The Centre For Functional Medicine & Gut Health

The Centre For Functional Medicine & Gut Health PERIMENOPAUSE + GUT HEALTH SPECIALIST
Helping women in their 40s stop feeling
exhausted
inflamed
overwhelmed
Functional labs • HTMA • DUTCH • CDSA4+

Sunshine Colonics Health & Wellness Centre is the Sunshine Coast's premier facility for cleansing and detoxing your entire body using the latest technology in Colon Hydrotherapy and Far Infrared Saunas.

08/08/2026

The beginning of an exciting new chapter 🫶🏻

07/08/2026

Last weekend, I had a disagreement with my eldest daughter.

We’d had a tricky evening out, I was feeling under-resourced, and as I was putting my girls to bed, I told her something I’d been carrying for a while.

I told her that everything in our family revolves around her. That every decision we make starts with making sure she gets to where she needs to be. That even her little sister misses out sometimes because we all put her first.

She didn’t hear me.

She cried. She raised her voice. She pushed back.

I walked away thinking she was projecting.

The next day, while we were wandering around the shops, she turned to me and said, “You were right, Mum.”

Without me saying another word, she told me she’d realised how much our family sacrifices for her. She apologised. She thanked me for showing her something she simply hadn’t seen before.

And in that moment, I realised something too.

She wasn’t projecting onto me.

She was responding to me.

To my nervous system.

To a mother who had walked into that conversation already carrying the weight of the day.

Had I taken five minutes to regulate myself first, I truly believe that conversation would’ve looked completely different.

It reminded me that our children don’t just listen to our words.

They feel our nervous system.

And if I want to continue creating the beautiful, open relationship I have with my girls, then it’s my responsibility to make sure I’m leading them from a body that feels safe, calm and deeply resourced.

Because healing ourselves doesn’t just change us.

It changes every relationship we’re part of.

🤍





You’ve been taking iron for months, you’ve tried every brand, had it with citrus, bone broth, eating more red meat.. and...
03/08/2026

You’ve been taking iron for months, you’ve tried every brand, had it with citrus, bone broth, eating more red meat.. and yet your labs still look like 💩

Here’s why: iron doesn’t move itself. Copper does that job.
No copper = no iron transport.
So your blood test shows full stores, yet still anaemia symptoms. Iron alone can’t fix a copper problem.

Now stack zinc on top, because every “immunity” supplement right now is loaded with it. Zinc and copper fight for the same door in. Push zinc up, copper drops - and copper’s also what clears histamine. Copper tanks, histamine climbs, and now you’re fatigued, foggy, itchy and wired all at once.
And all you were trying to do was ward off a cold!

And now….

Add perimenopause 😵‍💫
Estrogen swings drag copper stores around with it.
And now you’ve got the exact combo I keep seeing on hair testing: iron that won’t respond to supplements, histamine that makes you react to everything, energy levels that have tanked, a gut that feels ‘off’ and ‘yucky’ on the daily.

Nobody’s testing the ratio. Everyone’s guessing with iron and zinc and wondering why nothing sticks.

Comment HTMA and I’ll send you what my mineral testing actually shows me





3am wake ups. Exhausted but wired. Raging at your kids for nothing. Panicking. Shortness of breath. Feeling like the wor...
21/07/2026

3am wake ups. Exhausted but wired. Raging at your kids for nothing. Panicking. Shortness of breath. Feeling like the world is closing in on you, suffocating you, smothering you.
Everything gets LOUD. Relentless.

You’ve been told it’s stress. Told it’s age. Told it’s just what happens now.

It’s not. It’s your minerals. Your hormones. Your metabolism. Your nervous system - all screaming for years and nobody’s actually looked.

I find what your body is screaming for, so that you finally know it’s not you, it’s repairable, and it definitely isn’t a jail sentence.

You don’t have to feel like you’re suffering anymore.
I give you the map so that you get to give your body exactly what it’s craving, and wake up rested, satiated, clear, and turned the hell on by life 🔥

Comment TEST and I’ll send you the link 🫶🏻





I am turning 40 next month, and when I say I’ve never felt healthier in my entire life, BELIEVE ME!I’m not gate keeping ...
20/07/2026

I am turning 40 next month, and when I say I’ve never felt healthier in my entire life, BELIEVE ME!
I’m not gate keeping my secrets, I want everyone to know so they can feel this good too!

