Enhance Your Gut Health—Dr Christiana Leimena-Lehn – ELIA Wellness

Discover how the trillions of microbes in your gut influence your blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart health. Join us for an engaging seminar exploring the latest research and practical steps you can take—through food, lifestyle, and daily habits—to improve your gut microbiome and protect your heart.

Enhance Your Gut Health takes you on a journey toward a healthier gut microbiome.    Our gut affects the health of all the different parts of our body.

This program teaches you strategies that may help you achieve more balanced gut health, which reduces your risk of disease and also improves your quality of life. Learn how caring for your gut could give you a new lease on life!

This introductory session on the history of the gut microbiome, and why it’s important to your overall health. It runs with the goal of inspiring you to run the program by seeing how easy it is to conduct it in your community as part of your ELIA wellness hub.

Christiana has worked in cardiovascular research in the areas of molecular cardiology and hypertension. She obtained her PhD through University of New South Wales during her training at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, and did her postdoctoral training at Loma Linda University, California. She is a Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional (IBLM & ASLM).

Christiana works as a consultant with ELIA Wellness, as well as a Director of Adventist Health Sydney overseeing the community health programs among the Adventist churches in the Greater Sydney region. She has a passion in educating and promoting whole person health and nutrition. She loves the outdoors and cooking.