Daniel O'Shaughnessy

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🧠 Where Science Meets Philosophy
🌿 Nutrition • Psychology • Healing • Dogs
🌈 Queer Health Author
👇 Work With Me • Speaking • Books

I’m a London-based, award-winning nutritionist and mindset coach with over a decade of clinical experience, following a previous career in addiction counselling. My journey into nutrition began with personal struggles, including skin concerns and a long history of weight challenges dating back to childhood. With over a decade of experience, I’ve learnt that true health extends beyond what we eat—it’s about how we nurture every part of ourselves. I support people through a joined-up approach that brings together nutrition, mindset, and healing.

27/10/2026

I know I’ve seen those eyes before.

21/10/2026

She’s still the exact same in my eyes

20/10/2026

I’ve had comments about my body that stayed in my head for years, and I’ve also spent years changing my body partly because I thought that if I looked “good enough”, I could somehow make myself less vulnerable to them.

I don’t think healing means getting to a point where nothing anybody says ever hurts. For me, it’s been about understanding why certain comments land so deeply, and not automatically handing that person the power to decide how I eat, train or feel about myself afterwards.

People can still be cruel. I just don’t want their cruelty becoming my next instruction.

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18/10/2026

Last week I had a wobble after getting a royalty statement that was lower than I’d hoped, and suddenly I was questioning whether I should stay in q***r health, diversify, reinvent myself, do something safer.

The irony is that I already left a much more conventional, stable version of nutrition because there was always a part of me missing from the work, and now I’ve written two books about the things I actually care about. A younger version of me would have been in awe, yet I’m very good at moving the goalposts and focusing on what hasn’t happened yet.

I’m still working on becoming less incredibly alert to whether people approve of the things I care about, but I believe in my work, I believe in the books, and I believe in the work behind them.

Through all the healing work and medicine retreats, I keep coming back to the same lesson of trust and surrender, and somehow I never quite master it.

I think I just need to believe in what I’m building. ❤️

17/10/2026

I’m not anti-biohacking, I’m anti pretending that health advice coming from extraordinarily resourced people, often with access to endless testing, technology, money and time, is somehow a universal blueprint for everyone else.

If you understand health properly, you understand that health has context, because neurodivergence, trauma, money, work, caring responsibilities, relationships, capacity and q***r lived experience all affect what is realistic, useful and appropriate for the person actually receiving that advice.

One of the problems with modern wellness is that we’ve become very good at consuming protocols without asking enough questions about who is giving them, what their actual credibility is, what kind of life those recommendations were built around, and whether any of it makes sense in the context of our own lives.

If you’ve got three kids, you’re working shifts, you’re processing trauma and you’ve barely got enough capacity to get through the week, there is absolutely no point feeling like you’re failing at health because some Silicon Valley biohacker thinks you should be tracking twelve biomarkers, taking fifteen supplements and reorganising your entire day around optimisation.

Some of that advice might be useful, some of it might be completely irrelevant to you, but one of the best things you can do for your health is learn to question the advice itself rather than automatically assuming you’re the problem when you can’t follow it.

That’s really the thread running through all of my work, because wellness needs far more understanding of the actual human being trying to get well.

14/10/2026

One thing I’m noticing is how quickly I still feel responsible for the atmosphere in a room.

If it’s awkward, flat, or someone else seems uncomfortable, my instinct is to fix it. Usually by making a joke.

I’m trying to work out who I am when I don’t.

13/10/2026

I had some new people join me recently so I wanted to share what my little baby was like as a puppy. This was the day she found her voice and also the day I knew I was under her little paw.

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