I swear by coffee enemas numerous times a week, this isn’t a secret, I share this with you guys alllll the time.
Wild Yam cream before bed, and what I left out was that I usually apply my castor oil pack as well. Not only do I sleep deeper but I also have the easiest early morning toilet stop! Obsessed with waking up and feeling lighter and without bloating 😍
My supplement regime is easy; spore based probiotic (comment spore if you want to know the science behind why I always use a spore based), Therapure meno support because I honestly feel level and energetic when I take them daily.
Lymphatic stimulation is a MUST to help the body eliminate the excess hormone and cortisol debris we experience during perimenopause and menopause. I don’t have a manual therapist rubbing my tum like I do to my clients (😭) so I use my fancy machine to do it. Bonus is I get to liquify dormant fat cells and eliminate those too 🙌🏻 (comment LYMPH if you want to stimulate your detox pathways AND lose belly fat)

THENNNN we have the holy grail. My HTMA protocol. This literally changed my life. 18 months in and I will never not specifically target my body’s minerals. My body now gets what it needs at a cellular level, I know exactly what it requires from my nutrition, and not only am I softening my adrenal and metabolic demands which softens my nervous system load, but I’m also repairing years of adrenal and thyroid fatigue which lead to broken pathways and poor neuro response.

So to break it down for you, I feel like superwoman!
I’m the calmest and most rational I have ever been, I have an incredibly deep and nourishing relationship with my two daughters. I have a STELLAR relationship with food 🤤 (no food noise, no binging, no shame) and my energy levels are dependable and consistent.
All in all, this 40 year old bod feels elite 💁🏻‍♀️

If you’re ready to quit the guessing game and want to set your body up for true success, comment TEST and I’ll send you my protocol 🫶🏻

17/07/2026

A huge part of the work I do, is softening your “I’m the only one who can do it” and your “I’ve got to control the narrative” attitude. Here’s why 👇🏼

It’s not your natural emotional response, it’s your involuntary nervous system response, based on years of condition your body to think that allowing someone else to take control is unsafe.

From the littlest things like, someone else doing the groceries for you and getting the wrong things. Or folding and putting away the laundry to only find it’s been out away wrong. These seemingly small, inconsequential things are LOUD AF to the nervous system of a busy woman, carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders, with the added blow of perimenopause or menopause.

Sounds stupid right? It’s not your fault. Your stress response has spiked your cortisol, and eventually your estrogen has followed the same trajectory. Both break down into toxic molecules, meaning your liver has to work harder and is likely struggling with the load. Now histamine starts to follow the trend and your body is reacting to random foods and products like it never has before. The extra layer here? More histamine leads to more estrogen production! So now the viscous cycle continues.
All the while, more estrogen means less progesterone. Progesterone production is suppressed. So the hormone we need to feel love, to feel appreciated, to make heart to heart connections, is gone.
Estrogen is an excitant molecule, meaning more go go go messages.
Progesterone is a relaxant, working like magnesium to soothe and slow the nervous system.
Can you see the pattern?
More stress -> more toxic waste -> more isolation -> less relaxation -> less love -> less connection

This is your body, influencing your emotions, influencing your nervous system, influencing your ability to feel love, gratitude, appreciation and connection.
This is the result of a body out of regulation for decades.
This isn’t your a conscious decision.
This isn’t your fault.
This doesn’t have to be your reality moving forward.

Comment or DM me PEACE if you’d like to unravel your body’s unregulated hormones and emotions and step into a life of calm

“Your bloods are fine”Cool. Then why do I feel like s**t?This is the thing about ‘normal’ bloodwork - it checks the basi...
15/07/2026

“Your bloods are fine”
Cool. Then why do I feel like s**t?

This is the thing about ‘normal’ bloodwork - it checks the basics, but it doesn’t check your minerals, your stress hormones, your detox capabilities, or what your body’s been burning through to keep you upright through perimenopause and everyday life.

That’s where HTMA (hair tissue mineral analysis) comes in. It’s usually the first time a woman finally sees, in black and white, why her gut health, hormones and emotions have been so off - even when every blood test came back ‘fine’.

If you’ve been told your bloods are fine but you feel like hell, DM me HTMA and I’ll walk you through it 🫶🏻





12/07/2026

I was going to get all sciencey here butttt it’s Sunday night and who can be bothered with that right?
So here’s a quick snippet of what you’ve gotta know to understand that your rage isn’t a factory fault 👇🏼

Estrogen fluctuates = body now doesn’t know how to handle glucose

The result?

Bigger glucose swings.
More insulin.
More crashes.

And when blood glucose drops too quickly, your brain doesn’t just sit back and watch.

It signals for adrenaline and cortisol to be released to bring glucose back into circulation.

Suddenly you’re irritable.
Your patience disappears.
You’re anxious.
You’re craving sugar.
Everything feels LOUD

This is why I never look at hormones in isolation.

I want to understand what insulin is doing.
What your nervous system is doing.
What your minerals are doing.
Because they’re all having a conversation with each other.
You’re just not in the group chat.

When we stop chasing symptoms and start understanding the physiology underneath them, that’s when the real work begins.

The bonus is no more raging and no more food noise.

Comment PEACE and let’s start looking below the surface 🫶🏻





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