Joanna Francisco - Naturopath, Certified GAPS Coach

11/19/2025

My hobby, love language, super power:

Presenting Loaded Baked Potato Soup - but no potatoes (carb, starch, not a GAPS food), no bacon (beef instead = biblically clean). This recipe includes gut healing chicken stock, cauliflower, onion, beef “bacon” bits (homemade…it’s all in the seasonings & cooking technique), and probiotic crème fraiche.

I love to take delicious recipes and modify them to make them GAPS-friendly and biblically clean. The other day I made a “sausage” casserole. To pull it off, I simply seasoned my beef as if I were making sausage from scratch. Endless possibilities. Happiness. Healthy gut. 🥰

11/19/2025

11/18/2025

Everyone should have activated charcoal on hand.

11/17/2025

Reach out if you’d like to make this with me in December 🧡♥️🤎

11/17/2025

Making Spiced AppleKraut…Yum! 🦠

11/11/2025

Make your home a place for healing.

A healthy home = a healthy you 🏡✨
Removing toxins from your space—like harsh cleaners, synthetic fragrances, and plastics—is one of the best first steps toward better health. Your home should be a place of healing, not hidden chemicals. Start small, swap wisely, and watch how much lighter you feel 🌿💧

10/23/2025

08/21/2025

Unsafe practice.

It’s not just about the senselessness of injecting toxins into the body to prevent acute illness (a detoxification event). Parents need to be equipped with the knowledge of HOW the body works to understand why we would never want to undermine that essential process! What we’ve been led to believe are problems (symptoms that need to be suppressed) are in reality the mechanisms by which accumulated waste is eliminated. It’s not in your child’s best interest to get in the way of what the body needs to do to survive and thrive.

There’s a reason childhood chronic illness rates are exploding.

07/25/2025

You cannot make store-bought (factory produced) cereal into an acceptable food…dyes are only one aspect of the problem with boxed cereals. The extrusion process denatures what started out as food (grain) for the sake of uniformity and shelf-life. You can currently purchase foods that don’t have synthetic dyes, but if they are denatured foods, that’s hardly an improvement - that “food” will not serve you and can even cause harm. You CAN make homemade cereal that is not as damaging. I’ll post a link to a recipe. *Cereal is not on the GAPS Intro diet.

Learn about boxed cereal here: https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-foods/dirty-secrets-of-the-food-processing-industry/

07/16/2025

06/10/2025

Fertility

The guest was asked for the one thing she would recommend people do to improve their health, and especially their fertility. Her answer:

“I’m going to say cook more food at home. That way, you have control of the ingredients and the quality of the oil. It costs a lot less. Arguably, the most important life skill that you can develop is the ability to cook whole, nourishing foods that taste good. It all starts in the kitchen.”

I agree so much with that. For me it’s a matter of taking back the power that our grandmothers and great grandmothers before had, power that has been largely lost in our culture.

Seeing people having fertility issues was one of the top reasons I entered this field. How your food is raised, selected, and prepared dramatically affects your state of health, including your fertility. If you’re struggling in this area, I’d love the opportunity to share information, resources, and techniques with you.

Lily Nichols, Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist and author, offers nutrition and lifestyle advice for boosting fertility and improving egg and s***m quality.

06/07/2025