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Is your anxiety making you dread going back to work?

Is this how you're feeling about going back to work after the holidays? 5 years ago when I was still working in the corporate world, I started feeling really anxious - something I had never ever experienced before in my life. It was so bad I found myself worrying about every single little thing from […]

Here’s how menopause is an amazing opportunity to become the person you’ve always wanted to be

Anxiety, brain fog & mood swings are common symptoms experienced by menopausal women. I can testify that I struggled with all 3. In fact, I believe they contributed to me losing my confidence and ultimately my job in corporate marketing. When this happened out of the blue 6 years ago, I was overwhelmed with a […]

Why the idea of exercising to lose weight is wrong!

You need to exercise to lose weight right? Wrong! This outdated thinking is based on the calories in/calories out theory of weight loss, which assumes all calories are equal and that you need a calorie deficit to lose body fat. This takes no account of age, sex, weight, lifestage or any other condition, nor of […]

The magical effects of flax seeds

Flaxseeds are my favourite phytooestrogen, which although many hundreds of times weaker than human oestrogen have the seemingly magic ability to increase oestrogen levels when they're low and reduce them when they're too high. This can be helpful not only menopausal women in reducing symptoms like hot flushes, but may also help with pre-menstrual syndrome […]

Helen Ritchie

Windsor, UK

Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner

BA (Hons), DipION, mBANT, CNHC

E: helen@ritchnutrition.com

M: 07884 117768

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Helen Ritchie

Clinical Nutritional Therapist