Caroline Rees PhD

Nutritional Therapy and Lifestyle Medicine

Discover the real causes of your health issues and gain control through simple diet and lifestyle changes. Most often there is an immune imbalance driving your problems. With a PhD in immunology, I am ideally placed to help you get to the root cause.

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Get in touch by email or phone for a free discovery consultation.

Are you…

  • Struggling with health issues?

  • Tried different diets but you still don't know what is right for you?

  • Worrying that things are just getting worse?

  • Wondering if an immune system imbalance driving your problems?

  • Maybe it’s your gut health?

I was once where you are. Since devoting myself to understanding how so many health conditions are driven by gut health, inflammation and immune system imbalance, I was able to turn my own health issues around, losing my excess weight, lowering my high blood pressure and resolving my sleep and menopausal symptoms successfully and I can help you to do the same.

How I can help you

Understanding what is driving your health problems is the key to finding the right approach for your unique situation. Most health issues involve inflammation which may be due to an immune system imbalance, a persistent infection or hormone issues. For example, being overweight is often considered a cause of ill health but in fact it is equally often a consequence of these problems. I work with you to identify the underlying factors in your situation and create a plan that works for you, to optimise your health: now and in the long term.

Who are my clients?

  • People who enjoy food.

  • People who need expert help to find answers to their health problems.

  • People who want tools to control their health long term.

  • People like you!

I am especially interested in the links between the immune system and health such as:

  • Digestive problems and gut health

  • Blood sugar control

  • Autoimmunity

  • Allergies

  • Low mood and anxiety

  • Fatigue.

Why come to me?

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Hello there

Through my personal and professional experience I have seen how simple changes can transform health

More About Me

  • My personal experience in transforming my health through nutrition and lifestyle changes has given me a passion for helping others to do the same.

  • I love the detective work needed to discover the keys to optimising health in my clients.

  • My strong science background in immunology enables me to understand the biology of how our bodies work.

  • I am a Registered Nutritional Therapist and a member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine, which guarantees a high level of training and continual professional development.

  • I hold a master’s level diploma in Nutritional Therapy and a PhD in Immunology (specifically, allergy research).

Testimonials

Simple easy to achieve steps that Caroline advised, together with the supplements suggested, have turned days of dragging myself around desperate to go to bed back into productive wide awake days I thought I’d lost for ever. Thank you Caroline! I only wish I’d followed my “see a nutritionist” thoughts much earlier.

Francine, Worcestershire

I started seeing Caroline to help with managing my eczema flare-ups. These had become so bad that I was considering immunosuppressant therapy. I was unsure whether it would be successful or not, but I felt at that point, it was worth giving it a try. I came across Caroline online – I have found our sessions to be incredibly informative and they helped me to make sense of symptoms I’ve had for years, such as why the same things inconsistently trigger my eczema. Caroline has also given me insight into immune responses and why eczema is a complex condition. The results have been brilliant but it’s not been without time and work; Caroline has been a huge support with her encouragement, knowledge and ‘real-life’ approach. I still get flare ups, and always will, but they are less frequent and more manageable when they occur. Better still, I have started to prepare most foods from scratch (something I had never done prior to seeing Caroline) and overall, eat a more varied diet which has had other positive benefits. I am no longer considering immunotherapy. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Caroline to others with similar problems. Thanks Caroline!

Katherine, Worcestershire

Caroline‘s expert knowledge, advice and support really helped me to understand how, by making changes to my diet, I could improve my health, energy and wellbeing. I am so much better since following Caroline’s recommendations. I wouldn’t have got back to work without her.

Niki, Worcestershire

I would just like to thank Caroline very much for her nutritional help. I personally do a lot of exercise, but struggle to keep my weight under control, hence asking Caroline for advice. She has given me a completely new way to eat, previously I was fixated by calories, which lead me down the path of eating processed food. I now do not look at a calorie and eat fresh food the majority of the time. I have had about 5 sessions with her, each session she has taken a scientific approach, has been very non judgmental when I have fallen off the wagon, and managed to get me back on track. I now have more energy and love not having to be dictated to by calories.

Lisa, Gloucestershire

Caroline has a wealth of expert knowledge on the biochemistry of nutrition and everything she advised was backed up by peer-reviewed evidence. I was also impressed with the research she had done into my specific needs. She is kind, empathic and easy to talk to and is as expert in the ‘therapy’ as in the scientific aspect of the consultation. I really felt I was in good hands.

Sophie, Worcestershire

I had two consultations with Caroline and was incredibly impressed with her knowledge, enthusiasm and professionalism. She puts in so much time and effort to ensure that you have a completely personalised diagnosis and plan.
Each recommendation is discussed and thoroughly explained. One size nutrition definitely doesn’t fit all! We are all very different and she takes the time to work through that.

Debbie, London

Get started

  • If you’re ready to book an online consultation, you can book right now with Halaxy. Just click the Halaxy logo to go to the online booking page.

  • if you’d like to see me face-to-face at The Fold Natural Therapy Centre, Bransford or S.E.N.S.E, Tenbury Wells, please get in touch.

  • Learn more about the nutritional therapy process here: Consultations

  • If you’d like to chat first about how I can help, please get in touch.

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Why can’t I keep my weight under control?
Why can’t I keep my weight under control?

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Should you be gluten free?
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Gut healing: an essential element of nutritional therapy
Gut healing: an essential element of nutritional therapy

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Watch this video from The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) to learn more about Nutritional Therapy.

Why Nutritional Therapy can help you

Nutritional Therapists recognise that each person is an individual, with unique requirements. We take time to understand your situation and create personalised nutrition plans rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach.

Nutrition and lifestyle approaches to healthcare have been shown to support the health of all the major systems of the body.

Typical priorities will include support to achieve optimum energy levels, healthy blood sugar balance, emotional and psychological wellbeing, optimum digestive health and creating a way of eating tailored to your needs.

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