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Hello, I’m Nore Hoogstad. Nutritional Therapy is the science of cell health. When the needs of your cells are not met, disease sets in.

Women’s health & menopause specialist💖
I help women balance hormones, lose weight, & regain energy & confidence💫
Natural medicine • Fasting (FLAG certified) • Gut health🌿
Book a FREE call💃🏻👇
https://calendly.com/gutsybynutrition/healthassess I am a…

– Functional Nutritional Therapist (targeted nutrition and lifestyle)

– Restorative Wellness Practitioner (functional lab testing in gut health, hormones, thyroid, blood chemistry and organic acid testing)

– Functional Genomic Nutrition Consultant (how YOUR genes are impacting your health)

– Functional Medicine student (SAFM)

– HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis) Practitioner

– Certified Gluten-Free Practitioner

– Integrative Health Coach | Transformation Life Coach |Psych-K Facilitator

– Yoga Teacher

I empower my clients to live the life they were meant to live by balancing their health using research-based personalised programs. By helping people become healthier, I hope to make the world not just a healthier place, but a calmer and happier one that’s more in tune with its environment.

09/11/2026

🥬🌶️🍞 Diet can be a powerful tool for health, and specific diets can support specific health conditions. I use different foods and diets a lot with my clients.

But if we're using diet long term, we may need to ask ourself:

🤔 Is the restriction causing harm eg to my gut microbiome
😕 Have I addressed the root cause of my sensitivity/allergy etc?

Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review via my bio link 💫🤙😀🪷💃🏼

06/11/2026

🧠 When you're living with a chronic condition, the problem usually isn't that you haven't tried hard enough. It's that your nervous system has been stuck in ‘on’ for so long your body can't do the repair work it needs.

That's where yoga comes in — and the research on it is more interesting than you'd expect🧘🏽‍♀️

🦋Yoga turns down stress chemistry – Studies comparing yoga with other movement found lower cortisol and lower blood pressure after practice. A 2024 review in stressed adults found yoga reduced stress more than doing nothing
🦋It works on the ‘rest and digest’ – Slow breathing — the kind yoga is built around — increases vagal tone, which is the brake pedal on your stress response. Even a single session of slow breathing has been shown to boost vagal tone and reduce anxiety. For those of you with gut symptoms, sleep that won't come, or a body that feels permanently braced, this mechanism is key
🦋It changes brain chemistry, not just mindset – In a randomised trial, 60 minutes of yoga produced a measurable rise in GABA — a calming brain chemical — plus better mood and less anxiety than walking for the same time
🦋It helps anxiety that's genuinely interfering with life – In a 226-person trial of adults with generalised anxiety disorder, 54% doing Kundalini yoga had meaningfully improved symptoms, versus 33% in stress education classes. Yoga is a sold add-on
🦋It may shift brain structure with time – Brain imaging reviews link yoga practice to changes in the hippocampus (memory, mood regulation) and amygdala (threat detection). Early and mixed evidence — promising, not proven

You don't need to be flexible, bendy, or spiritual. You don't need a 90-minute class. Ten minutes of slow breathing and gentle movement, done consistently, is a legitimate tool for a nervous system that's been running not🔥

💬 If you're someone who's been told "your results are normal" while feeling anything but — that's exactly the kind of puzzle I work with at Gutsy by Nutrition.

04/11/2026

🌺 Why do I feel flat after 40?

It's one of the most common questions women ask in midlife — and the answer is rarely just "hormones."

Around 1 in 3 women feel low around the menopause transition (2026 meta-analysis, 102 studies, ~1.14 million women). Poor sleep is even more common, at 42%.

🩷 But ageing isn't the cause. The strongest predictor is a history of depression. What rises in midlife is the load:

→ Physical: more than 70% of women get joint and muscle pain through the transition; muscle mass falls 3–8% per decade; bone density can drop up to 3% a year after menopause
→ Mental: oestrogen helps regulate serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline and GABA, so when it falls those messengers shift with it. That shows up as grumpiness, snappiness, flatness, no drive and 3am waking — not a personality change, a signalling change. And nutrition genuinely helps: protein supplies the building blocks for serotonin and dopamine, with iron, B6 and folate as cofactors
→ Emotional: loneliness, being pushed out of work, body image, accumulated grief → Spiritual: purpose, meaning, and working out who you are now

🌸 Swipe for the four layers, and for what the research says helps.

