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Hello, I’m Nore Hoogstad. Nutritional Therapy is the science of cell health. When the needs of your cells are not met, disease sets in.

Women’s health & menopause specialist💖
I help women balance hormones, lose weight, & regain energy & confidence💫
Natural medicine • Fasting (FLAG certified) • Gut health🌿
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https://calendly.com/gutsybynutrition/healthassess I am a…

– Functional Nutritional Therapist (targeted nutrition and lifestyle)

– Restorative Wellness Practitioner (functional lab testing in gut health, hormones, thyroid, blood chemistry and organic acid testing)

– Functional Genomic Nutrition Consultant (how YOUR genes are impacting your health)

– Functional Medicine student (SAFM)

– HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis) Practitioner

– Certified Gluten-Free Practitioner

– Integrative Health Coach | Transformation Life Coach |Psych-K Facilitator

– Yoga Teacher

I empower my clients to live the life they were meant to live by balancing their health using research-based personalised programs. By helping people become healthier, I hope to make the world not just a healthier place, but a calmer and happier one that’s more in tune with its environment.

21/09/2026

🧂Bloating and fluid retention get blamed on "too much salt" more often than they get properly investigated.

⏳ The reasons shift across the decades...

– While cycling, the interplay between oestrogen and progesterone in the second half of the cycle changes how much sodium and water the body holds onto.
– In our forties, it's often less about "oestrogen dominance" and more about the volatility created as progesterone drops away faster than oestrogen.
– Blood sugar rarely gets mentioned in this conversation, and it matters at every stage. Glucose pulls water with it, glycogen stores bind several times their weight in water, and insulin separately signals the kidneys to hold onto sodium.
– After menopause, the picture becomes more structural — vessel flexibility and lymphatic flow decline as oestrogen drops.

💫If this sounds familiar and the cause has never quite been found, that's usually a sign the right questions haven't been asked yet

Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 💫🤙😀🪷💃🏼

20/09/2026

🧀 That mucus-in-the-throat feeling after dairy is not "just one of those things."

🥛 There's a direct mechanism behind it - a compound released from casein during digestion, BCM-7, binds to opioid receptors and switches on mucus-producing cells — a mechanical trigger, not only an immune response working in the background.

😲 Also worth knowing - struggling to digest lactose and reacting to casein are not the same thing, yet they get lumped together constantly.

‼️ An estimated 65–70% of people worldwide have trouble with lactose past childhood — most of the human race, really — and it comes down to a specific genetic change some populations picked up and others didn't.

‼️ Casein has its own version of this story: the enzyme the body has as a baby to break it down fades away by adulthood for almost everyone, no genetic change required. A true allergy to casein itself — the immune system reacting, not just a struggle to digest it — is much rarer: under 3% of children, and less than 1% of adults.

🦠 A gut lining under strain, a histamine load already close to threshold, and a microbiome fermenting undigested lactose all add further layers on top of that direct mechanism.

💪 Working on the terrain rather than just removing the food is where the real shift happens — gut lining support, functional testing to identify what's actually driving the reaction, and managing total histamine load rather than dairy in isolation.

💫 Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 🤙😀🪷💃🏼

18/09/2026

🤯 Stress is not only in the mind. It is stored in the body — in tight shoulders, shallow breath, a gut that never quite settles, and chronic illness when things should be improving.

Most stress advice stops at breathing exercises and to-do lists 😲

Very useful for some, but for others in fight and flight, it can be triggering or just not enough 😟

❤️‍🩹 Deeper healing means going past the thinking layer, into the parts of the nervous system that hold old patterns and beliefs.

🧠 Our deeper layer is the subconscious mind — the autopilot beliefs and patterns our nervous system runs on, often formed long before conscious memory.

🦋 Psych-K works at that level, helping shift outdated programming so our body is not stuck bracing for a threat long after the original event has passed. Healing that lasts has to include this layer, not just visible symptoms.

🙌 This is a piece that can be forgotten in stress conversations. It's rarely about willpower, and more often about rewiring what the body has learned to expect.

15/09/2026

🥀 Recurrent bacterial vaginosis is one of the most common frustrations, and one of the most misunderstood, especially when a protocol has already worked once and didn't hold.

🧫 Symptom relief and biofilm eradication are two different things - the biofilm Gardnerella and its associates build on the vaginal wall is structurally hard to reach, whatever approach is used against it.

😣 Add in a ...
– no biofilm removal
– hormonal pattern that isn't being tracked
– no active reseeding of protective bacteria after treatment
– partner question that the research itself has recently flipped on, a partner's nutritional status ie zinc, in particular, is a natural antibacterial factor in semen
– hormonal contraception's own nuanced effects on nutrient levels and the gut.. and it's easy to see why a protocol that worked before doesn't always hold the second time.

🌸 A ROOT-CAUSE approach like I use means mapping the whole pattern behind the recurrence - hormonal, microbial, and immune - rather than repeating the same plan and hoping.

