About

Fiona Murphy is a Sligo-based health coach who has studied this field intensively for 25 years after she herself suffered from bad acne, late night digestive fullness, anxiety, depression (despite loving her life) IBS, food sensitivities, insomnia, UTIs and thrush infections from her teens. NONE of which were ever fully resolved through the medical route or taking antibiotics and random probiotics and vitamins from chemists and her scopes, gastoscopies, colonoscopys and bloods were always normal. At one point it was mentioned by doctors it might be “all in her head”. No gut specialists existed then. She was as one says “out at sea” suffering alone.

But she never gave up  researching and watching her mum go into ill health, catapulted her into more studying about how the body works. She later discovered tthat the oral contraceptive pill given for her acne for 10 years contributed to her monthly anxiety & PMDD, IBS, high blood pressure, thrush, UTIs and chloasma because those synthetic ocps destroy the gut microbiome cause mineral deficiencies and contribute to oestrogen dominance. She also found a way to treat acne holistically through resolving the dysbiosis in the gut and improving the efficiency of the liver. She started her own successful skin clinic age 28 around working in corporate pharma in sales of gut health, skin health and mental health drugs.

In total she endured a gut health, hormonal health, skin health, mental health battle for 25 years, worsened as a result of chronic stress caring long-term for her mum who had undiagnosed depression from her 30s and dementia from her early 50s. After years of crippling digestive issues, anxiety & insomnia postnatally she left corporate pharma life career age 34 and went on a journey to find her wellness from burnout alongside running her skin clinic. 

Fiona did a BSc In Microbiology and Biochemistry an MSc in food, nutrition and health. She focused on studying gut and hormonal health. She learned she had low stomach acid, SIBO, SIFO, Mycotoxin Mold illness, a leaky gut, fodmap sensitivities, adrenal fatigue, sluggish liver and was close to becoming hypothyroid, non of which showed up on annual family doctor blood tests. The stress on her body from living with so many unrecognised conditions stopped her sleeping after her birth of her second child and the stress on her body of not sleeping (which her then doctors refused to treat) led to long term gut inflammation and collapse of her hormonal system which caused her to go into early perimenopause at 36, fibromyalgia like allover body pain and stiffness , crippling insomnia and full menopause which started at 42. 

She realised 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 so her hormonal balance came crashing down in her mid 30s. Medication & HRT hormones gave her the bandaids to keep motivated to keep fighting for her life. From 38 she figured out she had low stomach acid,  by 40 she discovered the Mold illness.. Later after years of trying elimination diets, gluten free, dairy free, low fodmap diets, having tests & taking random probiotics and supplements balance was achieved in her life through many lifetstyle changes to bring her out of fight or flight and adrenal fatigue, she resolved the nutritional and mineral defeciencies, got her body to produce ample digestive juices, fixed her absorption, optimised her thyroid and detoxified her liver from mold. She healed herself and got well by age 45. She even reversed her menopause. Currently she is optimising her brain and to improve detoxification mobilise and detox heavy metals to reduce her risk of developing dementia as she is an APoE4 carrier.

She learned so much she started this health clinic in 2020 to support others like herself. Fiona is married with 2 small kids 8 and 10, one of which has Attention Deficit Disorder, another area she is hugely passionate about resolving and she lives by the sea in Sligo. Along with being a busy mum she works part time from home doing gut, hormone health and skin consultations. She does corporate talks and travels nationally spreading her work, educating doctors. Fiona now 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 see suffer with acid reflux, chronic constipation or digestive gut issues, SIBO, Mold, Candida, fatty liver, gallstones, food intolerances or fatigue, insomnia, low mood, overwhelm, ADND, anxiety or endometriosis, body pain, arthritis like conditions,  PCOS, acne or rosacea, itchy skin, histamine intolerance or allergies, psoriasis, ezcema, brain fog, infertility or pain type illness in patients who presented as normal with no symptoms as children. 

Outside of work Fiona is passionate about everything selfcare, practicing what she preaches, skin aesthetics, pool swimming, weight lifting, beach walks, reading health books, making smoothies, salads & attending to her house plants and garden. She has inattentive ADHD, which she said is her superpower-gut health being her hyperfocus! she is a perfectionist, super creative & harworking and tenacious and prides herself on giving her patients excellant customer service as healing the gut 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.anxiety