Focus Nutritional Medicine : XLR8 your health

18/06/2026

You eat oatmeal every morning. Here's what it's actually doing to your gut. 🥣
Good news and a catch.
The good news — oats are genuinely one of the best gut foods you can eat. Beta-glucan, the soluble fibre in oats, feeds your beneficial gut bacteria, stabilises blood sugar, lowers LDL cholesterol and keeps you full. Clinically it's impressive stuff.
The catch — how you eat them changes everything.
Instant flavoured sachets? Mostly sugar. Blood sugar spike, crash, cravings by 10am, and your gut bacteria got almost nothing useful.
Plain rolled or steel cut oats with protein and a healthy fat added? Completely different metabolic story. Stable blood sugar. Gut bacteria thriving. Energy that lasts until lunch.
Quick upgrade: add eggs, Greek yoghurt or protein powder. Add nut butter or seeds. Soak them overnight. Add cinnamon. Skip the flavoured sachets — always.
And if you're bloating after oats every morning — that's your gut talking. Could be avenin sensitivity, gut dysbiosis or simply too much fibre too quickly. Worth investigating, not ignoring.
Your oat habit could be one of the best things you do every day. Or it could be working against you. The difference is in the detail. 💚
📅 Book a FREE 15-minute chat with Debbie or Liza. 🔗 xlr8yourhealth.com 📞 Debbie: 0434 387 462 | Liza: 0403 250 530

17/06/2026

He came in barely able to get off the couch. Three sessions later he was back on the golf course. Here's what we did. ⛳
Years of lower back pain. Physio. Chiro. Medication. Rest. Nothing had stuck. And quietly — the golf, the sleep, the social life — all of it had just... disappeared.
In the first session I barely touched him. That's the thing about Bowen Therapy that surprises almost everyone — it's so gentle you genuinely wonder how it could possibly do anything.
No cracking. No deep pressure. No needles. Just precise, light movements that speak directly to the nervous system.
By session two he slept through the night for the first time in months.
By session three he sent me a photo from the golf course.
Your body is not broken. Sometimes it just needs someone to work with it — not against it.
If you've been in pain for longer than you want to admit — come and talk to us. 💙
📖 Read "Unf**king Pain" by Liza Ranelli — xlr8yourhealth.com 🗓️ Book a Human Bowen Therapy session with Debbie 📞 0434 387 462

16/06/2026

Organic food. Worth it — or just expensive guilt? 🥦
Honest answer — both. Depends entirely on what you're buying.
Some produce carries significantly higher pesticide residue when conventionally grown. Pesticides are endocrine disruptors — and if your hormones are already struggling, that matters clinically.
The Dirty Dozen — strawberries, spinach, apples, grapes, capsicum, cherries, peaches, pears, celery, tomatoes, nectarines and kale — these ones are worth buying organic.
The Clean Fifteen — avocado, sweet corn, pineapple, onion, mango, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, kiwi, cauliflower, mushrooms — save your money here. The difference is minimal.
The bigger picture? A plate full of conventional vegetables beats skipping vegetables because organic ones broke the budget. Every single time.
Clinical nutrition isn't about perfect. It's about strategic.
Start where you can. Improve as you go. 💚
📅 Book a FREE 15-minute chat with Liza. 🔗 xlr8yourhealth.com | 📞 0403 250 530

15/06/2026

Living on lettuce and protein shakes. Still not losing weight. Here's the actual reason. 🥗
She's not lazy. She's not cheating. She's trying harder than most people we see in clinic.
But here's the truth nobody tells you.
When you eat too little for too long your cortisol goes through the roof. And elevated cortisol tells your body one thing — hold onto fat. Especially around the middle. Eating less is actually making it worse.
Then there's the hormonal piece. From your 40s onwards oestrogen changes how your body handles insulin. The food that never caused a problem at 35 is being processed completely differently now.
And if your gut bacteria are disrupted — and most people's are — your hunger hormones stop working properly. You're hungrier. You store more. Your body can't tell when it's had enough.
Eating less is not the answer.
Eating right for your body — right now — is.
If this is you, come and talk to us. You deserve more than another protein shake. 💚
📅 Book a FREE 15-minute chat with Debbie or Liza. 🔗 xlr8yourhealth.com 📞 Debbie: 0434 387 462 | Liza: 0403 250 530

14/06/2026

Consider this your Sunday permission slip. 🌿
Permission to stop pretending you're fine when you're not. Permission to take the symptom seriously that you've been dismissing for months. Permission to ask — not just hope — that things could be different. Permission to invest in yourself the way you invest in everyone else around you.
You spend so much energy keeping everyone else going. Your family. Your work. Your commitments.
When did you last pour that same energy into yourself?
This week — one small step. One conversation. One decision to take your health as seriously as you take everything else.
We're here. No judgement. No rush. Just genuine care and clinical expertise.
💙 Whenever you're ready — we'd love to meet you.
📅 Book a FREE 15-minute chat with Debbie or Liza. 🔗 xlr8yourhealth.com

13/06/2026

Let's talk about something that almost every woman I see in clinic is dealing with — and almost every one of them has been told is "just IBS" or "just stress."
The bloating. The discomfort after meals. The unpredictable digestion. The low energy. The skin that won't clear up. The moods that shift after eating.
Your gut is connected to everything — your energy, your hormones, your weight, your skin, your mood, your immune system, your brain. When it's struggling — everything struggles.
And here's the thing nobody tells you: a lot of what passes for "normal" in gut health is absolutely not normal. It's just common. There's a difference.
As a clinical nutritionist using functional medicine, Liza investigates the actual root cause of your gut symptoms — not just hands you a list of foods to eliminate.
Because elimination is not a solution. It's a band-aid. And you deserve a solution.
💚 If your gut has been "a bit of an issue" for years — it doesn't have to be.
📅 Book a FREE 15-minute chat with Liza. 🔗 xlr8yourhealth.com

12/06/2026

If you are the person who lies awake worrying about your dog — this is for you.
The dog who's a little slower getting up in the morning. The one who flinches sometimes when you touch a certain spot. The one who used to race you to the door and now just watches you leave. The anxious one. The one who can't settle. The one who's getting older and you're not ready for it to be "just their age."
Your instinct that something isn't right? Trust it.
Liza Ranelli is a Canine Bowen Therapist and Clinical Nutritionist who works with dogs whose pain, anxiety and mobility issues have been written off or underaddressed — and helps them get their quality of life back. Naturally. Gently. Without medication.
Because your dog deserves the same level of care and attention you'd want for yourself. And they deserve a practitioner who will actually listen — even when their patient can't speak.
🐾 Liza offers in-clinic appointments in Mirabooka and home visits across Perth WA.
📅 Book a FREE 15-minute chat with Liza. 📞 0403 250 530 |

11/06/2026

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