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29/10/2026

You’re standing at the top of the stairs, holding onto the handrail you’ve never needed before. You’re thinking through which foot to step down with first.

Thirty seconds, and one step later, you’re wondering why you ever needed to go upstairs at all.

Nine years ago, this was me, and I was seriously considering swapping our house for a bungalow.

My knee had been swollen for six months by then, and when I finally got my diagnosis of severe osteoarthritis, the advice was basically to run less. No support plan, just an instruction to do less of the thing I loved.

So I did what a lot of us do and spent my evenings scrolling for a glimmer of hope that I could keep running without doing any more damage. I started strength training three times a week, and eventually I tweaked my diet too.

And the swelling just disappeared.

I went from struggling up and down the stairs to running up and down them, and I’ve since completed two marathons on the Cotswold Way. That’s my story and not a promise for anyone else, but it made me really curious about what my body needed and what it didn’t.

Maybe you’ve stopped going for walks because your knees hurt, or gardening has become a chore.

You might have been told it’s wear and tear, or inflammation, or just part of getting older. You might even be on medication and still wondering what else you can do.

Having an explanation for your joint pain is one thing, but the joint isn’t always the whole story, and it can be worth looking a bit wider.

That’s why I’m co-hosting Move With Ease: A Joint Pain Workshop with Claire at Portland Pilates & Physio in Cheltenham.

Claire will show you gentle exercises to try at home, and I’ll cover the food side, so you’ll leave with a clearer idea of where to look and how to support your joints.

We can’t promise to make your pain disappear (I’d be wary of anyone who does), but we can send you home with simple things to try that could make life a bit easier, and that’s got to be less faff than moving house!

Move With Ease | Wednesday 25 November | 7-8.15pm
Portland Pilates & Physio, Cheltenham

If you know someone this might help, please send this their way 💚

Link to book: https://easeyourpainworkshop.subscribepage.io/

23/10/2026

Nine years ago, I was thinking about swapping our two-storey semi for a bungalow, all because my knee had decided stairs were no longer a comfortable option.

It had been swollen for six months by the time I got my diagnosis of severe osteoarthritis. The only advice I received? Run less.

That was it. No explanation, no plan, just an instruction to do less of the thing I loved.

So I did what a lot of us do and spent my evenings scrolling the internet for any glimmer of hope.

I started strength training three times a week and eventually tweaked my diet too.

The swelling disappeared.

I went from struggling up and down the stairs to running up and down them, and I’ve since completed two marathons on the Cotswold Way.

That’s my experience and not a promise for everyone, because we’re all different. But it made me curious about what my body needed and what it didn't, and it’s why I became a nutritional therapist.

If you’ve been told to learn to live with your joint pain on Wednesday 25 November, Claire from Portland Pilates & Physio and I are hosting Move With Ease, a workshop to help you understand what might be contributing to your joint pain and send you home with some simple things to try.

What’s in store:

🧡 Gentle exercise demos with Claire
🧡 Nutrition guidance on how what you eat (and don’t eat) can affect your joints
🧡 Ask those nagging questions you've never had time to ask
🧡 A goodie bag and a follow-up guide emailed afterwards

🗓 Wednesday 25 November, 7-8.15pm
📍 Portland Pilates & Physio, Cheltenham

It's £20, fully redeemable against a future Pilates or nutrition session with either of us.

I'll leave the booking link here: https://easeyourpainworkshop.subscribepage.io/

And if someone you know has been putting up with painful joints, please feel free to share this with them.

21/10/2026

Joint pain can slowly stop you doing the things you love.

The Sunday country hike with friends. Lifting the kids or grandchildren. Gardening on a sunny afternoon.

On Wednesday 25 November, Claire from Portland Pilates & Physio and I are hosting an evening to help you understand what might be contributing to your joint pain, and send you home with simple things to try.

Here’s what’s in store:

🧡 Gentle exercise demos with Claire
🧡 Nutrition guidance from me on how what you eat (and don’t eat) can affect your joints
🧡 Time to ask those nagging questions
🧡 A goodie bag on the night, plus a follow-up guide emailed afterwards

It’s £20, fully redeemable against a future Pilates or nutrition session with either of us.

📍 Portland Pilates & Physio, Cheltenham

The booking link is coming soon. If you want to be the first to know, drop me a DM with the word MOVE, and I’ll send it over the moment it’s live.

