The GutFit Nutrition Podcast

Is your gut microbiome shaping your body fat, your muscle, or your performance, or is it the other way around? Whether you're training hard, trying to improve your body composition, or tired of supplement marketing, this episode has you covered.

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✅ How body composition is measured (DEXA, Bod Pod, InBody) and why visceral fat and muscle mass matter

✅ Whether the microbiome affects body fat, and what the evidence says about probiotics and Akkermansia

✅ How the microbiome relates to performance and VO2 max

✅ Practical takeaways for supporting your gut, your body composition, and your training

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👤 TODAY'S GUEST: Eric Williamson, PhD, RD

Eric is the Director of Nutrition at Canyon Ranch (Lenox, Massachusetts) and the founder of Unlocked Fitness and Nutrition, where he works with active people on performance, health, and body composition goals. He completed his master's and PhD at the University of Toronto, with research on protein metabolism after endurance exercise, and has competed in physique, powerlifting, and 5Ks.

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📌⁠ Gut Microbiota and Exercise Performance⁠

📌 ⁠Probiotics: It May Not All Be Positive⁠

📌 ​​⁠Fibre: The Forgotten Carbohydrate in Sports Nutrition Recommendations⁠

📌 ⁠Gut-Muscle AxisExists and May Affect Skeletal Muscle Adaptation to Training

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If you're dealing with a cold or flu, or just want to stay well this season, your gut is a great place to start. Whether you have IBS, follow a low FODMAP diet, or are wondering what to eat when your appetite is low, this episode has you covered.

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✅ Why your gut microbiome and immune system are so connected (especially if you have IBS)

✅ My 4 priorities when you're sick: hydration, protein, color, and fermented foods

✅ Easy low FODMAP meal ideas for when your appetite is low

✅ The supplements worth discussing: vitamin D, zinc, and a few honorable mentions

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📌 Free Training: Heal Your IBS Without a Lifelong Low FODMAP Diet

🎁 Sponsor: BioGaia Gastrus Pure Action probiotic — use code GUTFIT20 for 20% off on Amazon

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📌 Low FODMAP Sourdough Bread article

📌 FODMAP Everyday low FODMAP chicken stock recipe

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If you have IBS and you've been told you might have SIBO, you're probably wondering what to believe. Whether you're deciding on a test, nervous about antibiotics, or tired of expensive supplements that don't help, this episode has you covered.

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✅ How SIBO and IBS are connected, and the difference between SIBO and IMO

✅ Why symptoms alone can't tell you if you have SIBO, and which red flags to raise with your doctor

✅ How breath testing works, how to prepare, and why results aren't perfect

✅ Treatment options (rifaximin, the elemental diet, herbals) and how to prevent SIBO from coming back

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📌 FREE Training: How to Heal Your IBS Without a Lifelong Low FODMAP Diet

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If unpredictable bowels have made your world feel smaller, you're not alone. Whether you're afraid to travel, dread dinners out, or want to hear how someone else got her confidence back, this episode has you covered.

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✅ What finally made Catherine reach out after 17 years of IBS-D and three gastroenterologists

✅ The biggest changes she made, from rethinking fiber to respecing the gut-brain connection

✅ How she prepared for traveling with IBS so her gut and mind stayed calm

✅ Her message to anyone whose world is shrinking because of their gut

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👤 TODAY'S GUEST: Catherine

Catherine is a grandmother, avid organic gardener, and alumni of my 6-month Gut Harmony Method coaching program. After 17 years of unpredictable IBS-D, she shares what changed for her and how she now travels and socializes with more confidence.

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FODMAPs are a tool, not a lifelong restrictive diet. Whether you're struggling to figure out which carbohydrates your gut really can't handle, looking for expert guidance on a guided FODMAP reintroduction, or want practical strategies for knowing when enzymes and tests are (and aren't) worth it, this episode has you covered.

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✅ Why IBS makes the gut so reactive to carbohydrates, and what FODMAP elimination and reintroduction really look like

✅ Sucrase-isomaltase deficiency (CSID): the lesser-known intolerance that can make a low FODMAP diet fall flat

✅ How a carbohydrate intolerance can be properly assessed — and which tests to skip

✅ Where enzyme products like lactase, Fodzyme, and alpha-galactosidase may help

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👤 TODAY'S GUEST: Jessica Roocroft, RD

Jessica is a Registered Dietitian based in North Vancouver, BC, and the founder of Jess Nourishes, where she runs a signature online program for IBS-D. She's Monash University FODMAP-trained, and her own experience navigating chronic digestive symptoms and frustratingly normal test results led her to focus her practice on helping others find answers and regain confidence around food and their gut.

