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The Autoimmune RESET
VJ Hamilton is a nutritionist, scientist, and autoimmune disease expert who founded The Autoimmunity Nutritionist Clinic, a Nutritional Therapy and Functional Medicine clinic specialising in autoimmune disease.
VJ combines her lived experience overcoming autoimmune disease symptoms with her knowledge of nutrition, health, biochemistry, and immunology to provide you with the most up-to-date research on autoimmune disease.
The Autoimmune RESET aims to provide you with the education and resources to empower you to take steps to transform your health and feel better than ever.
In each episode, VJ will share simple ways to uplevel your diet and lifestyle, key learnings from her own journey reversing autoimmune disease, and inspirational stories from those who have reset their autoimmune symptoms and are now thriving in life.
Health practitioners, mind and body experts, and scientists will be joining VJ as guests on the show, as well as those who have inspirational stories to share and are now thriving in everyday life!
And don't miss the short episodes every Friday, The Friday 5, in which VJ shares five healthy must-haves for you to explore over the weekend.
The Autoimmune RESET
Friday 5: Making the Most of the Holiday Season — Without Burning Yourself Out
The holiday season is often framed as a time of rest, but for many people it becomes physically and emotionally demanding — disrupting routines, increasing stress, and triggering symptom flares.
In this Friday 5 episode, VJ shares five practical ways to move through the holidays in a way that supports your nervous system, digestion, immune health, and energy levels — without striving for perfection or adding more to your to-do list.
You’ll learn why being truly present with friends and family has a direct physiological impact, how to support vagal tone through simple daily choices, and how to use the end of the year as a helpful reflection point rather than a source of self-criticism.
VJ also explores how to approach food during the holidays in a way that is grounding and nourishing — focusing on warm, blood-sugar-stable meals — and why making time for activities that help you feel like yourself again is not indulgent, but essential for long-term health.
This episode offers a calm, realistic framework for navigating the festive season with more steadiness, clarity, and self-trust — setting you up to enter the new year feeling more regulated, rather than depleted.
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