🪷 If this cycle sounds familiar, it's worth understanding what's actually driving it. Book a FREE call here to see if I can help YOU https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 🤙😀💃🏼

14/09/2026

💙 No one warns you that being sick is exhausting in two very different ways.

1. There's the illness itself — the fatigue, the brain fog, the pain that moves around and never quite makes sense.

2. And there's the second job — explaining it, over and over, to people who've already decided it's probably anxiety.

For example...

🩵 Normal bloods. Normal scans. "Have you tried more sleep?"

🩵 The gap between how unwell the body feels and what standard testing can see isn't proof that nothing is wrong. Often it's proof the test wasn't looking for the right thing — mould exposure, histamine load, oxalate burden, and gut dysfunction rarely show up on a basic panel, even when they're driving the whole picture.

💙 Being dismissed or disbelieved is its own kind of exhausting. It shouldn't be part of getting well.

Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 💫🤙😀🪷💃🏼

13/09/2026

🌸 A Lichen Sclerosis (LS) diagnosis often comes with a sense of uncertainty, hopelessness and helplessness. It can be scary and devastating even. I know I felt like that.

🧩 But that's not the whole picture.

🖇️ LS doesn't exist in isolation — it exists within a body that has its own inflammatory load, gut environment, stress response, and sleep patterns, and all of these things play a role.

💦 An anti-inflammatory way of eating, gut health support, nervous system regulation, being a healthy weight, consistent sleep and gentle movement give the body a better environment in which to manage inflammation. While the cream/s you were given are important, they're not the only thing you can do.

🧩 For many women, that missing piece — the part nobody explained — makes a real difference to how flares show up and how often.

💫 If this sounds familiar, book a FREE 20-minute call and tell me your story here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 🤙😀🪷💃🏼

10/09/2026

🛌 Told your iron is 'fine' but restless legs keep interrupting your sleep?

🥼The research on this is more layered than most people realise — brain iron can run low while standard bloods look normal, that shortage changes the motor circuits controlling leg movement during rest.

🥼Pregnancy, B12/folate status, thyroid function, nerve and circulatory health, and gut inflammation can all play a role too.

🙋🏼‍♀️ There's a clear starting point though — proper ferritin testing, evening caffeine and alcohol reduction, consistent sleep routines, and addressing gut inflammation where relevant.

🩸Standard iron and nutrient bloodtesting ranges may not give the full picture.

💫 Check out my blog for more detailed information, or book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review via my bio link 🤙😀🪷💃🏼

08/09/2026

🥗 I love a new salad, and I haven't posted any recipes for ages. So here's my latest favourite, inspired by my daughter in law.

😋 While I'm all about feeding the gut healthy fibre, along with disease-fighting anti-oxidants for general health, I believe food also needs to taste (and look) great too!

💫 You can find the recipe on my website via my bio link or here OR at gutsybynutrition.com.au/recipes 😀🪷💃🏼

06/09/2026

😵‍💫 Dysautonomia is what happens when the autonomic nervous system — the one running heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, and temperature without conscious input — stops regulating properly.

🔗 It's not a single condition. It's a description of a system malfunctioning, and it rarely arrives on its own. For many chronically unwell women it shows up alongside hypermobile EDS, mast cell activation, mould illness and CIRS, long-COVID, or autoimmune disease. Different labels, the same dysregulated system underneath.

🥼 Part of what makes it so difficult to get a handle on is that the symptoms scatter. Digestion to one specialist, heart rate to another, temperature and blood pressure swings to a third — and nobody is looking at the network as a whole. Which is exactly where the pattern lives.

🌳 Root-cause work takes time. In the meantime there are physical strategies that help stabilise a flare — crossing and tensing the legs at the first sign of lightheadedness, getting horizontal with legs elevated rather than pushing through, increasing sodium and fluids ahead of known triggers.

Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 💫🤙😀🪷💃🏼

03/09/2026

😮‍💨 Can't get a satisfying breath — even though your oxygen reads completely normal?

😟 This is air hunger. And it is one of the most dismissed symptoms in complex chronic illness — because the numbers look fine, so it gets attributed to anxiety.

❌ It isn't.

🧠 It's a brain-generated sensation driven by a specific set of overlapping physiological mechanisms — POTS and dysautonomia driving hyperventilation and CO2 loss, histamine and mast cell activation narrowing the airways, mould illness priming mast cells and dysregulating the nervous system simultaneously.

✅ The most evidence-supported starting point is breathing retraining — nasal, slow, diaphragmatic breathing. In a study of 100 POTS patients, 97% reported reduced breathing symptoms after this approach.

🙋🏼‍♀️ But retraining alone won't resolve it if the underlying drivers are still active such as mould. I know this from personal experience (see slide 3).

I give a full breakdown in my latest blog post on my website, which you can access via my bio

💫 Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 🤙😀🪷💃🏼

*This is educational content — not medical advice. Seek assessment for new or worsening breathing symptoms.

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