Nutrition With Love

It’s not every day you have the chance to interview a successful Dragons' Den contestant who’s changing our environmental health, but in this episode I share exactly that.  Laura Harnett is the founder of Seep - a company which creates sustainable household essentials for cleaning. With not scrap of plastic in sight.  In view of the crisis of microplastics alone, this kind of cleaning revolution i...

Repurposing food that would otherwise be thrown away might sound like dumpster diving, or saving the planet, or necessity - depending on your point of view.  But Lucinda Croft is turning it into a most powerful, civilised and friendly affair - creating tables of delicious food and genuine friendship, and delivering high-quality fresh ingredients to individuals and families in the local community....

TW: miscarriage, pregnancy loss If anyone can transform dry statistics into practical yet compassionate healthcare, it’s Caroline. I love her quiet insistence on better health information, and creating the kind of health support that truly empowers women’s work in the world. Caroline first faced health challenges after the birth of her second child, when intense fatigue began to hinder her ability...

When you have burned out like Sam has, and then trained like Sam has, then you have compassion and knowledge in abundance to support clients who want to regain their energy levels and get their lives back. I am so pleased to introduce a fellow member of The Thyroid Collective, a specialist group of nutrition and lifestyle medicine practitioners who, as well as pursuing a clinical focus on thyroid...

For over 15 years Emma Maitland-Carew has run a busy nutritional therapy clinic in Oxfordshire, where she uses live blood analysis to provide real-time health information to her in-person clients. Emma takes us through what live blood analysis is, how it’s done in clinic, and how it can be used to shed light on a whole variety of health issues, including one’s nutrient status, the health of the gu...

If you, or someone you know, is facing health challenges, I trust that this interview will cheer you up and stoke HOPE. I’d been wanting to interview a client for a while now - and then, just before Christmas, my wonderful client Eleanor got in touch to share how she was getting on.  A few months had gone by since we finished working together, so I was thrilled to read her encouraging update:  "I...

Does it feel as though you’re being told completely contradictory things about the toxicity of everyday life? For example, one minute we’re being told our drinking water is dangerous, next minute we’re assured there’s absolutely nothing wrong. Who’s right? What’s really going on? Dr Jenny Goodman is the perfect guide through all of this. Having worked to help clients recover from toxicity for over...

Now that the UK is beginning to get chilly, it’s high time to talk about immunity for winter.  You already know about garlic, ginger, and hot toddies when you start to feel ill.  But how can we support our whole immune system to work at its best all the time? I answer a few client questions, as well as address subjects such as: mindset  people who catch everything going food and drink environmenta...

If you're feeling jaded about the world, slow down and listen to this episode.  Zoe McIntyre is quietly going to re-inspire you!  Under her gentle manner lies a clear and driving ambition to change the futures of countless children and families for the better, using food. When poverty collides with cheap and terrible products like Ultra Processed Foods, many young people are vulnerable to all sort...

In a world where so much about our nutrition is globalised, industrialised and dislocated, Kirsty Goring is all about restoring the connection between people growing, creating and enjoying food.  Kirsty has a wealth of experience in the 'supply side' of nutrition via her work at the Wiston Estate, which hosts everything from vineyards to sheep, farming to fine dining, a therapeutic market garden t...

You don’t have to be a fish fancier to love this conversation.  If you want to be inspired about food that’s delicious and healthy, plus sourced and distributed with integrity, then here is an episode to cheer your heart. I simply loved this interview. Emily and Christopher Nicolson are partners in the Iliamna Fish Company, which aims to provide the world’s best wild salmon.  A fourth-generation f...

We know herbs and plants are incredibly effective for supporting all sorts of ailments, but it takes a medical herbalist to harness their powers with accuracy, safety and application to the individual patient. Medical herbalist Jean Dow has over 20 years of experience, and she is also a functional medicine practitioner, with clinics based in Edinburgh, the Isle of Skye, and online. I initially con...

Not all superfoods should be eaten in quantity. This is the contention of Sally K Norton, who opens her book Toxic Superfoods with the story of actor Liam Hemsworth, whose kidney stone operation was linked to a diet high in certain superfoods.  Norton argues that a whole variety of symptoms may arise when consuming high levels of oxalate - which includes lots of the plants we may think of as healt...

