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Lisa Fitzgibbon is a qualified (2006), experienced and registered Naturopath and Medical Herbalist.

She runs her own private practice OOMPH, in Grey Lynn (Auckland, New Zealand). She has been involved in the Natural Health industry for 13 years. Lisa draws on her professional training and experience, as well as her own personal experience to bring you well rounded health advice. As a Naturopath and Medical Herbalist, she gets asked a lot of the same questions on general health. Lisa also see lots of people making common health mistakes + and wanting more in-depth information. This is what spurred her to create her health and wellness blog: LISA SAID SO (www.lisasaidso.co.nz)

09/03/2026

While male birth control (condoms, or vasectomy) is simply prescribed to & for pen*ses...

Female birth control is prescribed to women.

Therefore, are the prescribers/providers of our current options e.g The OCP/THE ECP, LARCs, the female condom (and the male condom) effectively taking the following into account?

Her age?

Who she's using her birth-control with e.g she's single, she's in a relationship, 'it's complicated?

How she's using it – as in, many times she's actually seeking to have s*x per day/week/month/year/decade🕸️🕸️😜

Her knowledge about her reproductive system & her menstrual cycle?

Her preferences beyond what the medical world deem appropriate (synthetic hormones, or copper IUDs that create inflammation, and cause heavier periods and pain)?

Her lifestyle/other? For instance –
Does she do shift work, or travel for around a lot, or does she have ADHD (and she's extra sensitive to hormones, but she's also prone to being impulsive and forgetful?)

What's your feels on this, please? 🧐
Are they meeting our/your needs effectively?

07/03/2026

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It's International Women's Day, women of the world!
So, let's talk about a universal medicine for us! 👊

In my practice I frequently encourage my female clients to consider their iodine status for their health!

Why?

Because this marvellous mineral helps with all manner of 'women's problems' e.g thyroid health, heavy periods, PMS & PCOS, uterine fibroids, ovarian pain & cysts, breast pain & cysts, and breast cancer prevention.

As a consequence of my enthusiastic recommendations, I now have quite the band of ‘Violet Femmes’ — women taking high dose (optimal dose!) iodine for their health.

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https://lisasaidso.co.nz/whole-body-needs-iodine-deficiency-symptoms-fatigue-weight-gain-fibromyalgia-testimonials/

05/03/2026

Viva la revolución!

In a nutshell, in NZ there have been four contraceptive revolutions:

1) We went from traditional to barrier methods of contraception around the 1930s

Traditional methods include –
Abstinence
Breastfeeding
The withdrawal method, and
The rhythm method (avoiding in*******se at the presumed fertile time of the cycle

Barrier methods include -
The diaphragm, the cap, the vaginal sponge, spermicides and condoms.

2) We then shifted from barrier methods to hormonal methods with the introduction of oral contraceptive pills in 1961.

FYI: Kiwi chicks were among the first in the world to take advantage of this new method of birth control 👊

3) Then there was a widespread move from hormones to VOLUNTARY (!) sterilisation for female and/or male when families were complete.

Beside obvious social, and economic reasons, women were experiencing side effects on the pill and fears about the safety of the pill.

FYI: New Zealand men became world leaders in the proportion having a vasectomy 👊

4) We started using condoms ... because it wasn't just unwanted pregnancy, and 'hormonal safety' we then feared!

The stimulus for the shift to condoms was the appearance of HIV/AIDS.

FYI: The first case was reported in New Zealand in 1983.

I wonder what will be the fifth revolution?! 😉

New article out very soon – hopefully!
(For once, I'm not the cause of the hold-up 😜🤣)

24/02/2026

I've always been a bit of a Madam...
New article coming soon 💃🏽
www.lisasaidso.co.nz

17/02/2026

Heck! I should probably let you know that OOMPH is back in 'full swing' for 2026!
I’m seeing clients, and writing stuff!

In fact, I’ve got a new LISA SAID SO article coming out within the next week or so. And the topic? For now, let’s just say it should be a ‘banging’ good way to start the year... 🤫🤐😉

02/12/2025

(UPDATE: In comment section below🤦🏼‍♀️)

I really don't know what to think anymore...

I saw this on the internet yesterday.
'The 5 Best Naturopaths in Auckland'.

When I first saw this, I thought 'how rude' that 'moi' was not included! 😋
But then I realised I actually had been...just incorrectly so!
Apparently:
I am the Naturopath at Tonic Room!
I also do 'beauty', and..
My clinic provides a calming atmosphere...which is entirely not true! It can actually get quite 'rollicking' at mine!

(I didn't snapshot the whole stoooopid segment.)

