Metabolic Health

As a Naturopath, I believe in the body’s inherent capacity to heal itself, given the right support, and I look for the underlying imbalances.

I am trained in a variety of modalities. The ones I work with the most are nutrition and diet, herbal medicines, mineral rebalancing, stress management, a healthy preventative lifestyle with a focus on pro-metabolic wellness. 

My approach is wholistic, which means I pay attention to your whole body and your lifestyle, diet, stress, how much sunlight you are getting, the environment you live in and how much you sleep. 

Many people who come to me want to lose weight, but also have long term disordered eating patterns through calorie restriction, binge eating, trying different extreme diets that demonise things like carbs, sugar, fat or dairy. One of the most important things in my approach is to make sure you are well nourished, because calorie restricting diets may lose you weight in the short term but may also lose you muscle, bone density, a healthy metabolic rate, and suck the joy out of your life!

Many women live on low calories, low carb or intermittently fast in order to manage their weight, and this eventually results in a lot of stress on the body, a down-regulated metabolism, and messed up hormones including thyroid, adrenal and reproductive. 

A healthy, well nourished metabolism can self correct a lot of health issues and will normalise its weight, to what is normal and healthy for you, which might not look like the magazines. An unhealthy metabolism cannot self correct no matter how many supplements you throw at it, it simply won’t be able to metabolise them. So I like working on the foundations, because then the specific health issues are much easier to work with.