Welcome to Gut Nutrition, New Zealand’s leading
Crohn’s and Colitis specialist service
Do you have Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis?
Are you unsure what you should eat?
Are you concerned about your diet or nutrition?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, you are not alone. Many people with inflammatory bowel disease believe that food affects their IBD.
Gut Nutrition provides guidance and support to manage gut and inflammatory bowel disease symptoms through food, nutrition and diet.
Scroll down to find how Gut Nutrition can support you.
Gut Nutrition was founded by Dr Catherine Wall, a registered dietitian with a PhD in nutritional therapy for Crohn’s disease from the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Catherine completed her PhD at the University of Otago Christchurch campus under the guidance of gastroenterologists Professor Richard Gearry and Professor Andrew Day.
Catherine has 20 years of experience as a dietitian working in New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. She has a broad range of clinical experience including diabetes, intensive care, older persons’ health and gut health. Since 2013, Catherine has specialised in nutrition and dietary management of inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis).
Dr Catherine Wall
Meet Our Dietitians Dr Catherine Wall and Jo Paggi
Joanna Paggi
Jo Paggi is a registered dietitian with more than 10 years of dietetic experience in both Australia and New Zealand. She is knowledgable and experienced in using nutritional therapies for both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Jo is also skilled at working together with people living with Crohn’s or colitis to improve their quality of life and reduce gut symptoms through positive dietary changes.
Jo also works as an advanced women's health dietitian at Christchurch Hospital and can support you and/or your partner before, during and after pregnancy. Some reasons why this is an important time of life:
good nutrition improves fertility of both men and women
eat well before and during pregnancy improves the health of the foetus and mother and helps shape the gut microbiome both mother and baby
Nutritional therapies to treat IBD flares can be safely used during and after pregnancy and can be an alternative to prednisone.
Our Services
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For people with IBD
Gut Nutrition enables people with IBD, Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, to access individualised food and nutrition care to help manage disease symptoms. If required, Catherine can prescribe subsidised nutritional supplements and therapies.
See how we can help and Support and sign up to our newsletter (below) for updates on the latest food and nutrition research and helpful tips and recipes to help manage life with IBD.
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For Health Professionals
If your patients have food and nutrition concerns or require a specific dietary treatment refer them to Gut Nutrition. We provide a specialist IBD dietetic service and will work closely with you to ensure multidisciplinary care. If your patients have health insurance their policy may include an allowance for dietitian consultations.
See our Support page for further details of some of the dietary treatments available.
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Research and Public Speaking
In addition to her role at Gut Nutrition, Catherine is a research fellow at University of Otago Christchurch (NZ) and is an affiliate researcher at King’s College London (UK). Her research primarily focuses on food and nutrition for people with Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. Read her IBD research publications.
Catherine is an experienced public speaker. She has spoken at conferences in Europe, Australia and New Zealand and to organisations including Crohn’s and Colitis UK.
Gut Nutrition provides guidance and support to manage gut and inflammatory bowel disease symptoms through food, nutrition and diet.
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To enquire about Gut Nutrition services, fees or to make an appointment please fill in the form below. Catherine will call you to discuss your enquiry.
Gut Nutrition offers face to face and video consultations. Face to face appointments are conducted at 40 Stewart Street, Christchurch.