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The part of this we'd underline: twelve months before they started trying.That's usually where the work happens. Not the...
10/09/2026

The part of this we'd underline: twelve months before they started trying.

That's usually where the work happens. Not the month you decide, but the year before it.

Kate, then Sam through conception and pregnancy. Thank you for letting us walk the whole way with you both, and congratulations on your boy.

It feels random. Fine on Tuesday, wrecked by Friday, no obvious reason for either.Usually that's a recording problem rat...
09/09/2026

It feels random. Fine on Tuesday, wrecked by Friday, no obvious reason for either.

Usually that's a recording problem rather than a randomness problem, because the trigger and the flare often don't land on the same day. Heat on Monday can show up as a crash on Wednesday, and by then nobody's connecting the two.

So we've put together a two-week pattern tracker. Two minutes a day, symptoms alongside what came before them: heat, cycle day, sleep, perfume, a meal reheated from the fridge, time spent standing.

Then you map it, to find your distinct pattern. Histamine-driven. Cycle-driven. Upright-driven. Exertion-driven. Most people sit in one or two, and knowing which one changes what you'd deal with first.

The front half explains the loop so you know what you're looking for. The back half is the pages you fill in, plus the map.

Two weeks of your own data is worth more than twelve months of trying to remember.

Comment LOOP and we'll send it over.

Steph

08/09/2026

Increase your salt, wear compression, something to hold the heart rate down. If you were diagnosed with POTS recently, that's roughly the shape of it. And it helps, genuinely, which is why people stay on it.

It manages the symptom. What it doesn't do is answer why an autonomic nervous system that was working stopped doing its job.

That usually doesn't happen for no reason. Around half of people with POTS report an infection before onset, which is a mainstream position rather than a fringe one, and pregnancy and surgery are described as common triggers as well.

A standard panel is built to rule out disease. Looking for what set something off is a different job, and there's nothing unreasonable about wanting both.

Managed but never explained? Tell me below.

Kate - Founder, Clinical Nutritionist & Naturopath

07/09/2026

You had it once. Glandular fever at seventeen, or a couple of years in your twenties nobody ever properly named. Then you got out, built a life, and stopped being someone who was unwell.

Then a virus, or a baby, or a surgery, or a shift in your cycle. And the tiredness that arrives isn't ordinary tiredness. You recognise it straight away.



The hardest part usually isn't the fatigue. It's the fear of going back to being a patient. So you push, and you put it down to work or your age, because naming it can feel like agreeing to it.

Coming back isn't starting over. More often it's a trigger landing on something that was already there quietly, and that's a different question with a more answerable shape.

Did yours come back? Tell me below.

Steph

05/09/2026

Cooking is the first thing to go on a bad week, and then reheating something that's been in the fridge for three days is often the thing that sets a reaction off.

So this one is built around being cooked once and frozen straight away. Fresh chicken thighs cooked from raw rather than anything pre-cooked or from a deli tray, olive oil, salt, fresh ginger and spring onion, white rice, and a stock without added yeast extract. Zucchini and carrot in near the end so they don't collapse. Lid on, twenty five minutes.

Then the part that actually matters. Cool it quickly, portion it, and freeze it rather than leaving it in the fridge, because histamine can climb in cooked food as it sits.

Three meals where the only decision left is which container to pull out.

None of this replaces working out what's driving the reactivity. It just makes the week survivable while that's being addressed.

Save this one for a bad week.

Leah - Clinical Nutritionist

04/09/2026

Every question on the night was a version of the same one. Why did this happen to me, and what's keeping it going.

That's a mechanism question, and it's the hardest kind to fit inside a standard appointment, because appointments are built to manage what's in front of them. Not because anyone is doing it badly. Because that's what the structure is for.

So we've opened a small number of thirty-minute assessment calls. Half an hour with Kate or Steph on what might be driving yours, and a clear view of what your next step could be. $147, credited toward a Beyond Fatigue Pathway if you go ahead.



Link in bio.

Steph

Fatigue to one clinic, mood to psychiatry, gut to the GP, skin to the dermatologist, joints to the physio. Five people, ...
02/09/2026

Fatigue to one clinic, mood to psychiatry, gut to the GP, skin to the dermatologist, joints to the physio. Five people, each seeing a fifth of you, and every one of them working accurately inside their own part.

Put the whole person back together and it can look different. A trauma history. A schedule that never lets up. Gut inflammation. Nutrient depletion. An infection nobody's had reason to think about. Each of those can read to the body as threat, and a body sitting in protection can produce mood changes, fatigue, gut trouble and pain together rather than separately.

Which is why five labels can turn out to be one state wearing five names.

What's on your list? Tell me below.

Steph

A rare opportunity has opened at Merge Health.We're inviting expressions of interest for a Naturopathic Assistant to wor...
01/09/2026

A rare opportunity has opened at Merge Health.

We're inviting expressions of interest for a Naturopathic Assistant to work alongside our Naturopaths, Integrative GP and founders. This is a role for a naturopathic student or qualified Naturopath who wants to develop their clinical skills on the complex, chronic and often misunderstood conditions we love working with.

You might be our person if you're:
🌿 A naturopathic student well into your studies, or qualified Naturopath
🌿 Comfortable or interested in bioresonance & Autonomic Response Testing
🌿 Confident across supplements, herbs and nutrients, what they do and why
🌿 A genuinely good communicator who handles patients with care
🌿 Curious about chronic fatigue, MCAS, mould, Lyme and complex presentations
🌿 Committed to training in Autonomic Response Testing and the Merge Method

Day-to-day, you'll be assisting our practitioners with Autonomic Response Testing, responding to patient messages, and keeping patient files and consult notes up to date.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

📩 Send your expression of interest to [email protected] by Friday 25 September.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an online information evening late September/October

01/09/2026

Fatigue, brain fog, broken sleep, the crashes after a good day. Those often aren't the illness itself. They can be what a body does when it's stuck in protection.

A protection response is meant to switch on for a threat and switch off afterwards. When recovery stalls, one of two things has usually happened: it forgot to switch off, or it's still responding to something real.

That second possibility is the one worth sitting with, because a nervous system responding to something real isn't being irrational. It's being accurate. Which is also why calming it on its own can only take you so far.

What does your body seem to be reacting to? Tell me below.

Kate

Something's opening in September,If you've followed along this month, you've heard us say the same thing a dozen ways: y...
29/08/2026

Something's opening in September,

If you've followed along this month, you've heard us say the same thing a dozen ways: your symptoms connect, you're not complex you're unread, and understanding eventually has to become doing.

This is the doing. It's called Beyond Fatigue — a structured path for people with chronic fatigue and complex chronic illness - the kind of illness nobody's been able to name. It's for the woman with the folder: five diagnoses, no explanation, and a quiet sense that nobody's ever looked at the whole picture as a whole.

We're not going to sell it to you in a caption. The detail belongs in a proper conversation. This is just the doorway, and the waitlist is how you find it first.

Doors open September. Join the waitlist — link in bio. No commitment, just first in line for the conversation.

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