Snow Skin

💚Honeydew
💚Kiwi
💚Lemon
💚Lime
💚Spinach
💚Avo
💚Pear
💚Vanilla
💚Ice
💚Water

& a little sprinkle of bee pollen 🐝 and matcha 🍵

This mornings melon & kiwi cravings = satisfied 👌

Breaky in the garden this morning
(Hoping my 🐍 visitor is still asleep)

🍞🥬Sourdough with pesto, rocket, avo, lemon juice, sunflower seeds, fetta & chili flakes 🥬🍞

Craving all the green, pre-biotic goodness this morning as I've been meal planning for a client who wants to protect her gut before undergoing intensive, triple antibiotic therapy for up to 18 months!

👏Such a wise woman to reach out for integrative help BEFORE getting started.👏
She has done her research and found some patients are unable to complete the treatment due to side effects and so is being pro-active to ensure she can see it through & maintain her vitality while she does.

1) We're not only doing everything we can to preserve her beneficial bacteria from the upcoming assault,

2) but also protecting her liver against the known hepatotoxicity of these meds,

3) Implementing a few little tricks to enhance the effectiveness & her response to this treatment (with the goal to reduce the duration if possible),

4) Optimising a few preexisting, suboptimal nutrition markers - iron & vit D - (these meds are known to lower levels further)

5) Enhancing appetite, protein intake & sleep quality (as she knows she feels worse when these aren't good)

6) Keeping a close eye on vulnerable systems - thyroid, liver & kidneys - to make sure she is well supported and we catch things & provide support early.

🌱 There are ALWAYS things naturopathy can help with, I meet you wherever you are at to help you achieve YOUR goals - it doesn't have to be all or nothing.

💙 I'm giving myself until the end of next week before I close my clinic for maternity leave💙

Final chance to book your consult: www.snowskin.com.au

Last chance - no more Snow or Flow on my website for the rest of the year after this batch.

Stock up now!!
www.snowskin.com.au

Stock will be available in store
LYMPHATIC SKIN & BODY WELLNESS
The Wellness Store Mandurah
(Until its sold out)

As you can probably tell from the effort put into this announcement post & my non-existant website updates... I'm starting to scramble to tie up loose ends before taking time off for maternity leave very soon.

With dwindling energy,
an increasingly sore body,
and a focus on making sure my clinic clients are all sorted with their treatment plans and prescriptions...

- my capacity for social media aesthetics and promotions is rapidly deteriorating.
Practicalities only right now 😋
(Can we normalise this actually? It's rather refreshing tbh).

This means I'm making sure my Snow & Flow customers & stockists are fully stocked for the rest of 2026.

💫WEBSITE ORDERS CLOSE SUNDAY EVENING 💫
* Orders dispatched ASAP, they'll be ready this afternoon.

(REMINDER to book in quickly if you were needing a consult as well - I'll likely close bookings in a couple weeks too).

Reminder: don't forget your POLYPHENOLS!
🫐🍒🍓

COLOUR = CHEMISTRY

Ever wondered what gives berries their typical bright blue, purple & red hues?
Berries are packed with a compound called ~anthocyanins~ the polyphenol pigments providing these beautiful, picture perfect colours.

Dark berries, like blueberries & blackberries, pack the biggest punch of anthocyanin polyphenols.

But polyphenols don't just paint a pretty picture, they help to create pretty guts & bodies more broadly too.

🦠GUT BUGGIES: your inbuilt CHEMISTRY LAB🦠

Polyphenols are actually pretty poorly absorbed... before they come into contact with our gut bacteria, that is.

Gut buggies love them, gobbling them up and converting them into other compounds that are linked with better mitochondrial function (cellular energy), muscle performance, immune regulation and the production of antiinflammatory compounds.

🤸‍♀️Here's a fact a find particularly fun🤸‍♀️

Because we all have different microbiomes... two people eating the same bowl of berries.. can produce entirely different polyphenol metabolites (depending on which species you've got in there).

🫐DIRECT EFFECTS ON GUT🫐

They serve as PRE-biotics, promoting the growth of beneficial bacteria and crowding out pathogens, over time bringing the gut back into harmony.

🧬SYSTEMIC EFFECTS🧬

So while it's near impossible to say exactly what they'll do for YOU... generally speaking, higher habitual berry intake is associated with:

🟣 lower blood pressure
🟣 improved blood vessel health
🟣 lower oxidative stress
🟣 sytemic antiinflammatory activity
🟣 lower all-cause mortality
🟣 type-2 diabetes risk reduction
🟣 slowing cognitive decline & neurodegeneration
🟣 improved lipid profiles
🟣 reduced weight gain and improved BMI
🟣 improved microbial compositions in the gut

A key feature of the classic Mediterranean diet - call me old school, but I'll forever hold this type of diet as a gold standard for optimal health.

At it again with the 4 ingredient crepes - this time make it savoury!

Still used 4 x eggs + 1/4 cup almond meal but replaced the vanilla and cinnamon with moroccan spice & sage.
(Somehow they seem eggier than yesterday 🤷‍♀️)

Yesterday's sweet breakfast crepes served as inspo for today's lunch.
Filled with sauted garlic, lemon mushrooms & kale, haloumi, avo & spinach (& mayo and fig chutney)

In clinic we've been doing a little food psychology and re-framing our meal planning to banish this idea of "breakfast foods", "lunch foods" and eating whatever whenever.

Most people tend to eat a pretty good dinner but get tripped up with choosing good breakfast & snack foods, knowing what to replace toast & sandwiches for lunch with...

A lot of this is because we've been programmed to think there are certain categories of foods for certain times of the day.

Left over slow cooked meat & veg for breaky?
Start the day with a cuppa bone broth soup??
Why the hell not?

4 Ingredient Crepes

🥞 4 Eggs
🥞 1/4 cup almond flour
🥞 vanilla extract
🥞 cinnamon

* I did add honey to my mix but probably not necessary. - oh, and a pinch of sea salt.

Mix, cook on medium-high, top with whatever you like!

1) Simple honey & cinnamon - heavy on the cinnamon 😉

2) Greek yoghurt, mixed berries & granola

Or easy to make these savoury with some sauted mushrooms & spinach, fresh avo, veggies of your choice... bacon... salmon... chicken...

Get creative, go nuts!