The evidence on what helps is stronger than most people expect: resistance training has the largest effect on mood in postmenopausal women, group CBT is NICE-recommended, and saffron showed a 48.8% responder rate vs 25.6% on placebo in women aged 50–70. Gut support helps too — modestly, and strain by strain.

💫 Nutrition can support the chemistry: protein at every meal, the cofactors those pathways need, omega-3, steady blood sugar, and correcting what's actually low.
Nutrition and lifestyle don't fix loneliness or purpose. They support the systems that make those things possible.

[General information only.]

Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 🤙😀🪷💃🏼

01/11/2026

🌸The diagnosis is a shock. Wondering whether you'll ever enjoy intimacy again is another.

It's the fear of pain and flares, the worry about tearing, the loss of spontaneity and the quiet grief of missing the intimacy you once took for granted.

You may start saying no to s*x, not because you don't want your partner, but because you don't want to hurt.

But a lichen sclerosus diagnosis does not automatically mean the end of your s*x life.

Controlling inflammation, protecting fragile skin and addressing other contributors to pain can make a real difference.

🌺Alongside appropriate treatment, there are areas of your wider health worth investigating
• Nutrition: Eat a nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory-style diet to support your overall health and nutritional needs (cut sugar refined carbs, bad fats, alcohol)
• Gut health: Investigate persistent bloating, constipation, diarrhoea or other digestive symptoms
• Nutrient deficiencies: Assess iron, B12, folate, vitamin D or other nutrients
• Blood results: Look at relevant markers such as iron status, thyroid function and glucose regulation
• Hormonal health: Perimenopause and menopause can contribute to dryness and vulvovaginal discomfort alongside lichen sclerosus
• Contraception: A study reported an association between oral contraceptive use and early-onset lichen sclerosus. Consider discussing your contraceptive options with your practitioner
• Oxalates: The Lichen Sclerosus Support Network suggests trialling a reduction in high-oxalate foods to see whether it influences your individual symptoms

YOU MAY NOT CONTROL EVERY ASPECT OF THIS CONDITION, BUT YOU CAN TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN YOUR HEALTH.

🌷Would you like support investigating your wider health and understanding what may be relevant to your individual situation?

🌹Book a free 20-minute chat with me & we can explore whether working together may be a good fit https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 🩷😀💃🏻

30/10/2026

🫐🥦🍔 Food isn't simply fuel — it provides many of the raw materials your body needs to build, repair and regulate itself.

A few interesting examples

🧬 Vitamin C is essential for collagen formation. You can eat plenty of protein, but without vitamin C, your body can't properly build and stabilise collagen.

🐟 The fats you eat can become molecules involved in resolving inflammation. Omega-3 fatty acids are used to produce specialised pro-resolving mediators such as resolvins.

🔧 Minerals are involved in countless repair processes. Zinc, magnesium, copper and iron all have roles in processes including energy production, oxygen transport, collagen formation and tissue repair.

This is why I think food — including where it comes from and how it is produced — deserves a proper place in someone's health picture 🙌

It isn't the whole answer to every health problem.

💡But ignoring it doesn't make sense either.

💫 Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 🤙😀🪷💃🏼

29/10/2026

🧪Testing testosterone on its own doesn’t tell the whole story.

Testosterone can be bound to a molecule called SHBG, and when it’s bound, your body can’t use it. So your results can look fine on paper while the amount your body can actually use is low. It also follows a daily rhythm, so the time of day you test matters too.

And women, this one is for you as well. You need testosterone too 🙌

Nore Hoogstad, FNTP talks hormone testing for men and women at the Functional Lab Summit. Free to watch on Saturday 21!😊

Click and comment LAB and they’ll send you the free registration link.

