Gut Restoration
Gut Restoration
When I first came to hear about the concept of “personalised gut restoration”, my approach towards dietary advice changed and has never been the same since. The reason I first became involved in helping clients with their unique gut health goals was because there are so many one-size-fits-all fads out there, many of which cause more harm to someone’s health than you can imagine.
After dedicated research and science-based training, understanding how personalised gut restoration advice works gave me the opportunity to safely help busy professional women to improve their gut nutrition and to meet their health goals.
The science behind personalised gut restoration advice is incredibly extensive and is focused on the individual. There is a great deal to communicate to you about it than what I will have a chance to get down in this document, but please take the time to understand the basics.
If you embark on a personalised plan with me, there will be a lot more information that I will be sharing with you – primarily about you. In the meantime, please accept my assurances that reading this will be worth it.
There is a secret that those of us who keep up to date with the latest science know: When it comes to nutrition, what works for one person, has little to no effect on a second person, and can actually make a third person worse.
Promoters of popular diets encounter this scenario at some point: They read something out there and how it was successful in helping people. They put it forward to a client and it works wonderfully, but then when recommending the same protocol to another client, they discover that it fails.
The problem is: many people follow “hear-say” or recommend what worked for them (which may not work for someone else), leaving out the person’s unique situation and nutrient needs. Most of us can relate to this. It is exactly the same experience of the person wanting to try a specific diet because it helped to reduce their friends stomach bloating, only to find that it causes her to have worse diarrhoea instead! It is a tremendous irony that we find ourselves amongst an extraordinary information overload with the internet and social media.
However, instead of bringing greater clarity, we find the confusion only deepening. More books and websites than ever before are available on diet and nutrition. Yet, everywhere we look, we find contradictions. One gut health “expert” says one thing; another “expert” says just the opposite. Information is at our fingertips, but what does it mean in terms of practical application in an individual case? Where is the framework or the reference point from which sense can be made of the virtually endless stream of seemingly unrelated and contradictory pieces of information? It is not possible to offer one single gut restoration protocol for everyone. Why? Because everyone’s biochemistry is different. Even between people within the same family and with similar genetics.
There is no “universal” diet plan that is right for absolutely everyone. And that’s actually good news. It means that we need to look at the individual and evaluate what works for that individual specifically. For that reason, scientific research is moving towards a more individualised approach, and the primary application of personalised gut restoration has been formulated into specific evaluation systems and proprietary methodologies developed by leading scientists and researchers at The Health Sciences Academy whom I had the privilege to learn from.
To achieve your gut restoration goals, you must give your body the specific foods and nutrients that are inherently necessary to you and your current metabolism, and have a tailored plan that works for (and not against) your body.
As a Certified Gut Restoration Nutritional Advisor, I utilise science-based tools made available to my clients in order to evaluate digestive symptoms, pinpoint the unique needs of each individual, eliminate and reintroduce foods without increasing nutrient deficiency risk and provide personalised nutritional and lifestyle strategies to support their gut restoration journey.
If you would like to join me for this programme, please complete Your Personal Gut Restoration Strategy Questionnaire attached in my email and return it to me at your earliest convenience. I would be delighted to help you with your personal gut health goals!
8 session Gut Restoration Success Programme Structure
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In this session you will complete a Health Check Questionnaire. You will also complete a Personal Gut Health Strategy Questionnaire. This will explore your current dietary habits and how your gut health impacts on your day to day living.
We will discuss your gut discomfort, post-meal discomfort and gain your informed consent to carry out the programme.
This session is all about diet analysis. We will get down to the nitty gritty of what you’re eating. Using this information will provide the opportunity to investigate what issues you are experiencing related to different foods. This will also cover a food inventory check, a 24- hour food recall and advice about how the programme can help to repair gut health.
In this session we will look at removing excess foods in your diet and will plan out the changes you can make to help remove unpleasant gut symptoms. We will discuss your completed symptom and food monitor, your daily calorific needs and we will complete a Western Diet Workbook.
We will explore what stresses you are exposed to and what tools you can implement to eliminate stress in your life. WE will do a stress identification audit and a stress eating assessment.
This session will also include an Alcohol habits evaluation and a medication risk checklist.
Finally, we will look at a food swap guide which will help you to make healthier choices with eating.
This session explores a 2- week elimination diet including removing gluten and dairy foods if deemed appropriate.
We will develop a “Happy gut” shopping list and brainstorm meal preparation ideas.
In this session we will review any changes to your health or gut symptoms. We will hopefully be able to celebrate any achievements since the last session.
We will then look at reintroducing one food at a time using a Food Reintroduction Planner and/or a Rotation Diet Guide.
This session is a Repopulating and Replacing session. We will discuss how you have coped with either reintroducing foods or rotating foods.
We will also discuss a weekly physical activity evaluation to help motivate you to try more exercise.
Hooray! You have almost completed your Gut restoration programme. We will explore the changes you have made to your diet, investigate restorative gut nutrient sources including a plant-based deficiency corrector.
We will also explore your Happy Gut Shopping List and re-do the Post-meal discomfort Evaluation.
We will discuss the progress made through the programme and look at possible new goals.