Who wrote this damn thing?
AI?
A very, very incompetent person?
What on earth is going on these days?
I wanna get off...before it gets any wilder!

Tonic Room – this randomness?! 🤨

01/12/2025

🎶✨ Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo 🎶✨

I just put in my Xmas order with Hastings Distillers for a couple of bottles of their magical, L'Opera!

Unlike 'Aperol' which uses artificial colouring and sugar...
Hastings Distillers use (actual) food colour!
Its most excellent hue comes from orange peel and hibiscus flowers! How summery is that, ay?! 🍊

To make a L’Opera Spritz:
3-parts: Prosecco
2-parts: L’Opera (a Bitter Orange Aperitif)
1-part: soda water

Note: Make sure you use high quality versions of the bubbly bits, please.

https://lisasaidso.co.nz/apero-culture-hastings-distillers/

24/11/2025

Help!!!! I'm being bullied by a Billionaire 😳

Has anyone had any experience with dealing with re-doing floors and painting walls when leaving a Samson commercial lease??
(They own a significant collection of properties across Auckland.)

I'm finishing up at the end of my lease due to the extreme downturn over the last year or so, and because, well, I have no tenants left to help me cover the rent!

Samson is making me completely redo the wooden floors — sand, refinish etc. Plus repainting the inside of the building.
Apparently it's in the contract, but this seems insane, seeing as it's a very old building (late 1800s), and the floors in particular haven't been redone in a long time – well over 20 years!

While the clause in the contract is standard, the agreement is that the 'making good' is based on what is reasonable. And they think this is perfectly reasonable...regardless of any logical arguments I put to them e.g their floorboards are full of borer, all the floors are on a lean, floorboards need replacing...the floors weren't freaking sanded or resealed for us when we took over the lease...😖🤦🏼‍♀️

Has anyone else dealt with this? Managed to get out of it?

Or can point me in the direction of a lawyer who has experience dealing with Samson?

And if all else fails, someone who can deal with the floors for me for a good price! (They estimate the cost to be $10,000!)

Thank you in advance! x

18/11/2025

After nearly a decade at OOMPH's current HQ in Maidstone St, Grey Lynn, Auckland it's time to 'call it a day'.

That day being:
Saturday 20 December 2025.
This will be my last day at this office.

And, while that sucks like a sucky thing, I'll be coming back leaner and (possibly) meaner in the New Year! 👊🥊🤗

I shall endeavour to keep you posted on this x

26/10/2025

After nearly 10 years at my current HQ...
It's time to reimagine OOMPH again 🤔💭🫶🏼

(Photo from April 2016 before the 'take-over')

23/10/2025

Aaaaaand...TIME!
I just emailed in my submission 👊✔️😅

Speak Up for Mother Pigs:
Say ‘No’ to Farrowing Crates
Make a submission to show the Government that New Zealanders want to see the end of farrowing crates.

If you don't know...
National are acting like greedy little piggies – prioritising profits over animal welfare! Very not cool ☝️

They are trying to overturn the 2020 High Court ruling that found farrowing crates were unlawful under the Animal Welfare Act. So they provided a measly two week consultation window...clearly designed to suppress public input, and expert advice.

Hear me out:
While I don't eat meat...I'm not saying YOU don't eat meat.
I'm just saying that the least we can do is treat animals with respect as the (supposed) more evolved beings....

Submissions close at 5pm today!

Comment below, if you want to use what I've written, and jiggle it around a bit to make it your own...as you're short on time and won't make the deadline otherwise!

SAFE

19/10/2025

It's ADHD awareness month 🤗

And at OOMPH I attract neurodiverse people like....bees to honey.

NO! On second thoughts (as it typical for ADHDers)☝️

I actually attract neurodiverse people like bees to the Queen Bee!
Because as many of you will already know, I'm ADHD-AF!
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But as many of you don't know...having this type of brain is WAAAAAY more complicated than just having attention issues and hyperactivity. ADHD is an issue with self regulation — your thoughts, actions, behaviours, attention, and emotions.

And, while ADHD is ADHD...
It presents differently between the s*xes, and depends on your age, your personality, your intellect, your background, your environment, and your etc!

It also affects people across a spectrum of levels – you could simply have 'traits of' ADHD, or you could have ADHD to a mild, moderate, or severe degree. (With me being the latter, and what this means is that it greatly impairs the way I function in the world.)

FYI: I've nearly settled on what I think the new term for ADHD should be...but I'm still trying it out on my fellow ADHDers to see how they feel about it. I'll bust this out soon for further commentary 😋

https://lisasaidso.co.nz/well-sh_t/adhd-the-sudden-explosion-of-diagnoses/

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