Kitchen = Cure: How A Kitchen Makeover Healed Me

Before you start throwing expensive medical tests, superfoods, and herbs at your health problems, you are probably wasting your money if you don’t also give your kitchen a makeover.

If you’re new here, my name is Sherry Rothwell. I’ve been a holistic nutritionist for over two decades, and I’m currently a 3rd-year student of medical herbalism.

In the video below, I’m going to share with you my process and passion for doing Kitchen Makeovers, which I believe are the missing foundation in people’s health, weight loss, and healing journeys.

My passion for Kitchen Makeovers was born out of necessity. You see, when I was diagnosed with mono at the age of 19, I was forced to become health-conscious.

Before my mono diagnosis, the only times I gave any thought to my food were when I wanted to ‘pork out’ or starve myself to lose weight. I had no idea that my diet was the cause of my acne, extreme PMS, depression, and paranoia.

One of the gifts of mono is the sensitivity that it gives you. Mono allowed me to really feel the effects of what I was putting in my body. I could tell with precision when something was giving me energy vs. what was draining it.

In less than a week, I completely switched from the Standard North American Diet to a whole foods diet. Three weeks later, I felt about 70% better—and that meant that, despite my diagnosis, not only did I NOT have to take time off work, but I actually became healthier because of it.

While it took about two years before I felt 100% energy-wise, a whole host of other issues with my health went away on their own.

My kitchen makeover recreated the foundation of my health and as a result, pesky health issues simply resolved themselves.

My focus was simply two things:

1. Eating natural whole foods

2. Stopping the intake of toxins and stimulants in my body

My body did the work of detoxification and healing—just as it was designed to do. The only block to healing my body was me.

All it needed to heal was for me to stop getting in the way. I didn’t know better.

I didn’t understand the way the body works to heal itself. Like most people, I was raised to think that if something is wrong with the body, you go to the doctor and "they" figure it out.

But let’s face it—unless your doctor is a self-educating nutrition nerd, they’ve probably studied maybe up to six hours of basic nutrition. They never studied how to heal the body and prevent disease. They are experts in diagnosis, medication, and surgery - not recreating health from the ground up.

Once I decided to learn to eat real food and interpret my body’s language that is was speaking to me through symptoms, I was able to take control of my own health and let nature heal me.

As a result, the following health issues resolved:

• Yeast infections

• Bladder infections

• Acne

• Extreme PMS

• Depression

• Paranoia

• 15 extra pounds

Six months later I had:

• Clear skin

• A sunny disposition

• Motivation and passion

And two years later, I had no more symptoms of mono and had dropped 15 lbs—without having made any effort at all to lose weight. The healthier I became, the faster I dropped body fat.

All of these things happened as a result of simply eating a diet of natural food and dropping the toxic make-up, personal care and cleaning products.

Prior to this time, I was an aesthetician who had been soaking in fumes all day. Eventually, I quit doing esthetics and started working in health food stores.

With over 30 years of experience in the natural health world, I have seen a lot of people make the mistake of changing little with their diet and lifestyle, while trying to throw superfoods and herbs at their health challenges—only to get limited results.

Many times, it’s not their fault at all. Most practitioners also overlook the basic foundational things and jump straight to fancy supplements and expensive tests. It’s not the practitioners’ fault either—they simply don’t have time to educate each person one-on-one for deep diet and lifestyle changes.

That’s why the results are limited through supplements, vitamin injections, cleanses, bio-identical hormone therapy, herbs, etc.

Besides the fact that healing is a mind, body, emotion, and soul experience—the body needs a nutritional foundation to be able to utilize the healing powers of superfoods, herbs, etc.

Here's why that is true: it's because everything works in synergy with the co-enzymes in the body that make our internal chemical reactions function.

Those co-enzymes are vitamins and minerals.

Our biggest resource when it comes to vitamins and minerals are our meals— not the stuff that supplements our meals.

A nutritional foundation of balanced meals made of real food is key and foundational for our healing.

The superfoods and herbs work in synergy with your diet. However, if your diet and lifestyle stay the same, they work against the hormones, supplements, tinctures, and superfoods you are taking.

I’m not saying that you can never get miraculous results by just adding a supplement or herb—because it does happen to people all the time -that’s the exception though, not the rule. And that usually happens when the person’s condition is not that “far gone” yet - but eventually supplements are not enough.

A foods Kitchen Makeover is paramount.

Now, if this makes sense to you and you’re ready to finally stop chasing diets, detoxes, injections, designer supplements, and diagnoses—and instead build real healing from the inside out—then I invite you to join me inside the Kitchen Makeover E-Course & Challenge.

You’ll get step-by-step guidance to transform your kitchen, pantry, and meals so that your body can finally do what it was designed to do—heal itself.

If you want to learn more first, watch this video on my YouTube channel.

Let’s give your kitchen—and your health—a makeover that actually lasts.