It’s where what you take in either gets absorbed — or leaks out through the gut lining, into your lymphatic system, and eventually comes out through your skin. Deficiency and toxemia both run through here, which is why so much of my work starts in the gut even when the complaint is somewhere else entirely.
Some people come to me because their digestion is the problem. Just as many come for their skin, their thyroid or their energy — and we end up here anyway.
Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants and fiber all have to be absorbed before your body can use any of them. An inflamed, dysbiotic gut can’t do that properly — so you can eat well, supplement carefully, and still be deficient.
Your gut is also a barrier and an elimination route. When it’s compromised, what should be cleared gets held and recirculated instead — and the burden climbs while nothing obvious looks wrong.
Most skin issues I see are associated with a fungal infection or another type of infection in the gut. The skin is an elimination organ — it takes the load when the routes below it are congested, and it shows you the result.
A significant share of thyroid hormone conversion happens in the gut. When digestion is inflamed, conversion suffers — which is why thyroid work so often has to start somewhere that has nothing to do with the thyroid.
Hormone clearance runs through the gut. If that isn’t working, what your body has finished with gets reabsorbed rather than eliminated, and the balance shifts.
Absorption determines what your body has to build neurotransmitters and make energy with. Low mood, brain fog and fatigue are often downstream of a gut that isn’t delivering the raw materials.
Some of what accumulates didn’t come from your diet at all. Mold exposure in particular is frequently missed for years — people are told their symptoms are stress, or anxiety, or nothing, while the exposure continues.
Often dismissed or never investigated. It can drive fatigue, brain fog, sinus and immune symptoms that look like a dozen other things.
A burden that builds quietly over years and interferes with systems well beyond digestion, including thyroid function.
Overgrowth and infection that standard workups rarely look for, and that show up on the skin as often as in the gut.
The sprays on food add to the load your cells and organs carry — glyphosate in particular. It accumulates faster than the body can clear it.
In drinking water, treated water and the food supply. They compete with iodine and displace it — which is why they turn up in thyroid work as well as digestive work.
In water, packaging, cookware and personal care products. They interfere with hormone signalling at very small doses, and exposure is now effectively constant.
Your lab recommendations are custom to your symptoms — I don’t run the same panel on everyone. For digestion, that generally means two things:
Food sensitivities & allergiesAll labs are included in your program. You don’t pay for them separately.
3–6 months
Straightforward digestive work can move in a season. Long-standing candida, parasites or mold take longer — there’s a sequence to it, and rushing it tends to make people feel worse rather than better. I’ll tell you which one you’re looking at once I’ve seen your labs.
Everything is included for the whole duration — your labs, supplements, herbal and homeopathic formulas, your diet plan, every appointment, and direct messaging with me throughout.
I feel better than I have in years.
Last fall I attended an Integrative Dermatology Symposium, where I met Diana Drake. I was intrigued by her knowledgeable and expertise in healing the body holistically through proper nutrition and supplements. I had been struggling with candida overgrowth for over 15 years and at the time that I met her I was at my wits end with it.
When I got home from the conference, I made a consultation with Diana. She set me up with a plan and all the necessary diet recommendations and supplements I would need. I started to feel better almost immediately and a few months later, I feel better than I have in years! Thank you, Diana!
I was dealing with severe mold illness when I found Diana. She has now helped me recover and get back to living a normal life!
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I’m a Board Certified Traditional Naturopath — not a licensed medical doctor. I don’t diagnose disease or prescribe medication. Most people come to me because they’re tired of the western medical sick-care model and want to understand and heal their body rather than manage it. What I do is find the patterns underneath how you feel and build a program that supports your body in correcting them. When it’s appropriate I’ll work alongside a medical practitioner — and I’ll tell you directly when something belongs with one.