Nutrition — Jo Webster

Nutrition

Good nutrition is fundamental for health. The best outcomes are attained when we work together, utilising your knowledge of yourself and mine in nutrition, gut health and medicinal herbs.
Ascertaining what good nutrition means for you as an individual involves understanding the complex factors affecting your relationship with different foods and the constituents they contain. I use evidence-based nutrition and gut microbiota science to inform my approach to your individual health circumstances. Having said that, scientific research is generally relevant at population level. I aim to fully understand you as an individual and to ensure that the recommendations I make are based on your situation, not on generalisations. It is also crucial to remember that food is about so much more than nutrition.

Nutritional medicine

As something we do daily, eating and drinking represents a highly effective means of influencing both short-term and long-term health. Once I have a good understanding of where you are with your eating and drinking habits currently, we will work together to find effective and sustainable steps forward.

I will listen to you to understand your health priorities. I am able to use a range of clinical assessments and diagnostic tools to best assess any possible nutritional deficiencies, imbalances, intolerances, absorption, digestion, metabolism or excretion issues. Of course, the role of gut microbiota in health and disease is one important factor that we will consider.

Whatever the health issue, food is relevant. It can prevent illness, ameliorate or eliminate symptoms, reduce disease impact and progression and maximise energy levels and emotional wellbeing. Navigating justified long term and sustainable changes to diet can be complicated though and doing so with my help, insight, expertise and support can make all the difference to the outcome.

Articles

Nutrition slices

I write about nutrition topics that interest me, inspire me or frustrate me. Science is rarely black and white, meaning that intelligent enquiry is essential.

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Fermentation collaboration with Cultjar

The practice of humans fermenting foods likely developed from inadvertently leaving foods in an unpreserved state and still finding them palatable, if somewhat altered, some considerable time later. Fermentation is, after all, a form of controlled decomposition.

Allium sativum - a model of herbal complexity

Garlic has been used both as a food and medicine by more human cultures and for longer than almost any other plant in the world.

Gut microbiota, nutrition and health

I read an excellent scientific review on the role of gut microbes in nutrition and health. I have set out the fundamentals for you here.

The power of your poo

The state of our poo tells us a great deal about our gut health in general. It would be useful if we paid more attention to to our poo.

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Events

Events: nutrition, herbs and microbes

The events I run are educational and entertaining. They mix theory and hands-on practice with delicious food, herbal teas and fermented drinks that illustrate what is possible. You will not only learn from me, but from one another too. And I will learn from you. The particular focus of each event differs, but I bring my irrepressible enthusiasm for food, herbs and microbes to them all.

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Resources

Snuffle around here…

Here, I have gathered the resources I have found useful in the hope that you might also find them useful. We need to make use of this collective wisdom now more than ever.

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