusion, overwhelming stress, insomnia

Skin issues: acne, eczema, rashes, dermatitis, hives, psoriasis

Whole family health: I see everyone from preconception to old age. Every stage has different physical, mental and emotional needs and hormonal challenges that go with it! It is most often an autoimmune disease but sometimes not and it takes people years to get diagnosed so I help them through this complicated issue. I coach you on how to speak to your doctor about testing, why your medication is not alleviating your symptoms, which tests to ask for and the difference between a "normal" thyroid irregularity and an autoimmune disease. And just WHY it is so important to know this. Chronic and complicated illnesses: I help people navigate their way through several chronic systemic inflammatory diseases such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, "adrenal fatigue", autoimmune disease, extremely inflamed gut issues and hormonal disorders - often all in the one body. When your doctors are confused and you have had enough, this is where I come in and I LOVE helping people find their way back to health and learning to understand their bodies and how they need to best support them. Full pathology reviews and polypharmacy: I like to work with doctors who will support the process and help to reduce polypharmacy (lots of different medications) as well as provide treatment that will not interfere with medication. I also give a holistic view on blood and other pathology tests which will most likely differ slightly from your doctor's view. I nearly always refer my clients back to their GP for a full set of bloods and a new perspective on their case. Me: I am a no nonsense, direct but extremely empathetic, supportive and loyal person to have on your team. I won't BS you, I will have your health (and pocketbook!) firmly at the forefront of everything I do. I meet you where you are at, not asking you to do things you are not physically or mentally capable of at this given moment. I have an irreverent sense of humour and I'm not afraid to use it! My consults are extremely informal and relaxed, a place for you to feel safe and heard and all designed to create a strong rapport. I am very evidence based, I love science and everything I recommend has a solid scientific background however if you tell me that something "outside of the realm" has worked for you in the past, we'll include that too. My only aim is to help you get better. My motto is "get you in, fix you up and get you out again!"

My clinic is located in Ellenbrook WA, 34 Ellen Stirling Parade, phone: (08) 6355 6246. I do face to face and phone consults and bookings can be made by calling reception or using the online "Book Now" button on Facebook. "Your Health is my Passion". Tracey Walker, Naturopath, BHSc (Nat)

19/11/2025

🎄4 Saturdays left til break! 🎄

For those of you who need Saturday appointments there are only four left til we break for the year.

If you're desperate and it appears you can't find a spot online let me know and I'll see what I can do for you.

Cheers! 🙏💕

Guess what this is? It’s not a difficult guess I know, it’s cottage cheese made on a whim and a Facebook reel with 200ml...
19/11/2025

Guess what this is? It’s not a difficult guess I know, it’s cottage cheese made on a whim and a Facebook reel with 200ml of UHT A2 milk I had in the cupboard! 🧀

I am seeing cottage cheese everywhere lately so was going to order some from the shops to see what its all about. I tried it when I was younger and didn’t like it so I’m trying again with a more “adult” palate!

Looking at all the ingredients in the commercial ones I couldn’t believe how many additives there were and I couldn’t find one that was just milk, vinegar (rennet?) and salt so I thought I’d make my own.

Googled a quick recipe and although it said UHT wouldn’t work as well as normal milk this is a pretty good result. I keep the wee ones in the cupboard for when people come for coffee as we don’t drink milk in this house.

A few points – I worked out the vinegar ratio (16 ml to 200ml milk) and I didn’t add cream as I didn’t have any but it still tastes good.

You could buy lactose free A2 milk if you have lactose/dairy issues and get the best of all worlds if you can find an organic lactose free A2 one but otherwise, this is about as pure as it gets – milk, vinegar and salt. And SOOOOOOO much cheaper than commercial varieties plus it takes literal minutes to make. ⏰

Not sure who would benefit from this information but I always love it when a quick experiment pulls off giving people less expensive, easy to make better quality food. I may try it later on as a snack with some mixed nuts, frozen berries and a wee dram of maple syrup. Yum. 😋

18/11/2025

I love giving practical advice to my clients that they can fit into their everyday lives to make things easier.

For me, “healthy habits” are exactly, that, healthy HABITS. Not something you force yourself to do or have to remember to do because its “good for you”!

For example there is evidence that walking 10 minutes after a meal blunts blood sugar spikes by up to 30% as well as the motility helping digestion. Instead of thinking “damn, now I gotta fit in a 10 minute walk to nowhere to blunt my blood sugar spikes!” do some housework instead!!

Exercise is exercise, movement is movement. Getting those muscles moving is what its all about, not the fact that you have walked for an arbitrary amount of time because some study told you to.

Instead of flopping on the couch to catch up with whatever whacky adventures Barnaby’s up to in Midsomer Murders today ( 🙋‍♀️😆 ), do some energetic tidying.

