About Sarah
Sarah is an Australian BHSc Nutritionist from Victoria’s Surf Coast living in Bali. Sarah has practiced in Bali and Australia since 2016, and has built up a global data base of clients. Sarah began with “Happy Belly Nutritional Medicine” in 2016 which evolved into “Gut Lab” with the introduction of her gut healing product line. Sarah is passionate about food-as-medicine, natural living, gut healing and the gut-brain-axis, raising a healthy and empowered daughter, and living an energetic, vital life so she can assist individuals and families to do the same.
Nutrition consults with Sarah.
Sarah approaches health and disease management by developing individualised nutritional treatment plans which integrate current scientific evidence with traditional food wisdom. Through comprehensive one-on-one nutritional counselling sessions, Sarah works with her clients to develop a thorough understanding of the origin of their health presentations, and builds personalised treatment plans designed to help them achieve and maintain health goals long term, within the perimeters of each clients individual circumstances.
Her primary objective is to target root causes of health conditions naturally, without doing any harm. Sarah’s approach is holistic, aims to educate and empower the client, favours food-as-medicine strategies (although when necessary supplements are suggested too), and she places great importance on considering the individual lifestyle and needs of each person she treats.
Sarah appreciates the inseparable nature of health and happiness, as well as the physiological gut-brain-axis (aka the mind-gut connection). The gut-brain-axis essentially refers to the biochemical signalling between the digestive system and the central nervous system, linking emotional and cognitive centres with digestion and nutritional status. Hippocrates was right when he said ‘all disease begins in the gut’ and as such, Sarah incorporates gut-nourishing suggestions in her protocols with all patients. Love your guts to love your life.
Sarah’s goal is for you to thrive, on (and beyond) a healing diet.
Like many who have undergone radical health changes, Sarah’s passion for natural health grew from personal experience and healing. As a child Sarah was a ‘tonsilitis kid’ who took multiple rounds of antibiotics, which damaged her developing microbiome and reduced immune strength, resulting in the constant over-use of antibiotics right into young adulthood. The gut damage incurred by this, plus uneducated dietary choices and other environmental factors, was instrumental in the development of Sarah’s IBS, parasitic infections, chronic anaemia, and energy/inflammation struggles as an adult. Sarah experienced life changing healing entirely through learning about real food, which prompted a total career change and return to university at age 30 (to become a Nutritionist). Now age 43 and a busy solo mum, Sarah’s passion for healing your gut in order to heal any chronic health condition begins in the kitchen, when it began for her. Sarah’s practice incorporates GAPS diet principles and restoring nutrient dense food practices such as those found in the wise Weston A. Price foundation. The goal is for you to thrive on a healing diet, which you will, when you are educated and empowered properly and you engage in learning about traditional food-as-medicine as you go. Some of the best and most effective healing dishes are also surprisingly simple. From the basics of what to eliminate to kill off pathogens, what to include to restore intestinal wall integrity, and what to cultivate your microbiome with, Sarah will guide you all the way. Before you know it your kitchen will be your farm-acy and your whole family will reap the rewards.
