About

Fiona Murphy 45, is a Sligo-based gut health coach who has studied for 25 years because of her own crippling health journey and watching her mum loose her life to depression and dementia in her early 50s

From a teen Fiona suffered from bad acne, late night digestive fullness (awake all night after restaurants) daily stress, overwhelm and anxiety, depression 7 days before her period aka PMDD (despite loving her life) IBS, diarrhea, food sensitivities, UTIs and thrush infections

She almost hit burnout in her early 30s, the chronic stress caring long-term for her mum since she was 18, (who had undiagnosed depression from her 40s and dementia from her early 50s) was the cross that broke her. She left her corporate pharma career age 34. She went self employed and on a journey to find wellness

The stress on her health from living with so many untreated conditions stopped her sleeping after her birth of her second child age 36 (which her then doctors refused to treat). Lack of sleep can lead to severe dysbiosis in the gut which caused sky high histamine levels (which was root cause off her not sleeping), After 5 years of desperate sleep her hormonal system collapsed, her periods stopped, she developed a fibromyalgia like allover body pain and stiffness which almost left her bedbound from age 38. Her siblings lived in Canada and they introduced her to functional naturopathic medicine which she started studying. Medication & HRT hormones gave her the bandaids to keep motivated to keep fighting for her life

NONE of her issues were ever even partially resolved through the medical route or taking antibiotics, probiotics or vitamins from chemists and her scopes, gastroscopies, colonoscopys and bloods were always “within range”. At one point doctors said it might “all be in her head”.  She was “out at sea” suffering alone. But she remembered how well she felt age 25 and was determined to get back there..

She never gave up  researching often from her laptop in her bed into studying about how the body works. She figured out she had SIBO and low stomach acid by age 38, by 40 she discovered the Chronic Mold illness..She discovered that the oral contraceptive pill given for her acne for 10 years age 18-28 caused nutritional deficiencies, IBS, high blood pressure, thrush, UTIs and chloasma (Synthetic contraceptive destroy the gut microbiome cause mineral deficiencies and contribute to oestrogen dominance)

Over time she found a way to treat her acne holistically through resolving the dysbiosis in the gut and improving the efficiency of the liver

Through testing she later learned she had a leaky gut, fodmap sensitivities, adrenal fatigue, sluggish liver and was close to becoming hypothyroid, non of which ever showed up on annual family doctor blood tests!

She learned that hormones are made in the gut and because her gut wasnt working well for years and her body couldnt get the raw materials it needed to support her health her hormonal balance came crashing down in her mid 30s

The elimination diets, gluten free, dairy free, low fodmap diets did not work. Balance was achieved in her life through many lifestyle, medication and nutritional changes to bring her out of fight or flight and out of adrenal fatigue, resolve the decades of  mineral deficiencies, get her body to produce ample digestive juices, fixed her gut absorption, optimised her thyroid and detoxified her liver from mold. She is still healing herself and got life back by age 45. She even got her periods back!

She learned so much over her 10 year chronic health journey she started her health clinic in 2020 to support others like herself

Currently Fiona is still optimising her digestion to eradicate the last of the mold and dysbiosis and working on her brain to improve detoxification, to mobilise and detox heavy metals to reduce her risk of developing dementia later in life (as she is an APoE4 carrier)

Fiona does alot of work in the area of cognitive decline supporting carers and patients because of her own families struggle with dementia

Patients types she usually sees suffer with histamine issues, acid reflux, chronic constipation or digestive issues, unresolving chronic SIBO, Lyme, ME, Fatigue, Mold, Candida, fatty liver, gallstones, food intolerances, insomnia, low mood, overwhelm, are in fight or flight, have ADHD symptoms, anxiety or endometriosis, body pain, arthritis like conditions, fungal rashes, PCOS, acne or rosacea, itchy skin, histamine intolerance, allergies, psoriasis, eczema, brain fog, infertility who presented as normal with no symptoms as children or teens 

Fiona is a Canadian trained Advanced Functional Naturopathic Practitioner, she has a BSc in Microbiology and Biochemistry an MSc in food, nutrition and health. Along with being a busy mum she works part time from home doing health consultations and continuous to work on her health. She also does corporate talks and travels nationally spreading her work, educating doctors.

Outside of work Fiona lives by the sea in Sligo, is married with 2 kids 9 and 10, her son has recently been diagnosed ADHD, The Inattentive type, this is another area she is hugely passionate about researching. 

Fiona is passionate about mothers selfcare, practicing what she preaches! Loves a good facial & skin aesthetics, pool swimming, weight lifting, beach walks, reading health books, making smoothies, salads & attending to her house plants and garden. She thinks she has inattentive ADHD, which she said is her superpower-gut health being her hyperfocus! She is a perfectionist, super creative & hardworking and and prides herself on giving her patients excellant customer service as healing the body is not a quick fix and patients need to be supported over a year or 2 which she is happy to do. To learn about her consultation process scroll down on the first page of this website