About
Nourishing Wellness through Nutrition and Empowerment
I am passionate about nutrition and how the food we eat and what we drink, affects our health, keeping our bodies in balance.
I work with everybody; young children and the elderly. Anybody who feels their life is out of balance and who would like a helping hand to get back on track, and to understand why they feel as they do.
I am able to help you heal, recover and rejuvenate, guiding you back to health – the destination and route is different for all of us of course, which is why it is so useful to work with me. I provide and may recommend testing to some clients to get to the root cause of any given health issue.
I have had several previous, serious health issues: an eating disorder in my early teens, 6 miscarriages, 1 pregnancy whereby 2 hospitals told me at 35 weeks that my baby was 95% brain dead and recommended that I terminate my baby that day. I didn’t and there was/is not anything wrong with my son. However my health issues led me to study nutrition at the renowned London based, Institute for Optimal Nutrition. founded by Patrick Holford I know how challenging it can be to find the time and inspiration to be sufficiently self-motivated and empowered to make the changes we know will benefit us.
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Unveiling the Power of Personalised Nutrition and Lifestyle
Many clients contact me because they feel they have food allergies/intolerances and for these people, allergy testing is highly recommended and one of the first parts of the programme alongside nutritional therapy.
As a Nutritional Therapist for the past 20 years I have seen countless times the positive impact that simple dietary changes can have on someone’s life and health. The food you eat matters more than you can possibly imagine.
There is so much information online, social media and in the press about the benefits of a healthy diet and most people – on a conceptual level at least – understand that they should probably eat a bit better than they do, they should probably move more and have more ‘me time’ to live a long and happy life, but unfortunately not everybody does, until it is too late. Unfortunately, ‘life’ seems to get in the way of achieving that. We may be juggling jobs and family commitments, leaving little time to dedicate to ‘being healthy’. Convenience often wins, processed, packaged and microwaved meals have taken over from ‘cooking from scratch with fresh, local ingredients has become a chore and takes too long.
We, as a nation like many others are becoming sick and tired, and sick of being sick and tired. We have learned to cope with IBS or IBD, and other digestive issues, with the help of indigestion medications, which by the way, contain aluminium, a toxic heavy metal that is now more than associated with Alzheimer’s. PMT, PCOS and Menopause are the norm, as is arthritis, predominantly osteoarthritis, stress or anxiety, haywire hormones, headaches, migraines, eczema. asthma or possibly weight that has crept on over the years and you can’t seem to shift it, no matter what you try. In many cases, simply by making some changes to your diet, the symptoms of some of these conditions can be improved so remarkably that there is a really profound shift in how you experience life.
It’s unfortunate that so many people don’t understand what a huge effect a personalised food and lifestyle programme can have on the symptoms they have or how they experience their life.
All of the above is a framework to consider that the symptoms you are experiencing are a result of imbalances in your body and, rather than treat the specific symptoms themselves, nutrition professionals try to understand the root cause of the problem and base their programme around that. If you think about it: nearly all medications merely suppress symptoms, ‘stick a plaster on the wound’. Only very few are an actual cure – antibiotics are important, when requires. The exclusively pharmacological approach, conventional medicine so often employs does nothing to uncover the root causes.
Metformin lowers blood glucose – but why is it high in the first place? Statins lower cholesterol – but why is it elevated and, there is a lot of research to say that Statins may increase the likelihood of Alzheimer’s. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) numb pain – but why are you in pain, and what are the long term effect on the immune system? Anti-depressants, are they really required for years and years, has one become somewhat addicted to them, like sleeping pills?
Doctors do there very best to try and stop patients from taking antidepressants and sleeping pills, but surely it’s so much more important to look at the root causes. This is where therapy, Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) hypnotherapy can help.
These are the questions nutrition professionals will ask before embarking on a quest to discover and then address the root cause.