About The Founder, Astrid
Your gut is talking. I teach you how to listen.
Hola, I’m Astrid, a holistic wellness educator and GI health strategist who’s helped thousands of people break free from GERD, acid reflux, ulcers, SIBO, and other digestive disorders, without a lifetime of medications.
I built healYOUnaturally because I lived this first. Years of chronic acid reflux left me exhausted, restricted, and told by doctor after doctor that antacids and “it’s just stress” were my only options. They weren’t. Propped-up pillows, proton pump inhibitors, and endless eliminated foods never touched the real problem, they just masked it. When I finally found the root cause instead of chasing the symptom, I got my life back without a single prescription. That’s the moment this work became my mission.
Astrid
For 18+ Years, I’ve Researched What Conventional Medicine Skips
Your gut has more nerve cells than your spinal cord. When your nervous system is stuck in fight or flight, no amount of acid blockers will fix what’s actually wrong. My approach draws on functional nutrition and nervous system regulation, informed by research from PubMed, naturopathic and functional medicine journals, and the integrative physicians and naturopaths I’ve studied under and interviewed.
Inside the Academy, you’ll find several frameworks I teach, including the ROOTS Protocol, the piece that addresses nervous system dysregulation, gut barrier health, food triggers, and lifestyle systems. It’s one module of the full curriculum, not the whole approach, and it’s one of the things students tell me makes this course different from anything else they’ve tried.
My Students Don’t Just “Manage” Symptoms. They Heal.
Today that work reaches a real community of people who are done being told to just live with it.
What I’m Building Right Now
I’m putting the finishing touches on the Heal GERD & Gut Disorders Holistically Academy, a 5-week program that walks you through the exact protocol I use with private clients, step by step, no guessing required.
Whatever brought you here, years of frustration, a fresh diagnosis, or just a feeling that something’s off, you’re in the right place.
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Start with the same question I had to ask myself: what’s actually causing this?