About Me

My journey into functional nutrition and wellbeing.

Hello! I’m Rachel Doherty

Functional Nutritionist

I have from an early age always been on a path of exploring health and vitality through Nutrition.

I was fortunate to have a wonderful idyllic childhood. A country upbringing in northern New South Wales near the gateway to the rainforests filled with home grown vegetables, freedom, open spaces, a love of horses and many carefree moments.

Fast forward, and after relocating to the city; I dived into corporate life and the many opportunities the city could provide. Life became a lot more frantic and fast paced.

After juggling city life, day to day living, and living in a toxic environment for many years, my health took a turn. Living with compromised digestive health, symptoms of food intolerances, hormonal and thyroid issues, life had its challenges..

My Approach

My approach is a holistic approach identifying root causes and using appropriate functional testing tools to uncover any underlying health issues. My approach includes:

Healing your gut to help you absorb and utilise nutrients better.
Healing your liver so you can eliminate toxins better but also process nutrients better.
Working on your adrenals/thyroid/HPA axis so you can deal with stress better and not burn through nutrients so quickly.
Using “food as medicine”. An ideal diet of nutrient dense wholefoods, plant and animal grass-fed foods, probiotics and healthy fats to nourish the body. Nothing processed or artificial.

Nutrition, eating real food and cooking wholesome meals for my family has been a key passion of mine. When we start nourishing our bodies, our health improves. I believe individualised nutrition plays a big role in helping people achieve optimum health. We all have different biochemistry and our deficiencies and imbalances, both nutrients and minerals, are different based on how we deal with stress, our current diet and that of our ancestors and the amount of toxins we have been exposed to in our environment.

My Experience

Through my never-ending quest for optimum health and realising we had a strong interest in healing, I embarked on formal training in Nutritional Medicine. Through my six year degree qualification, I continued to explore and educate myself on the value of real food, looking at root causes and treating the body as a whole. All aspects of health are connected, and it is important to focus on our 5 pillars of health – a clean diet, reduce toxins, balance your minerals, manage stress more efficiently and heal your gut.

Through my own personal experience, my formal qualifications in nutrition and the knowledge I have gained, I feel I can empower you to take action and make significant changes to your health, diet and lifestyle.

My family and I are also the proud owners of a beautiful Groodle called Nala. We are proactive with her health needs and helping her live her best life. Having access to Canine HTMA testing, we can formulate a nutrient dense diet and explore deficiencies, imbalances and toxicities in her body.

With this desire to see Nala live a long and happy life, it has led me to do some further study with HATO (Holistic Animal Therapy Organisation). I look forward to sharing my knowledge in the field of animal health and nutrition.