Dr Kate Barry

25/11/2025

I spoke to Jacie and Barbara from The CIRS Group about the final stage of the Shoemaker Protocol - VIP.

Dr Kate Barry speaks to Jacie and Barbara from The CIRS Group about the final stage of the Shoemaker Protocol - VIP.HELPFUL LINKS:Find out more about Dr. Kat...

24/11/2025

Nutrition - what do I eat?!

It’s the million-dollar question isn’t it? What to eat to optimise your health and wellbeing. This is especially important when you have some health challenges - either acute infection or chronic illness. There are so many schools of thought out there, and obviously everybody is different so you need to find out what works best for you, but here are some of the basics that I think are relevant for the majority of people...

What do I eat to optimize my health and wellbeing. This is especially important when you have some health challenges, either acute infection or chronic illness.

20/11/2025

Day 4 - Mould & Mycotoxins

We’ve long known about the dangers of eating mouldy food, so food standards limit mycotoxin contamination in grains and other food for this reason. But there is far less recognition of how mould and mycotoxins cause illness when inhaled. In a water-damaged building, a phenomenon called amplification occurs where certain moulds and bacteria flourish and have the resources to produce significantly more biotoxins. When these toxins are inhaled over time, people living or working in those buildings can become unwell. Some of the subsequent health issues that arise are allergy, fungal infection, toxicity, and an overactive innate immune system called CIRS. In the latter case, the immune system can detect but not remove biotoxins from the body, so the body becomes more and more inflamed over time, causing the chronic inflammatory response that CIRS is named for.

19/11/2025

Day 3 - Detox Challenge

Detox promoting activities focus on supporting and optimising the body's natural detoxification processes and overall well-being. Here are five activities that can help promote detoxification:
1. Sweating
2. Moving the lymph
3. Epsom salt baths
4. Castor oil packs
5. Coffee enemas

18/11/2025

Day 2 - Detox Challenge

Supporting the liver is crucial for overall health, as the liver plays a central role in detoxification and various metabolic processes. Now there is a school of thought suggesting detox supports are unnecessary because I detox organs are built to detox, and what I would say to that is that our bodies were not built to deal with the level of toxins that we come up against in today’s world, so sometimes a little help is necessary. Here are five diet & lifestyle tips to help support liver health:
1. Eat an anti-inflammatory diet
2. Stay Hydrated
3. Moderate alcohol and caffeine intake
4. Consider liver support supplements
5. Do the basics - stress management, sleep and exercise

17/11/2025

Day 1 - Detox Challenge

Reducing exposure to environmental toxins involves making conscious choices in various aspects of your lifestyle. While it may be impossible to completely eliminate all sources of environmental toxins, you can take steps to minimize your exposure. Here are five practical tips:
1. Eat organic food
2. Select non-toxin products
3. Filter your water
4. Limit plastic use
5. Mind your cookware

13/11/2025

I spoke to Jacie and Barbara from The CIRS Group about getting out of exposure, including the similarities and differences between buildings in Australia and the US.

12/11/2025

In this interview with Amelie Becher, I outline my best chronic illness tips. Things I wish I knew when I was starting out on my recovery journey.

11/11/2025

If your VCS test and symptom cluster analysis are positive, then you might want to do a mycotoxin urine analysis to measure the amount of mycotoxin you're excreting. You can use either the Real Time or Great Plains labs, but my preference is Real Time because provocation (glutathione + sweating) usually prevents false negatives.

Here's an example from a teenage girl who was exposed to mould in a water damaged building. The second test is after 6 months of CIRS treatment with significant reduction of symptoms. She still has a long way to go but her mycotoxin levels are decreasing.

10/11/2025

I outline my top tips for reducing inflammation:
1. Work on the five pillars of health
2. Care for the gut
3. Reduce everyday toxins

06/11/2025

So you’re chronically ill and feeling fatigued and unwell most days. You’ve either read or been told by a practitioner that you need to make significant diet and lifestyle change in order to improve your health, but how are you supposed to make these changes when you can hardly get out of bed? Bit of a catch 22 right?

This conundrum is one of my clients’ biggest gripes, so as a practitioner I’m always looking for ways to help out and provide guidance around the day-to-day tasks that suck energy and prevent clients from sticking to the therapeutic plan. Check out this blog post for my top three tips.

Blog post providing guidance around the day-to-day tasks that suck energy and prevent clients from sticking to a therapeutic plan.

05/11/2025

If you're interested in improving your gut health, check out my blog post on the topic. It includes four videos: digestion in the mouth, digestion in the stomach, digestion in the small intestine, digestion in the large intestine.

Gut health challenge composed of four videos with digestion tips for the mouth, stomach, small intestine and large intestine.