Gutsy By Nutrition

Gutsy By Nutrition 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🌿
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– Functional Nutritional Therapist (targeted nutrition and lifestyle)

– Restorative Wellness Practitioner (functional lab testing in gut health, hor

mones, 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.

😵‍💫 Dysautonomia is what happens when the autonomic nervous system — the one running heart rate, blood pressure, digesti...
06/09/2026

😵‍💫 Dysautonomia is what happens when the autonomic nervous system — the one running heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, and temperature without conscious input — stops regulating properly.

🔗 It's not a single condition. It's a description of a system malfunctioning, and it rarely arrives on its own. For many chronically unwell women it shows up alongside hypermobile EDS, mast cell activation, mould illness and CIRS, long-COVID, or autoimmune disease. Different labels, the same dysregulated system underneath.

🥼 Part of what makes it so difficult to get a handle on is that the symptoms scatter. Digestion to one specialist, heart rate to another, temperature and blood pressure swings to a third — and nobody is looking at the network as a whole. Which is exactly where the pattern lives.

🌳 Root-cause work takes time. In the meantime there are physical strategies that help stabilise a flare — crossing and tensing the legs at the first sign of lightheadedness, getting horizontal with legs elevated rather than pushing through, increasing sodium and fluids ahead of known triggers.

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03/09/2026

😮‍💨 Can't get a satisfying breath — even though your oxygen reads completely normal?

😟 This is air hunger. And it is one of the most dismissed symptoms in complex chronic illness — because the numbers look fine, so it gets attributed to anxiety.

❌ It isn't.

🧠 It's a brain-generated sensation driven by a specific set of overlapping physiological mechanisms — POTS and dysautonomia driving hyperventilation and CO2 loss, histamine and mast cell activation narrowing the airways, mould illness priming mast cells and dysregulating the nervous system simultaneously.

✅ The most evidence-supported starting point is breathing retraining — nasal, slow, diaphragmatic breathing. In a study of 100 POTS patients, 97% reported reduced breathing symptoms after this approach.

🙋🏼‍♀️ But retraining alone won't resolve it if the underlying drivers are still active such as mould. I know this from personal experience (see slide 3).

I give a full breakdown in my latest blog post on my website, which you can access via my bio

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*This is educational content — not medical advice. Seek assessment for new or worsening breathing symptoms.

🔬A 2008 study looked at 40 women who developed lichen sclerosis young — in their twenties, thirties and forties — ie bef...
02/09/2026

🔬A 2008 study looked at 40 women who developed lichen sclerosis young — in their twenties, thirties and forties — ie before menopause.

Every single person was taking the contraceptive pill 🫨

Among the 110 women without this autoimmune condition (the control group), only two thirds were taking it 😮

🥀 Lichen sclerosis is usually described as something that affects pre-pubescent girls, and women post-menopause. What those two groups have in common is very low testosterone — and vulval skin relies on testosterone to stay strong and supple.

Reproductive-aged women are not the exception to that rule. They may be reaching it another way. This raises the question about all the years in between❓

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🪻This is something most women don't announce. There's no form resignation letter about health, energy levels, pain, brai...
31/08/2026

🪻This is something most women don't announce. There's no form resignation letter about health, energy levels, pain, brain fog, or resilience.

Instead we hold it in, keep it together, sweep it under the carpet – until we can't 💪

🐢 This often happens gradually. The role turned down because the travel felt like too much; a once longed for promotion that wasn't applied for as it would be too demanding; hours reduced to something more manageable; then reduced again.

Work that once felt important, straightforward now requires longer recovery time 😞

🧩 This pattern can show up often in women navigating fatigue, pain, brain fog, and the shifts of perimenopause and postmenopause.

🫩 Sleep often fragments, temperature regulation changes, cognitive processing slows, and stress tolerance narrows — frequently across the same years when careers are expected to peak.

