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The Autoimmune RESET
VJ Hamilton is a nutritionist, scientist, and autoimmune disease expert who founded The Autoimmunity Nutritionist Clinic, a Nutritional Therapy and Functional Medicine clinic specialising in autoimmune disease.
VJ combines her lived experience overcoming autoimmune disease symptoms with her knowledge of nutrition, health, biochemistry, and immunology to provide you with the most up-to-date research on autoimmune disease.
The Autoimmune RESET aims to provide you with the education and resources to empower you to take steps to transform your health and feel better than ever.
In each episode, VJ will share simple ways to uplevel your diet and lifestyle, key learnings from her own journey reversing autoimmune disease, and inspirational stories from those who have reset their autoimmune symptoms and are now thriving in life.
Health practitioners, mind and body experts, and scientists will be joining VJ as guests on the show, as well as those who have inspirational stories to share and are now thriving in everyday life!
And don't miss the short episodes every Friday, The Friday 5, in which VJ shares five healthy must-haves for you to explore over the weekend.
The Autoimmune RESET
Friday 5 - Signs Your Healthy Routine Might Be Working Against You
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We are constantly being told what we should be doing for our health: fasting, tracking our sleep, exercising more, cutting out certain foods, taking supplements, regulating our nervous system, improving our gut health…the list goes on.
But what happens when all those healthy habits actually start working against us?
In this episode, I explore something I see increasingly both online and in clinic: people doing all the right things for their health, yet feeling more stressed, more restricted and sometimes even worse than when they started.
I talk about why a health strategy that works brilliantly for one person may be completely wrong for another, and why even objectively “healthy” practices can become unhelpful when they stop matching what your body actually needs.
We look at everything from restrictive diets and gut health protocols to exercise, fasting, wearables and stress-management routines, and why more information doesn’t always lead to better health. In fact, sometimes the more data, rules and advice we accumulate, the further we move away from noticing our own responses.
Because your body is giving you information too.
The question is whether we are still listening to it.
In this episode, I discuss:
- Why healthy routines can sometimes make us feel worse rather than better
- How dietary restrictions can gradually become unnecessarily restrictive
- Why gut testing can be useful when it helps us personalise rather than guess
- How to recognise when your exercise intensity isn't right for your body
- Why stress-management practices shouldn't become another item on your stressful to-do list
- The influence of wellness trends, social media and conflicting health advice
- Why enjoying the things you do for your health actually matters
- How tracking and health data can be useful without allowing them to override how you feel
- Why reconnecting with your body's own signals can help you make better health decisions
Resources mentioned in this episode
SONA — nervous system support
I mention SONA in this episode as one of the tools I use to support nervous system regulation and stress management.
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Gut Health Test — GI Effects
If you want to understand more about what may be happening in your gut rather than continually removing foods or guessing which intervention you need, you can also explore the comprehensive gut health test I offer. It includes the functional stool test alongside analysis and interpretation of your results.
Find out more about my Gut Health Test
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The information shared in this episode is for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace medical advice. Always consult your healthcare provider.
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