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Maria Allerton

Maria Allerton from TRUE FOODS NUTRITION is a fully qualified Nutritionist (Adv.Dip Nutritional Medicine) and a certified/registered member of ATMS (Australian Traditional Medicine Society). Maria is trained in all modes of Functional Medicine testing, including gastrointestinal testing and analysis, microbiome management, thyroid and hormonal testing and treatment and toxicity assessment and treatment.

Maria has extensive clinical experience addressing complicated cases of IBS and other gut disorders through dietary strategies, Functional medicine testing and treatment of parasites, bacteria, functional gut imbalances and nutrient deficiencies.

Her aim is to empower her clients with information and knowledge about their bodies and their gut in particular in order to understand its function, how different foods can affect the gut for better or worse and how to heal utilising nutrients and rebalancing the microbiome.

Food, cooking and nutrition have always been Maria’s passion and her key interest is ‘food as medicine’- has been the guiding principle in her personal life and clinic work.

Maria’s gut problems began when she was in high school with bloating and regular pains following various meals. This was diagnosed as IBS three years later.

Actually they began when she was a kid with recurring bronchitis who had at least 40 rounds of antibiotics by 10 years of age!

Maria’s IBS triggers were: unfavourable genetics (long family history of gut and autoimmune problems), stress of high school exams and a terrible teenage diet that consisted mostly of soy or lite dairy milk with cornflakes for breakfast, a cheese sandwich for lunch, chips and soft drink in between, and frequent pasta and pizza dinners.

For 10 years after that she struggled with intermittent bouts of IBS (depending on stress levels), very poor digestion tending to constipation, low thyroid function, SIBO (small intestinal overgrowth), severe food intolerances, allergies and hayfever, intermittent depression, adrenal burnout and constant weight problems.

Maria experimented with various diets over many years and found that an ancestral Paleo style diet with very limited grains, legumes and dairy foods was the most beneficial for her gut health as well as whole body health. After seeing huge improvements in her IBS from eliminating trigger foods and including many healing foods she decided to study nutrition formally and left her successful marketing career to become a Clinical Nutritionist.

She now runs a busy clinic in Sydney, Australia and skypes with clients nationally and internationally helping them get to their unique root causes of gut dysfunction and IBS and empower them with knowledge to resolve gut symptoms once and for all.

Scott Allerton

Scott Allerton from SYDNEY INTEGRATIVE HYPNOTHERAPY is a stress management expert. He is a registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, Mindfulness stress reduction teacher and fatigue manager.

He truly understands the deep workings of our mind: how our thoughts and habits become dysfunctional and how to recover a calm, focused mind that serves us day to day rather than creates problems. Scott believes that we have all the resources within us that are needed to heal ourselves, although having someone who has walked the walk and undertaken the training needed to facilitate you in effecting the change is essential.

Scott approaches his work in a very holistic fashion treating the mind and the body as one integrated system designed to function in harmony. Making use of his hand- picked toolbox of modalities enables Scott to offer an effective way toward achieving his clients’ health goals of relief from stress, anxiety, pain, addiction and phobias.

Scott has had a personal journey with trauma, life altering stressful events, anxiety, depression and gut problems. These events have led him to study with the best and utilise scientifically validated effective techniques such as hypnosis, mindfulness and stress reduction to overcome his health issues.

Resolving the stress in our lives is a critical strategy to reduce and eliminate gut symptoms. IBS is often put in the ‘too hard’ medical basket with sufferers often told ‘it’s all in your head’, ‘don’t stress so much’ or even ‘here’s a script for an anti-depressant’.

By utilising scientifically validated effective techniques such as hypnosis, mindfulness and stress reduction, Scott enables his clients to leave behind beliefs and mental states that are not serving them and triggering gut symptoms and develop new neural pathways to optimal health.

Mastering our daily stresses and most importantly our reactions to them is a very important step in addressing all gut issues and IBS in particular.