Karen O' Donoghue : Founder of the happy tummy co.

TEACH SCOILE by the happy tummy co. engages the science behind the food that we eat so that food can be not only a source of pleasure but a form of preventative medicine.

Named ‘Gut Health Specialist of the Year’ in 2018 and on the ‘Ones to Watch List’ in 2024, Karen is forging a food revolution to help rectify our cost of health crisis through her company The Happy Tummy Co. Writing for The Evening Standard, Editor Laura Craik wrote after spending days with Karen that “Her zeal would put Jesus to shame!” Customers of the HTCo began calling her signature ferment ‘the magic poo bread’ and from there Karen has built a customer base of 12,000 people throughout Ireland now purchasing this product and others to alleviate issues causing them pain. Karen has saved people from a life of medication and undergoing bowel removals through this one simple bread swap. Based on the West Coast of Ireland, people come from as far as The Falkland Islands and New Zealand to learn Karen’s approach to health through the food we eat.

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“Karen is a breath of fresh air when it comes to the wellness industry,” he says. “She doesn’t talk any doo-doo and she doesn’t hold back either. She has taught me a lot about crop rotation and soil health, and I believe if we are interested in human nutrition we need to be interested in the quality of the plants we grow, and the health of the soil in which they grow.

"It’s an intriguing space with a beautiful story to tell. The setting is an inconspicuous building in a quiet corner of a Westport carpark, but the learnings found within the walls are nothing short of spectacular."

"Priced around £1 per slice, the Happy Tummy Loaf certainly has a lot to prove."

"Specialising in high fibre, wholegrain breads and bakes, she's lithe and clear-skinned, with an infectious Irish enthusiasm. We met for the first time in January when she hosted a dinner at the Soho-based fermented food pop-up,Kultured. Then, like now, she spoke about the gut with the clear-eyed zeal of someone who's set on converting the world to her way of thinking."

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