GUT HEALTH AND DIGESTION
Gut health and digestion naturopath, online.
The gut sits underneath far more than digestion.
Naturopathic support for digestive issues and gut health, including bloating, IBS, SIBO, reflux, constipation and food reactions, and for the gut’s role in inflammation, immunity, autoimmunity, hormones, thyroid, weight, skin and recovery.
Online consultations. Clients join from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, regional Australia
What is SIBO?
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine, where they ferment food early and produce gas. It causes bloating that builds through the day, pain, reflux and changed bowel habits, and often returns after treatment unless the underlying cause is addressed.
WHAT IT CAN LOOK LIKE
When the gut is not right, much else follows.
Around seventy percent of the immune system lines the gut. Gut bacteria help clear oestrogen, convert thyroid hormone, make the signals that steady blood sugar and appetite, and teach the immune system calm. When the lining is loose, inflammation can begin here and travel. Most protocols treat the gut as a part and work for a few weeks. Lasting change comes from reading it as part of the whole person, working in the right order, and staying with you: a reset to begin, then a relationship that holds the gains.
Bloating, gas or pain after meals
Reflux, constipation or loose stools
Reacting to more foods than you used to
SIBO or IBS that keeps returning
Skin, joint, mood or hormone symptoms alongside gut ones
Gut changes after antibiotics, illness or treatment
HOW I WORK WITH GUT HEALTH AND DIGESTION
Read the pattern. Restore the balance.
Your symptoms are how your body asks for what it needs. I read the pattern behind them, then choose herbs and nutrients the same way: matched to that pattern, to ease the disharmony, calm the nervous system and rebuild your reserves, so your body can come back into balance and heal.
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Read the whole gut
Stomach acid, enzymes, bile, transit and the nervous system, read with your bloods through Endobiogeny, so the cause is found rather than the symptom chased.
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Nutrients the metabolism runs on
Iodine, chromium, magnesium, selenium, zinc, iron and B12, tested and replaced.
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Test where it changes the plan
Gut microbiome mapping, calprotectin, secretory IgA, elastase and beta-glucuronidase, a SIBO breath test, and coeliac screening first.
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Alongside a GLP-1
Protein, strength, side effects and a plan for coming off, coordinated with your prescriber.
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The reset
A calm nervous system, digestion kindled, overgrowth treated selectively where testing shows it, and the lining repaired, in that order.
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Replant and rebuild
Diverse plants, fibre, resistant starch, fermented foods and gut-healing herbs and nutrients, so what grows back is what you want.
WHAT TO TEST
The results that change the plan.
Testing shows why the body is holding on, and what to protect while weight changes.
Gut microbiome mapping
Diversity, butyrate makers, overgrowth, beta-glucuronidase and the bacteria linked with inflammation.
Calprotectin and secretory IgA
How inflamed the lining is, and how well its first defence is working.
Elastase
Whether food is being broken down well enough to feed you.
SIBO breath test
Hydrogen and methane over three hours.
Coeliac screen
Before removing gluten.
Thyroid, iron and B12
A slow thyroid slows the gut, and low iron and B12 are common.
FREE GUIDE
The free Gut Reset and Microbiome guide.
What it can look like, what to ask your GP to test, and where to start this week.
THE DEEP RESET· GUT RESET AND MICROBIOME PATHWAY
For when you need more than one appointment.
Digestion, the microbiome, the gut lining and immunity, how the gut sits underneath inflammation, hormones, thyroid and weight, and how to reset it and then keep the gains.
01. Twelve consultations
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly, individualised to you.
02. Testing that changes the plan
Functional testing where it helps, read alongside your results.
03. The Deep Reset
The foundations of healing, as downloads, from the day you join.
01. Twelve consultations
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly, individualised to you.
QUESTIONS
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Yes. A naturopath looks at the systems behind your symptoms together, including hormones, the gut, blood sugar, the nervous system and nutrition, and builds one plan around them, alongside your GP.
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Yes. All consultations are online by video. Testing is arranged through collection centres near you, and herbal medicine is posted to you. Clients join from across Australia and overseas.
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Usually because the cause, such as slow motility, low stomach acid, thyroid or stress, has not been addressed. Treating the bacteria alone rarely lasts.
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No. Low acid or enzymes, slow transit, histamine, food reactions and the cycle can all cause it. Testing tells them apart.
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Often the opposite. Low stomach acid can let the valve relax and food sit too long. Acid-suppressing medicines are only changed with your doctor.
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When the gut lining is loose, LPS from gut bacteria reaches the blood and switches on inflammation through the body. Fibre-fed bacteria make butyrate, which helps calm it.
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Yes. Gut bacteria help clear oestrogen and convert thyroid hormone, and the gut makes GLP-1, the fullness signal.
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Rarely as a first step. Without changing the terrain, what was cleared tends to return. Overgrowth is treated where testing shows it, then the gut is rebuilt.
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Most treat the gut on its own and skip steps. When the nervous system, hormones, digestion and lining are worked on in order, and the gut is replanted after any clearing, the gains hold.
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Yes, consult by consult and alongside your oncology team. The gut is supported through treatment and rebuilt after it, with every step shared with your team.
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WRITTEN AND REVIEWED BY
Tanya Miles
Integrative Naturopath
Clinical naturopath and member of ANTA (11109). Practices Endobiogeny and anthroposophic medicine, with compounded herbal medicine and functional testing. Last reviewed October 2026.
Ways to begin.
Book an initial consultation
We map your history and results together and decide where to start.
A free intro call
About fifteen minutes to talk through where you are and which pathway fits. Leave your details and I will call you.
The Deep Reset
Twelve consultations on the Gut Reset & Microbiome pathway, with the foundations of healing and The Wholefood Kitchen.