Appointments at Taunton or Axminster clinics, or by telephone or video link.

• The initial consultation - this includes a full assessment of your health, assessing any nutrient imbalances and the aim to find root causes of symptoms. Lab testing may be recommended and arranged for you if appropriate.

• Medication is checked for any contraindications with supplements that may be prescribed at your appointment. These include natural food and plant based supplements and medicinal mushrooms, which are also provided at the appointment (1 hour).

• Lab tests are often recommended and these include food intolerances, IBS Microbiome and digestive imbalances, vitamins and minerals, hormones, stress levels, cortisol, inflammation, immunity and blood sugar. There are many lab tests available and these have specific uses, aiming to find root causes and optimise health, depending on symptoms.

• Follow up appointment - this includes an assessment of symptoms, to monitor progress, supplements adjustments, further dietary and lifestyle support (40 minutes).

• All protocol recommendations and supplements details are uploaded to the Practice Better secure portal to view on desktop or App.

Before your nutritional consultation or food intolerance/allergy test, you’ll need to complete a health questionnaire. This includes a food diary, symptoms, past medical history, details of current medication, and supplements. This will be sent by email link to complete in the Practice Better desktop or App.

During your one hour appointment on Practice Better secure video link or in clinic  I will ask further health questions, assess lifestyle factors and examine any contraindications with current medication, foods and supplements. I will also find out more about your symptoms, including any recent tests, including blood tests, you may have had with your GP or consultant.I may recommend a food intolerance antibody test or other specific laboratory scientific tests.

A follow up appointment is usually recommended 4-5 weeks after the initial consultation, but is not always necessary. We will discuss any lab test results following your initial appointment. Ongoing follow up appointments are sometimes required, depending on symptoms and health problems.

Choosing a Registered Nutritional Therapist

BANT recommends that you choose a BANT Registered Nutritional Therapist who has undertaken all the necessary training to understand the theory and practice of nutritional therapy. BANT-member Registered Nutritional Therapists are regulated by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC). By choosing a Registered Nutritional Therapist, registered with the CNHC you can be confident that they are properly trained, qualified and insured, and that they abide by the CNHC’s Code of Conduct. BANT members are qualified in both the science of nutrition as well as clinical practice.

What is Nutritional Therapy?

Nutritional Therapy is the application of nutrition and lifestyle sciences in the promotion of health, peak performance and individual care. Registered practitioners use a wide range of tools to assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and health concerns. These include diet and lifestyle support, laboratory tests, pH dietary balance, food diaries, food intolerance testing, vitamin and mineral assessment, tests for nutritional imbalances, hair mineral analysis, allergy testing and a wide range of other tests as appropriate to the individual. Combining lifestyle medicine with nutritional therapy. Practitioners never recommend nutritional therapy as a replacement for medical advice and always refer any client with ‘red flag’ signs or symptoms to their medical professional. They will also frequently work alongside a medical professional and will communicate with other healthcare professionals involved in the client’s care.

Member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle medicine (BANT)

Liz put me completely at ease and was not remotely judgemental. Her empathy was magnificent and it is clear she deserves her qualifications because she is exceptionally knowledgeable. She also has a knack in explaining things in a way that is very easy to understand. The result of my thorough but non daunting food intolerance test was that I had intolerances to wheat and white fish. This certainly explained why fish and chips had not been agreeing with me – I’d put it down to it being greasy fried food – how wrong I was.