How It Heals

How It Heals A Clinical Nutrition & Functional Health Clinic in Bulimba. Based in Bulimba, Brisbane.

We utilises in-depth case taking, functional testing & advanced health protocols to make you feel like yourself again ✨ How It Heals is a functional nutrition clinic in Bulimba, Brisbane specialising in gut health, hormone balance, chronic fatigue, and complex health conditions. We provide advanced functional testing including HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis), hormone testing, metabolic testing

, and comprehensive functional health assessments to identify the root causes of symptoms such as bloating, digestive issues, low energy, fertility concerns, thyroid problems, and metabolic dysfunction. Our clinical nutrition team develops personalised protocols using targeted nutrition, lifestyle strategies, and practitioner-grade supplementation to restore gut health, improve metabolism, and support hormone balance.

🚨93% of women are metabolically unhealthy 🚨Most are sick enough for medication. Not “diagnosed” with anything.Just tired...
30/04/2026

🚨93% of women are metabolically unhealthy 🚨

Most are sick enough for medication. Not “diagnosed” with anything.

Just tired. Puffy. Wired but exhausted. Gaining weight while eating less.

That’s not a willpower problem. That’s a metabolic one.

The stat comes from a landmark NHANES study tracking over 55,000 Americans from 1999–2018. Researchers looked at five key markers: blood sugar, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference, and found that only 6.8% of adults had all five in optimal range. Without medication.

Less than 7 in 100.

And here’s what nobody tells you:

You don’t fix your metabolism by eating less.

You don’t fix it by fasting harder, skipping breakfast, cutting carbs, or surviving on 1,200 calories.

Those things cause metabolic dysfunction.

Your metabolism is not broken because you haven’t been disciplined enough.

It’s struggling because it’s been underfed, under-supported, and chronically stressed, usually for years.

You get metabolically healthy by giving your body what it biologically needs.

Enough protein to support your muscle and thyroid.
Enough carbohydrates to fuel your cells and keep cortisol low.

Enough calories to tell your nervous system you’re safe.

Consistent meals that stabilise blood sugar instead of spiking and crashing it.

Metabolism is not a punishment system.

It’s a communication system. And it’s been trying to tell you something.

Comment DELIVER and I’ll send you the five metabolic health markers worth tracking, and what optimal actually looks like for women. 🩺

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30/04/2026

The reason you can’t lose belly fat has nothing to do with trying harder.

Visceral fat drives insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance makes fat storage your body’s default state.

And most women don’t find this out until they’ve spent years blaming themselves.

I break down the full cycle in this video, and what actually changes when you stop chasing calories and start working with your metabolism.

🔁 Save this. Your future self will thank you.

💬 Comment INSULIN and I’ll send you my free cheat sheet on reducing visceral fat.

These 3 cheap foods will transform your hormones. They’re not what you’d expect. 🌿Dr. Weston A. Price spent years studyi...
28/04/2026

These 3 cheap foods will transform your hormones. They’re not what you’d expect. 🌿

Dr. Weston A. Price spent years studying isolated indigenous tribes worldwide. Every thriving population ate organs and seafood, reverentially. Their diets contained up to 10x more fat-soluble vitamins than ours do today. Ten times. And we wonder why we’re exhausted and hormonally wrecked.

🫀 Lamb Hearts: one of the richest sources of CoQ10 on the planet. CoQ10 powers your mitochondria, no CoQ10, no real energy. Add heme iron and B12 (nutrients women are chronically low in) and this is one of the most restorative meals you can eat for under $5.

🦪 Tinned Oysters: the most zinc-dense food that exists. Zinc makes serotonin, dopamine and GABA — your calm, your drive, your mood stability. Low zinc means low energy, disrupted cycles and an anxious baseline. One tin covers more than almost any meal could.

🐟 Tinned Sardines or Mackerel: omega-3 intake has dropped dramatically over the past century, directly alongside rising depression rates. EPA and DHA support neurotransmitter function and reduce neuroinflammation. $3-6 a tin. Extraordinary return.

