Helen Ritchie
Registered Nutritional Therapist
Why you should not just rely on HRT to disappear your menopause symptoms
Media coverage of the menopause and the focus on HRT as a magic solution for your symptoms completely over-simplifies the complexity of our bodies and how our hormones work. I’m fed up of hearing about how menopause symptoms are caused by hormone deficiencies and therefore the only way to resolve them is to take re-placement […]
How to exercise to reverse or prevent osteoporosis
You may have heard that doing weight-bearing exercise is important for pre-venting and indeed reversing osteoporosis. But how much do you need to do and what exactly do you need to be doing? An 8-month clinical study aptly named the LIFTMOR trial demonstrated that it is possible to increase bone mineral density through lifting heavy […]
The New Weight Loss Injections – Magic Pill or Potential Ill?
With so much media hype around the new weight loss injections like Wegovy (semaglutide) and Mounjaro (tirzepatide), and as I see more and more people in my diabetes prevention groups starting to take them, I thought it was time to look in more detail at how they work and whether they really are a miracle […]
Meet Louise – “For the first time in a very long time I feel genuinely positive about my long-term weight loss and general wellbeing”
Today, I thought I'd share a different kind of client testimonial, which demonstrates what it’s like to work with me. Meet 60 year old Louise, who wanted to lose weight and improve her sleep. With a complex medical history including breast cancer, double mastectomy, reconstructions that failed and a range of different medications – her […]