About Holly Lehmann

Holly is a Registered Associate Nutritionist based in London, England. 

Burnout. She had heard of the terminology before but had not thought about it deeply. In hindsight, she says she should have done! After school, she studied Hospitality Management and worked in the luxury hotel sector in the UK for around ten years. Multiple factors, including; continuous fast-paced work environments, long unsociable hours including night shifts and grabbing food on the go led her to have a dramatic burnout.

Symptoms of her burnout appeared overnight, although it was obviously creeping up on her. She recalls seeing signs but had ignored them as she felt there was no time to look to them. People experience burnouts differently. In her case, she developed food allergies and intolerances to pretty much all foods. Long-term stress had destroyed all the good bacteria in her gut as well as her gut lining, leading to a so called 'leaky gut'. She was told this was the root cause of all her allergies and intolerances. For six months, Holly mainly lived off sweet potatoes. She could not even tolerate her daily cup of tea! She loves her food, but overnight all of what she used to love she could no longer eat. She lost weight dramatically and felt distinctly unwell. She had so little energy that she had to take two years out to regain her strength and improve her health.