I used to be a lot like you…

All I wanted was to be healthy, have the energy to keep doing the activities I loved with my partner and to look forward to a long future together. But I was overweight, and despite everything I tried any weight I lost was followed by gaining it all back plus a bit more. More worrying, I was developing an increasing variety of health issues.

First my blood pressure was increasing, then I began to suffer muscle and joint pain so that I could barely lift my arms enough to take off my T-shirt, then I started getting shooting pains in my jaw and lips. I struggled to get a good night’s sleep, spending hours awake every night. I suffered from anxiety attacks and generally felt that the future looked bleak. I tried to look after my health and eat home-cooked, freshly prepared food and thought I knew what healthy eating looked like.

I visited my doctor many times to seek help, but the solution seemed always to be more drugs and that I should lose weight. When I said I had tried to lose weight, I was met with disbelief. I caught sight of a comment in my notes from one doctor who said I was “in denial”. I was not in denial: I had simply given up on finding a solution.

I was willing to give diet another go but I was scared that changing my diet might mean that I could never enjoy food again. And that at the same time, my joint pains, insomnia, anxiety attacks would not disappear even if I did.

But in Autumn 2012 I saw a life-changing documentary which resulted in a complete transformation of my health, body and career! It was Michael Mosley’s Horizon programme, Eat, Fast and Live Longer. I found the documentary very compelling. The science spoke to me as being plausible. I began “intermittent fasting” the day after I watched the documentary. It immediately started to bring about changes: over time, I lost weight, my blood pressure came down, my joint pain reduced, the shooting pains in my jaw stopped, my skin and hair and gut health (which I had not realized were less than perfect) all improved enormously.

As a former medical research scientist, I was, naturally keen to discover the scientific basis for fasting. I set out to learn all I could. As I learned more, as well as intermittent fasting, I began to work on specifically on gut health, nutrient balance, stress and more. This brought further improvements in sleep, menopause issues, and energy levels. I have maintained my weight loss and improved overall health for 10 years now.

From researching the scientific studies, and putting what I learned into practice, I became so enthralled with the power of nutrition, I ultimately re-trained as a nutritional therapist on a Master’s level course at Worcester University. When I started out, despite my science background, I knew relatively little about nutrition. My nutrition training was a revelation. An important discovery is that weight gain is almost always a sign of an underlying health problem and not, in itself, a cause. Almost nobody understands this! I further discovered that the root of so many health conditions is often bedded in an immune system imbalance. As my PhD was in immunology, it was clear that I could bring my knowledge of the immune system together with my nutrition training to help people like me who have struggled with increasing health issues without finding a solution.

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