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Holistic nutrition · Ericeira · No. 01May 2026

Ericeira · Atlantic coast · May 2026

A quiet look atnutrition, vitality, and a long life.Written from the Atlantic.

I write from the Portuguese coast about kitchen, daily rhythm, and longevity — for people who treat their health as a long game, not a three-week reset.

Justyna Bondzio · certified holistic nutrition coach (AKN®) · state-recognised medical cosmetologist

Three seas, one compass.

Justyna, on the Atlantic.Portrait · Ericeira · 2026

Biography.

Three seas.

The word Meer sits at the literal centre of my life. An amber coast, a harbour city, an Atlantic.

Beginning

Baltic

Kołobrzeg, Poland. Amber, childhood.

Passage

North Sea

Hamburg on the Elbe. Harbour, tides, fifteen years in beauty.

Present

Atlantic

Ericeira, Portugal. Salt, basalt, practice.

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At the end of June, the almonds on the kitchen table were empty, the market was closed for a public holiday, and I had simply nothing in the kitchen between breakfast and lunch.
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On the word *holistic*, and why I still use it

I don't particularly like the word *holistic*. I use it anyway. It is stuck to a generation of promises I do not share, and yet it sits in my professional title.

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From the beauty counter to a nutrition practice: my AKN training

There was no moment when I crossed from cosmetics to nutrition. There were fifteen years during which I gave the same answer to the same question, and at some point I realised the answer belonged somewhere else entirely.

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More in the archive

Eleven more entries.

Sardines on a Wednesday, seven degrees of water in January, amber hour over basalt, a quiet December, a Polish grandmother and fermentation.

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