28/10/2026

♥️ Is fasting with anaemia or borderline iron doable, ands safe?

Safety has not been established. No trial has tested daily fasting windows in women with anaemia, so there is no research-backed green light🚦

What the research shows...
🩸Two days of food restriction lowered iron, ferritin and haemoglobin in healthy women
🩸A three-day fast raised hepcidin about threefold in healthy volunteers. Hepcidin is the hormone that limits iron absorption and holds iron in storage

Why fasting and low iron can clash...
🍎 Fewer meals means fewer chances to eat haem iron, protein and B12, and adequate energy intake is linked with healthy ferritin
🍎 Low iron also lowers the body’s tolerance of stress, and fasting is a mild stressor. Fatigue, feeling cold, hair shedding and dizziness can intensify

Menstruating women...
🌺 Iron leaves every cycle, so the bleed is a high-loss window. Many women do better with shorter windows or no fasting then

Women without a cycle...
🌺 Anaemia raises a different question — where is the iron going, and is it being broken down and absorbed? Gut inflammation, low stomach acid, coeliac disease and slow blood loss are worth exploring

Borderline counts
❤️‍🩹 Ferritin can fall well before haemoglobin does. Ferritin tested with CRP, plus B12 and folate, gives a clearer picture

To continue fasting safely...
– Keep the window gentle 13-15 hours
– Break the fast with protein and haem iron plus vitamin C
– Keep tea and coffee an hour away from iron-rich meals
– Use single supplement doses, often on alternate days, with practitioner guidance
– Pause fasting with dizziness, palpitations or breathlessness and arrange assessment
– Supplementation every second day works well

Repair first. Longer windows can wait until iron stores recover 🍓

Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 💫🤙😀🪷💃🏼

26/10/2026

🫣There was a time when my life revolved around being unwell.

🩺Health appointments
🛋️The couch
🛌The bed
🫨Trying to work out what was going on...

And underneath all of that was the frustration of wanting to get back to living.

💚Work. Friends. Family. Learning. Enjoying things. Having a life that wasn't organised around symptoms.

I eventually wrestled my health back enough to study and work — and that's a big part of why I now work with people experiencing their own long-term health struggles😊

💫If you're tired of illness taking up so much of your life, I'd love to hear your story.
I offer a free conversation to see whether we're a good fit. Book here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 🤙😀🪷💃🏼

25/10/2026

What if we looked beyond the disease — and considered the environment in which it develops?

The milieu is the body's internal environment, particularly the fluids surrounding our cells. It delivers nutrients, removes waste and helps maintain the conditions our cells need to function.

One important factor is pH — how acidic or alkaline an environment is. Different parts of the body need different pH conditions, and disturbances can affect cellular function.

🦠 pH influences which microbes thrive.
🔄 Microbes can alter their local environment through the substances they produce.
🧬 Changes in the body's internal environment can influence immune activity and other biological processes.

It's a two-way relationship: disease can change the local environment, and that environment can influence how cells and microbes behave.

This doesn't mean that making your body alkaline will prevent disease — blood pH, for example, is tightly regulated. It means the body's internal environment is part of the bigger picture of health.

Understanding the terrain means looking at the conditions in which the body functions, not just one symptom or one organism.

Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 💫🤙😀🪷💃🏼

22/10/2026

“I'm so glad I found you.”

This is something I hear from clients quite regularly.

And honestly, it makes me happy, not because it's flattering, because of what this usually means underneath those words.

It means someone finally feels listened to.

They feel that their concerns have been taken seriously.

And we've created a process together that makes sense to them — rather than another cookie-cutter protocol they've been told to follow.

That matters, to them, to me.

Because when someone understands why they're doing something, believes it is relevant to their situation and feels supported through the process, they're much more likely to engage with it.

I don't believe there is one perfect protocol for everyone.

There is the person in front of me. And that's where we start.

Book a FREE Chronic Symptom Review here https://rb.gy/jbm5f3 💫🤙😀🪷💃🏼

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