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Does diet and nutrition make a meaningful difference in cancer treatment, recovery, and reducing your risk of recurrence? Whether you're currently in treatment, navigating survivorship, or supporting a loved one through it, this episode has you covered.

YOU'LL TAKEAWAY:

✅ How inflammation, gut health, and immunity intersect to influence cancer risk and outcomes

✅ Why there's no single "cancer diet" once you're in active treatment

✅ The real, nuanced relationship between sugar and cancer

✅ What the research shows about intermittent fasting during treatment and survivorship

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👤 TODAY'S GUEST: Jean LaMantia, RD

Jean is a Toronto-based registered dietitian, cancer survivor, and author of three books on cancer, lymphedema, and intermittent fasting, including The Essential Cancer Treatment Nutrition Guide and Cookbook. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at age 27, and now works with clients across Canada and the US to help them navigate nutrition through cancer treatment, survivorship, and lymphedema management.

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📌 Jean's free Cancer Risk Reduction Guide

📌 The Essential Cancer Treatment Nutrition Guide and Cookbook

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Is that supplement actually doing anything, or is it just an expensive habit? Whether you're struggling with GI issues on the run, looking for expert guidance on which sports supplements are worth your money, or want practical strategies to fuel your training without a flare-up, this episode has you covered.

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✅ Which supplements are backed by strong research (and which are riding hype alone)

✅ How to weigh a small performance edge against real GI risk

✅ Dietitian's three-question framework for vetting any new supplement

✅ GI-friendly ways to use creatine, bicarb, tart cherry, beetroot, and more

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👤 TODAY'S GUEST: Amy Goblirsch, the Running Dietitian

Amy is a registered dietitian specializing in marathon and endurance performance nutrition, with firsthand experience across nine marathons and a 100-mile ultramarathon she completed one year postpartum while breastfeeding! She helps runners stop fearing food and start using it to fuel their training.

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📌 https://examine.com/ — independent supplement research reviews

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What if one of the best lessons about longevity didn't come from a supplement or the latest wellness trend, but from a tiny medieval village in Italy? Whether you're struggling with longevity-marketing overwhelm, looking for expert guidance on simple, evidence-informed habits, or want practical strategies to bring blue zone principles into your own life, this episode has you covered.

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✅ 5 blue zone longevity lessons from Campodimele, Italy

✅ Why daily movement, local food, and community matter more than biohacking

✅ The "eat until 80% full" principle and why it supports digestion

✅ The specific foods (olive oil, beans, fish, antioxidant-rich vegetables) behind the local diet

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📌 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People by Sally Beare

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Have you been told you have IBS, but something still doesn't feel right? Whether you're struggling with symptoms that won't improve no matter what you try, looking for expert guidance on when to ask for further testing, or want practical red flags to bring to your next doctor's appointment, this episode has you covered.

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✅ 8 conditions that commonly get mistaken for IBS

✅ The specific red flags that mean it's worth asking your doctor about further testing

✅ Why IBS is a real diagnosis, but not always the right one

✅ How to advocate for yourself if something doesn't feel right

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🚀 Want personalized support to take control of IBS and reduce bloating and discomfort? 👉 Apply for 1:1 Coaching.

📌 Episode 40: Colon Cancer in Young People & How to Lower Your Risk

📌 Episode 60: Celiac Disease & Gluten Reactions

📌 Episode 61: IBS-D Mimickers

📌 Episode 13: Endometriosis & IBS Link

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Have you ever gone out for a run hoping to tackle a fast speed workout or a long run, only to have it completely derailed by multiple urgent trips to the bathroom? You did everything you thought was right with your nutrition, and your gut had other plans anyway.

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✅ The 3 most common mistakes causing GI issues and bathroom emergencies during runs

✅ How fat, fiber, and FODMAPs can each trigger urgency and loose stools

✅ What "gut training" actually means and why the mismatch between training and race day causes problems

✅ How fecal loading and constipation can be the real root cause of "runner's diarrhea"

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📌 Running For Pancreatic Cancer North America

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Could your IBS-D actually be something else? Many people living with chronic diarrhea are told they have IBS, but for some, an underlying condition may be missed. Today, we discussed the most common IBS-D mimickers, the red flags that shouldn't be ignored, and the testing that may help uncover the real cause of ongoing digestive symptoms!

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✅ Why proper diagnosis is essential before assuming it's "just IBS"

✅ The most common causes of chronic diarrhea that mimic IBS

✅ SIBO, bile acid malabsorption, microscopic colitis, pancreatic insufficiency, celiac disease and more

✅ Red flags that warrant further investigation

✅ The evidence-based tests that are often overlooked

✅ How to advocate for yourself if your symptoms aren't improving & signs your condition probably isn’t IBS!

