Kat Vernelli is a Holistic Nutritionist and a Natural Nutrition Practitioner specializing in gut issues like IBS.
Spots are limited — accepting new clients now
The 5-Month HTMA Program
Stop guessing.
Start fixing the foundation.
You've done the diets. The probiotics. The elimination protocols. And you're still bloated, still exhausted, still stuck.
The problem isn't you. Nobody has looked at the layer underneath everything else.
That layer is your minerals. This program finds what's depleted, builds it back, and most clients feel the first shift within two weeks.
The first win comes fast
Most clients feel a shift within two weeks.
Most clients feel a shift within two weeks.
Before your test results are even back.
We don't wait for the test to get started. In week one, I review your full health history, your current symptoms, and everything you've already tried. I identify exactly what your body needs right now. The momentum starts immediately.
Week 1
Foundations Session. I review your history, identify what your body needs right now. Most clients feel different within days.
Month 2
Your HTMA results come back. We build your fully personalized plan from your data. Not a protocol. Yours.
Month 5
You leave with a long-term maintenance plan and a body you finally understand. No more guessing. Ever.
What brought you here
You know this feeling.
You wake up and the first thing you do is check in with your stomach.
Some mornings it's okay. Most mornings it's already starting: the pressure, the tightness, the knowing that by 2PM you'll be bloated enough to change what you're wearing. Your ring is tight. You feel heavy in a way that has nothing to do with what you ate. You snap at the people you love because you've been carrying this for so long.
You've cut the gluten. Tried the probiotics. Done at least one round of low-FODMAP. You've taken magnesium in different forms at different doses. You've had the bloodwork done and been told everything looks normal.
And you're still here.
Still bloated. Still constipated, or cycling between that and urgency. Still wired at 10PM and exhausted by noon. Still in the week before your period feeling like a completely different person.
You're not lazy. You're not dramatic. You're not broken. You're depleted. And you've been trying to fix the symptoms of depletion without anyone ever measuring the depletion itself.
Why nothing has held
Every protocol you've tried was working at the symptom level of a mineral problem.
Minerals are the foundation that every other system runs on. Your gut motility. Your hormone production. Your nervous system. Your thyroid. Your energy. Your sleep. All of it.
When minerals are depleted, every system downstream starts to fail. Slowly. In ways that are easy to dismiss one at a time, until the list is long enough that it feels like you're just someone who's always going to feel this way.
Probiotics can't colonize efficiently in a depleted cellular environment. Low-FODMAP reduces symptoms temporarily but doesn't refill the foundation. Hormone protocols struggle when the gut minerals driving estrogen clearance are running low.
Your effort was real. The missing piece was the foundation those efforts needed to land on. That's not a failure. That's an incomplete map. HTMA is how we draw the complete one.
The test
What a hair test shows that bloodwork doesn't.
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis measures mineral levels and ratios at the cellular level. Not in your blood, where your body maintains tight control to protect vital organs. In your tissue, where the real story of depletion lives.
Standard bloodwork shows your body's emergency management system. HTMA shows what's actually in the bank.
From a single sample, we can see everything your body has been trying to tell you.
Metabolic Type
Whether your body is running fast or slow, and what that means for your digestion, energy, and thyroid
Adrenal Pattern
Where you are on the burnout spectrum and exactly what your body needs to recover
Mineral Ratios
Not just levels, but the relationships between minerals driving hormone balance and gut function
Heavy Metal Load
Often entirely missed in standard testing, and a real factor for women who can't shift
Hormone and Thyroid
How your mineral status is affecting estrogen clearance, progesterone, and thyroid conversion
Nervous System State
Whether your body is stuck in fight-or-flight, and what that's doing to your digestion
What working with me actually looks like
You don't have to figure out what you need.
You don't have to figure out what you need.
That's my job.
If you're exhausted from researching, second-guessing, and trying to piece together your own protocol from podcasts and Reddit threads, you can stop now.
I take the mental load completely off you. I tell you exactly what your body needs and why. I build your plan from your data. I give you the steps, the supplements (only the ones your results actually call for), the meal plans, and the support to implement them.
You don't make decisions about what to take or what to change. I do that.
Your only job is to show up, answer my questions, and do the things I put in front of you. I handle the thinking. You handle the doing. And the doing is as simple as I can possibly make it.
See if this is right for you →
Real results
What this looks like when it works.
"My doctor said I had low iron and blamed that for my fatigue, heavy periods, and brain fog. But Kat looked deeper. She showed me that my iron wasn't low. It just wasn't moving, because I didn't have the cofactors to use it properly. No one had ever connected those dots for me before. Within 3 months, my periods were normal, my bloating was gone, and I wasn't constipated for the first time in years."
Casandra
"The HTMA results connected things I'd been trying to fix separately for years. She built a plan specifically for what my body needed, not a generic protocol, and for the first time, the results actually held. Clearer skin, regular bowel movements, more energy. And I wasn't white-knuckling a restrictive diet to get there."
Ashley
Is this for you
If you're reading this far, you already know.
The women I work with are in their 30s to early 50s. They're not new to health. They've done the research, tried the things, and been through enough to be skeptical of anyone who makes it sound simple.
They're dealing with chronic bloating and constipation that doesn't respond to diet changes, hormonal symptoms that feel disconnected from everything they've tried, fatigue that doesn't lift no matter how well they sleep, and a growing suspicion that something is being missed.
