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Client, female aged 37, contacted me after she'd had an almond croissant and a coffee that morning and was then in agony and couldn't do her jeans up (I resonated with her instantly as this was what used to happen to me....). During the initial consultation she revealed that her main health concerns were bloating, […]

Female, aged 66, contacted me after struggling with IBS-D for most of her life. She had recently tried a low-FODMAP diet guided by a dietician but was not finding any real relief so decided during lockdown to try and get to the bottom of what could be causing her symptoms. The client was starting to […]

Start your day with a nutritious and filling slow-burning carbohydrate that is porridge. Choose organic jumbo oats to make it with and soak overnight to speed up cooking time in the morning. As they are less processed than other oats (you know the ones I mean that come in little handy sachets that you can […]

Find out how easy it is to whip up a healthy smoothie using my Pick & Mix method!

IBS is an umbrella diagnosis given by doctors for a group of symptoms such as bloating, gas, distension, constipation and diarrhoea.  Getting the diagnosis is important to ensure nothing more sinister is going on but once you have the diagnosis, it can sometimes feel relatively useless as you are still left with your symptoms! Nutritionists using […]

No more excuses - see how easy it is to add in variety to your salads (amounts given for those following low-FODMAP diets)...

The iceberg nutrient... Vitamin D is most widely known as the nutrient that is necessary to aid calcium absorption which then prevents rickets and therefore it is assumed if you don’t have rickets then you don’t have a deficiency. However, there is now literature that associates low vitamin D status with an increased risk for […]

IBS is not a disease, it’s a functional disorder of your gastrointestinal (GI) system.  It does however cause untold distress in the form of cramping, bloating, diarrhoea, constipation and gas so getting to the root cause of the dysfunction is the way we start to ease your symptoms. An average person eats 25 tonnes of food […]

I hope you are all well - being stuck at home with teenagers is certainly testing (I feel more sorry for them as I certainly wouldn't have been enamoured to have spent so much time with my parents when I was 18!).   Lockdown has, however, given me a lot of time to think about easy tips […]