Petra Hooyenga MSc CPN

 

Petra Hooyenga is a Certified Practicing Nutritionist (AARPN PN00091)  and Nutritional Epidemiologist (MSc Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health). 

She supports adults and children with:

  • Cardiometabolic issues, including elevated blood sugar, cholesterol, high/low blood pressure and overweight
  • Chronic inflammatory conditions, including digestive, allergies, and neuropsychological (ASD)
  • Sensitivities, joint-pain, auto-immune, sudden weight gain.
  • Peri- and menopausal symptoms.
  • The intention to pro-actively seek personalised nutritional medicine.
  • Support for healthy ageing.

Petra has over 10 years of experience of providing personalised nutritional medicine treatment with a ‘food first’ focus on the quality of diet providing essential nutrients and co-factors to support physical and psychological health.

Petra is a G.E.M.M. (Gut Ecology and Metabolic Modulation) accredited clinician. G.E.M.M. is a unique system of healthcare designed to harness the principles of nature in helping to restore normal function to human cells. All aspects of this treatment protocol have their foundation in peer-reviewed scientific evidence.

Up until recently Petra was a research affiliate with the Healthy Longevity Research Team at the Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney.

     

    How I can Help

     

    Services

     Private practice

    As  Nutritional Medicine Practitioner | Certified Practicing Nutritionist it is my mission to help you restore your health naturally with food as medicine and nutritional supplementation where beneficial.

    Genetics only explains a small percentage of the chronic health conditions experienced by almost 50% of Australian adults.  Diet and lifestyle factors are important epigenetic factors in the development of cardiometabolic and other chronic conditions.  No amount of nutritional supplements or therapies will have any sustainable value, unless the foundation of holistic health is addressed as well.  Diet quality and quantity are important levers for health, as well as sleep, physical activity,  a sense of inner peace, connection with nature, family, friends as well as meaningful work and creative expression.

     

     

    G.E.M.M. protocol

    The G.E.M.M. Protocol (Gut Ecology & Metabolic Modulation) is a unique system of health care designed to harness the principles of Nature in helping to restore normal function to human cells. As the function of individual cells returns to normal, so too does the function of the disordered organs and systems that had allowed disease to flourish.

    All aspects of the G.E.M.M. Protocol have their foundation in peer-reviewed scientific evidence, with the accompanying nutrigenomically-active G.E.M.M. formulations based on food-derived ingredients for which clinical trials demonstrate efficacy.

     

    ” You will find Petra a beautiful, caring and wonderful practitioner and you will be supported by her to achieve great health.”

    Heather