Digestion & Gut Health — Restoring the Terrain, Not Restricting the Diet

Nutritional Therapist & Mineral Balancing Specialist | Cotswolds & Online

When your gut feels off, everything does

Bloating after meals.
A stomach that tightens with stress.
Skin breakouts, mood dips, energy crashes you can’t explain.

It’s easy to blame food alone — but your gut doesn’t work in isolation.
Digestion depends on minerals, nervous-system state, and even light exposure.
When those cues are disrupted, the body can’t absorb or use what you eat — no matter how healthy your diet looks on paper.

Why the gut struggles

Your gut is an electrical system as much as a chemical one.
Minerals like sodium, potassium, magnesium, and zinc regulate stomach acid, enzyme release, and motility.
Chronic stress depletes those minerals, slowing digestion and weakening the gut barrier.

Add irregular light exposure, late-night eating, or processed foods — and the rhythm that keeps your digestive system synchronised begins to drift.

Common patterns I see include:

  • Bloating or reflux linked to low stomach acid and zinc depletion

  • Constipation or loose stools from magnesium and sodium imbalance

  • Blood-sugar swings and sugar cravings tied to adrenal stress

  • Post-meal fatigue or brain fog from poor metabolic rhythm

  • Skin flare-ups and inflammation from impaired detox pathways

When your terrain is depleted, your gut becomes reactive — not because it’s broken, but because it’s trying to protect you.

How I can help

I use Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) and personalised nutrition to understand what’s happening beneath symptoms — how your mineral balance, stress load, and environment are shaping your digestion.

Together we:

  • Identify mineral patterns that affect enzyme and stomach-acid production

  • Rebuild gut lining integrity through food, minerals, and rhythm

  • Calm the stress response driving gut-brain symptoms

  • Support microbial balance naturally (without over-supplementing)

  • Align light, meal timing, and sleep to restore circadian digestion

Your next step

Start with a HTMA Deep-Dive Consultation to uncover how your minerals and nervous system are influencing digestion.

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Why this approach works

Because your gut doesn’t heal in isolation.
When minerals, light, and rhythm are restored, digestion stops defending and starts absorbing.
The goal isn’t restriction — it’s restoration.

Based in the Cotswolds | Working Online Across the UK

Supporting clients across Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire with IBS, bloating, reflux, fatigue, anxiety, and nutrient absorption issues.