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I help women 35+ navigate perimenopause, balance their hormones and feel their best through natural, personalised health and wellbeing support.
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Why are foods you've eaten for years suddenly causing problems?
You used to know what worked for your body.
Now you're bloated after meals, your digestion is unpredictable, and you're starting to question foods you've eaten happily for decades.
Even the healthy ones.
You're wondering whether you'll have to give up bread, dairy or half the foods you enjoy.
But what if the most important clue isn't on your plate?
There's something I look for when a woman suddenly starts reacting to familiar foods.
And it's particularly relevant in perimenopause.
Why does your body suddenly seem less tolerant?
Imagine your health as a table with four strong legs.
When they're stable, the table can carry quite a lot.
But when one leg starts to weaken, the whole thing becomes less resilient.
Perimenopause can be a bit like that.
Changing hormones interact with your gut, metabolism, immune system and stress response. And things your body previously coped with may become harder to tolerate.
Sometimes the food hasn't changed. Your body has.
Which means understanding why you're reacting can be just as important as identifying what you're reacting to.
Could food intolerance be contributing to your symptoms?
Food intolerances can contribute to a surprisingly wide range of symptoms, including:
Bloating, wind and abdominal discomfort
Constipation or diarrhoea
Indigestion and reflux
Headaches
Fatigue or sleepiness after meals
Brain fog and difficulty concentrating
Skin flare-ups, itching or rashes
Feeling unwell after foods you've previously enjoyed
These symptoms can have other causes too, which is why I look for patterns rather than assuming food is responsible.
Why can you eat something one day and react the next?
Food intolerances can be sneaky.
You might eat something on Monday and feel absolutely fine.
Eat it again on Thursday, when you're stressed or haven't slept, and suddenly you're uncomfortable.
Sometimes the quantity matters. Sometimes your wider health picture matters.
And sometimes the food you're blaming is completely innocent.
So how do you find out what genuinely affects you without cutting half your diet?
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My Food Intolerance Discovery Process
I've been identifying food-related patterns in clinical practice since 2003.
I look at your symptoms, eating habits, health history and the wider factors affecting your digestion and tolerance.
Then we make targeted changes, observe what improves and build a clearer picture of what works for your body.
In my experience, testing rarely provides a clear answer. There is always ‘suck it and see’ to be done - and often tests give unnecessarily long lists of foods to exclude. I’ve worked with them all: blood testing, hair testing and kinesiology muscle testing and I come back to my clinical experience every time.
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There must be a tangible benefit to taking something off your plate.
I know wheat gives me spots. Sometimes I choose to eat it anyway.
Because when you understand how a food affects you, you get to decide whether eating it is worth it.
That's the freedom I want for you.
I have one very important rule:
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Imagine feeling confident about food again.
Going out for dinner without worrying about every ingredient.
Knowing which foods genuinely make a difference to how you feel.
Being able to nourish your changing body without endless restrictions or confusing lists of forbidden foods.
And trusting yourself to make choices that suit your health and your life.
My Food Intolerance Discovery Process is available as a standalone programme and is also part of the personalised nutritional work we do in my group and 1:1 programmes. Want to know if this is the route for you?
Book your personalised perimenopause pattern consultation now.