The Hub Capricorn Coast - July Edition

Making Simple Changes to Improve Your Overall Health

By Shanelle Schick

Meet one of our local Naturopath's Caitlin Buttenshaw

After the events of the past couple of years, many people are wanting to glean a better understanding of their own health. Naturopathy is a great way to start making some small yet powerful changes to diet and lifestyle that can have an incredible effect on your overall wellbeing, mood and health.

Local Yeppoon woman Caitlin Buttenshaw has always been interested in health, nutrition and movement. Growing up in an active family meant she was always on the go. Her interest in naturopathy piqued when she saw a naturopath for her own health concerns and noticed a significant improvement in her health within a few short months after making some simple diet and lifestyle modifications accompanied with herbal medicine. Picture Supplied by Caitlin Butthaw

Caitlin has completed her Batchelor of Health Science in Naturopathy and has opened her own business here in Yeppoon – Caitlin Jane Naturopath. When you book an appointment with Caitlin, you can expect a holistic naturopathic experience with a treatment plan that is tailored specifically to you and your individual concerns.

"Enjoy Everything in Moderation"

Taking a holistic approach, you can expect to chat about nearly every aspect of your life from diet, exercise, sleep, hydration, stress management, mental health, lifestyle and everything else in between!

A combination of herbal and nutritional medicine coupled with evidence-based dietary and lifestyle modifications will form part of the plan to treat the underlying causes of your condition by getting to its root cause and ultimately improving the quality of your life!

Caitlin’s words of wisdom for you are to “Enjoy everything in moderation! Food should be enjoyed and not feared. You should aim for the 80/20 rule – 80% whole foods and 20% soul foods. Small, simple diet and lifestyle changes that you can implement over a period of time is what will make the most impact on your health long term’.

You can find Caitlin on Facebook and Instagram. You will see her regularly in The Hub with her column “Ask a Naturopath”. Feel free to email either Caitlin or The Hub with any questions you’d like her to address in her upcoming columns.