12/08/2026

So, we’re in the middle of yet another heatwave and everyone’s out there loving it.

But if you’re living with psoriasis, eczema or acne, wearing shorts and enjoying dips in the sea can make you feel like you want to hide.

It’s another day working out how to cover up your patches without melting, or seeing people’s eyes flick to your skin and then away again before you’ve even said hello.

That’s exhausting. And it’s absolutely not something you should have to just get on with.

So let’s talk about why, because it’s not really about your skin at all. Covering up manages what’s on the surface, but that’s only ever half the picture.

The other half is what’s going on underneath. Poor digestion, stress, immune dysfunction, nutrient deficiencies, hormone imbalances, food sensitivities - all the stuff you can’t see in the mirror but shows up on your skin every day.

When you start working on what’s going on beneath the surface, that’s when the outside starts to change too. Not with another cream that works for three weeks and then stops.

If you’re spending this heatwave covering up and dreaming of feeling confident in a strappy top or shorts, let me help you get there. Slots for a free introductory chat are open.

I’m Andrea, a nutritional therapist, and I help people who are tired of hearing that their skin issues are just something they have to live with 🧡

05/08/2026

I don't usually jump on trends, but this one felt like a good excuse to be honest about me as a nutritional therapist.

When I'm chatting with someone who's thinking about working with me, I always say they need to feel like they can be honest with me, no polishing the truth to make their diet sound better than it actually is. And that only works if I'm willing to do the same.

So here's me.

I'm not about overoptimising every part of your health. I still eat chocolate daily, and love eating cake.

I also live with joint pain, which some days makes me feel like a bit of a fraud giving health advice at all.

If you want nutrition advice from someone who doesn't eat salads and green juice on repeat, who actually understands what it's like living with an ongoing health issue, and who'll never make you feel judged for what's on your plate, you're in the right place.

If that sounds like you, say hello. Drop a 👋🏼 in the comments or pop over to my grid and have a nosey at what I do.

31/07/2026

Your diet can be genuinely fine and your magnesium levels can still be low. That confuses a lot of people, and understandably so.

Here’s the bit that gets missed.

Magnesium isn’t just a question of what you’re eating. It’s a balance between what’s going in and what’s using it up, and modern life is remarkably good at draining it.

Stress depletes magnesium.

Alcohol depletes it.

So does caffeine, poor sleep and intense exercise: all things a lot of us are dealing with regularly without necessarily connecting them to a mineral.

So you can have a decent diet by eating your nuts, seeds and dark leafy greens, and still end up running low on magnesium, because the demand on your body has steadily outpaced what you’re taking on board.

This is exactly why it’s one of the supplements I recommend most often in clinic. Low levels can show up as muscle cramps, poor sleep, migraines, PMS and, a bit ironically, more stress, which only accelerates the depletion further. It becomes a bit of a cycle.

If you are looking at a supplement, the form matters too.

Magnesium glycinate is generally my pick for relaxation and sleep, while citrate can help if you’re prone to constipation.

A couple of things worth flagging. If you’re on antibiotics, leave a two-hour gap either side before taking magnesium. And if you’re on blood pressure medication or calcium channel blockers, that’s one to take a bit of care with too.

If any of this resonated and you’d like a proper look at whether magnesium’s worth adding for you, my DMs are open, or you can book a free 20-minute call 🧡

28/07/2026

Eating flaxseed doesn’t automatically mean you’re covered on omega-3.

Omega-3 is what’s called an essential fatty acid, meaning your body genuinely cannot make it. It has to come from what you eat.

But here’s the bit that often gets missed.

There are different forms of omega-3, and they’re not interchangeable. Plant sources like flaxseed, chia, h**p and walnuts contain a form called ALA. Your body has to convert that into EPA and DHA before it can actually use it for anything, and that conversion process is slow and pretty inefficient. You’d need to eat an unreasonable amount of seeds to get a meaningful amount through that route alone.

Oily fish, on the other hand, gives you EPA and DHA directly. Ready to use. No conversion required.

That’s a big part of why I recommend an omega-3 supplement to most of my clients. Omega-3 plays a genuinely significant role in heart health, brain function and how your body regulates inflammation, and getting enough in the right form matters more than most people realise.

