About Lauren Gauthier, Integrative Health Practitioner

Lauren is an integrative wellness practitioner and advocate for truth and transparency in all realms of health. She trusts the innate healing potential within each of us so we can transform into the most brilliant version of self. As a practitioner, Lauren grounds her patients back into the wisdom of the earth utilizing water, sun, soil, herbs, food, and microbes as her primary healing framework.

Lauren weaves knowledge from and training in functional medicine, holistic nutrition, health education, herbalism, muscle testing, yoga philosophy, permaculture, bodywork, and more. She primarily works one on one with patients, in addition to teaching courses and designing nutrition curricula.

Lauren’s journey in healing began after she was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease, at the age of three. Growing up in a culture obsessed with symptom management, it was not until her teenage years that she found the world of holistic and alternative medicine. Her own journey to wellness deeply informs how she works with patients today through optimizing nutrient sufficiency with food and herbs, effective and safe drainage and detoxification programs, EMF mitigation, creating coherence with water, as well as mind-body awareness and resilient stress management.

Outside of working with patients, Lauren is the founder of The Abrothacary, a bone broth company focused on supporting regenerative land management and agricultural practices. The Abrothacary’s bone broth blends incorporate the magic and medicine of our tonic and functional herbal allies. When we support the integrity of the gut, we support the greater ecology of all body systems.

Lauren lives in the forest of the Sierra Nevada Foothills and when she’s not working with patients, she’s dipping in magical hot springs all over the west coast.

How to find Lauren

• Instagram: @regenerative_healing
• The Remedy – a practice she is at two-three days per week
• Lauren’s website: https://www.regenerative-healing.com/ 

Highlights

• Lauren shares her story of begging diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid arthritis when she was 3 years old and how this led her to where she is today
• Reframing symptoms as a gift ~ they are feedback from our body telling us that something needs our attention
• Why slowing down is so important if we truly want to tap into what our body is telling us
• The mixed messages pervasive in our society regarding food – Lauren encourages her patients to reframe how they approach food, starting with the question, “What is your relationship with food?”
• For hormonally changing women, it’s important to recognize that our nutritional needs are individual ~ listening to our body and honoring our symptoms
• What are the non-negotiables when it comes to food?
• Specific foods that can help to support pausal women
• Phytoestrogens are a top source because they loosely bind to receptors and can help to block estrogen-disrupting chemicals
• Liver and adrenal support are very important, as is supporting the nervous system
• Lauren shares her go-to list of things that help liver function – start with the foundations before going to the heavy hitters, like a liver detox
• Milk thistle, bitters, dandelion, genistein, Rasa Coffee, castor oil packs, and coffee enemas can be hugely helpful in supporting the liver
• Queen of Thrones is her go-to for castor oil packs
• Pure Life Enema for Coffee Enemas – Lauren explains how coffee enemas stimulate the hepatic portal vein, which ends in the distal colon, which causes the liver to contract and squeeze its contents, which results in big bile flow which is so important – it is a cleansing agent for the colon
• Which herbs can help target pausal symptoms
• Lauren shares how to prepare a simply daily herbal infusion using oat straw, nettles, red clover
• Aviva Romm’s tincture for hot flashes
• Using herbs to support pausal symptoms requires consistency
• Preparing our bodies for perimenopause is best done before we reach perimenopoause
• Dried herbs bought in bulk can be found at a local herbal shop or Mountain Rose Herbs , Star West Botanicals, Frontier Herbs or San Francisco herb company
• For tinctures and capsules – Mountain Rose herbs,  MediHerb (Standard Process), Gaia Herbs, HerbPharm, Wise Woman Herbs, Woodland Essence
• Adaptogenic Herbs and other mood-supportive herbs are wonderful for supporting women in all stages of life  – Ashwagandha (may not be great for hot flashes), eleuthero (poor man’s ginseng), blue vervain, mother wart, don qui
• Shatavari is great for libido and oomph – can help to support progesterone too