Optimum Nutrition
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. Each episode, we explore a new topic within the world of nutrition with an expert guest, touching on their food and health journeys, and addressing common myths and misconceptions. Together, we’ll discover how powerful food can be for our health and happiness. We’ll find out how a ‘healthy diet’ looks different for everyone. And, because food is so personal, with each guest we’ll talk a bit about what food means to them.
Episodes
23 episodes
Autoimmunity and autoimmune conditions with VJ Hamilton
In the second episode of our third series ION graduate VJ Hamilton, aka The Autoimmunity Nutritionist, discusses her career shift from chartered accountant to nutritional therapy. She reflects on her journey of self-discovery and how she turned...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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58:26
Empowering your kids to eat healthier with Catherine Jeans
Catherine Jeans is an experienced nutritional therapist, and founder of The Family Nutrition Expert, based in Norwich. Jeans graduated from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition and has since le...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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55:10
Functional Eating and Beautiful Food with Catherine Sharman
Catherine Sharman is a nutritional therapist and founder of Après, formerly a hit London restaurant and now a healthy ready-meal company. In this episode, Catherine explains how she uses the principles of functional eating – a concept instilled...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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54:00
Nutrition for Children with Dr Kirstie Lawton
Dr Kirstie Lawton is a nutritional therapy practitioner and ION lecturer who specialises in paediatric nutrition, i.e. nutrition for children. In this episode of the Optimum Nutrition podcast, Kirstie addresses common questions and misconceptio...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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48:42
Learning to Love Your Menstrual Cycle with Giulietta Durante
Giulietta Durante is a menstrual cycle nutritionist, registered nutritional therapy practitioner, and podcaster who lives and breathes her specialist subject: the menstrual cycle. In this episode, Giulietta explores why she feels it’s so empowe...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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54:10
Healthy Fats and the Omega Ratio with Layla Gordon
Layla Gordon is a nutritional therapy practitioner based in Poole, Dorset, who graduated from ION back in 2021. In this episode of the Optimum Nutrition podcast, Layla explains healthy fats in conversation with host Hatty Willmoth, a journalist...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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42:34
Exploring Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Amy Pamment
Amy Pamment is a nutritional therapy practitioner and ION lecturer who specialises in chronic fatigue syndrome, children’s health and neurodiversity. In this episode of the recently relaunched Optimum Nutrition podcast, Amy discusses her own ex...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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44:16
Understanding Carbohydrates with Sam Feltham
Sam Feltham is the founder and director of the Public Health Collaboration (PHC), a charity dedicated to improving public health and saving the NHS money through better lifestyle information. The PHC largely focuses on tackling the UK’s diabete...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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44:38
Nutrition for Fertility with Katie Shore
Katie Shore is a nutritional therapy practitioner and ION lecturer who specialises in fertility, pregnancy, and women’s reproductive health. In this episode of the recently relaunched Optimum Nutrition podcast, Katie focuses on fertility. She b...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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54:43
Optimise Your Lunches with the Lunchbox Doctor, Jenny Tschiesche
Jenny Tschiesche is perhaps best known for her bestselling air-fryer cookbooks, but before that she was known primarily as a lunch guru - which is why she's called the Lunchbox Doctor. In the first episode of a brand new series of the Optimum N...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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38:29
The Importance of Nutrition and Diet in ADHD with Dr Alex Richardson
Dr Alex Richardson discusses the role of nutrition and diet in ADHD; from conception through to adulthood. As well as unpacking what we mean by the label ‘ADHD’, she explains why the condition often overlaps with other neurological conditions. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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56:48
An Integrative Approach to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & ME with Kirsty Cullen
Registered nutritional therapist Kirsty Cullen discusses the personal connection that inspired her to specialise in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/ME. She discusses research that may have led to some of the stigma around CFS, as well as potenti...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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45:23
Supporting A Happy Menopause with Jackie Lynch
Registered nutritional therapist and author Jackie Lynch joins The Optimum Nutrition Podcast to dispel the stigma surrounding menopause, and discusses how nutrition and lifestyle can help to manage symptoms. She explains how a wome...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:36
Understanding and Embracing Your Menstrual Cycle with Le’Nise Brothers
Registered nutritionist and women’s health specialist Le’Nise Brothers joins The Optimum Nutrition Podcast to dispel some of the common myths around periods, including whether people should experience pain and cramping, and exactly what a 'norm...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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47:51
Overcoming Food And Sugar Addiction with David Wolfe
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 t...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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39:39
Nutrition Before, During And After Pregnancy with Katie Shore
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 thro...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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48:44
An Ancestral Approach to Wellbeing with Ryan Carter
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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42:17
How Nutrition Can Impact Your Mental Health with Olga Preston
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 me...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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41:39
An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care with Dawn Waldron
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 nu...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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43:57
Diversity And Inclusion In Nutritional Therapy with Ojarike Udu
Ojarike 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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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55:24
LGBTQ+ Health And Nutrition with Daniel O'Shaughnessy
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 communit...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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34:20
Building Positive Relationships With Food with Nicola Moore
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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47:57
