Optimum Nutrition

Registered dietician and certified food addiction counsellor David Wolfe joins The Optimum Nutrition Podcast to discuss how to overcome a food addiction, including how to recognise the signs and symptoms of addiction and whether abstinence is the best recovery path. He also discusses whether there’s a place for sweeteners when recovering from a sugar addiction, why he believes community is an impo...

Registered nutritional therapist and former barrister Katie Shore discusses the positive impact that nutrition and lifestyle interventions can make before, during and after pregnancy; from helping couples to conceive, to supporting mothers through their fourth trimester. She also debunks some common myths around fertility. Is your fertility determined by the eggs you were born with? Does your fert...

Ryan Carter is a registered nutritional therapist, PT, health coach, breathwork coach and the founder of Live Vitae. In today’s episode, he discusses his ancestral approach to wellbeing; from nose to tail eating to ‘downloading’ in nature. Ryan also shares how he approaches nutrition with an influence, having gained a following of over 450,000 on Instagram. Views expressed by guests are not those...

A graduate of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, Olga Preston has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She developed an interest in mental health after the effect that good nutrition had on family and friends affected by mental health conditions. She now focuses on using her passion for nutrition to support people with their mental wellbeing at ION’s Brain Bio Centre. In this...

Dawn Waldron is a registered nutritional therapist and life coach who has been specialising in breast cancer for almost two decades. A twenty-three-year survivor of breast cancer herself, today’s discussion focuses on integrated care and how nutritional therapy can work alongside other healthcare disciplines to provide a powerful approach to those going through breast cancer treatment and beyond....

Ojarikre Udu has been a practising nutritional therapist for over 10 years, having given up a career in finance to retrain at the age of 40. Today's episode focuses on diversity and inclusion within nutritional therapy, particularly in terms of why men are less likely to seek out nutritional support. OJ also discusses barriers to good nutrition for those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds,...

Daniel O’Shaughnessy is a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with over 10 years of clinical experience. In this episode, he discusses the “lightbulb moment” that led him to specialise in LGBTQ+ health and nutrition and why this community can have specific dietary and health needs; from IVF and fertility support to steroid use, and from nutritional support for HIV diagnosis to transitioning...

Nutritional therapist and former Head of Clinics at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, Nicola Moore discusses how we can cut through the conflicting messages around what and how we should eat, and build healthy and positive relationships with food. For more information about nutritional therapy, including ION's magazine, courses and clinic, visit ion.ac.uk If you enjoyed this episode, follo...

The Optimum Nutrition Podcast is a weekly interview series brought to you by the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION) - one of Europe’s longest established nutritional therapy training providers. Join us for lively conversations with guests from the world of nutrition. We’ll be delving into their health journeys and touching on some common health conditions, with the aim of inspiring you to be yo...