Many are entering perimenopause and discovering that everything they thought they knew about their body has shifted. Some have done multiple rounds of gut protocols and keep ending up back at the same place.
What they have in common: they've been working hard at this for a long time. And they are done guessing.
If that's you, this was built for you.
A note on complicated cases.
If you have a long and overlapping symptom list, that's not a sign you're a difficult case. It's a sign that everything is connected, which is exactly what HTMA is built to show. Complicated-looking cases are often the clearest once you have the right data.
How we work together
The 5-Month HTMA Program.
Five months, data-driven, fully supported. The length is intentional because rebuilding a depleted mineral foundation takes time. And because the most important thing we can do is track how your body actually responds.
Month 1
60 min
Your Foundations Session
This is where results start. I review your full health history and current symptoms and identify the core nutrition, lifestyle, and nervous system support your body needs right now. Most clients notice shifts within two weeks of this session, before the HTMA results are even back.
Month 2
60-90 min
Your HTMA Results and Strategy
This is the session that changes everything. We walk through your HTMA together: your mineral ratios, your metabolic type, your adrenal pattern, what the numbers mean in the context of your specific symptoms. You receive a fully personalized plan built from your data. Most clients tell me this is the first time they've understood what's actually been happening in their body.
Integration
30 min
Follow-Up Integration Call
Once you've started implementing, we meet to fine-tune. Your body will respond in ways we didn't fully anticipate. That's expected, and it's useful data. We adjust based on what you're actually experiencing.
Month 3
30 min
Progress Check-In
We review what's shifted, troubleshoot what feels sticky, and refine the plan. By this point, most clients are starting to feel the difference between treating symptoms and actually rebuilding their foundation.
Month 4
60 min
Your Second HTMA and Progress Review
This is what most practitioners skip. We run a second HTMA and compare it to your first. We can see what's actually changed in your mineral levels. Not what we hoped would change. What your body has genuinely responded to. You're not taking my word for it. You're seeing your own data.
Month 5
45 min
Maintenance and What Comes Next
The final session is about confidence. We build your long-term maintenance plan so you leave knowing how to support your body without needing constant guidance. The goal is not dependency on a protocol. It's a body you understand and trust.
Everything included across all five months:
- 2 Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) tests, initial and re-test at month 4
- 1:1 support via private messaging portal between all sessions
- Personalized meal plans and recipes built around your results
- 20% discount on supplements throughout our work together
- All sessions recorded for your reference
- Access to exclusive recordings and trainings
Investment
The 5-Month HTMA Program
$1,897 CAD
or two payments of $948 CAD, plus applicable taxes
Completed the Gut Relief Audit? Your $97 applies in full toward this program.
I'm ready to start → Spots are limited. Accepting new clients now.
The cost of waiting
Every month you wait is another month of this.
Another month of planning your outfit around your stomach. Another month of dreading dinner, of feeling heavy before the day starts, of lying awake with your mind racing while your body is exhausted.
Another hormonal cycle that wrecks your week. Another season of perimenopause passing while the depletion underneath everything gets a little deeper.
You've already spent months, maybe years, trying to figure this out on your own. That time is gone. But the next six months are yours to choose.
You can keep trying to piece it together yourself. Or you can finally have the data, the plan, and the support to stop guessing.
Most clients feel the first shift within two weeks. By month three, they understand their body in a way they never have before. By month five, they're not white-knuckling a protocol. They're living in a body that finally makes sense.
That can start this week. But your body isn't waiting.
Enrol in the 5-Month HTMA Program → Questions? Email nutrition@katvernellinutrition.com
Before you decide
Common questions.
Do I need new bloodwork before we start?
Not necessarily. Any labs from the past three months are useful context and I'll review them as part of your intake. We won't wait on bloodwork to get started.
I've done an HTMA test before. Does that change anything?
It's still worth doing. If your last HTMA was more than three months ago, your current mineral status may look quite different, especially if you've been under significant stress or gone through any hormonal shifts since then. We'll run a fresh one so we're working with current data.
Is this safe during pregnancy or postpartum?
Yes. Pregnancy and the postpartum period are actually some of the most mineral-depleted phases of a woman's life, and HTMA is gentle and non-invasive. All recommendations will be calibrated to where you are right now.
My hair is dyed. Can I still do this?
Yes. Just wait 6 to 8 weeks after your last colour treatment before taking your sample, and make sure the hair is at least 1 to 1.5 inches long from the root. I'll send full instructions when you enrol.
I'm not in Canada. Can I still work with you?
Absolutely. All sessions are virtual and I work with clients across Canada, the US, UK, Australia, and beyond. Your HTMA kit will be mailed directly to you with full instructions.
How many supplements will I end up taking?
Only what your data shows you actually need. After your HTMA, you'll know exactly what your body needs and why. That usually means fewer supplements, not more, and ones that are actually targeted to your specific pattern.
I feel like my case is too complicated. How do I know this will work for me?
If you have a long and overlapping symptom list, that's not a sign you're a difficult case. It's a sign that everything is connected, which is exactly what HTMA is built to show. If you want to talk through your specific history before enrolling, send a note to nutrition@katvernellinutrition.com.
Not a protocol. Not another guess.
Your data. Your body.
Enrol now →
Questions? Email nutrition@katvernellinutrition.com