Louella Natural Health

20/07/2025

Last few days to register! Care for your health in time for Spring:
✨ Mid-Winter Special ✨
Feeling the winter slump? Now’s the perfect time to reset and recharge 🌿
For new clients – July 2025 only!
Choose your wellness journey:
💚 In-Person Package – $250
• 1 Initial Consultation (Greenmeadows Centre)
• 2 Follow-Up Appointments
📱 Online Package – $200
• 1 Initial Consultation via WhatsApp
• 2 Follow-Up Appointments
✨ Bookings must be made and paid for in July
DM or visit www.lnh.nz to book now!

Louella Natural Health offers naturopathic consultations to design individualised treatment plans just for you. We offer functional testing.

30/06/2025

✨ Mid-Winter Special ✨
Feeling the winter slump? Now’s the perfect time to reset and recharge 🌿
For new clients – July 2025 only!
Choose your wellness journey:
💚 In-Person Package – $250
• 1 Initial Consultation (Greenmeadows Centre)
• 2 Follow-Up Appointments
📱 Online Package – $200
• 1 Initial Consultation via WhatsApp
• 2 Follow-Up Appointments
✨ Bookings must be made and paid for in July
DM or visit www.lnh.nz to book now!

Louella Natural Health offers naturopathic consultations to design individualised treatment plans just for you. We offer functional testing.

30/06/2025

✨ Mid-Winter Special ✨
Feeling the winter slump? Now’s the perfect time to reset and recharge 🌿
For new clients – July 2025 only!
Choose your wellness journey:
💚 In-Person Package – $250
• 1 Initial Consultation (Greenmeadows Centre)
• 2 Follow-Up Appointments
📱 Online Package – $200
• 1 Initial Consultation via WhatsApp
• 2 Follow-Up Appointments
✨ Bookings must be made and paid for in July
DM or visit www.lnh.nz to book now!

23/06/2025

Why a Healthy Gut Microbiome Matters in Long COVID – A Timely Reminder:

With signs of COVID-19 circulating more widely again, it's important to remember that maintaining a healthy gut microbiome may play a key role in reducing the severity and duration of Long COVID symptoms.

I offer Clinical advice, stool testing and Microbiome testing at Louella Natural Health.

Call me: 022 684 1459

Louella 🌼

Imbalances in Type and Volume of Bacteria May Also Be Implicated in “Long COVID” The variety and volume of bacteria in the gut, known as the microbiome, may influence the severity of COVID-19 as well as the magnitude of the immune system response to the infection, suggests research published onl...

10/06/2025

Long Covid - Another reminder to focus on gut health.
If you feel that gut health may be linked to your long covid, get in touch. I have extensive experience in gut health, with several test options that I can discuss with you.
Louella 🌼

The gastrointestinal tract plays a central role in the development of long-term consequences following COVID-19. Scientists from the Medical University of Vienna have made exciting strides in understanding post-COVID syndrome (PCS) and the surprising role gut health might play. Their findings, pu

28/05/2025

Wow, this weather is getting me down! So much so that I have written a new post on my website: SAD. All about Seasonal Affective Disorder and what may help.
View it on: https://lnh.nz/uncategorized/sad/
Take care, go gentle on yourself and get in touch if you need me.
Louella

When the Weather Gets You Down: Coping with Seasonal Blues Have you been feeling a bit low lately? I don’t know about you, but this stretch of wet, grey days has really started to weigh on me. Sundays and …

06/05/2025

Research has found that B12 can prevent and treat pancreatitis by enhancing ATP (energy) production in pancreatic cells. Furthermore, those of us that have genetic variants that reduce B12 absorption may be at greater risk from B12 deficiency, including pancreatitis, increase of homocysteine and reduced glutathione (GSH), with associated oxidative risk. The Fitgenes genetic test that I offer tests for some of these genetic variants. Visit my website to find out more.

Boosting vitamin B12 levels can protect against acute pancreatitis by energizing pancreatic cells and preventing tissue damage.

04/05/2025

I urge you to sign this petition against glyphosate in foods. Glyphosate (a major ingredient of 'Round up') is a w**d killer. It is still commonly used in New Zealand for production of food crops, despite a World Health Organization warning that glyphosate is 'probably carcinogenic to humans'. Glyphosate is a toxin that requires a healthy liver for its clearance. Those with compromised liver function, or genetic variants that effect their ability to detoxify are more vulnerable to the effects of glyphosate. Children are particularly at risk, as their detoxification channels may not be fully developed. Glyphosate may also have the effect of reducing methylation, which is a key liver detoxification pathway. The burden of glyphosate on our detoxification channels can cause lasting damage, cellular changes, oxidation and yes, at worst, it may cause cancer.

New Zealand Food Safety is proposing to raise glyphosate residue limits in staple foods like wheat, oats, and peas — by up to 100 times. Learn what this means, why it matters, and how to make a quick submission before 16 May to help stop it.

04/05/2025

Keep the bananas out of your morning berry smoothie! Sounds like it will undo the good work of the berry flavonols. Enjoy your week! Louella 🌼

The next time you make yourself a berry smoothie, you might want to hold off on the banana.

06/04/2025

A reminder for all of us to get our B12 checked, particularly those who are taking Omeprazole (Losec), which has the effect of lowering B12.

Current recommended levels of vitamin B12 might not be sufficient to protect against neurological decline.

31/03/2025

The latest in Parkinson's Disease (PD) research:
It has been known for some time that PINK1 protein genetic mutations are responsible for PD progression. PINK1 acts as a 'beacon' that highlights damaged mitochondria and recruits Ubiquitin to carry out disposal of these cells in a process called 'Mitophagy'.
Recently, scientists have managed to identify how PINK1 docks to the mitochondrial surface, prior to activation and how it then tags ubiquitin, which joins with a further protein, Parkin, to dispose of the rogue mitochondrial cell.
However, reduced PINK1 function, due to genetic mutation, may have the effect of preventing mitophagy and this in turn causes mitochondria to release toxins, which kill other cells, particularly neurons in the brain, accelerating progress of PD.
This information may bring us closer to finding therapies that make PINK1 more active.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/scientists-unveil-how-key-protein-malfunctions-leads-parkinsons-for-first-time -leap-closer-to-new-Parkinson-s-disease-therapies
Prevention and treatment of oxidative stress is an important strategy in natural medicine. Use of polyphenols, optimising DNA methylation, effective diet, exercise and lifestyle all play a part in reducing PD risk or delay of onset.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5513956/
https://www.parkinson.org/living-with-parkinsons/management/diet-nutrition

It has been 200 years since Parkinson’s disease (PD) was first described, yet many aspects of its etiopathogenesis remain unclear. PD is a progressive and complex neurodegenerative disorder caused by genetic and environmental factors including ...

22/03/2025

More evidence that Parkinson's Disease (PD) starts in the gut, many years before onset of classic PD symptoms. Genetic variants in specific gut bacteria that synthesise B vitamins. This article also stresses the importance of short chain fatty acids in the gut and the need for gut microbiome testing.

Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the development of Parkinson's disease.