The Natural Health Clinic

05/11/2025

🍭 Why sugar steals your healing time 🍭

It’s not about willpower.
Willpower fades — especially when you’re tired, stressed, or running on empty.

And that’s because sugar isn’t just a craving… it’s chemistry.

When you eat sugar (even the “healthy” kind hiding in sauces, cereals, and smoothies), your blood sugar spikes, insulin surges, and your body flips from healing mode to survival mode.

That means:
➡️ Your body stores inflammation and fat instead of repairing.
➡️ Your hormones go nuts.
➡️ Your liver, pancreas, and adrenals get overwhelmed.
➡️ And the cravings? They come back stronger.

So when you try to “just cut sugar” without also adding enough protein, minerals, and real food, your blood sugar crashes… and your body will do anything to get it back up again.
It’s not a weakness — it’s biology.

✨ Healing takes time — sugar just takes more of it. ✨

Start with one less sweet thing a day, BUT continue that habit.

💚 Add protein to every meal — meat, eggs, nuts, seeds, chicken, fish, lentils etc
💚 Swap fizzy drinks or juices for sparkling water with lemon and a few drops of stevia for sweetness.

👉You’ll feel the difference.
Energy improves.
Cravings decrease.
That 3pm brain fog starts to fade.

🍃 Healing isn’t about giving up everything you love,
but it is about changing habits that got you into trouble in the first place.🩷

If you’re ready to find out which foods are helping you heal —
and which ones are holding you back (and any other barriers to healing) —
that’s exactly what I uncover through Nutrition Response Testing™.

04/11/2025

✨Your body’s been trying to talk to you — it’s just done being polite.🤣

💙 Supporting your small intestine (so it can finally support you) 💙

Your body’s not trying to make your life difficult — it’s trying to get your attention.

Bloating, gas, the mid-afternoon crash… those are messages, not malfunctions.🧐

👉The trouble is, most of us don’t listen until the communication gets too loud to ignore.

Your small intestine does more work than it gets credit for — absorbing nutrients, filtering irritants, and communicating with every system in the body.

When it’s inflamed or under-nourished, it can’t do those jobs well,
and your body finds other ways to send the memo. (Usually uncomfortable ones.)

Here’s how to help it out:

💗 Soothe the lining with slippery elm or L-glutamine
💚 Rebuild tissues with vitamin A and vitamin C
💛 Support digestion with apple cider vinegar, digestive bitters (I often use MediHerb's Digest Forte), or HCL if needed
💙 Balance your gut flora with the right probiotics, at the right time

Your body is brilliant. It knows how to heal.
Your job is to find out what’s blocking that ability — and remove the interference.

✨ Nutrition Response Testing™ helps identify those blocks so your body can get back to doing what it already knows best: healing.

04/11/2025

Yum😊
Some leftover mince and an egg on top -delicious

This 3-Ingredient Breakfast Skillet is hearty, flavorful and so quick to make! Using just 3 common ingredients you likely have on hand, you can have yourself a unique weekday breakfast that everyone will love! It’s also gluten-free, dairy-free and Whole30 friendly!

31/10/2025

👉Some meals leave you full — others leave you with a racing heart.

💜 Ever eat something and feel your heart start racing?

In Chinese medicine, the small intestine and heart are paired — one absorbs nutrients, the other circulates them.

So when absorption’s off, your heart doesn’t get the nourishment it needs to fuel the rest of your body.

That can show up as fatigue, weakness, light-headedness, or that tired-but-wired feeling that just doesn’t budge.

You might also notice your heart rate or blood pressure changing after meals — racing, skipping, or dropping for no clear reason.

If a food irritates your gut, the reaction doesn’t stay put — it can ripple out and affect your pulse, heart rate, and even blood pressure.

💫 Some people notice their heart pound after eating, others feel faint or dizzy.

