The Hygeia Clinic

Looking for #BBQ inspiration? . . Sunday #salad .... . Courgette, feta cheese, flaked almonds, mint, and crushed pink peppercorns, marinaded in lemon and olive oil. . . Served with rosemary roast potatoes and rib eye steak. Enjoy your Salads!
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It is my job as a Registered Nutritional Therapist to find out through laboratory testing and taking your full health history, which part of your steroidogenic pathway is not functioning optimally and causing you symptoms of fatigue, re-productive issues (miscarriages, infertility), memory loss, thyroid problems, constipation, leaky gut... and produce a dietary and lifestyle prescription in order to address the root cause of your symptoms.
Yesterday was day 1 of my advanced ...hormone course with the Institute of Functional Medicine, covering adrenals, thyroid, and sex hormones. I am particularly interested in the weight gain mechanism in menopause. You can see how important cholesterol (Top left of the diagram below)is with regard to synthesising hormones, make sure yours isn’t too LOW! We actually NEED cholesterol, it is not all bad for you! Make sure your GP monitors your levels. For example, testosterone is synthesised from cholesterol. If you are someone who is experiencing erectile dysfunction, or low libido, low testosterone synthesis may be a contributing factor, as well as psychological factors.
STRESS, toxins, poor dietary choices, and lifestyle factors such as poor sleep hygiene, all impact enormously on your flow of hormone synthesis, their transport and their uptake in your cells. Changing these can have a major positive impact on your endocrine hormones (thyroid, pancreas - think insulin and type 2 diabetes), and your sex hormone production.
If you are stressed you need more of the stress hormone cortisol which means you need to take more progesterone in order to make this. This results in less hormone availability to make estroegen. Follow the arrows from progesterone across to Esterone, Esteradiol, and Esriol. Therefore stress (emotional or physical) maybe a reason for your estrogen deficiency and the symptoms you are experiencing. This is called the cortisol steal!
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Come on #England #FootballsComingHome https://t.co/XUoZ2YvFFl

What are you having for breakfast this morning?

My Refreshing #thirst quenching #drink enjoy at your #BBQ #waitrose jug come on #England #FootballsComingHome https://t.co/r0ywEF6wdP

Looking for an alternative to alcohol to quench your thirst? . . Maybe you have guests at your #BBQ that are looking for a refreshing #drink?

My summer berry breakfast smoothie.
- Antioxidants - Vitamin C - Fibre... - Protein - Essential Fatty Acids
STRICTLY NO ADDED SUGAR OR PRESERVATIVES, GLUTEN OR DAIRY!
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Looking for a better way to start your day...

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget How you make them feel. -Maya Angelou-
... What will you do today to make someone feel good?
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So pleased to be part of James Maskell’s Evolution Of Medicine! Functional and lifestyle medicine is the new medical model of the future! So pleased To be a functional medicine practitioner.
Getting to the root cause of your symptoms and addressing the root cause is much healthier than just treating your symptoms!
Watch this space for my new website coming soon!

Retweeted Helen Perks BSc. (@thehygeiaclinic):
@drchatterjeeuk @DrFrankLipman The Lark Ascending, by Ralph Vaughan Williams and played by @NickyBenedetti and the London Philharmonic Ochestra. ❤️

If you are looking for a simple, naturally sweet, and refreshing snack to satisfy that sweet craving it doesn’t get any simpler than some chopped watermelon paired with a nice cup of green tea.

Got some leftover #chicken from your #BBQ, or your #roast dinner? Mix it together with tomatoes, red and yellow peppers, cucumber, flat leaf parsley and chopped coriander.
Add mayonnaise and seasoning and mix together.
Add to a bed of lettuce and eat as a salad or make it go further and be #thrifty by dividing it among slices of bread to give the kids in their packed lunch, or a work #packedlunch, or add it to your #picnic hamper.
... I made a #glutenfree toastie. Enjoy with some of my flavoured water!
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#thirsty? Try my Thirst-quenching flavoured #water. Keep #hydrated Enjoy your #summer #functionalmedicine #detox #healthy https://t.co/NkU7GbadBR

#thirsty on a hot summers day like today?
Why not try my thirst-quenching deliciously -flavoured water.
We all need to drink more during the hot #summer months!
... Enjoy!
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Watch the series of short videos to find out how to make instant, natural, healthy, and tasty ice-cream with the kids and for the kids!
Enjoy! Xxx

Really enjoying the opportunity to eat #breakfast in the garden every morning. Synthesising vitamin D from the sun’s rays at the same time.
Are you storing up on vitamin D ready for when the seasonal change in weather creeps up on us? #vitaminD #immunesystem