Natalya Functional Health

Learn how to implement the lifestyle factors that are most foundational to health. This section is filled with practical tips to improve sleep quality and light exposure, know which lens colour to choose for blue light-blocking glasses, assess your heart rate variability and find out which practices are most likely to be supportive for your nervous system, depending on the results.

Topics: Sleep hygiene, movement, nervous and limbic system, light and circadian rhythm, water and hydration, indoor air quality, indoor mould, dental and oral health, toxin exposures, non-native EMFs, and grounding.

Learn how to eat in a way that feels sustainable, focusing on real whole foods from both the plant and animal kingdom. The advantages of rotating through a variety of  protein sources, the nuances around Omega-6 fats, why A2 dairy may be a better choice for those who tolerate it and dispelling a popular myth around eggs and viruses, plus the most likely intestinal cause!

If you’d like to take The Food Diary Challenge, we’ll cover how to assess your own meals and timings (without needing to weigh anything), what I look for when reviewing my client’s food diaries and simple ways that you can improve your nutrient intake to feel confident about what to eat.

Topics: The components of good nutrition, finding balance, practical short-cuts, the food diary challenge, animal protein, eggs, dairy, dietary fat, carbohydrates, grains, legumes, fruit, vegetables, reducing pesticides, eating on a budget, and seasonal eating.

Learn how to evaluate your own nutrient intake before spending money on expensive testing. Find the right macro ratio that works for your body and lifestyle, allowing you to feel satiated after meals and free of energy dips. Recognise the signs of unstable blood sugar, know how to create blood sugar-balanced meals, which blood sugar hacks are most effective and the minerals required to improve insulin sensitivity.

Topics: Macro ratios, blood sugar, and tracking nutrient intake.

Learn how to put your body in an optimal healing state, where toxins and waste products can be eliminated easily. This is key to minimising die-off reactions as well as overall health. You’ll feel confident knowing how to support each pathway, recognising the signs of dysfunction and what to aim for. Find out how to introduce sauna sessions even when sensitive and what tools to use to maximise your results.

Topics: Introducing drainage pathways, the drainage funnel, getting started, drainage before detox, saunas and drainage, colon pathway, liver and bile pathway, kidney pathway, lymphatic system, and cells and mitochondria.

Learn simple and effective habits to improve your digestion, starting with the brain and mouth. We’ll discuss vagal activation techniques and specific nutrients needed for adequate stomach acid and why addressing H. Pylori is essential when thyroid antibodies are present. This module focusses on the upper gut, providing natural approaches to acid reflux, H. pylori, stomach acid and digestive enzymes.

Topics: The gut-brain connection, the mouth, acid reflux, H. pylori, stomach lining, stomach acid, preparing for digestion, the pancreas, pancreatic enzymes, and brush border enzymes.

Learn about the antimicrobial and antifungal properties of bile, how it is essential for the clearance of toxins and hormones, its role in SIBO and constipation, and what to do to optimise low levels. Next we’ll dive into the connection between the gut, hormones and liver, why we never want to start with phase 1 detoxification and how certain liver detox herbs can make things worse. Instead, you’ll know which foods and nutrients are needed to support phase 2 detox, why we want to begin here and what to try if you don’t tolerate glycine.

Topics: The role of bile, bile and toxin elimination, supporting the gallbladder, improving bile flow, bile acid supplements, gallstones, bile acid malabsorption, gallbladder removal, the gut-liver axis, liver detoxification, phase 1 liver detox, and phase 2 liver detox.

Learn a multifaceted approach to addressing SIBO that goes beyond antimicrobials, highlighting how new research challenges the way we think about this condition, why low FODMAP diets don’t fix the cause, what to do in severe cases and how to rebuild our natural defences to overcome SIBO.

Topics: What is SIBO, SIBO and the mouth, symptoms of SIBO, FODMAPs, types of SIBO, testing for SIBO, migrating motor complex, causes of SIBO, prokinetics, approaching SIBO, elemental diet, and distinguishing between SIBO and SIFO.

Learn which intervention can allow our commensal species to thrive, why a high oxygen environment can be problematic and how to overcome this, what to eat to nurture a healthy gut microbiome, which type of fibre may be easier to digest in an inflamed gut, and why high-fat diets can work against us. Find out how to introduce probiotics, the powerful effects of probiotic triple therapy and where to turn if you’re unable to tolerate live bacteria.

