GroundedApproach

02/09/2025

I wish everyone understood that doing a few weeks of gut healing prep before jumping into the GAPS diet could make everything so much easier. Knowing how to keep your diet low in histamine will not only benefit you by having less symptoms but it will help you heal faster.
Histamine intolerance is not permanent and does heal! It’s annoying in the beginning but if you take a little time to understand it, it will be so worth your while. ”
We have a whole group with a private support page dedicated to teaching you how to back up and heal histamine issues so you can make real progress on your healing journey. LInk is in the bio!

30/08/2025

You don’t need to buy a SCOBY(little jellyfish thing that people sell) to make kombucha! If you have access to RAW kombucha you can make your own homemade kombucha and it will grow a SCOBY in the process which you can use over and over if you wish.

In your next batch you can use the exact same recipe but 1/2 cup of your homemade kombucha and/ or your homegrown SCOBY instead of buying more kombucha from the store!

The key is that you need truely raw kombucha. Many brands are labeled raw but are actually pasturised so I try to buy local brands from health shops. Buchi is a great brand in Australia and GTs in America works as well. I’ve made this dozens of times over the years and it works best with raw unflavoured kombucha.

The easiest way to remember the recipe is 1/2, 1/2, 1/2

If you’re making 2 quart/litre (it’s the same) you need:

⭐️ 1/2 cup sugar
⭐️ 1/2 cup raw kombucha
⭐️ 1/2 cup of fresh or frozen fruit to flavour

If you’re on a healing journey I wouldn’t add this in until you’re tolerating many other foods like stock, sauerkraut, yoghurt etc.

I made this in the subtropical australia summer so if you’re in winter it will likely take more like 15-20 days for the first ferment and 6-8 days to get it fizzy in the second ferment ❤️

27/08/2025

Anytime I post about meat stock people immediately assume I’m talking about bone broth! They are different and you should not be having bone broth.

But meat stock, when made properly is low in histamine and low in glutamate. It detoxes the body from histamine producing yeast and rebuilds the intestinal lining.

In my experience meat stock is crucial to reversing histamine issues. But you have to start slow. As it removes histamine producing microbes it can cause a flare so many people need to start with just 1 tsp.

For my full protocol on rebuilding the gut lining and reversing histamine overproduction check out my cure histamine course!

24/04/2023

Even nutritionists make these mistakes with their clients! I've had many people come to me after nutritionists give them bad advice on how to heal their gut

If you're on a journey to heal your gut, avoid these 3 mistakes!

07/03/2023

If you’re dealing with histamine intolerance and want to heal it, here’s an example of what I see often when working with clients! Also a practical tip on how to increase probiotic foods

There is a lot of confusion about what is die off (toxins being released as the gut heals) and histamine release. Both cause similar symptoms and both can be...

21/02/2023

When I work with clients we almost always discover that their chronic health issues start after a round of antibiotics. It’s true what they say, “all disease begins in the gut”. Here are 5 reasons to avoid antibiotics and what to do instead

Most chronic and acute health problems start after a round of antibiotics. They are suggested for almost everything but they destroy your beneficial gut bact...

11/02/2023

New YouTube video up! going back to the basics of what are probiotics, what do they do in the body (pretty much everything) and how to increase them in your diet to prevent and reverse disease!

In this video I go into how the microbiome works and the 3 different types of microbes. I explain what they do, how they work together and how to increase yo...

13/01/2023

Hey everyone, I had a few people comment about the background music in one of my latest videos. Although it had 700+ views I decided to take it down, remove the background music and re upload. If you are interested in watching it, it would really help my channel out! Thank you!

In this video, I'm sharing why histamine intolerance occurs and what you can do to heal it. Why does the body release histamine? It is primarily an immune re...

02/11/2022

You need animal foods for strong teeth!

I have a lot of stories but I want to share one that came to my mind recently. I had a vegan client come to me. She was having serious tooth pain for months in many of her teeth. She used clove oil, oil pulling, remineralising toothpaste and all the natural remedies but knew her teeth were disintegrating and that she would likely need a few fillings.