The cost is rarely counted, because each step looked reasonable at the time. This really is a public health issue that's gone ignored 😖 In fact, it's exactly what happened to me, until I found functional health 🙋🏼‍♀️

⚖️ Fluctuating oestrogen and progesterone, thyroid function, adrenal output, iron status, and blood sugar regulation all influence energy and cognition, and all can be assessed. Symptoms of this kind warrant investigation rather than accommodation. There might well be solutions even.

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🥦 The broccoli question comes up in nearly every Hashimoto's consultation, and it's one of the clearest examples of good...
30/08/2026

🥦 The broccoli question comes up in nearly every Hashimoto's consultation, and it's one of the clearest examples of good research travelling a long way from where it started.

🫘 The genuine goitrogens studied in human populations are cassava, millet and lima beans — staple crops, eaten in volume, in places where iodine intake was already low. That combination matters. Thiocyanate competing with iodine is a real problem when iodine is scarce, and far less of one when it isn't.

🥬 Cruciferous vegetables ended up carrying a reputation that belongs elsewhere. The compound in question is concentrated in turnip, swede and some mustard varieties. Broccoli, cauliflower, kale and cabbage contain very little, and cooking reduces it further.

💪 Meanwhile those same vegetables are the richest dietary source of sulforaphane, which drives the body's own antioxidant production — including the glutathione system the thyroid relies on to handle the hydrogen peroxide generated every time it makes hormone.

🦠 Restriction might have a place. A short, deliberate elimination with a reintroduction plan can provide useful information. Open-ended avoidance that quietly expands over years tends to cost more than it returns.

If the food list keeps getting shorter and the symptoms haven't shifted, the answer is probably somewhere else entirely 💫

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28/08/2026

🌿 Lichen sclerosis (LS) is a condition that affects thousands of women — and is still being missed, misdiagnosed, and undertreated.

🩺 Many women live with symptoms for years before receiving a correct diagnosis. Many more receive one — and very little else beyond a prescription.

💚 LS deserves to be named. It deserves to be taken seriously. And it deserves an approach that goes beyond managing the surface symptom to understanding what is driving the immune dysregulation underneath.

❤️‍🩹 Because LS is autoimmune. And autoimmunity has drivers — gut dysfunction, hormonal insufficiency, mould burden, systemic inflammation — that are addressable when someone is actually looking for them.

✨ If LS is part of the picture and the conversation has felt inadequate — there is more to explore.

Book a FREE 20-minute call in bio — come and tell me your story 🤙😀🪷💃🏼

🧪 A single test result is a snapshot of that moment in time.But the pattern in your symptoms — when they're worse, what ...
25/08/2026

🧪 A single test result is a snapshot of that moment in time.

But the pattern in your symptoms — when they're worse, what triggers them — is data most people never think to track, and it often points somewhere specific 🧩

💚 Swipe through what different patterns can mean.

When are your symptoms worse — time of day, after eating, with weather, with stress? 🤔

😴 Exhausted by basics. Reacting to more and more foods. A world that keeps getting smaller month by month.🧩 This pattern...
23/08/2026

😴 Exhausted by basics. Reacting to more and more foods. A world that keeps getting smaller month by month.

🧩 This pattern has a name — and it has an explanation that goes far beyond stress or sensitivity.

🥱 The fatigue is a cellular energy crisis, not tiredness. The expanding food reactions are a map of what has happened in the gut and immune system, not a permanent state. The nervous system stuck in survival mode is a physiological reality, not a psychological one.

💃🏻 Recovery is possible. But it requires understanding what the body has actually been carrying — and addressing that, rather than managing symptoms in isolation.

23/08/2026

Health begins in the gut 😃

🍏 Because our gut microbiome plays a crucial role in digestion, nutrient absorption, mood, and immune function, impacting overall health.

⚖️ An imbalance in gut bacteria can lead to various health issues, including digestive disorders and even mental health conditions.

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20/08/2026

🔬 A single test result is a snapshot.

🧩 But the pattern in your symptoms — when they're worse, what triggers them — is data most people never think to track, and it often points somewhere specific.

📖 Swipe through what different patterns can mean.

🤔 When are your symptoms worse — time of day, after eating, with weather, with stress?

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

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