Hi I’m Vanessa Vanderhoek, The Healthy Gut Nutritionist. My unanticipated (yet fabulous!) career into nutrition began soon after our youngest child was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition at the age of 2.
When told there was no cause or cure to this devastating disease, I studied functional nutrition at university and made it my mission to understand ‘what’s going on in her body?’. Through this journey I have learnt the power of using ‘food as medicine’ to optimize gut health, and the life-changing positive impact it can have for people with autoimmune diseases and everyone else too - even me!!!
I now have more energy than ever (and fabulous health), and am delighted to share that our daughter has been in unmedicated remission since 2020.