Hi, I'm Cristy

I know how it feels when you can’t eat and can’t function.

Eating is such a normal part of our day-to-day lives, that when you can’t eat with your family or be included in celebrations or eating out, life becomes really miserable and lonely.

I’ve had IBS since my teenage years but luckily I could manage my symptoms once I became a dietitian who specialised in gastrointestinal conditions. What I didn’t expect was years later to have a whole new condition that no one had ever heard of- small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO).

I had severe pain after eating, strange reflux, brain fog, eating anything made me feel terrible and I didn’t know what to do anymore.. Managing SIBO with IBS strategies didn’t help. Not only was it new to me, but also doctors here in the UK hadn’t even really heard of it let alone worked with patients to cure it.

It took my specialist knowledge and research skills to understand what it was and how to get rid of it. I took course after course to understand how I could rid myself of SIBO and finally I am well and can eat normally without the fear of what will happen after every bite of food. I followed a SIBO specific diet, identified the best probiotics to use for SIBO, worked out my root cause (food poisoning), which meant I needed to work on the part of my gut responsible for motility.

I used a SIBO ‘killing’ strategy- but only short term and then started to restore my gut. This is why I developed my SIBO gut restore program- to help others in my position to feel well again.