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About Me

I didn’t choose ancestral medicine because it was fashionable. I returned to it because I realised it shapes not just a single life, but whole generations.

My ancestry runs through artists, classical singers, barristers, naturopaths, herbalists, and a royal midwife.

I moved away from family traditions to study modern medicine, drawn, like many of my generation, to the promise that science alone could solve every ailment. Over time, I discovered that health is not merely the absence of symptoms, but the presence of coherence between body, mind, identity, and daily life.

After years of searching, I came full circle. Back to the royal herbal on my great-grandmother’s shelf. Back to remedies rooted in land, food, rhythm, and physiology. For more than three decades I’ve practised naturopathy, researched, taught, and written, specialising in gut and behavioural health, and walking alongside families, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and individuals who sense there is more to wellbeing than management and maintenance.

What I have learned is simple: when we reclaim our internal terrain: food, microbes, breath, rest, honest self-expression, we reclaim clarity, mood, resilience, and strength.

A settled body creates space for courage.
A nourished gut steadies emotion.
Rhythm restores perspective.

Elle Fox Interview on Wild Hart Radio

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Fermenting Success – Fostering Resilience

Fermentation dissolves barriers. Across cultures, kitchens, and even boardrooms, the same bubbling jars heal bodies, spark ideas, and reconnect people to their own competence.

Ferments lift mood, lighten outlook, and remind us that transformation is alive. A cabbage leaf and a little time can teach patience, trust, and partnership with the unseen.

Bubbling Life began with microbes, but it has always been about something deeper: restoring confidence in our own biology.

Because when you understand how life regenerates itself, in soil, in food, in your own nervous system, you stop fighting yourself.

Cheap food is expensive food. It offers no value for money and is a main contributor to ill health, obesity and behavioural issues.
Elle Fox

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Mentorship & Integration

Over years of teaching, lecturing, writing, and listening, one truth kept returning: people grow best when their bodies feel safe.

Call it biology, call it instinct, a regulated nervous system makes space for learning, creativity, intimacy, and wise decisions.

So yes, I mentor entrepreneurs, students, practitioners, families, and individuals navigating change. We look at food, rhythm, physiology, and mindset. We look at labs, test results and numbers. But we also look at identity, boundaries, and the quiet patterns that shape relationships and work.

Health is not compartmentalised. Neither is life.

Mentoring, microbes, and medicine belong together.

Biodynamic & Living Systems

Working with the Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch biodynamic farms has shown me the cost of food stripped of vitality — and the power of food grown in rhythm with earth and season.

Biodynamic farming does not just produce superb meat, vegetables and milk; it cultivates resilience, community, and responsibility.

The same principle applies to people. When we honour cycles, nourishment, and internal ecology, we become steadier, clearer, and more capable.

My work always circles back here: to vitality, to rhythm, to practices that restore dignity to both land and body.

Community & Stewardship

For over fifteen years I have served as Director of the cooperative that owns Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch, our biodynamic farms in Forest Row. Supporting living agriculture is not an add-on to my work; it is its foundation.

Through fermentation workshops and educational work, I have helped raise funds for initiatives such as Tablehurst’s straw-bale eco-house and Plaw Hatch’s Young Farmer Apprentice Scheme.

Health does not begin in a clinic. It begins in soil.

When you work with me, you are also supporting systems that nourish land, animal, and community for generations to come.