I did too — back when I thought I was being healthy with my “organic steel-cut oats.” Turns out, oats weren’t my friend after all.😫

In fact, one old way to check for food reactions was called the pulse test — you’d measure your pulse after eating.

If it sped up, it suggested your body was reacting to that food. It’s well known that many food sensitivities can affect the heart this way.

If you’re feeling bloated, tired, or notice your heart racing after certain foods, your body’s trying to tell you something.

✨ Nutrition Response Testing™ helps uncover what’s really irritating your body — so you can start feeling like yourself again.

30/10/2025

🩷 This is an oldy but a goodie 🩷

After months of itchy, stinging lips, this client finally found relief once we identified her “weak” foods and chlorine sensitivity

This always makes me laugh 🤣🤣

👉" I will recommend you to all of my itchy friends."

29/10/2025

❗McGlashen Avenue Roadworks Update❗

If you’re heading to your appointment this week, please allow extra time —

McGlashen Ave is currently one-way (toward the Richmond Deviation) and there’s no entry from SH6 until Friday 7 Nov.

Traffic is heavier than usual, so plan a few extra minutes to arrive on time.

McGlashen Ave is currently one-way (toward the Richmond Deviation) until Friday 7 Nov, and there’s no entry from SH6 or Gladstone Rd.

Detours are signposted, and all businesses remain open during this time.

Please allow a few extra minutes when coming to your appointment — I’m fully booked and can’t extend sessions if you arrive late, which may mean we’ll need to reschedule.

— thank you for understanding 💚

28/10/2025

💛 When your small intestine’s inflamed 💛

👉If your jeans fit in the morning but you’re undoing your top button by 3 p.m. — read this. 😅

When your small intestine gets irritated, everything just feels worse.
One day you can eat something and it’s fine — the next, same food, total disaster.

It starts to feel like your gut’s out to get you 😂

Food sensitivities, yeast or bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), parasites, or even everyday chemicals can all create inflammation and excess mucus along the intestinal wall.

And when that happens, your body absorbs fewer nutrients like B12, iron, and folate — but more of the toxins made by those microorganisms. Not ideal.

💬 One client thought she was making a healthy snack choice with popcorn.
Turns out, corn was one of her main triggers — causing bloating, skin breakouts, and fatigue.😫

I’ve seen others swap cow’s milk for oat milk (thinking it’s better) or replace potatoes with kumara — only to find those were the foods actually irritating their gut.

Bloating, fatigue, or that “I react to everything” feeling aren’t your body trying to annoy you. 💫

They’re signals — your gut’s irritated and struggling to cope.
It’s your body’s way of saying: change something… or else. 😅

✨ Nutrition Response Testing™ helps find why it’s irritated — so your body can start absorbing, repairing, and running like it should again.

27/10/2025

❗❗No bloating doesn’t mean your not reacting to foods💫

I've heard this a few times this week:

👉“I used to react to wheat, but now I’m fine.”🧐
Yet they're still struggling with fatigue, mood swings, headaches, or hormone problems.

Food reactions don’t always affect the gut. They can annoy other systems — and for many women, it’s the thyroid that cops it.🫣

Today I tested a new client with anxiety, hormone imbalance and fatigue.

Her thyroid came up as her body’s main priority.
👉Before supporting it with good supplements, I asked the key question we always ask in Nutrition Response Testing 💛

Is there anything stopping it from healing properly?

Here’s what we check for:

💜 Foods triggering inflammation
💜 Hidden infections (like old glandular fever viruses etc)
💜 Metal or chemical toxins
💜 Nutrient deficiencies that need supporting
💜 Scars causing interference

Once those are handled, then the thyroid can do its job much easier.
Otherwise, it’s like trying to grow flowers in a garden full of weeds 🌸

25/10/2025

💨😂 Ever feel like everything you eat turns into air? (And not the good kind.)
💗 You can eat well… and still be malnourished. 💗

Do you know where most of your nutrient absorption actually happens?
It’s not in your stomach — it’s in your small intestine. 🌿

At around six to seven metres long, it’s lined with tiny finger-like projections called villi that create a huge surface area — helping your body absorb nutrients efficiently… as long as everything’s working well.