This episode, I share how elements of my biography may have affected my biology, including multiple digestive symptoms and thyroid disease. I’m aiming for what Gabor Maté calls “a clear and honest look at the biographical factors that can disrupt our biological well-being”. And I wanted to consider this in light of my previous two Nutrition With Love interviews, which discussed health challenges f...

If I encounter anyone with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, I send them straight to Clemmie Oliver. Her clinic specialises in supporting people with IBD using Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine, and Clemmie has had prolonged experience of IBD herself. Clemmie and I trained together several years ago, and since then she has built an incredibly successful IBD-focused clinic, now been joined by registered s...

We’re used to the idea that pain sensations accurately register physical disease or injury. But much research has found that some kinds of pain are actually alleviated by working on the brain, not the body.  Jennifer Johnson is a Mind-Body Chronic Pain Coach based in Seattle. Her chronic pain journey started 14 years ago, most days barely able to walk. After undertaking training on her mind and ne...

Gastrointestinal health testing analyses immunity, inflammation, and the microbiome, and it’s an important tool we use in Nutritional Therapy and Lifestyle medicine to unearth underlying issues in physical and mental health. Lesley Harper is part of the clinical education team at Invivo Healthcare and a healthcare practitioner in her own right. She's perfectly placed to introduce us to specialised...

Thyroid conditions can make you feel you're losing your motivation, metabolism, energy, hormone balance or mood. And if so, you're in good company, since  in Europe and America alone they affect more than one in ten people. I myself was diagnosed with one, and now a large percentage of my clients are successfully working on their thyroid health. Here's a brief introduction to why thyroids matter,...

Hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (hEDS) are connective tissue disorders with varying degrees of symptom presentation. Some might simply notice greater-than-average physical flexibility, but others may suffer with instability, injury, pain, fatigue, headaches, gastro-intestinal problems, and even autonomic dysfunction.  There's some dispute about the pr...

Talking with Lucinda Miller was such a joy. Her approach to nutrition and lifestyle medicine is so friendly and understanding, it’s almost as if you chatted to a mum at the school gate – except for the fact that there’s rigorous science and huge clinical experience underpinning everything she says! This incredibly encouraging conversation is full of stories to re-ignite hope, and point the way, to...

Let me take you behind the scenes of Nutritional Therapy practice. Here's where I take you to the back-stage of Nutrition work. Show the nuts and bolts.  The sorts of things nutritionists take for granted, but aren't often known to the general public. The lowdown includes: Why we never diagnose Where we stand with pharmaceutical drugs How we  do and don't connect with medical doctors What Lifestyl...

In nutritional therapy and lifestyle medicine, there are some challenges that simply cannot be fixed with diet alone. Sometimes, you want … a volcanic rock.  Even better, a volcanic rock that acts like a wheelbarrow, to cart away substances that are harmful and difficult to remove. Volcanic rock ‘binders’ like Zeolite Clinoptilolite do not interact with the body any more than a pair of spectacles....

Happy New Year! I hope that whatever your Christmas-time and New Year were like, that this short episode will be a cheering thing to listen to in these first days of 2024. Health and nutrition shows up in so many people’s new year resolutions, so it seems only sensible to talk about them.  But let me offer you a slightly different take, on how to make it all a little easier, and more joyful.  I'll...

Making the most of the Christmas season isn't always straightforward.  This episode is all about ways to enjoy the best of the celebrations, while protecting your energy, mood and digestion. Merry Christmas, and  a Happy New Year to you!   Mentioned in the podcast:  A beautiful winery in West Sussex https://www.wistonestate.com/ Kombucha from West Sussex https://holoskombucha.com/ My blog: https:/...

What if nutritional therapy was rather different from what you expected?  Many people struggle with their health, but, convinced that they already eat healthily, think nutrition can't help them.   Others labour under the illusion that nutrition work is simply bullying people to eat more vegetables! Still others try to piece together their own nutrition programmes with 'Dr Google', but pick up poor...