Think you’re a picky eater? I used to gag at liver. Oysters disgusted me. Ultra-processed food is engineered to make whole food taste boring — it rewires your palate. Eat real food consistently and that changes.

You’re not picky. You’ve been eating food designed to make real food taste bad. 💛

Comment NOURISH for my full hormone meal guide. Save this post, your future self will thank you.

For decades, the majority of health and nutrition research was conducted exclusively on men.The dietary guidelines, the ...
28/04/2026

For decades, the majority of health and nutrition research was conducted exclusively on men.
The dietary guidelines, the fasting protocols, the exercise science — most of it was built on a male body, then handed to women as universal truth.
So if you’ve ever felt like you were doing everything right and still not getting results — that’s not a failure of willpower. That’s a failure of the research.
Your body deserves guidance that was actually designed for it.
That’s what we’re here for. 🌿

27/04/2026

Your gut isn’t tolerating the foods it used to…
and your nervous system isn’t tolerating stress the way it used to either.

Same meals. Same workload.
Different response.

You feel more reactive.
More wired or more flat.
Digestion is inconsistent.
Sleep isn’t as deep.

So you tighten things up. Eat cleaner. Train smarter. Try to “reset.”

But nothing really sticks.

You get testing done…
and everything comes back “normal.”

Which sounds reassuring — until you realise it explains none of what you’re experiencing.

Because most testing is built to detect disease, not dysfunction.

It won’t show you how your hormones are actually being processed,
how your gut environment is influencing those reactions,
or why your energy and stress tolerance have shifted.

That layer of information is where things start to make sense.

Not more restriction. Not more discipline.
Better data → better decisions.

If this sounds like you, comment endoMAP and I’ll message you.
Happy to talk through what’s likely going on and whether deeper testing would actually be useful 🤍

🍳 What if your “healthy” breakfast is actually driving your hormonal symptoms?For years I was doing everything “right.”L...
26/04/2026

🍳 What if your “healthy” breakfast is actually driving your hormonal symptoms?

For years I was doing everything “right.”

Lifting 5x a week. High protein. Yo-Pros. Protein shakes. Tinned chickpeas. The whole thing.

And I had the worst skin of my life, no cycle, and zero energy.

Turns out I wasn’t under-eating or under-training. I was under-nourishing.

My hormones didn’t need more protein powder. They needed fat-soluble vitamins. Mineral-dense animal foods. Fermented foods for my gut. Slow-cooked collagen.

Real carbs that didn’t spike and crash my blood sugar.

These are the meals that changed everything for me.

Swipe to see what I actually eat now, and why it works.

💬 Comment MEALS and I’ll DM you my free ebook, exactly how to shop, cook and eat for healthy hormones.

🫙 Save this so you actually come back to it.

I used to think I was just bad at life.Tired all the time. Bloated after every meal. Wired at midnight, crashing by 2pm....
25/04/2026

I used to think I was just bad at life.

Tired all the time. Bloated after every meal. Wired at midnight, crashing by 2pm. Mood swings I couldn’t explain. A body that felt like it was working against me.

My bloodwork came back “normal” every single time.
So I kept pushing. Eating cleaner. Sleeping more. Trying harder.

Nothing changed.

Then I ran functional labs.

And suddenly — everything made sense.

Turns out my cortisol was completely dysregulated. My estrogen wasn’t clearing. My cells literally couldn’t produce energy. My gut barrier had broken down.

None of that shows up on a standard blood panel.

All of it showed up on the right functional tests.
are 10 labs I now run with every single client who comes to me exhausted and dismissed:

🩺 Cortisol — urinary + saliva
🩺 Testosterone + DHEA — urinary
🩺 Methylation status — urinary
🩺 Zonulin — microbiome mapping
🩺 Secretory IgA — gut immunity
🩺 Fungal / mold markers — organic acids
🩺 Krebs cycle / ATP — organic acids
🩺 Estrogen clearance — urinary

These are the tests that finally explain the exhaustion, the weight that won’t move, the anxiety, the bloating, the brain fog.
Your body isn’t broken.

