Motherhood and Micronutrients: Navigating Health Challenges with Pia Crofton
Health Waves host Eilis interviews food-industry consultant Pia Crofton about how nutrition shaped her life and her son Raffy’s severe health crisis. Pia describes moving from a whole-food diet to years of low-fat, plant-based eating while working in stressful export roles, leading to IBS, insomnia, panic attacks, and burnout. During her second pregnancy she overworked, later learning she was deficient in micronutrients; her son developed tongue-tie, low resilience, eczema, food allergies, asthma, constipation, seizures, and repeated hospital visits. Guided by another mother, she used Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride’s GAPS protocol, emphasizing gentle animal-based foods, stocks, slow-cooked stews, and removing problematic foods and household toxins; seizures stopped after three days and symptoms gradually improved. Pia stresses nervous-system healing, critiques medical symptom-management, promotes regenerative farming and direct-to-producer sourcing, shares Irish shopping options and a cow-share model, and outlines plans for a GAPS mothers’ community, retreats, and group cooking. https://www.instagram.com/pia.crofton/ www.wildatlantichealth.com
