“I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.”
Hey, my name is Dani. I am a certified Holistic Integrative Nutrition and Wellness Coach. I specialise in gut health, women’s health and hormones, longevity, autoimmune diseases, holistic nutrition and healing the body naturally with food, gut healing as well as yoga, Pilates and other healing modalities. I am also a writer, an author, yoga and Pilates instructor, plus breath work and mediation teacher and a wellness speaker.
I have been teaching nutrition and wellness for over 23 years now. I have worked with many clients both online and in person 1:1, as well as as in group workshops.
I have been teaching nutrition and gut health both in Dubai and the U.K for the last few years and when my books were published; I expanded this to worldwide.
I am now 42 years old (43 this year), and I have been working on healing my body since I was 18 years old. The journey of healing never ends for me; I constantly update my studies and put new things into action with my lifestyle. Health is my passion. I am never not learning.
At the age of 18 years old, I developed an autoimmune disease (Graves’ Disease, Thyroid). Doctors told me the only thing I could do to help my thyroid was to have a treatment known as Radioactive Iodine. This treatment destroys the thyroid from working naturally, and leaves you dependent on the medication, thyroxine, for life.
I had a huge goitre on my neck (the butterfly gland), and because of this the doctor urged me to get this treatment as soon as possible, I listened. However, it all went downhill from there. With no working thyroid I began to gain weight (I went from a size 8 to a size 16 in 6 months), my hair started to become thinner, I developed anxiety and depression, I had chronic fatigue, my skin became thinner and veins more prominent, my energy was zero, I started binge eating on everything that was bad, such as take-aways, refined sugars, chocolates, all processed foods, cans of coke, bread, and just fuelling myself with anything that would give me some energy to get through the days. I became someone I know longer recognised. Radioactive Iodine destroyed my body and my self-esteem. I was 18 years old and should have been in the prime of my life, I wasn’t.
This experience led me on a path to heal myself with food. I wanted to reclaim the old me back; however, I didn’t know where to start and I didn’t know what I was doing.
It was a long journey but after years of commitment to studying nutrition and dedicating my life to learning how to heal my body with food and yoga etc., I finally did it and when I finally made that happen, I made it my mission and passion to help other people heal themselves naturally too.
My journey with health didn’t just start when I had Graves’ disease, I also had acne when I was 13 years old (chronic acne, all over my upper body). For my full story on this, you can read my books; in here I go into more detail on how to heal the skin via gut health, and how excessive consumption of antibiotics and the contraceptive pill also, destroyed my health.
I now coach people and teach workshops worldwide to give hope that your body can heal itself, we don’t need pharmaceutical medications, we need internal healing, stress management, gut healing and nutrition. I am here to give you HEALTH EMPOWERMENT!
Take control of your health, your body knows how to heal itself; you just need to feed it what it needs.
Dani x x x
ABOUT ME:
BA (Hons) and PGCE
IIN Integrative Medicine - Whole Body Healing (Holistic Nutritionist / Health Coach)
RYT 200 Yoga and 50 HRS Yin (Yoga Alliance)
Pilates Mat / Pilates Reformer
Personal Trainer
Breath Work / Meditation
Mudra Energy Healing
Author / Writer
Radioactive Iodine Treatment Destroyed My Body and My Endocrine System
MY BEFORE AND AFTER
The thyroid has a massive impact on your body’s function.
Thyroid hormones regulate the metabolism of nearly every cell in the body.
How I healed my Autoimmune, my Gut and How I Balanced my Hormones Naturally
It wasn’t easy, I had to work for it. As soon as I learned that my health issues were caused by my diet, I started there. I added in new foods and while I did that, I began to eliminate bad foods along the way because they were keeping me overweight, in bad health, with terrible periods, poor skin, low energy and brain fog. That’s just a few things, there were more.
I then began to take supplements to heal my gut, I came off the contraceptive pill that I had been prescribed for acne; I started juicing daily; I added superfoods and healing herbs to my lifestyle and I started exercising again.