It’s just been asking for the right questions.
Comment “LABS” below and I’ll send you the exact roadmap of where to start. 🖤

WomensHealth

You’ve Googled your symptoms at 2am. You’ve seen 3 different doctors. You’ve been told your bloodwork is “normal.”But yo...
24/04/2026

You’ve Googled your symptoms at 2am. You’ve seen 3 different doctors. You’ve been told your bloodwork is “normal.”

But you still feel exhausted. Bloated. Anxious. Like your body is working against you.

Here’s what nobody tells you: the standard panel misses almost everything that matters for women’s hormonal, metabolic, and gut health.

These are the 6 functional labs I look at first — and what each one reveals that a basic blood test never will.

Save this. Your future self will thank you.

↓ Drop “LABS” in the comments and I’ll send you exactly how to get this testing done. 🤍

Your body has been trying to tell you something!The weight that won’t move. The rage that comes out of nowhere. The bloa...
23/04/2026

Your body has been trying to tell you something!

The weight that won’t move.
The rage that comes out of nowhere.
The bloating by dinner every night.
The hair in the shower drain.
The fact that you need three coffees just to feel human by 11am.

None of that is normal.
And none of it is your fault.

These are hormonal signals — and every single one has a root cause that can be identified, tested, and addressed.

Swipe through to see the 7 most common signs your hormones are asking you to make a change 👉

If you read this and thought “she’s describing my life” — comment HORMONES below and I’ll send you my free Hormone Testing Guide.

It breaks down exactly what to test, what optimal looks like, and what to actually say to your GP to get the right panels run.

Because you’ve spent long enough being told you’re fine.

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👀 A diagnosis is not an answer. It’s a name.And we’ve confused the two for decades.Two people. Same label. Completely di...
21/04/2026

👀 A diagnosis is not an answer. It’s a name.

And we’ve confused the two for decades.

Two people.
Same label.
Completely different bodies, histories, exposures, adaptations. One got there through years of chronic stress and a gut that quietly broke down.

The other through mould, or trauma, or a nutrient deficiency nobody thought to look for.

The label tells you nothing about the path.
And yet we hand it over like it’s the destination, when really, it’s just the address of where the body finally gave out.

The most unwell people I see?

They don’t even fit the criteria.

They fall just outside the diagnostic umbrella, suffering just as much, with nothing to show for it on a standard panel.

This is the failure of categorisation over curiosity.
Your body didn’t wake up one day and decide to malfunction. It adapted. Repeatedly. Over time. To inputs nobody ever asked about.
That’s where the real answers live; not in the label, but in the story that led there.

💬 If you’ve ever been told your results are ‘normal’ and gone home feeling anything but, this is for you. Share with someone who needs to hear it.





Your body doesn’t just read nutrientsIt reads patterns, structure, and contextFood comes packaged with water, minerals, ...
21/04/2026

Your body doesn’t just read nutrients
It reads patterns, structure, and context

Food comes packaged with water, minerals, enzymes, and cofactors that your body recognises instantly

Not as isolated inputs
But as a coordinated signal

That’s very different to taking one extracted compound in a capsule

Supplements can support
But they’re still fragments of a bigger system

And your biology evolved responding to whole inputs, not isolated ones

Even the water in food isn’t neutral

It’s bound within cellular structures
Alongside electrolytes, proteins, and carbohydrates

That changes how it’s absorbed, how it moves through tissues, and how it signals hydration at a cellular level

Compare that to dry powders and pills

You’re asking the body to assemble meaning from fragments
Instead of receiving a complete instruction

So if your meals are inconsistent, under-fuelled, or poorly structured

No stack of supplements is going to override that signal

Food is the foundation
Supplements are the refinement

Get the signal right first
Then everything else actually starts to work

Comment FOOD and I’ll send you exactly how I structure meals to support metabolism, hormones, and energy

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Friday 9am - 5pm

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