Hi, I’m Astrid — founder of Wholly Papaya Nutrition.
My work was born from my own journey with chronic health struggles, including pre-diabetes, iron deficiency anemia, chronic inflammation, hormone imbalance, digestive issues, and years of painful, heavy periods. For years, I was told I was “fine,” even though my body was clearly telling a different story.
In 2023, I was diagnosed with PCOS, which finally gave me clarity and direction after years of confusion, misdiagnosis, and feeling dismissed. But PCOS wasn’t the beginning of my healing story… it was the turning point.
I also faced infertility challenges and was told that getting pregnant would likely be difficult without medical intervention. Instead of accepting that as my only future, I chose to change my life. Through deep education, research, and a holistic, food-first approach, I transformed my nutrition, mindset, and lifestyle, addressing root causes, not just symptoms.
By changing how I lived, fueled my body, managed stress, and supported my hormones, I was able to restore my health and get pregnant naturally welcoming my miracle baby in 2025.
Through this same holistic approach, I reversed my pre-diabetes, chronic inflammation, digestive issues, iron deficiency, and PCOS by October 2024.
This journey showed me something powerful: the body is not broken – it’s responding to its environment.
Not everyone has the time, resources, clarity, or support to navigate this kind of transformation alone and that’s where I come in.
My mission is to guide women through personalized, realistic, root-cause health coaching so they can restore their health, hormones, gut, fertility, confidence, and quality of life.
You don’t have to do this alone. You don’t have to stay stuck. Healing is possible.
MY CREDENTIALS
AFPA Certified Holistic Nutritionist
AFPA Certified Gut Health Specialist
AFPA Certified Autoimmune Disease Nutrition
AFPA Certified Health and Wellness Coach
FDN-P Trainee
WHOLLY PAPAYA NUTRITION
The name Wholly Papaya comes from my love of papaya and my belief in a truly whole-person approach to health – mind, body, hormones, and habits. Wholly Papaya represents nourishment, balance, and healing from the inside out.