"Estelle strives to teach people that changing their diet can reduce symptoms of chronic conditions and improve life quality."
Improving your nutritional status is one of the corners for a healthy life. Food has a powerful impact on your daily performance. Sometimes little tweaks can make a radical shift in how you look, feel and perform. In other cases, a complete shift in approach is required for a short to medium period to achieve a particular outcome.
Nutrition
To assist with personalised treatment planning, I use functional pathology testing as part of my evidence-based approach to integrative care in conjunction with your conventional medical care.
My aim is to work within your constraints and make your life easier not harder.
Focus areas include:
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Longevity
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Blood test interpretation and optimisation
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Stress Management
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Chronic Fatigue
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Recurring Infections
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Exercise Performance
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Digestive Disorders: IBS, IBD, SIBO
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Ketogenic Diet
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Diabetes
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Autoimmune conditions.
One-on-one nutrition consultations
The first appointment entails a comprehensive case assessment including a detailed health history, current health condition, dietary intake and lifestyle. Together, we detail a course of action that suits your personality, your work and personal life commitments, and preferences. Some people prefer an all-or-nothing approach while others need to take smaller steps to reduce overwhelm. Allow 90 minutes for the initial appointment.
Follow-up consultations
These help to keep you accountable and on track. What gets measured, gets managed. Hurdles and obstacles are identified. Adjustments are made to help stay on course. Allow 60 minutes for follow-up appointments.
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Clarifying goals
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Strategy planning with achievable timeline
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Personalised and detailed dietary and nutrition targets
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Lifestyle recommendations
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Personalised supplementation, if needed
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Functional laboratory testing, if needed
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Referral to specialists, if needed.
MY WHY
I became interested in the power of nutrition after suffering chronic heartburn symptoms for months. The prescribed PPI did not relieve the symptoms in the first place and secondly, I was not willing to take a pill every day for the rest of my life. To cut a long story short, a change in diet brought symptom relief in days. Although to completely heal my gut symptoms, I needed two courses of detailed protocol that included highly specific antibiotics.
I point this out to illustrate that I am by no means discounting the importance of conventional medication. My hope is that conventional medicine practitioners will more and more recognise the value and contribution that diet can play in the cause and resolution of many chronic conditions.
The field of nutrition research has a reputation for inconsistency and conflicting messages. Everyone is familiar with the cycle of “eggs are good – eggs are bad – and back to eggs are bad”. The media push for eating less meat is never ending. At the same time there is a crisis of insufficient iron levels of across all population groups. A low iron status not only leads to fatigue, poor sport and work performance but also increase the risk for early osteoporosis.
Estelle strives to teach people that changing their diet can reduce symptoms of chronic conditions and improve life quality.
As a registered clinical nutritionist Estelle strives to help people tailor their diet for their individual needs. She has a particular interest in longevity, muscle building, exercise performance, digestive health, chronic disease and stress management.