Cutting foods out is the usual first move.
It is rarely the one that settles things.
How We Can Help · Gut Health
Gut health nutrition support.
Bloating, irregularity, reflux and the foods you have quietly stopped eating. We work out what your gut is reacting to, and build back from there.
Who this is for
You may recognise some of this.
Bloating that arrives by the afternoon whatever you ate. Days planned around where the nearest bathroom is. Reflux you have started taking something for. A list of foods you have quietly stopped eating, none of which fixed it. Or nothing you could name, except that nothing is quite comfortable.
Most people arrive having already cut things out. It is the obvious first move, and it is usually the wrong one — a narrower diet tends to mean a narrower gut, and the list of safe foods gets shorter every year. The more useful question is what is missing, not what to take out next.
Most food reactions are not allergies.
Which is why removing things often narrows the diet without changing the symptom.
Your gut has its own nervous system.
Part of why digestion and mood tend to travel together.
Areas of support
What people come to me with.
| Bloating or digestive discomfort | Bloating that builds through the day, or arrives with particular meals. |
| Irregular bowel habits | Constipation, diarrhoea, or both in the same week. |
| Reflux or indigestion | Burning, fullness, and food that seems to sit there. |
| Food sensitivities or intolerances | Working out what your gut is reacting to, without cutting out more than necessary. |
| IBS and diagnosed conditions | Working alongside your doctor, not instead of them. |
| The gut and the rest of you | Energy, mood, skin and immunity, and how digestion connects to them. |
Why Katia
Adding before removing.
Most gut advice starts with a list of things to give up. Katia starts the other way round — with what is missing, what your gut is not getting, and what can be added back before anything is taken away. Removal has its place, but it is a tool rather than a starting point, and it is rarely where the answer is.
- MSc, Personalised Nutrition · Middlesex University
- Registered with BANT and the CNHC — both numbers public
How we work together
Three months, three conversations.
Long enough to change something, see what it does, and adjust it. Gut symptoms rarely settle in a fortnight.
01. The first conversation
Your history, your symptoms, and what you have already tried — what helped, and what did not.
02. The plan
Across three months, so changes can be judged against more than one bad week.
03. Follow-ups
Use follow-up support to refine what works.
Kind words
Feedback from clients.
“I began working with Katia to try and understand some problems I had been having for a long time and never truly understood why. Katia helped me understand what was going on internally and gave me the confidence to include new foods within my diet… her results were spot on.”
“…some problems I had been having for a long time and never truly understood why. Katia helped me understand what was going on internally and gave me the confidence to include new foods within my diet.”
“After talking with you, and increasing protein, adding flax and kiwi, digestion improved straight away. I feel the bloating is going and there is a lightness.”
Questions
Questions about gut health support.
What gut health concerns can we discuss?
You can bring digestion patterns, food routines, symptoms, stress, sleep and the practical context around them. The first step is understanding your history and goals.
Will I need to follow a restrictive elimination diet?
Not by default. The approach starts with food-first foundations and only considers more targeted changes when they are appropriate and agreed together.
Are tests or supplements required?
No. Testing and supplements are optional and discussed only when they may add useful context or support to your plan.
Where to start
Comfortable is not too much to ask.
Most people have quietly lowered the bar.