Bryanston · Johannesburg · est. 2009

HEALTH
YOURSELF.

Functional medicine and lifestyle coaching for women over 40 — menopause, metabolism, nervous-system regulation, and the GLP-1 transition.

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What is Health Yourself?

Health Yourself is a functional medicine coaching practice in Bryanston, Johannesburg, founded in 2009 by Christine Phillips, a Board Certified Integrative Nutrition & Functional Medicine Health Coach and DSTV Resident Wellness Chef (2018–2022). It helps women over 40 with menopause, metabolism, nervous-system regulation and the GLP-1 transition through 1:1 and small-group coaching, workshops, monthly whole-food Reset Packs delivered across Johannesburg, and red light and ozone therapies.

  • Credentials: certified through the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FMCA), member of FMHCA SA and UKIHCA, IIN-trained and DNAlysis-accredited; in practice since 2009.
  • Who it is for: women aged 40–60. The entry-level Health Blue Print Session is open to men and women aged 16–60.
  • Programmes run from R 1,300 (the 1-hour Health Blue Print Session) to R 7,500 (the 12-week Metabolic Support & GLP-1 Coaching, 1:1), and every client starts with a free 20-minute consult.

Sessions run on Zoom or in person at the Bryanston rooms, and Christine works alongside her clients' GPs, gynaecologists and endocrinologists rather than in place of them. Phone +27 83 556 3434.

Booking with Christine — for the woman who's done with one-size-fits-all.

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Meet your functional medicine health coach

Christine Phillips.

Functional medicine & integrative nutrition health coach · accredited practitioner · wellness chef · DSTV Resident Wellness Chef (2018–2022).

Bryanston-based, working with women in their forties and fifties whose bodies have stopped responding to what worked in their thirties. The work is real food, real coaching, and the time to actually be heard — never the same plan for two different women, and never the medical conversation she's already had a hundred times.

Christine works alongside gynaecologists, endocrinologists, oncologists and GPs across the northern suburbs. The functional medicine layer (food, sleep, nervous system, strength) is hers; the medical layer is theirs; the two are designed to amplify each other.

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FMCA IIN DNAlysis YY Trained
Reset Packs · Joburg Delivery

Five days of real food.

Hormone Reset · Nutrition Reset (cancer support) · GLP-1 Support. Whole-food, anti-inflammatory, prepared by Christine in the Bryanston kitchen — delivered to your door across Johannesburg on the first Sunday of every month.

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Start Your Journey

Six entry points into the work.

Choose the one that fits this season of your life — and the form (1:1, group, intensive) that fits your week.

— 01 —

Metabolic Support & GLP-1.

For women on Ozempic, Mounjaro or Wegovy — and for women planning to come off. Protein, micronutrients, muscle preservation, the off-ramp plan.

3-month programme — 02 —

Menopause Productivity Workshops.

A 3-week online workshop for senior executives, HR and line managers aged 40-60. Understanding your body, reclaiming your power, performing at your best.

3-week online workshop — 03 —

6-Week Belly Blast.

Online cohort, max 8 women. Anti-inflammatory whole-food protocol with shared accountability and a daily WhatsApp group.

6-week group — 04 —

Health Blue Print Session.

A 101 session into your health history and how to improve your outcomes — eating plan, suggested supplements, and an hour on your concerns with real solutions. Men & women, 16-60.

1-hour session · R1,300 — 05 —

Fast Like a Girl.

Cycle-aware eating and intermittent fasting for women still cycling, and for women in early perimenopause. Built around your cycle.

90-min intensive — 06 —

The Deep Dive Consult.

The full intake — history, hormones, DNA, lifestyle. Walk out with a 90-day map and a clear next step.

90-min · 1:1
The lane Joburg doesn't have yet

For the woman on the injection who knows the injection isn't enough.

The injection is doing one thing. Your body needs the other six — protein, micronutrients, muscle, mood, sleep, and the off-ramp plan.

The Metabolic Support Programme
The Protocols

Four named frameworks, refined in practice.

Citable, structured, and refined through real clinical work — sitting underneath every programme.

5 days

The Perimenopause Reset

Hormone-aware whole-food reset, designed for the woman whose 40s have stopped responding.

Read the protocol 12 weeks

The Post-GLP-1 Protocol

Coming off Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro — the bridge back to a real body.

Read the protocol 3 months

The Nervous System Reset

Burnout, somatic dysregulation, sleep collapse. A structured 90 days back to a regulated state.

Read the protocol 1 cycle

The Cycle-Sync Reset

Eat with your cycle, not against it. Hormone-aligned nutrition, training, and energy management.

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Red Light & Ozone Therapies

Two therapies the rest of Bryanston is only just catching up to.

Photobiomodulation (red light) and medical ozone at the Bryanston rooms. Single sessions, 10-session bundles, concierge consult bundles. Most clients begin with a 20-minute discovery call.

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From the women

What changes when the work actually fits you.

"I came to Christine because my doctor's only answer for my hot flashes was the pill. Six months in, my sleep is back, my weight is moving, and I haven't had a flash in eleven weeks. She listens like nobody else has."
Sarah M.Sandton · perimenopause client
"I was on Ozempic nine months and lost twenty kilos but felt awful — no energy, no muscle, no joy. Christine put me on a protein-led protocol, weaned me off slowly, gave me back my body. I wish I'd found her on day one."
Anita R.Hyde Park · post-GLP-1
"The Hormone Reset pack changed how I eat permanently. I had no idea food could be both delicious and clean. Three years later I still book it every month — the Sunday it arrives is the highlight of my month."
Liesl B.Bryanston · Reset Pack since 2023
From the journal

What we're writing about.

GLP-1 · Metabolism

The GLP-1 Companion — what no doctor is telling you.

The injection is doing one thing. Your body needs the other six. A practitioner's notes on the conversation the 15-minute consultation can't have.

10 min read
Menopause · Hormones

When perimenopause is wearing the costume of anxiety.

Why the women showing up at 43 with "I think I'm losing my mind" are usually being missed by the diagnostic system.

8 min read
Nervous System · Burnout

The high-functioning collapse — why your nervous system stopped catching you.

A guide for the women who held it together for twenty years and woke up one morning unable to anymore.

9 min read
Your first step

Twenty minutes. No cost.

If the work fits, we map the right entry point together. If it doesn't, you leave with one or two practical ideas you didn't have when you arrived.

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