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👤 TODAY’S GUEST: Jessica Roocroft

Jessica is a Registered Dietitian specializing in IBS-D (IBS with diarrhea) and chronic diarrhea. With a focused, evidence-based approach, she helps clients overcome urgent, unpredictable, and life-disrupting diarrhea symptoms without resorting to overly restrictive diets.

Her passion for this work stems from personal experience navigating chronic digestive symptoms, bloating, and random diarrhea attacks despite repeatedly receiving normal test results. Frustrated by the lack of answers available to patients, she dedicated her practice to helping others uncover the root causes of their symptoms.

📌 Chronic Diarrhea Testing Checklist

📌 Jessica’s Instagram

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📌 New Rome V IBS diagnostic criteria

📌https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31917991/

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There is a lot of confusion about gluten in the gut health world. If you’ve been navigating gut issues for a while, you may have tried a gluten free diet or perhaps done a low FODMAP diet that involves limiting many foods with gluten like regular bread and pasta.

While intolerance to gluten can exist on a spectrum, a very real and life changing disease that requires a strict, life long gluten free diet is Celiac Disease.

If you’ve been living with celiac disease, or you suspect gluten might be a culprit in your digestive issues.. You’re going to want to tune into today’s episode!

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✅ What celiac disease is, and the difference between gluten sensitivity and fructan intolerance

✅ A typical day in the life of someone with celiac disease

✅ Link between celiac disease and IBS

✅ Top tools for navigating celiac disease in 2026

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👤 TODAY’S GUEST: Selena Devries Selena is a Registered Dietitian, Celiac Disease Health Coach, and the founder of Celiac Made Simple. As someone living with celiac disease herself, she brings both professional expertise and personal experience to her work.

She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and has completed Monash University training in the Low FODMAP Diet. For more than 10 years, she has specialized in helping people navigate life with celiac disease through her online private practice.

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📌 Selena’s Instagram

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📌 Celiac Disease Foundation

📌 Episode 47 – Nickel Allergy & Ibs.

📌 Play-Doh, Gluten Cross Contact & Celiac Disease Study

📌 Kissing, Gluten Cross Contact & Celiac Disease Study

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Does it feel like gut issues or digestive stress show up at the worst possible time in your training or on race day?

If you’re a runner who has ever worried about how your gut might react during a race, I think you’re really going to relate to today’s episode.

I’m excited to introduce you to my guest, Cindy.

Cindy is a client of mine and an incredible example of what can happen when a runner dials in their fuelling strategy and builds confidence in their gut. After dealing with fueling and digestive challenges that were impacting her racing, Cindy made some key changes that helped her run a personal best at the Boston Marathon.

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✅ Cindy’s running journey and how the Running Realtor brand first came to life

✅ The fueling and gut challenges she was experiencing leading up to the Boston Marathon

✅ The key changes she made with her fueling strategy and race preparation

✅ What race week and race day looked like when she ran her Boston Marathon personal best

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👤 TODAY’S GUEST: Cindy Gallant

Cindy Gallant is a Toronto-based realtor and endurance runner known as “The Running Realtor,” balancing a busy real estate career with a genuine love for running and an active lifestyle. Rooted in Toronto’s west end, she helps buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, and investors navigate the real estate market with honesty, patience, and a practical, no-pressure approach.

📌 Follow The Running Realtor for Toronto real estate insights, running routes, and grab Cindy's FREE Toronto Real Estate & Lifestyle Guide (link in bio). @therunningrealtor_to

📌 Follow Cindy on the Move for marathon training, race recaps, travel adventures, and everyday running inspiration. @cindyonthemove

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In this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my full Ottawa Hyrox race weekend, 2 days out all the way through race day and recovering after as a gut health Dietitian and endurance athlete.

The thing with endurance athletes including both long distance runners and hyrox athletes is that they often mismanage their carb load, or try something new on race day… and that’s where things can go sideways fast, especially for those of us with sensitive guts

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✅ Race prep and strategy to ensure we stayed calm & confident

✅ How I structured my carb load (without triggering symptoms)

✅ My exact race day fuelling plan—including carbs, hydration, and caffeine – for an evening race

✅ The gut-friendly strategies that kept everything calm on race day

✅ And how I approached recovery to bounce back quickly

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While AI can be a helpful tool, it lacks the clinical experience to make nutrition therapy recommendations, regulation and accountability and ability to assess safety of a recommendation.

In today’s episode, we will discuss the main risks and considerations with using AI for health advice, and some key takeaways to use it safely should you choose to engage in AI based tools for your IBS and gut health management.

