Katarina has spent her entire life studying and experimenting with the gut in all its facets. She spends her days reading medical journals and advancing her education with the most recent science and published articles. Pulling from her medical intuition, she factors this as her main source of knowing what someone needs in order to heal. She is not only using this, she supports her intuition and life purpose of helping people heal with various completed formal education.

Katarina, owner of The Gut Lab Inc, is a Board Certified and Licensed Acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner. Katarina is also a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Registered Chinese Herbalist and utilizes Somatic Energetics. She is currently pursuing her Universal PhD as her business is international. She completed a Chinese Doctoral Program in 2023, awaiting the board exam, offered only every two years. Her busy practice has been operating for over ten years and has grown on referrals alone.

After being diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 2017, she knew there was so much more to healing the gut than just staying away from gluten. The removal of gluten did not alleviate her symptoms or make her feel any better.

She struggled with childhood eczema, adult acne and weight management issues.

She tried every expensive naturopaths who put her on the same program that they put every other person on, milk thistle and evening primrose oil.

Her symptoms would just get worse each time and she felt they were using textbook bandaid approaches, without addressing the root.

She started her post secondary education at Trinity Western University for nutrition, but felt more drawn to the holistic side of education. She did not find the Canadian Food Guide was the answer to her health and she knew medication was not the answer.

She researched the gut and began her holistic journey by becoming a Registered Nutritionist, working in several different naturopathic clinics early on in her career.

Katarina was talking and teaching about gut health before gut health was the well known medical staple it is today. People were unaware at that time the importance of the gut for the entire body and thought of the gut as only an elimination organ.

During her career in nutrition, she also worked for the top nutraceutical companies that are still dominating the health industry, from Genuine Health to Genestra. She learned all of their formulations and sat in the laboratories, studying the research. She became really educated and well informed in holistic practice, supplements and homeopathies.

Katarina found there were several holes in what she had learned in western science and holistic nutrition. She began working homeopathic company, teaching the medicine techniques to different naturopathic and holistic doctors.

The method was a specialization these doctors took with advanced medicine and chronic disease management. It originated in Europe and was the opposing theory to antibiotics.

She began experimenting with different formulas and created her own method by accounting for todays chemicals and state of the gut, not only ancient textbook theory.

What Katarina does is unique to Glow as she created it and taps into her medical intuition to get the results you see on her page.

It is not found in a textbook and was not learned through the lens of the practitioner.