The easiest way to remember the best food sources is SMASH: salmon, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, herring. Three to four portions a week is the general aim.

If fish isn’t your thing, or you’re vegetarian or vegan, an algae oil supplement is your best bet, since it gives you EPA and DHA directly rather than relying on your body to convert it.

One thing worth flagging: if you’re on blood-thinning medication, or about to have surgery, have a chat with a health professional before adding in a supplement, as omega-3 can affect blood clotting.

My DMs are open if you’d like some advice on the best omega-3 supplements to get 🧡

22/07/2026

Being outside doesn’t automatically mean your body’s making enough vitamin D.

There’s a fair bit working against you, even if you’re out and about most days:

☀️ Most of us are indoors at exactly the time the sun’s at the right angle, so we miss those precious vitamin D-making windows without even realising it.

😎 We’ve been taught to wear sunscreen. Yes, it’s brilliant for protecting your skin, and keep wearing it, but it also blocks a lot of the UVB your body needs to produce vitamin D in the first place.

🧢 Unless you’re a naturist, you’re wearing clothes, and covering up large areas of skin, which reduces vitamin D production too.

💊 A lot of us are on statins. Statins are designed to lower cholesterol, which happens to be one of the key ingredients your body needs to make vitamin D.

🧬 Some people carry gene variations that affect how their body produces, transports or absorbs vitamin D, so even with decent sun exposure and a good diet, their levels can still come up low.

Basically, there’s a lot working against you, and being out in the sunshine is only one small piece of a much bigger picture.

That’s why I see low vitamin D levels on test results all the time, and why I so often end up recommending a supplement, though never without considering important co-factors, existing medication, and health conditions too.

Stick around. I’ll be covering two other supplements I recommend most to my clients over the coming week.

18/07/2026

You bought it with high hopes, that this would be the one to finally sort your energy, clear up your skin, or ease those achy knees.

Weeks went by, but nothing much changed. So you moved on to the next one, maybe something a friend recommended, or that wellness influencer you follow on TikTok swears by.

Sound familiar? Here’s how to know if you’re on the merry-go-round:

💊 You’ve got a graveyard of half-used tubs in a cupboard somewhere
💊 You’ve swapped supplements more than once for the exact same issue, and not much has actually changed
💊 You’re taking something mainly because it worked for someone else, rather than because you know it’s what your body needs

I see this all the time with clients when we start working together. A long list of supplements, bought with the best intentions, and who can blame you?

Vitamins, minerals, collagen, probiotics, prebiotics, creatine (add more if you’ve got them!) are all meant to be good for you. So surely more is better?

Not quite.

Here’s what’s usually going on when a supplement doesn’t seem to be working:

🤔 It might not be the right dose for what you actually need
🤔 It might not be in a form your body can properly use
🤔 Or you’re trying to correct the thing you tested for, but are missing the actual reason it was low in the first place, so it never really resolves

You can’t out-supplement a problem you haven’t properly investigated. And the supplement isn’t always the problem, the guessing is.

If your own supplement box has turned into a bit of a graveyard, that’s such a common starting point for the people I work with, and there’s a way off the merry-go-round that doesn’t involve buying yet another one and crossing your fingers that this will be the one.

If you’re confused about what supplements you should actually be taking, drop me a DM and I’ll see how I can help 🧡

15/07/2026

You’re taking exactly the same supplement as your friend and it worked a treat for her.

Her skin’s glowing. Her energy’s up and she’s basically become a walking advert for the stuff.

So you buy it too, keeping your fingers crossed that this is the one that’ll do the job.

But weeks go by and nothing. You’re not seeing the same results as her.

Here’s why…

We’re all biochemically individual, which is a fancy way of saying your body’s gaps, quirks and needs are entirely your own.

Your friend’s deficiency, digestion, stress levels and lifestyle are not your deficiency, digestion, stress levels and lifestyle, even if you’ve eaten the same lunch together every Tuesday for the last five years.

So when a supplement works brilliantly for someone else and does absolutely nothing for you, it’s not that you did it wrong. It’s that your body needs something else right now.

Taking a supplement without knowing what’s actually going on inside you is basically just guessing. And guessing gets expensive.

If you’re not sure what your body’s actually asking for, send me a DM and I’ll see how I can help 🧡

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