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✅ The main downsides to using AI for gut health & IBS advice (lack of regularity, lack of context, data collection & hallucinations)

✅ Why data collection with these large language models (LLM) is something you need to be aware of

✅ How lack of context can result in misleading or dangerous health information

✅ How to navigate information online & use these tools more judiciously should you choose to

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👩🏻‍💻 REFERENCES: ⤵️

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https://cloud.google.com/discover/what-are-ai-hallucinations

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https://www.dietitians.ca/About/Learn-About-Dietitians

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https://hai.stanford.edu/news/be-careful-what-you-tell-your-ai-chatbot

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05382

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12735979/#sec3-nutrients-17-03828

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13244121/

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202506/how-emotional-manipulation-causes-chatgpt-psychosis

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https://www.cma.ca/healthcare-for-real/can-you-trust-ai-health-advice

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In this episode, I’m recapping highlights from my live masterclass, Break Free From IBS: Your 6-Step Roadmap to Lasting Relief.

If you missed it, don’t worry! I’ve pulled together the most important takeaways and I’ll be answering some of your top Q&A questions from the session.

I cover some pressing questions like:

✅ Is there an autoimmune component of IBS?

✅ What is the vagus nerve?

✅ Which probiotics are best for IBS?

✅ + more!

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Does it feel like your IBS and gut symptoms run your life? I can’t wait to share about my guest and today’s inspiring episode.

Angela is an amazing client of mine who is a fabulous example of someone who has put in consistent work to improve their digestive health and quality of life, and does not let fear of gut symptoms hold them back from life (travel, working out, social life).

YOU’LL TAKEAWAY:

✅ Angela’s health journey & what led her to realize her IBS symptoms weren’t normal and finally seak help

✅ The main changes she made with nutrition to improve her symptoms

✅ Key tools she uses to enjoy her busy life full of travel, hobbies & socializing without worrying about IBS and gut symptoms

✅ Plus a fun "would you rather" segment

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👤 TODAY’S GUEST: Angela Schneider

Angela is a process improvement specialist, writer, and aspiring stand-up comedian based in Toronto, Ontario.

📌 Angela’s LinkedIn

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YouTube video of her first ever live stand-up “Showcase”

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On November 24th, 2025, at the Holly Jolly Fun Run in Toronto, I ran 5 kilometres in under 20 minutes.

It was a goal I set for myself over a year and a half before I reached it, and truthfully, the process did not go exactly as expected! As I learned so much through the journey, I wanted to share a full recap of the training, nutrition, recovery, and mindset lessons gained along the way!

YOU’LL TAKEAWAY:

✅ Nutrition to prevent GI symptoms and fuelling for a happy gut

✅ Mindset support to see the positives in failed tries & why achieving goals is not linear!

✅ Balancing training to support progress & prevent burnout and injury

✅ What’s next: marathon, sub 19 minute 5K

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👩🏻‍💻 Resources that helped me understand balanced training:

📌Ben Parkes YouTube

📌 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald

📌 Run Like a Pro (Even If You’re Slow) by Matt Fitzgerald

📌 Chasing PRs Podcast

📌 Strength Running Podcast

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In this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my full Milan marathon weekend, from the final days of tapering and carb loading to race morning, fueling during the race, and recovery afterward. I’m sharing exactly how I approached marathon nutrition and gut health to run a personal best with zero GI issues!

As a Registered Dietitian, gut health expert, and endurance athlete, I know how frustrating it can be to deal with bloating, cramping, urgency, or stomach issues during training and racing.

YOU’LL TAKEAWAY:

✅ How I approached carb loading without bloating or GI distress

✅ My exact marathon fueling, hydration, and caffeine strategy

✅ Gut-friendly race prep tips for runners with IBS or sensitive stomachs

✅ The recovery strategies that helped me bounce back quickly post-race

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📌 Tune in Next: Marathon Prep (Runners GI Survival Guide)

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If you’re in your early 40s or beyond and noticing more bloating, constipation, or unpredictable IBS symptoms, your hormones may be playing a bigger role than you think.

In this episode, we’re breaking down the connection between perimenopause and gut health, and why the menopause transition can significantly impact digestion, the gut microbiome, and IBS symptoms.

YOU’LL TAKEAWAY:

✅ What’s actually happening during perimenopause (and why it matters for gut health)

✅ The link between hormones, the gut microbiome, and digestion

✅ Why IBS symptoms may worsen during the menopause transition

✅ Key nutrition, lifestyle factors and supplements to support symptom management

✅ How HRT fits into the picture for symptom management and long-term health

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👤 TODAY’S GUEST: Nicole Dynan RD

Founder and Director of The Gut Health Dietitian, Nicole Dynan is recognised as one of Australia’s leading dietitians in gut and hormone health for women in midlife.

📌 Nicole’s Website

📌 Nicole’s Instagram

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