Luxury with Natalia
How functional medicine can be your biggest body and wellness luxury on the French Riviera
I am joined on "Luxury with Natalia" by the amazing Stephanie Johnson, Founder of Riviera Wellness Clinic.
Find out about this amazing clinic, where integrative health practitioners use state of the art functional medicine testing, epigenetics, and nutraceuticals to help optimise your health and wellbeing.
Whether it be genetics, fertility, weight management, hormones or autoimmune disorders, you name it, they cover it.
Their aim is to help people who have been told to “learn to live with it” to know there are other options available and you don’t have to suffer in silence.
At the age of 21 Stephanie herself was put on a chemical menopause to “help” with my autoimmune disease which had appeared out of nowhere 6 months before.
The doctors were mystified as was she, she was bed ridden and in excruciating chronic pain and nothing the doctors did seemed to ease it.
After the 6 month treatment she went back to my specialist and was told there was nothing else they could do and that I was going to have to “learn to live with it”.
After hours of researching with her husband they embarked upon a diet plan that was supposed to help with reducing estrogen, this helped but still flare ups that would literally floor her. They then tried going plant based which made a huge difference. She was running low on hope until she found a Functional Medicine Doctor on a podcast, worked with him and in 3 months he had reduced the swelling, puffiness and inflammation.
It all seemed so simple and she couldn’t believe that more people didn’t know about it, so she followed in his foot steps and retrained in functional medicine and set up Riviera Wellness Clinic in the French Riviera.
Stephanie and her team have the worlds most comprehensive tests available including genetics testing, the DUTCH hormone test, and Organic Acids test.
These tests help us to find the root cause to chronic illnesses and help to balance your body through diet and lifestyle choices. You have to look at the body as a whole as everything is interconnected, for example if you are coming to me with imbalanced hormones I want to know why they are imbalanced. What is causing these imbalances? Could it be a genetic mutation that means you create 4 x more toxic estrogen than you should? Could it be an endocrine disruptor such has high aluminium levels from SPF? Or could it be that you don’t have enough of the right bacteria in the gut that helps to metabolise estrogen?
Through an in-depth initial consultation we can put the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together through understanding you, your health history and your symptoms.
http://www.rivierawellnessclinic.com