Do the dishes, wipe down tables with gusto, hang a load of washing, maybe a quick sweep or vacuum, or actually go for a walk.

If you have some small jobs to do and you have the option of doing them before or after a meal, do them after.

Work practical health into your everyday lives. Makes sense. You gotta do it anyway, so do it when it gives you best bang for buck.

I also find that it turns a job that you may have resented into something where you’re thinking you are doing yourselves some good other than just tidying. Coz you are, its just a nice little mental shift.

THEN you can catch up with Barnaby and his newest sidekick in their latest Midsomer awesomely creative murder mysteries (literally just watched someone drown in chocolate today. To be fair, worse ways to go I reckon.) 🤷‍♀️

17/11/2025

Last week was the week of the exhausted woman!!!! 🥴

Nearly every person I saw, and many before that to be honest, were at the end of their physical and emotional tether.

We were doing “all the right things”, eating as well as we could, (“we” meaning you lot! 😅), taking the supposedly right supplements, doing the breathing and meditation, having the herbal sleepy teas, doing everything “right” but you know one thing we (you) weren’t doing? RESTING!!! 😴

I said many times last week, there is not one supplement, not one meditation recording, not one style of eating, not one mental health program, not one detox program, no drug, no medication, no surgery, not one “magic bullet” that can replace or imitate what rest can do for us. 🙏

Its as simple as that.

Our body needs rest and to feel safe so it can finally start healing.

If we keep our pedal to the metal all we are doing is patching ourselves up and sending ourselves back out to battle. We were not designed as humans to be so massively overwhelmed, over stimulated and so far away from our natural rhythms as we are today.

I love helping people get the balance back into their lives, and my simple advice is for you to do it before your body tells you to do it!!! 🙏

Y’all heading for nervous breakdowns!!! 😵‍💫

17/11/2025

🎄 Christmas Holiday Hours! 🎄

I will be on leave from Monday 15th December until Tuesday 6th January!

If you are due for a follow up please book soon as spaces filling fast and bear in mind Saturday 13th December is my last Saturday.

For those of you for whom this year was finally going to be "your year" to get healthy, you've still got a month to start if you haven't yet! 🤣

For those of you who can't/won't/don't want to use MyScript (online supplement delivery service) make sure you get onto me ASAP (only a month to go before I'm away!) so we can get you sorted.

You lot who use MyScript don't need to worry about it apart from the Rener closing hours which are far more forgiving than mine!

I'll put a link for online bookings (remember there is a telephone option if you want it, just choose the right one when booking) otherwise if you have any questions, please let me know. 🙏💕

14/11/2025

Not all supplements are created equal.

If I give you something in my consults it is because I know the product and I know it will benefit you so just because I’ve given you a magnesium or a probiotic or an adrenal support for example doesn’t mean you’ll get the same result from a substitute, even if it says it may have the same key ingredient.

All magnesium’s are NOT created equal.

All probiotics are definitely not created equal.

There are different strengths, ratios and purities of fish oils.

There are different co-factors or herbal contributors in many different supplements.

There are often no co-factors in pharmacy irons and that negatively affects absorption and can cause bloating, black stool and constipation.

There are different ways to extract herbal constituents and there are naturally some herbs that work synergistically to give even better results if taken together.

Just because something has a higher dose than its neighbour doesn’t mean you will absorb more of it or it’s a better quality product.

Some products interfere with medications you may be on and I have given you ones that don’t.

Some vitamins are activated and are therefore more easily absorbed and some are not.

Some products have a whole bunch of exipients (additives) that may or may not be good for you.

There are so many products out there that may or may not be good for you or your specific issues, but if you come to me and I give you something, it’s because I KNOW it will be good for you.

It will be the most bioavailable, the most supportive, the safest, the most highly tested and TGA approved, the most targeted for your condition and the absolute best value for money.

Granted there may be others out there that work really well for you or you may not be able to tolerate something I've given you for some reason but these results are few and far between, and we work around them.

So if you’ve slipped or forgotten to get back for your supps or a follow up or figuring out the online ordering system and you just go buy a normal “magnesium” or probiotic and don’t get the same benefits, don’t blame the “magnesium” or probie, blame the product.

I give them to you for a reason. 😉👍💕

12/11/2025

I follow this guy on YouTube who does all these experiments with how different foods and drinks affect his blood sugar spikes, and it is super interesting.

He did one recently where he ate a sandwich quickly at about 12 bites in four minutes (he clearly doesn’t have teenage boys, that is a positively glacial speed 😏 ) then he ate the exact same sandwich the next day over a half hour period so one bite every few minutes.