I’m pretty upfront with vegans and tell them that I will recommend animal products before they book a consult. I don’t want to waste either of our time if that isn’t an option for them. And I’m totally unoffended if they don’t want to work with me! I used to be a stubborn vegan back in the day 😜

Well this client was super open even though she was somewhat of a vegan influencer. I told her something along the lines of “no more fruit. You need raw cheese, raw butter, animal products and cod liver oil.” These not only have calcium and other minerals in their unaltered state, but they have fat soluble, easily absorbed vitamins (D, A, K2, and E) that we do not get from plant foods! These are the little escorts that get the minerals into the bones and teeth. There is a reason we crave these foods!

To my surprise she changed overnight. The next morning I got a text of her breakfast which was eggs, raw cheese, butter on sourdough and cod liver oil! I love people like that who just go all in!

She said almost immediately her tooth pain went away and didn’t come back. She was hooked. Next time I talked to her she was even doing butter in her ☕️

I’ve had a few stories like this and have healed my own cavities as well with nutritional changes (as reluctantly confirmed by a non-holistic dentist). This is just one reason I’m an advocate for animal foods, especially raw dairy and cod liver oil. Organ meats are a great source of some of the fat soluble vitamins as well.

Tag a friend who has cavities and is scared of raw diary 🧈

31/10/2022

Did you know omnivores, vegans, and vegetarians have very different gut flora? It changes based on the food source. If you’re wanting to add in more variety on the carnivore diet, here are a few ways to prepare your gut to digest new foods better. Link in bio

30/10/2022

For anyone with gut problems: indigestion, reflux, heartburn, SIBO, crohn’s, UC, whatever it may be, it’s important to start at the source of digestion. Our stomach should be a highly acidic environment. It’s the first line of defence against microbe overgrowth. Having a highly acidic stomach is particularly important if you have small intestinal bacteria overgrowth.

Bacteria, yeasts, and other microbes MOSTLY die in an acidic stomach meaning there will be less in the small intestines. Some will make it which is okay because small numbers of non-resident microbes in their planktonic form don’t cause problems. You would find them, with lots of other microbes in anyones gut. As far as I know everyone has staphylococcus and streptococcus for example, but not everyone has staph or strep symptoms all the time. It’s when the environment of your gut changes and they grow, reproduce, create little colonies and start taking over that we tend to see problems.

Stomach acid greatly protects against this and most people have too little stomach acid, even if they have reflux and heartburn. Too little stomach acid doesn’t signal to the esophagal sphincter to close. Adequate stomach acid signals to shut it so food doesn’t come back out.

A few ways to increase stomach acid and support its defense are:

1. 5 minutes before eating have a little diluted ACV or lemon juice. 1:1 ratio of ACV/ lemon juice to water is good. These increase acidity. Saukeruat juice also works.

2. Chew really well! Lots of chewing releases nitrate in your saliva. This mixes with the bacteria in your mouth and turns to nitrite which makes stomach acid even more powerful. When nitrite was added to stomach acid it killed almost all food borne pathogens like salmonella, e-coli and listeria. This may be helpful if you are get food poisoning easily.

3. Avoid drinking with food. Drinking a big glass of water with meals dilutes stomach acid. So either drink a lot 15 minutes prior to a meal or have tiny sips and “chew” it well so it doesn’t dilute your stomach acid.

29/10/2022

It’s a shame that so many people exclude dairy because they think they should. Of course some people do need to stay when there is a true allergy present.

But choosing to be dairy free can have some consequences especially if the goal is healing your gut. In my last post I wrote about how cows have more bacteria-filled digestive organs than humans. It’s how they can take grass and turn it into a variety of animal proteins and fats that humans can easily digest.

Cows bacteria specifically turn plants into short chain fatty acids like butyrate found primarily in high fat dairy. Short chain fatty acids feed the lining of our gut in many ways which is why butter and animal fats are such a huge part of the GAPS diet. They support mucus production which protects the lining, help to maintain a proper PH making it inhospitable to non- resident organisms and feeds the epithelial cells. I remember reading a study of colitis patients having great success after incorporating ghee (very high in butyrate) enemas!

Our body (well the bacteria in our bowel) make short chain fatty acids from plant fibre just like cows do, but many people who have a compromised gut aren’t able to do this efficiently. This is just another way that healthy animal products can help to heal your body and provide it with the nutrition that it needs 🧈

I just love that there are multiple ways that God provides us with what we need to heal. The success I’ve seen with those doing carnivore type diets shows that even the most chronically sick people can recover from nutrient dense food alone!

If you’re interested, one account I’ve enjoyed following is . What a powerful story of healing with a carnivore diet!