Nutrition Life Stories

In this episode of  Nutrition Life Stories , I speak with Jon Cook, a fourth-generation dairy farmer from Swindon who's passionate about connecting consumers with raw, unpasteurised milk and its health benefits. Jon is a 4th generation dairy farmer outside Swindon producing and selling raw milk direct to the consumer. Jon had an idyllic traditional upbringing on the farm, coming home from school f...

In this episode of Nutrition Life Stories , I chat with Guy Ellis, an executive coach from Wiltshire whose 30-year journey to resolve digestive issues has transformed his relationship with food and health. The bulk of his early career was spent in the corporate sector, often travelling the world and eating at superb restaurants. Guy grew up in Aukland, New Zealand and moved to the UK at 21. This e...

I was thrilled that Tom found the time to record this podcast and I know you will really enjoy Tom's experiences and story.  Tom was a 4th generation baker with Hobbs House Bakery. He went on to film The Fabulous Baker Brothers for TV, baking bread around the world. Through his early career he discovered the joy of people coming together over food, cooking and eating together; but equally the nega...

In this episode of Nutrition Life Stories, I'm joined by Dr. Jeff Crippen, a chiropractor and naturopath based in Texas who shares his incredible healing journey from debilitating chronic migraines to optimal health. Jeff explains the key differences between allopathic and naturopathic approaches, highlighting how nutrition and herbs transformed his life. We also dive into managing toxicity, the b...

I was so pleased Julia was able to join me on my podcast. Julia retrained as a nutritional therapist and Buteyko breathing coach and we met on a business development course when we buddied up to support each other. Julia shared her story of a very difficult peri/menopause, how she discovered that the impact of eating well and nutrition significantly reduced her symptoms and deciding to go back to...

It was an absolute delight for me to interview Diana Babics , founder of the Nourish Awards , the UK's leading industry awards for healthy food, beverages, and supplement products. I am honoured to have been a judge for these prestigious awards for the past three years. Diana grew up in Budapest, Hungary and contrary to what we think, rarely ate Goulash! She spent idyllic Summers on her grandparen...

My guest today is Dr Hans-Thomas Richter based on the West Coast of America and we delved into a bit more science regarding the importance of the right fats in diets. Dr Richter has a Chinese Medicine clinic in Seattle but has a background in biomedical research. He researched and has recently written a book about the importance of Omega 3 called Nourish and Flourish (available by Kindle from Amaz...

My guest today is Laura Dent, joint owner (with her husband) of a successful commercial and specialist cleaning company called So Fresh and So Clean covering the Swindon area. It was so refreshing to hear Laura's health journey and how she has used nutrition to improve her health- and quality of life- by taking matters into her own hands. Laura experienced extremely low energy and brain fog from c...

I am delighted to welcome Lou Joyce to today's podcast, Managing Director of The Natural Dispensary (practitioner prescribed mail order natural healthcare company). Lou grew up on the West coast of Australia with a wonderful connection to the outdoors, land, nature and natural food. Having spent a week's work experience at a natural health college, on leaving school Lou decided to study Naturopath...

My guest today grew up in Stroud and moved to London pursuing a high-pressure job that involved extensive global travelling and eating a wide variety of (good and bad) foods. This lifestyle resulted in "burnout" and James quit his job.    James spent a year travelling in the Far East with his young family. He rediscovered his love of fitness, retrained as a personal trainer, moved back to Stroud a...

My guest today is Louise Muir- Sage who runs Wellness Wiltshire. Louise spent her early years in London at Chelsea Barracks as her father was in the Irish Guards before moving to Swindon. Her food experiences growing up were influenced by her father's travels such as Mexican and other spicy food which was far less common in the 80s.   We talked about air fryers- the latest trend – and why Louise l...

Today's guest is Lucy Humphries. Lucy spent her early years on the West Cost of America with an inspiring mother who was into natural health. Following a personal tragedy and with a career in London and with two young children, Lucy took time out and after several years retrained as an acupuncturist having found it really helpful to her own healing.    Lucy provides a fascinating explanation of Tr...

Today's guest is Chris Skelly. I was hugely privileged that Chris Skelley took the time to be a guest on my podcast. Chris is a paralympic judo athlete holding the world No.1 position and at the time of recording the podcast Chris was training hard for selection for the Paris 2024 games. We spoke about Chris's health conditions including his diagnosis of celiac disease (meaning complete avoidance...

Today's guest is Bali Martindale. Bali shares her story to becoming a homeopath but how she started to struggle once she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. After many years she felt taking closer attention to her nutrition was a missing link she had not considered before. We discuss the changes we introduced into her diet that made a significant difference to her pain and energy levels and h...

Today's guest is Marcus Collier, a television producer. Marcus shares insights into life as a TV producer, travelling abroad, long days, working on sets and the impact of catering. He spent periods of time as a student as a vegetarian then again later in life when he started to experience digestive "IBS type" symptoms. Marcus finally contacted me after 5 years struggling to get his symptoms under...

Today's guest is Dave Nelson, founder and owner of Truffle and Thyme, luxury hampers and grazing boxes. Dave grew up in a foodie household, enjoyed boarding school dinners and his love of food has continued to influence his entire working life. His flourishing business grew out of Covid which like many, turned his world upside down. He loves to cook food at home and still finds it therapeutic desp...

Today's guest is a good friend of mine, Michelle Lennon. Michelle kindly agreed to be a guest on my show as I was really interested to hear more about the influences of food in her life. With her father in the RAF on different postings, she spent part of her childhood in Malta and Germany before moving as an adult to be based outside Swindon. Michelle became vegetarian so we discuss the importance...

I want to introduce you to today's guest Ken Turner. Ken grew up in North London, learning how to cook nutritiously but economically by his mother; even continuing these good habits as a student.  Ken went on to work in the creative design industry especially in TV which was demanding and involved unsocial hours and a lot of stress. This was a downward spiral of poor eating habits and the start of...

I want to introduce you to my guest today Wafaa Powell. Wafaa is a  bubbly Lebanese lady who runs a wonderful business called Dancing Flavours cooking Lebanese food for parties and communities and belly dancing!  Wafaa tells her journey from Lebanon to the UK via South Africa and delights us with growing up in Lebanon, gorgeous dishes and why food is so powerful for uniting communities.

I want to introduce you to today's guest Carole Stephens.  Carole is a lovely lady who tells her story of growing up in Paddington at the end of the second World War during rationing. She married a chef and later moved to Wiltshire and together with her husband ran their own business. Carole has always loved food and so it was difficult for her when she started to experience upper body rashes that...

Welcome to the launch of my new podcast series Nutrition Life Stories.   Today I want to start my podcast series with telling you a bit about me. I'd like to share my journey from a chubby child to working in a high powered stressful corporate environment, to where I am now: running my busy nutrition based practice, either helping individuals find lasting relief from often chronic symptoms or deli...