As the years progressed and I expanded my knowledge, I went on to clean my liver health, I got qualified in yoga, to not only heal my mind but also my body.
I became certified in holistic nutrition so I could help others, and with that new knowledge I gained from my training, I began to heal my body even more.
Since the age of 18 years old I have never stopped learning how to improve my health: it’s my passion. I am so dedicated to health because I never want to feel that sick EVER again.
Graves’ disease is not a thyroid issue, it is a GUT PROBLEM. All autoimmune diseases are, and I wish I had have known that at the age of 18, so I never took that radioactive pill. It destroyed my health, it destroyed my hormones and it destroyed my mental health.
Whatever you may be dealing with I want this message to stick with you - ALL DISEASE BEGINS IN THE GUT! Including hormonal imbalances; there is no pharmaceutical out there that will ever heal the underlying causes of your health and hormonal issues, because you must heal the gut first; YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR DIET and you must manage stress. For all women I also stress this, “get off the contraceptive pill, it is a weapon of destruction to all female hormones!”
I worked hard to heal but with dedication I made it happen; I want that for you too. I am not perfect, I now depend on thyroxine medication for life, but I do the best I can with what happened to me. I don’t expect to have my body the way it was before radioactive iodine, but I’ve done well to make it the way it is now in my 40’s; I am now continuing to tweak my supplements and diet all of the time, so that they fit my lifestyle as I grow older. I aim now to stay in optimal health for the rest of my years. My question to you is, ARE YOU READY TO JOIN ME?
If your answer is yes; read my books, book in for coaching, come to my workshops, or maybe just join me over on my social media channels. Whatever you decide, I’ll be waiting for you.
With love and wellness wishes,
Dani x x x
What Do Low Thyroid Symptoms Look Like?
Dry skin
Hair loss / Hair thinning / Loss of Hair Shine
Outer 1/3 eyebrow loss
Loss of libido
Goitre on neck
Constipation
Anxiety / Depression / Low Moods
Chronic fatigue
Mental fog / Brain fog
Menstrual cycle issues / Irregular periods / Heavy periods etc.
Weight gain that won’t budge
Pre-menopause and Menopause symptoms are worse, because of low thyroid levels
PCOS , PMS , PMDD (all symptoms are worse, because of low thyroid levels)
Puffy eyes / skin / Water Retention
Cold hands and feet / body can’t warm up
Firstly, thyroid issues are not caused just by the thyroid; they are caused by underlying issues, usually chronic inflammation and to treat all thyroid related issues, you must look at the root cause! You have to look at the whole body, not just the thyroid when dealing with and treating thyroid symptoms. Thyroxine medication is simply a band aid approach.
These are some of the symptoms I developed after I had my thyroid destroyed with radioactive iodine. Many women are experiencing these symptoms because they have low thyroid levels (despite thyroid tests saying their thyroid levels are normal). The symptoms are due to poor diet, not enough iodine, gut inflammation, gut dysbiosis, stress, toxic over load in the body / a stagnated lymphatic, liver imbalances, dehydration at a cellular level, lack of vitamin sunshine (vitamin D) and more.
Any symptom in the body means something is wrong and needs to be addressed by going to the root cause first, which is - YOUR GUT.
In order for me to heal and address my symptoms from radioactive iodine damage, and no thyroid; I had to learn how to heal my whole body; that’s what I am now teaching all women and men with my coaching services and my books. You have to heal your gut first. You have to stop chronic inflammation; thyroxine medication won’t do that; it will just alleviate symptoms. It is going to require a diet change and a diet that helps to heal the gut microbiome and cleanse the liver. It must be an anti-inflammatory diet. That’s what I teach.
The same approach is needed for Graves’ Disease and Hashimoto’s. Address all the underlying causes, so your body can heal.
START WITH YOUR GUT HEALTH AND DIET