Today, female reproduction is controlled by laboratories, via the use of medication and other operative mechanisms. These interventions in combination with age, endometriosis, PCOS, thyroid disease, and other chronic conditions, can often look like stress, weight gain, sluggishness, low energy and poor sleep. For many of these women natural medicine is an effective and viable option. Unfortunately, women in rural areas have less access to alternative and complimentary natural medicines.

Georgie Gunn, a Clinical Nutritionist has spent many years learning to understand the Australian woman. She grew up in rural NSW with her 3 sisters, attended an all-girls boarding school, and worked with Women’s Weekly Cookbooks and Magazine for four years. Through a process of natural osmosis, she has developed relationships with diverse groups of strong women, and has found an affinity and purpose working with women.

Unsurprisingly her clientele are largely women with a rural background. The rise of telehealth has enabled her to reach women in remote areas. The complimentary and alternative medicine industry is rising, and rural women faced with the tyranny of distance have less access. Georgie, a strong advocate for preventative medicine, says, “the alternative medicine industry is not adequately recognised by health associations, however she wouldn’t want to be in any other industry”.

Georgie offers food as medicine to support all the weird and wonderful life stages from puberty, fertility, menopause, and all of those bits in between. Her philosophy is, ‘clinic starts in the kitchen’ and she aims to bridge the gap between orthodox and natural medicines. While most patients are aware of the importance of diet in both causing and relieving problems, many doctors' knowledge of nutrition is limited.

In the words of Hippocrates, one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”!