A private nutrition practice · Founded by Gitu Paul

Nutrition designedaround you.

Hyper-personalised nutrition for modern living. Science-backed. Human-led. Built quietly around your body, your work, and your life — not the other way round.

Ch. 01The Philosophy

Diets fail because they were never written for you.

The same plan handed to a thousand people will fit almost none of them. Your biochemistry, your sleep, your stress, the hours you keep, the food you grew up with — these are not footnotes. They are the brief.

One size fits no one

Templates ignore the single most important variable in nutrition: the person following it. What restores one body quietly depletes another.

Restriction is not a strategy

Willpower is a finite resource. Lasting change is designed, not endured — built from habits that survive travel, deadlines and dinner parties.

Every body deserves a blueprint

Blood markers, lifestyle, history, preference. When nutrition is drawn from your own data, it stops being a diet and becomes a way of living.

“We don’t give you a diet. We design a life your body can say yes to.”

Ch. 02Who We Help

Areas of care

Every engagement begins with one question: what does your body need that it isn’t getting?

Who it’s for

Senior professionals whose calendars leave little room for their own health.

Common concerns

Afternoon energy crashes, erratic meals, desk-bound days, borrowed sleep.

The Aura approach

Nutrition built into the working day — not added on top of it. Meetings, deadlines and dinners accounted for.

Recommended engagement

The Reset or The Transformation

Who it’s for

Founders and business owners who cannot afford an off day.

Common concerns

Decision fatigue, irregular hours, stress eating, running on caffeine.

The Aura approach

Fuel for sustained clarity — steady energy engineered around unpredictable weeks.

Recommended engagement

The Transformation

Who it’s for

Women who want care that respects their physiology at every life stage.

Common concerns

Cycle-related fatigue, perimenopause, iron and bone health, unexplained weight shifts.

The Aura approach

Nutrition that works with a woman’s hormonal rhythm each month, never against it.

Recommended engagement

The Transformation

Who it’s for

Mothers and fathers running households on borrowed time.

Common concerns

Eating last and least, children’s leftovers as meals, no time to plan.

The Aura approach

Calm, realistic strategies the whole kitchen can follow — one table, one plan.

Recommended engagement

The Reset

Who it’s for

Anyone navigating thyroid imbalance, PCOS or metabolic disruption.

Common concerns

Stubborn weight, fatigue, mood shifts, cycles that no longer feel predictable.

The Aura approach

Root-cause nutrition guided by your blood work — reviewed, tracked and adjusted over time.

Recommended engagement

The Transformation

Who it’s for

Those seeking lasting recomposition — without punishment or extremes.

Common concerns

Years of yo-yo dieting, lost muscle, a metabolism that feels slower each attempt.

The Aura approach

Sustainable recomposition through food you enjoy, behaviour design and patience.

Recommended engagement

The Transformation

Who it’s for

Individuals managing diabetes, hypertension or cholesterol.

Common concerns

Rising markers, medication concerns, conflicting advice from every direction.

The Aura approach

Food-first management in step with your physician — measured by your own reports.

Recommended engagement

The Transformation or Executive Concierge

Who it’s for

Anyone whose gut has been dictating their days.

Common concerns

Bloating, IBS, acidity, intolerances that appeared from nowhere.

The Aura approach

The gut rebuilt gently — elimination done properly, reintroduction done patiently.

Recommended engagement

The Reset

Who it’s for

Athletes and dedicated trainees pursuing performance with longevity.

Common concerns

Plateaued progress, slow recovery, under-fuelling disguised as discipline.

The Aura approach

Periodised fuelling for training, recovery and the long game.

Recommended engagement

The Transformation

Who it’s for

Those in their fifth decade and beyond, investing in the decades ahead.

Common concerns

Muscle loss, bone density, cognition, vitality that needs protecting.

The Aura approach

Protein-forward, evidence-led nutrition for strength and clarity that lasts.

Recommended engagement

Executive Concierge

Ch. 03The Aura Method™

Three movements. One transformation.

A deliberate sequence — because lasting change is built in order, not in a hurry.

First, we listen.

Before a single recommendation is made, we build a complete picture of you — your health history, your days, your nights, and what your blood is quietly telling us.

  • Comprehensive health assessment
  • Lifestyle & routine analysis
  • Blood report review
  • Habit & relationship-with-food mapping
  • Stress load evaluation
  • Sleep quality audit
Ch. 04Why Aura Is Different

The difference is everything.

The usual wayThe Aura way
A generic PDF dietvsA nutrition concierge
A temporary dietvsA lifestyle transformation
RestrictionvsFlexibility
Counting caloriesvsScience + behaviour
Left on your ownvsSupported every week
Ch. 05The Founder

Founded by Gitu Paul.

FounderClinical NutritionistLifestyle CoachMother

Gitu Paul built Aura on a simple conviction: nutrition advice fails when it forgets the human it was written for. A clinical nutritionist with over fifteen years across hospitals, leading wellness houses and celebrity consulting — and a mother who understands what real days look like — she developed The Aura Method™: one personalised philosophy that guides every plan the practice designs. Onboarding is intentionally selective, because bespoke care cannot be delivered at scale.

“My clients don’t need another rulebook. They need someone in their corner who understands their body — and their life.”
Ch. 06Credentials & Experience

Academically trained. Industry tested. Personally trusted.

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Clients who stay past year one

Academic Foundation

  • Bachelor’s in Nutrition & DieteticsDelhi University
  • Diploma, Dietetics & Public Health NutritionDelhi University
  • Diploma, Hospital & Healthcare ManagementSymbiosis, Pune
  • Clinical InternshipDr. RML Hospital

Professional Journey

  • 15+ years of clinical nutritionPractice
  • Celebrity nutrition specialistConsulting
  • IOSIS — Shilpa Shetty GroupWellness
  • Qua Nutrition · VLCC · Talwalkars · Body CareIndustry
  • Multi-speciality hospital practiceClinical

“Fifteen years of listening to bodies. This practice is what they taught me.”

