I’m Lyra, and I’ve been practicing TCM, herbalism and phytotherapy for 36 years. In 2000, I moved to Europe and joined a team of passionate folks and together we founded Eva vzw, currently known as ProVeg Belgium. At Eva, I wrote the nutrition and health content for our website and magazines, offered lectures, attended and held stalls at nutrition and health congresses and seminars. The plan was to empower people with enough knowledge so that they could make wiser lifestyle choices that benefited their health and the planet. Once that part was up and running, I organised cooking classes, educating people - and professional chefs - on how to prep perfectly yummy and nourishing meals.
Since that time, for 25 years, I’ve been flooded with emails and messages from those who knew my work with nutrition, with questions to assist them in improving their diet and supporting their health challenges with my “detective work”. What tests to ask your doctor for? Which specialists should they book? What to do when doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with their health, or with their blood results, yet they kept feeling awful? What started as an informal charitative gig, quickly turned into a full time job.
In recent years, I’ve been digging into the realm of functional medicine, helping to piece the puzzle together in my healing journey from autoimmunity. Where doctors couldn’t help me, dietary changes and supplements have kept me going. In a few months, I’ll finally get my diploma in functional nutrition and at the end of the year, I plan to take the certification exam from the Institute of Functional Medicine. That’s a big dream come through. Stay tuned for the next chapter!!
email: lyra.alves (at-sign) gmail.com
