KAREN BALL – Nutritional Medicine.
Karen is a degree qualified Nutritionist, having graduated from the Australasian College of Natural Therapies and Charles Sturt University in Australia.
Her nutritional medicine training enables her to therapeutically utilise foods as medicine, and to optimise nutrients, supplementation and lifestyle adjustments to help her clients achieve ideal health by offering a complementary approach to practice. This includes analysis of general and functional pathology testing, taking a comprehensive case history, and recommending an individualised and inclusive treatment plan for each client.
Karen strongly believes that food should be fun, fresh and exciting, and is impassioned to share the news with everyone to help them achieve their full potential in health and happiness. She realised that combining her passion for healthy foods with nutritional studies would provide the answers she was seeking.
Karen has developed a number of protocols for supporting a variety of health conditions that she works on with her clients, including:
- Digestive health – food intolerances & allergies, SIBO, parasites, bloating, IBS.
- Preconception care and preparation – optimising fertility and healthy pregnancy.
- Children’s behavioural health & learning – ADHD, ADD, Autism, Pyrroles.
- Weight loss
- Stress and fatigue
- Specialised diets – FODMAPs, SCD, GAPS, gluten free / dairy free, Paleo, FAILSAFE.
- Autoimmune conditions – Hashimoto’s, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, etc.
Nutritional Medicine
Naturopathic or holistic nutrition uses the science of what we eat and how that impacts our health – the use of whole foods as medicine. Nutritional medicine uses the combined knowledge of years of traditional food used as medicine, with current evidence based science to determine the therapeutic use of nutrients from food and the selected use of supplements to address deficiencies, support the body during chronic disease, and prevent health decline. More…
Nutrition For Children
Nutrition and Children’s health Nutritional medicine can be very helpful when it comes to supporting children’s health, using food and supplements in a safe, fun and therapeutic way to help promote your child’s optimal health. More…
Digestive Health Check
Have you got 20 minutes to spare? Then book in for a Digestive Health Check. Only $20! If you decide to make a Nutritional Appointment with Karen after your check, we’ll even take the $20 off that for you. Make an appointment now.
Availability
Karen is currently available
– Tue. 3:00pm -7:00pm
– Wed. 2:00pm -7:00pm
– Fri. 10:30am -2:00pm
Qualifications
– Diploma Nutr Adv.
– Bachelor Health Science Comp Med.
Fees
First appointment.
– ~75 mins – $140
Standard appointment.
– 30 mins – $70
Long appointment.
– 45 mins – $100
Digestive Health Check.
– 20 mins – $20
Rebates
Rebates are available for most services at Health In The Bay. See our Rebates page for more information.
Book Now
There are three ways to make an appointment.
- Book online HERE.
- Call us on 9904-1333.
- Or contact us on our CONTACT PAGE.