Ch. 07The Aura Team

One method. Many hands. Your plan.

Aura is a practice, not a person — though it began with one. Every recommendation follows the same personalised philosophy developed by Gitu.

Gitu Paul

Founder & Principal Nutritionist

Architect of The Aura Method™. Every plan the practice designs carries her review — and her philosophy.

The Clinical Team

Senior Nutritionists

A curated team of qualified nutritionists, each personally trained by Gitu in the Aura methodology before meeting a single client.

Client Care

Concierge & Coordination

The quiet layer that makes it effortless — scheduling, follow-ups, progress reviews and priority support, seven days a week.

Trained by the founderEvery nutritionist is personally trained by Gitu — no plan leaves the practice without her methodology behind it.
Collaborative expertiseComplex cases are reviewed collectively, so every client benefits from the whole practice while working with one trusted guide.
Boutique by designWe intentionally accept a limited number of new clients each month. Bespoke care cannot be delivered at scale.
Ch. 08Transformation Stories

Quiet changes. Lasting ones.

No before-and-after photographs. Just lives that work better than they used to.

I ran a two-hundred-person company on caffeine and four hours of sleep, and called it discipline. Six months in, my energy at 4 pm is what it used to be at 9 am — and my board meetings no longer run on adrenaline.
R. MenonCorporate Executive · Energy & Stress
Two children, a PCOS diagnosis, and a decade of being told to simply eat less. Aura was the first practice to ask about my cycle before my calories. My markers normalised in five months — and I finally feel at home in my own body.
P. IyerMother · PCOS & Women’s Health
I travel three weeks a month and my gut kept the score. Every plan I’d tried collapsed by day two of a trip. This one travels with me — hotel menus, airport lounges, investor dinners, all of it. The bloating is gone. So is the dread.
K. KapoorEntrepreneur · Gut Health & Travel
Ch. 09The Engagements

Choose your engagement

Every engagement is personally curated, and fees are discussed privately once we understand what you need. Your plan hasn’t been designed yet — and neither has its price.

Foundation

The Reset

A focused three-month engagement to rebuild your relationship with food and establish habits that hold.

Three months · fee on consultation

  • Full discovery assessment & blood report review
  • Personalised nutrition blueprint
  • Fortnightly one-to-one reviews
  • WhatsApp support, weekdays
  • Habit & progress tracking
Signature

The Transformation

Our most chosen path. Six months of deep, personal work — designed for change that outlasts the programme.

Six months · fee on consultation

  • Everything in Foundation
  • Weekly one-to-one coaching with Gitu
  • Quarterly blood-marker reviews
  • Travel & dining-out protocols
  • Family meal integration
  • Priority WhatsApp support, seven days
Executive Concierge

The Private Client

White-glove, year-round nutrition management for individuals whose calendar leaves no room for guesswork.

Twelve months · by invitation

  • Everything in Signature
  • Direct line to Gitu, always
  • Chef & household-staff briefings
  • Restaurant and travel menus curated in advance
  • Coordination with your physician
  • Quarterly in-person reviews, where possible
Ch. 10The Wellness Journal

Notes on living well

Essays and evidence, written the way we practise — calmly, and for real lives. On gut health, hormones, stress, travel and time.

Gut Health

Your gut keeps a diary. Here’s how to read it.

Bloating, energy dips and skin changes are messages, not mysteries. A practical guide to listening.

6 min read · Journal
Women’s Health

Eating for your cycle, not against it

Why women’s nutrition should change through the month — and how to work with your physiology instead of overriding it.

7 min read · Journal
Mind & Body

Stress is also nutrition

Cortisol sits at your table for every meal. What chronic stress does to digestion, cravings and body composition — and what actually helps.

6 min read · Journal
Travel

Nutrition while travelling: eating well at 38,000 feet

A frequent flyer’s protocol for lounges, long-hauls and jet lag — from a practice that plans them for a living.

6 min read · Journal
Performance

Nutrition for executives: the boardroom runs on blood sugar

Decision fatigue, the 4 pm crash and the working dinner — a field guide to fuelling a demanding career.

7 min read · Journal
Hormonal Health

Understanding hormonal health, without the panic

Thyroid, insulin, cortisol, oestrogen — a calm primer on the chemistry that runs quietly underneath everything.

8 min read · Journal
Myths

The truth about detox

Your liver has been running the world’s most sophisticated detox programme since before you were born. A polite dismantling of the juice cleanse.

5 min read · Journal
Healthy Ageing

Nutrition after forty: the decade the rules change

Muscle becomes currency, protein becomes non-negotiable, and ‘eating less’ quietly stops working. What to do instead.

7 min read · Journal
Ch. 11@aurabygitu

Life, between consultations

The Aura Promise

We don’t count calories before we understand your life.

We don’t believe in templates.

We don’t chase quick fixes.

We don’t ask you to become someone else to become healthier.

We listen before we prescribe.

We personalise before we recommend.

We build habits that stay long after the consultation ends.

This is The Aura Method™.
Begin Your Wellness Journey

This isn’t a form. It’s an introduction.

We intentionally accept a limited number of new clients each month — bespoke care cannot be delivered at scale. Answer a few quiet questions; every application is personally reviewed, and answered within two working days.

What happens next — a private thirty-minute conversation, no obligation, to understand your goals and see whether Aura is the right fit. Our onboarding is selective — so that every client receives exceptional attention.
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What brings you to Aura?