When this area gets irritated — through food sensitivities, bacterial overgrowth, or everyday toxins — absorption drops.

You can eat really well and still miss key nutrients like B12, iron, and folate.😫

Sometimes, you can appear to be doing all the right things but still feel tired, bloated, or “off,” and it might not be what you’re eating, but what your body can’t absorb. 💫 The question is WHY?

💚 Nutrition Response Testing™ helps identify the blocks to your health, so your body can heal and function properly again.

24/10/2025

💫 It’s Not All in Your Head — and Here’s Why 💫

You’ve done all the tests.
Everything looks “normal.” 👏

But you’re still exhausted, foggy, or in pain.
Too tired to work. Too sore or drained to parent the way you want.
💙 And your quality of life is slipping away.

Too often, when results don’t explain the suffering, people are told it’s all in their head — or that it’s just part of getting older.

Unfortunately, history shows this phrase has dismissed genuine concerns before:

💫 Asthma — once thought to be psychosomatic
💫 Stomach ulcers — blamed on stress
💫 Epilepsy — seen as possession
💫 Autism — blamed on “refrigerator mothers”

Medicine has thankfully evolved.🙏
But many still fall through the cracks, especially when all their blood work and scans come back “normal.”

That’s where other approaches, like Nutrition Response Testing, can help reveal what’s being missed — helping to uncover what the body’s been trying to say all along.🩷

✨ Recently, a client burst into tears when her evaluation revealed what might be causing her severe pain.

Her body showed signs of a possible parasite issue creating gallbladder-like pain. Yet every medical test was normal.
She’d started to doubt herself — and couldn’t see a way forward.
After all, if nothing’s wrong, how do you improve it?

💜 The relief of finally finding answers was enormous — and so was the return of hope that she could do something about it.

She needed to stop eating a few specific foods and take some supplements to start handling the underlying causes.

We’ll also monitor her progress to make sure she continues improving.

💛 Just because current medical tests can’t see what’s wrong doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

Sometimes it just takes a different way of looking to find what’s really happening.🩷

22/10/2025

💫 Healthy on paper isn’t always healthy in your body
Listening to What Your Body’s Been Trying to Say 💙

Sometimes it’s overwhelming trying to figure out what you actually need to do to feel well again. 🍃

You think you’re eating well — but some of those “healthy” foods might actually be adding to the problem.

You try adrenal boosters, B-vitamins, beroccas… all the things that should help with your energy — and yet not much really changes.😫

At some point, you realise, I’ve done my best. I’ve followed the advice, googled it, and tried what’s worked for my friends…

But maybe it’s time to find out what your body needs so it can finally do its job — keeping you feeling good 💚, with steady energy ⚡, an immune system that does its job 💪, and digestion that actually works well.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting a short series on what hidden triggers might be contributing to your symptoms —
things that throw digestion off, tank your energy, and block nutrient absorption in your gut.

We’ll look at why your body can suddenly start reacting to foods you’ve eaten for years,
why “healthy swaps” like popcorn or oat milk can sometimes make symptoms worse,
and what your body might actually be trying to tell you when your digestion packs up.

I’m not promising quick fixes or any particular diet — just some ideas that may help you understand what’s going on,
so you can start working with your body instead of against it. 🩷

And ultimately, apart from being grateful for our health and caring for our bodies — symptoms shouldn’t be what consumes us. 💙

21/10/2025

🍃A nourished body copes better 🍃

✨When your body’s fed with the foods it thrives on and supported by the right supplements, it handles stress better, holds adjustments longer, and heals faster.

🩷Health isn’t always a straight line — sometimes the body reacts in unexpected ways as it finds balance.

That’s why we say anything can cause anything.

👉Your body’s always talking. Listen, and support it well.