Julie Matthews is a Certified Nutrition Consultant and Educator, globally respected nutrition expert, award-winning author, and published researcher. Her guidance is backed by twenty years of clinical experience and scientific research with complex neurological and physiological needs; particularly autism and related disorders.
She has lectured in more than 60 cities across three continents, been on television, radio, newspaper, blogs/podcasts, and published scientifically referenced articles in journals and websites. Julie’s been featured by Price-Pottenger, honored by the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, sits on two scientific advisory boards including the Autism Research Center, and is a Certified Nutrition Consultant with a successful practice in San Francisco.
Julie is a dynamic speaker who has educated professionals at trainings for Integrative Medicine for Mental Health, Autism Research Institute/DAN!, Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs, and the MINDD International Forum in Australia. Now, nutrition professionals around the world embrace her comprehensive bioindividual nutrition training.
During her early nutrition studies back in 2001, Julie discovered that food and nutrition influenced the condition known as autism. She committed to investigate the connections then explain them to parents and clinicians that can make a difference helping children recover. Her final research paper at Bauman College later became her award-winning book Nourishing Hope for Autism. It explains WHY food and nutrition affects the systems and biochemical pathways routinely occurring in autism and HOW to strategically apply a specialized diet to help children heal.
After many years in practice, it became evident to Julie that the dietary approaches that helped the most difficult clients, were useful in healing most chronic conditions. And because autism is one of the most complex disorders (with underlying immune/autoimmune, digestive, neurological, and metabolic dysfunction issues), it provides a unique perspective on chronic disease that helps Julie teach others to see hidden connections between symptoms, circumstances, and effective healing dietary strategies for a wide variety of complex conditions.
She founded Nourishing Hope to stand for the efficacy of improved diet and nutrition for autism, and the BioIndividual Nutrition Institute to share the synthesis of her knowledge with cutting edge clinicians to help improve their effectiveness with therapeutic diets and nutrition to address all chronic disease and disorder.
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The right personalized nutrition plan for your client can bring about profound improvement and benefit. In this article, I want to focus on a diet that can be helpful for your clients, especially those with gastrointestinal issues: The low FODMAPs diet. For those not...
Starting on a gluten-free and casein-free (GFCF) diet for your clients can result in profound improvements. Many times, that starts with defining for my clients what these things are and in a way that is digestible (see what I did there? ;-)) Gluten refers to the...
The right bioindividual nutrition plan for your client can bring about profound improvement and benefit. In this article, I want to focus on some diets that have received a lot of attention in the news and nutrition community: the ketogenic diet and intermittent...
Do you experience random headaches? Or perhaps your tongue gets all swollen when you eat tomatoes?As you’ll discover in this article, these symptoms aren’t ‘all in your head’ but could be related to how your body handles histamine. I’ll also talk about what...
Genetics can be used to help us personalize diet through the study of nutrigenetics and metabolomics. I found something I wanted to share with you. It is so compelling that I decided to make it a new video as a resource for practitioners. It comes from a study by Jill...
Personalized Nutrition Choices that Improve Health As with many nutrients, choline intake is bioindividual. Because of the important uses of choline including gene expression, knowing that some clients may need more choline than others (and which clients) is very...
Diet influences the intestinal tract, gut microbiome, and brain. And personalized nutrition, or BioIndividual Nutrition®, can have a profound impact on the mood, learning, and behavior (i.e. the brain) of our clients and patients. In fact, clinicians in my...
Sulforaphane, the active compound from broccoli sprouts, has many powerful health benefits. Research shows that it is a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory substance. It can address neuroinflammation, is neuroprotective, and is even helpful for autism....
Gastrointestinal Disorders Prevalence If you’re a nutrition or health practitioner, you’ve certainly had your fair share of clients with a gastrointestinal disorder or symptoms. I’m certain of that. That’s because digestive disorders are incredibly common. They...
We’ve asked the following esteemed professionals to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board for the BioIndividual Nutrition Institute to help us pursue our mission: to establish the legitimacy of nutrition in health care, and further the research and practice of individualized (patient-specific) diet and nutrition strategies for the prevention and healing of chronic health conditions. Our Scientific Advisory Board members share a passion for nutrition research, genomics and individualized nutrition, evidence-based medicine, nutrition science, and an integrative approach to health and wellness.