Topics: The gut microbiome, feeding the microbiome, dietary fats, dietary fibre, prebiotics, short-chain fatty acids, probiotics, and paraprobiotics.

Learn how to repair a leaky gut, a frequently overlooked cause and the right time to do a leaky gut protocol for it to be most effective. We’ll make the connection between food intolerances and gut pathogens, identify common causes of loose stools and delve into a comprehensive approach to working through constipation.

Topics: Leaky gut, food intolerances, food allergies, diarrhoea, constipation, and severe constipation.

Learn the tools and techniques for addressing gut dysbiosis, yeast overgrowths and parasites, why the Candida diet is destined to fail and how to eat instead. You’ll understand the importance of the immune system in overcoming opportunistic pathogens (once upstream factors are addressed), how to support it and what you need to know about biofilms before trying to open them. Find out why stool testing frequently misses Candida and parasites, which blood markers may indicate parasites and my preferred test for assessing Candida. Plus how to go off symptoms and what to look for, when testing isn’t an option. Gain access to effective supplement protocols and feel confident that with the right knowledge and techniques, overcoming gut dysbiosis is possible.

Topics: Gut dysbiosis, bacterial gut pathogens, candida, yeast and fungal overgrowths, parasites, and biofilms.

Learn how to interpret your thyroid labs based on the optimal functional medicine range, the ideal T4 to T3 conversion ratio, where to start when thyroid antibodies are present, which nutrients your body needs for thyroid health, the controversy around iodine and which nutrient to onboard first to avoid damaging the thyroid gland.

Topics: Thyroid function and hormone regulation, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, lab tests to assess thyroid function, approaching thyroid autoimmunity, nutrients for thyroid function, and the roles of iodine and other minerals.

Learn what a normal menstrual cycle should look like, how to optimise your lifestyle during each of the four phases, the connection between dietary fats and period pain, how to correct prostaglandin imbalances, what to do to support ovulation headaches and the impact of histamine.

Topics: Menstrual cycle overview, characteristics of a normal cycle, phases of the menstrual cycle, period pain and cramping, and ovulation headaches and migraines.

Learn what causes high or low levels of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, which blood markers to order to assess your hormones and what these patterns can reveal. We’ll make the connections with diet, gut health, liver detoxification, bile, mitochondria and lifestyle factors so that you can feel empowered to begin correcting the imbalances whilst understanding why they occurred in the first place.

Aimed at women of menstruating age, rather than post menopause.

Topics: Introducing female sex hormones, testing for hormone imbalances, causes of low or high hormone levels, body fat, hormones and aromatase, pituitary gland function, hormone gland function and mitochondrial health, binding proteins (SHBG and albumin), receptor sites and downregulation, hormone clearance (including liver detoxification, bile, and beta-glucuronidase), and nutrition and lifestyle factors.

Learn how to create your personalised protocol and what to prioritise for the most efficient approach. Emphasis will be placed on replenishing and preparing your body for the steps ahead. The order of operations will guide you on what to do first, taking out the guesswork when you have multiple symptoms.

Topics: The roadmap, working north to south, order of operations, and setting expectations on timeframes.

Learn which blood panels to run to check your overall health status first, how to minimise the chances of die-off reactions and what to do if they occur. I’ll also share my method of introducing supplements and how to customise it whilst listening to your body for guidance. For those who are sensitive, the order in which to introduce certain vitamins and minerals will be provided, so that you can feel confident in your approach.

Hand-picked supplement protocols will be provided for each of the gut conditions, plus a few additional areas. Featuring my favourite products that I use with my 1:1 clients. Discount codes are available for those in the US, UK, Europe, Canada and most countries Worldwide.

Topics: What to do before starting supplements, how to introduce supplements, standard versus sensitive dosing, taking supplement breaks, antimicrobial safety, dealing with die-off reactions and supplement protocols.

Access nearly 3 hours of content, covering how to interpret three common lab tests. We’ll go in-depth so that you feel confident understanding the main markers, common patterns to look out for and plenty of additional clinical pearls. The information provided here is at practitioner level, with nothing held back. Yet it’s explained in a simple way so that you can make sense of your test results, with pointers on a typical approach.

Topics: Interpreting functional lab tests such as comprehensive stool tests (The GI Map), DUTCH hormone testing and Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA).