Maria Allerton
Clinical Nutritionist and Functional Medicine Practitioner.
I am the founder of True Foods Nutrition and run a busy online clinic where I work with people all around Australia, including my hometown of Sydney and internationally.
I am a fully qualified Nutritionist (Adv. Dip Nutritional Medicine) and a registered member of ATMS (Australian Traditional Medicine Society).
I practice Functional Medicine – a system of addressing underlying causes of illness, not just symptom relief.
I help my clients overcome long-standing health conditions by adopting healthy eating, addressing vitamin and mineral deficiencies, eliminating ‘bugs’ (parasites, unbalanced gut flora), reducing toxicity, addressing genetics and enabling the body to heal.
My health journey
In my health journey, I consulted numerous conventional and complementary health practitioners. And, to be honest, I never found somebody who really “gets it” and can see through all the test results, symptoms, emotions and history and put it all together.
I decided to become that practitioner, which is what I thrive on in my clinic work.
What makes my approach to healthcare unique is that I have personally experienced numerous, often debilitating, health conditions throughout my life. My experience helps me as a Clinical Nutritionist and Functional Medical Practioner in multiple ways: to truly relate and empathise with my patients. It’s helped me quickly identify potential underlying causes that others have missed, order the right functional tests and devise effective treatment plans.
“I have seen many caregivers of different specialties over the last few years and although they ran tests and sold me supplements, nobody has helped me as much as Maria has after one visit. She truly has a gift. Maria recommended that I start with her online ‘Healing IBS” Program and I was so excited to get started with her methods immediately. She is lovely.”
TORY CARRIERE, USA
My Passion
My passion is to help individuals and their families find a truly healthy life by eating real food, improving their lifestyle, and addressing gut and mood issues and metabolic issues through understanding body systems and genetics.
I firmly believe these goals can be achieved by being empowered to take charge of your own health. Too often, we delegate our health to others- by doing this, we lose touch with how our bodies work and feel and what they need. My job is to empower my patients to make positive changes in their life by choosing the right food and lifestyle.
Having personal experience with numerous health conditions makes all the difference
What makes my approach to healthcare unique is that I have personally experienced numerous, often debilitating, health conditions throughout my life. This helps me in my nutrition clinic daily in numerous ways to:
- genuinely relate and empathise with my patients,
- be able to identify potential underlying causes that others have missed quickly
- order the right functional medicine tests and devise effective treatment plans.
Some of the conditions that I have personally dealt with during my health journey include:
- Severe food intolerances and allergies
- Hay fever
- Sinusitis
- Chronic bronchitis
- IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome) and SIBO
- Gut dysbiosis and infections
- Candida
- Pyroluria
- Copper toxicity
- Gilbert’s Syndrome
- MTHFR and numerous other unfavourable genetics
- PMDD
- Mold toxicity/CIRS
- ADHD
- Thyroid and hormonal dysregulation
- Depression and anxiety
- Adrenal fatigue and burnout
- Insomnia
- Weight gain and loss
- ….and many others
I also have an extensive understanding of autoimmune conditions such as MS (multiple sclerosis), diabetes and developmental issues in children through experience with family members.
It seems that the universe has given me very dodgy genes and keeps throwing different illnesses at me so that I can become very good at addressing them not only for myself but my clients and followers!
All these areas have been the focus of my training (including postgraduate courses) and research.
What I think truly makes a difference and what I love to do with my patients is to put together the ‘puzzle pieces’ to form a real understanding of the TRUE CAUSES of their health issues. In my health journey, I consulted numerous conventional and complementary health practitioners. And to be honest never found somebody who really ‘gets it’ and can see through all the test results, symptoms, emotions and history and put it all together. I decided that I would become that practitioner, and that is what I thrive on in my clinic work.
Qualifications
Maria Allerton is a fully qualified Clinical Nutritionist (Adv. Dip Nutritional Medicine, Nature Care College Sydney) and a registered member of ATMS (Australian Traditional Medicine Society).
Maria’s postgraduate qualifications include:
- Certification with MAPS (Medical Academy of Paediatric Special Needs)
- Mindd Foundation practitioner
- Fitgenes practitioner certification- I regularly use genetic profile tests
- Postgraduate courses include:
- Health Masters live- Gastrointestinal, Autoimmune and Thyroid modules
- Post-graduate courses in mental health with Rachel Arthur ND
- Certified courses in ‘Restoring the Microbiome’ with Dr Jason Hawrelak and ‘Resolving Chronic Health Conditions’ with Dr Sandeep Gupta.
Maria also undertakes regular post-graduate training in diverse medicine and nutrition areas to ensure I have the latest knowledge and protocols.
Before becoming a nutritionist, Maria worked in marketing at three multinationals in Australia, UK and the US (B. Commerce, UNSW).
My Nutrition Philosophy
My nutrition philosophy is centred on a diet of nutrient-dense wholefoods: organic, seasonal animal and plant foods every day, together with bone broths, pro-biotic foods and healthy fats. Nothing that has existed for less than 100 years in our food system or that my grandparents wouldn’t have recognised! Nothing processed, artificial, or made in a factory.
I genuinely believe that True Foods Nutrition will help you and your family become and stay healthy every day!
Over the last 20+ years, I’ve read numerous nutrition, diet and health books and experimented with many ‘hit and miss’ approaches to eating, but I never felt truly healthy. When I had difficulty falling pregnant with my first child, I tried a hunter-gatherer style diet and eliminated all grains, dairy, sugar, legumes and processed foods from my diet. I immediately felt more energetic, and my digestion improved dramatically. I felt like a different person. Since then, I have adopted an ancestral/primal diet centred on wholefoods sourced from plants and animals: this approach is symbolised in my clinic’s logo.
Following the birth of my two children, I’ve decided to pursue my passion for nutrition and health by studying nutrition in earnest and founding True Foods Nutrition.
By finding the TRUE causes that underlie your health conditions, it is possible to address these with diet, supplements, detoxification strategies and lifestyle changes
My approach is not ‘go on this diet, work out your protein/carbs/fats, and you’ll be ok’- it’s a holistic, systematic, comprehensive and evidence-based plan that will enable you to make significant changes in your health with me as your guide.
Now my mission is to help others discover health, vitality and well-being through eating real food and re-balancing the body with the right nutritional supplements and lifestyle choices.
Find out how I have been able to help my clients restore their health and well-being by visiting the Testimonials Page.
