Ilona Brown

Overview

Ilona holds a Bachelor of Health Science in Clinical Nutrition, and is passionate about supporting women and their families throughout the entire reproductive journey — from optimising fertility and preparing for conception, to nurturing a healthy pregnancy, and providing ongoing care and guidance during the postpartum period to promote long-term wellbeing for both mum and bub.

Ilona also has special interests in menstrual health and fertility awareness, gut microbiome health, skin conditions, relationships with food, nutritional and hormonal imbalances.

Elements integrates traditional food wisdom with modern scientific evidence, offering tailored nutritional advice and lifestyle therapies to address health issues, prevent disease, treat nutritional imbalance and encourage recovery. Elements welcomes and encourages functional testing in consultations to get optimal treatment success. Ilona has access to and is trained to interpret functional testing including: methylation, gut microbiome (stool samples), hormone, DNA and blood pathology.

In her practice, Ilona draws from a range of tools to support her clients, including everything from nutrition, traditional food wisdoms, nutritional compounding, practitioner-grade nutraceuticals, a biochemical and functional approach to health, all of this combined helps to embody the holism that clinical nutrition stands for.