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Meet Alison Marras

Alison Marras is a holistic nutritionist, published author of The Paleo Gut Healing Cookbook, and gut health expert specializing in autoimmune disease and food sensitivities. After putting her own Hashimoto’s, PCOS, and IBS into remission, she made it her mission to help other women heal chronic digestive symptoms without restrictive elimination diets.

What We Talk About

• Alison’s personal journey with Hashimoto’s, PCOS, and unexplained fertility challenges, and how these experiences shaped her approach to functional nutrition.
• How restrictive diets and wellness misinformation contributed to food fear, disordered eating patterns, and a stressed relationship with her body.
• The role of gut health, hormone imbalances, and blood sugar regulation in fertility and thyroid healing.
• Why Alison shifted from elimination diets to a root-cause approach using functional testing, nervous system support, and mindset work.
• Her experience with multiple miscarriages, IVF, and how she prepared her body and mind for a healthy pregnancy after loss.
• Practical nutrition strategies for balancing blood sugar, reducing inflammation, and supporting fertility without falling into extremes.
• The emotional toll of long-term healing and how trauma, perfectionism, and identity shifts show up in the wellness space.
• Her tips for rebuilding trust with food: from honoring cravings to tuning into satiety cues and letting go of guilt.
• Why over-supplementing and constantly “optimizing” can backfire, and how to return to a simpler, more sustainable path.
• Alison’s mission to help women feel safe in their bodies and trust their healing timeline through gentle, personalized support.

Episode Resources

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Connect With Alison Marras

Website:
http://www.foodbymars.com

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/foodbymars/

Keywords

gut healing, functional nutrition, elimination diet, chronic illness, IBS, SIBO, food sensitivities, nutrient density, AIP, paleo meals, low-inflammatory foods, gut lining support, bone broth, microbiome testing, personalized nutrition, holistic health.