New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Raw & free! ‘I LOVE MY NEW LIFESTYLE’

Sophie Steevens used diet to reverse a serious autoimmune disease and went on to publish two successful cookbooks, Raw & Free and Simple Wholefoods. She has 124,000 followers on her Instagram account@rawandfree. She takes a moment to sit down with the Weekly to share her tips for a healthy life.

You reversed a serious autoimmune disease by eating a plant-based diet. How did you realise that changing your diet could help?

When I was first diagnosed with Graves’ disease,

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