Nutrition A - Z by Sandra Mikhail

Nutrition A - Z by Sandra Mikhail A fad-free hub of wellbeing advice focused on gut health, sports nutrition, food intolerance and all

"Healthy comes in different shapes and forms so
forget about a “one-size fits all” approach." Sandra Mikhail is an internationally-known accredited practising dietitian, the founder and director of Nutrition A-Z and co-founder of The Wellbeing Hub. She holds a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Monash University, Australia), a Master of Advanced Studies in Nutrition and Health (ETHZ) and is a member of the Dietitians Association of Australia. She is also currently part of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Sports Nutrition Program. Being a globe-trotting dietitian, she has extensive experience in clinical practice, nutrition consulting and health promotion, working in Australia, the UAE and Switzerland. Her main areas of specialty are digestive disease, sports nutrition and corporate health working with popular brands and partners such as the Swiss Football Club FCZ, She's Mercedes, Style, Adobe and Lululemon to name a few. As a mental health advocate, her workshops and articles on stress and nutrition have gained popularity internationally where she was personally invited by Arianna Huffington to contribute to her global platform Thrive and has appeared on CNN to talk about nutrition and stress in the workplace.

Most gut symptoms are not sinister. But some are and the ones that matter most are often the ones people sit on longest ...
09/09/2026

Most gut symptoms are not sinister. But some are and the ones that matter most are often the ones people sit on longest because they feel embarrassed or assume it will pass.⁠
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Occasional bloating, travel constipation, noisy digestion and heartburn after a heavy meal are worth understanding but rarely worth a GP appointment. ⁠
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Blood in your stool, persistent progressive bloating, unexplained weight loss, pain that wakes you at night and a significant change from your personal normal are a different category entirely.⁠
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Save this and share it with someone who needs permission to take their gut seriously.⁠⁠⁠

05/09/2026

“What big pharma doesn’t want you to know” is doing a lot of work in this slide, so let’s actually check it.

Turmeric may perform comparably to ibuprofen for knee osteoarthritis pain, in trials using specific absorption-enhanced formulations at specific doses over several weeks.

Berberine can match metformin’s effect on insulin resistance in small, short-term studies, but it’s an unregulated supplement with real drug interaction risks that never made the slide.

Zinc can shorten a cold, but only at high doses started within 24 hours and the most recent Cochrane review downgraded confidence in that evidence while flagging nausea as a common side effect.

Magnesium glycinate helps with sleep and cramps mainly in people who are actually deficient so, the general population evidence is weak.

The baking soda claim is the most solid of the five.

None of this is suppressed knowledge. It’s published, peer-reviewed and searchable by anyone in minutes. Framing it as forbidden information is simply a poor hook that you’ve fallen for.

What her reel doesn’t mention: this account belongs to someone who voluntarily let her board certification lapse and now practices Gerson therapy and ozone therapy, protocols with no credible evidence for treating serious disease. Gerson therapy specifically has been linked to patient deaths. Her program’s own disclaimer states it does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease and does not create a doctor-patient relationship.

⚠️Always, always, read the disclaimer - you’ll learn a lot about the person selling you 💩 by going through it.

03/09/2026

I’ve started sharing these micro-tips on a Thursday and decided to save them to go on the grid.

If you need to help a loved one learn how to spot a wellness wa**er online share this with them. 🫶🏼

29/08/2026

I have no idea if Oreogate is even real. It might be entirely fabricated for the internet’s amusement. But I’ve watched some version of this play out in real clinic rooms more times than I can count, so the details don’t really matter to me. The pattern does.

What I see far more often than the lunchbox drama itself is what happens quietly, years later. A woman in her thirties who still can’t eat something “indulgent” in front of other people without narrating it, apologising for it, or earning it first with a salad. That doesn’t start in adulthood. It starts with a five-year-old learning which foods make her a good kid and which ones don’t.

None of this is really about biscuits. It’s about whether food gets to just be food, or whether it becomes one more thing we’re quietly being graded on.

🎥For the full Oreo Saga

27/08/2026

Captions were missing for this one, sorry! Edits - get your act together! Anyway 👇

She won’t eat sushi because of parasites. She eats caviar. No dairy, no wheat, no spinach, no kale and the response on camera is “so you’re super healthy.”

This is what wellness wa**ery actually sounds like when it’s said with enough confidence. Each restriction gets its own scientific-sounding reason, but the reasons don’t have to be consistent with each other, because nobody’s checking. Raw fish and raw fish roe carry comparable handling risks, so the parasite fear applied to one and waived for the other isn’t a food safety rule.

The same pattern runs through the rest of the list. A long string of eliminated foods, delivered with certainty and validated instantly as “ super healthy” not because the reasoning was shown in this clip, but because restriction reads as discipline on camera. That’s the entire mechanism wellness wa**ery runs on and it works exactly as well on a podcast couch as it does in a carousel selling a program.

This is an excellent exhibit of what is so wrong with podcasts. Should hosts be held accountable? Let me know in the poll!

25/08/2026

Just a little reminder that when life gets too much, remember the little things. That’s what gets me through, and nature of course!

If I’m not by the water, you’ll find me in a forest or up in the mountains.

What do you do when things just get too much? Would love to know in the comments 👇

15/08/2026

This weight-loss program, built by an influencer who packages pseudoscience as physiology, deserves a proper unpacking. The full breakdown is in the reel — here’s why it matters though beyond the science.

Content built this way isn’t written for nutrition scientists. It’s written for the algorithm and for the follower base most likely to act on fear. That base is overwhelmingly women and a meaningful share of it is young girls still forming their entire relationship with food.

A carousel that says carbs are earned, insulin is the enemy, and entire food groups are dangerous is not neutral information landing on a neutral audience. It’s fear-based marketing, aimed at exactly the demographic least equipped to question it, funnelling into a program that sells carnivore- and keto-style restriction as the fix.

Nuanced science doesn’t usually end in a sales funnel.

**ery

10/08/2026

Fibermaxxing has the right idea but the ex*****on is where it tends to fall apart.

Increasing fibre intake is one of the most evidence-backed things you can do for your gut health, your microbiome, your blood sugar levels and your hormonal health. Most people are not eating enough so that part of the trend is worth taking seriously.

What gets missed is that fibre type is as important as fibre amount, that going from low to high intake overnight reliably causes bloating and discomfort and that variety across 30 different plant foods per week is more important for microbiome health than hitting a daily gram target with the same two foods on rotation.

If you have IBS, SIBO, or a sensitive gut — increasing highly fermentable fibres without guidance can actively worsen symptoms. More is not always better.

The right kind, gradually, with variety, is what the evidence supports.

Have you fibremaxxed?
Let us know in the comments👇

08/08/2026

“Your bloods are normal” is one of the most frustrating things a woman can hear when she knows something isn’t right and trust me, I have been there.

Standard blood panels are designed to detect disease, not to identify the functional suboptimal levels that leave you exhausted, foggy and running below capacity without being technically unwell.

Ferritin flagged as normal at 15 when the functional range for energy and hair health is closer to 50 to 100. Vitamin D thresholds set to prevent rickets rather than support immune function and mood. Magnesium that doesn’t show up reliably in serum at all. B12 that depletes slowly and gets missed until symptoms are advanced.

Normal is not the same as optimal. If your results came back fine but you still feel terrible, that is not a sign that nothing is wrong but a sign that you need a more complete picture and a clinician who will look for it.

Come see us today and get the support you deserve.
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