There was like a ten-point difference in his blood sugar spike which is quite big. The fast sando took his blood sugar spike over his limit and the slower one kept it under the baseline completely so what to learn from this? Eating more slowly and consciously is not only better for our digestion but also for our blood sugar management.

I know this is an extremely impractical experiment, ain't nobody gonna have a bite of anything every two minutes although there are probably a lot of working mums out there glad to hear this as they never get to finish a feed in one sitting 😆 but I just thought it was really interesting.

I am all about prescribing food plans for my people now that are REALLY simple, literally making the smallest changes to the way they already eat, and having really powerful results with them. Reels like this further my education immensely with lots of little tips and tricks that I can pass on to my people.

Of course though (as he finishes every video with this sign off) individual results may vary as we are, believe it or not, all individuals. 😉

03/11/2025

SOOOOO MANY of my clients come in with HbA1c tests showing they are pre-diabetic (or just having high insulin readings) and they are brushed off by either the GP not even acknowledging it or a cursory “oh, and you’re pre-diabetic” with no further information or warnings.

Oftentimes they’ll get a “we’ll re-test in a few months” if they’re lucky. So what happens in three months? Still pre-diabetic? Actually diabetic? Chronic diabetic? Heart attack?

Who knows, but that’s three months where the person could have been taking simple powerful steps to actively reduce the risk and reverse the predicted outcome.

Diabetes is a major cause of death, consistently ranking among the top causes of death in many countries including Australia.

The primary cause of diabetes-related death is cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack and stroke, which develops from high blood sugar damaging blood vessels over time. Other complications like kidney disease, nerve damage, and infections can also be fatal.

Do NOT let your medical advisors fob you off with a cursory “we’ll keep an eye on that” or not even acknowledge it.

Seriously, you can see it in your own results yourselves by looking at your glycated haemoglobin tests (HbA1c), it will literally SAY that your results are pre-diabetic giving you a huge headstart in the reparation process.

I deal with a LOT of these people, including those with insulin resistance, PCOS, underactive thyroid and other metabolic disorders and I just love it. You can see great results really quickly with a few simple changes.

Do not be another statistic, do something about it now! 🛑🙏💕

03/11/2025

✨ Away for a few days! ✨

Just letting my people know that I will not be in the office for a few days!

We are spending some quality time with my father in law and his gorgeous lady and I will be back at work Friday arvo onwards.

I won't get work emails but will still have access to FB messages if anything is important.

Cheers and have a great week. 🙏💕

31/10/2025

Did you know that as our ovarian production of hormones winds down over the peri/menopausal years, the adrenals actually start making precursors to our s*x hormones to kind of “build a bridge” during that period and smooth out some of those rollercoaster symptoms?

How cool is that??? 😎 Isn't the body the most amazing thing??? 🤩

This is why stress management is SO VITAL during these years, because if your body thinks its being attacked by a sabre tooth tiger its not going to give a fat rats clacker about your hot sweats or poor sleep.

It will pump out those adrenal hormones to the exclusion of the s*x hormones and chronically worsen all of the menopausal symptoms.

Stress management is a huge part of my treatment plans for women at this stage whether it be adjusting their lifestyles, adjusting their views on what’s important or not anymore, adjusting their views on themselves now, adjusting their diet and supplement routine, and just basically making sure she is in the optimal state to manage her stress levels internally and externally.

The ride through one side to the other doesn’t have to be as bumpy as we keep reading about and watching our older female friends experience (or maybe we are experiencing ourselves!).

As always, there are a multitude of things we can do to manage symptoms during this particularly trying period. 🙏💕

30/10/2025

MyScript Renewals!

I'm getting the vibe that there has been a bit of panic buying going on since those expiry notices came out. 🤣

There is no need to panic buy or worry that you can never get your products online again if that is a concern to you. You absolutely can, I just have to renew your prescription! Or, you could even make a time to come see me to pick some up the old fashioned way!

Its been a bit of a lesson learned to be honest about picking an expiry date, I've had to recruit Ali back in from a cozy retirement with her pooch to extend probably about 6 or 700 MyScript renewals for another month to give me time to renew the ones who want to be renewed!

She is an absolute Godsend that woman. 🙏

So in a nutshell a lot of you will get ANOTHER notice end of November and if that one expires before you contact me to renew then a follow up consult is in order to get it reset as I have to do a whole new script unfortunately.

Anyway, there is no reason to panic either way. I just need to work my way through the renewals now and its a lot of work. 🥵

I will never let my people down or leave people in the lurch especially if you've been a supportive, loyal long standing client. That is just not the way I roll baby. 😉

Go in peace. ✌️🤣

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34 Ellen Stirling Parade Ellenbrook
Perth, WA
6069

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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