Meet Suzannah
Suzie is a Registered Biomedical Scientist and Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. She has a bachelor's degree of Biomedical Science, a master's degree in Personalised Nutrition and is fully trained as Nutritional Practitioner. Suzannah has additional qualifications with the Institute for Functional Medicine, having completed the Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP) certification.
As a Nutrition Practitioner, Suzie provides personalised recommendations tailored to each individual's personal biochemical needs, using clinical history and medical and biochemical laboratory testing where necessary, in collaboration with other Healthcare Professionals.
Suzie wrote her master’s thesis on Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Long-COVID with an Investigation into the Therapeutic Potential of Antioxidant Supplementation: A Mechanism Review. She has since presented her research to fellow nutritional practitioners, including The Centre of Integrative Sports Nutrition.
Suzie has a special interest in biochemically-based nutritional support for patients with Parkinson’s Disease.
Memberships:
Suzie is a member of The Royal Society of Medicine in London, UK and the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT).
Suzie runs an online clinic that allows her to work with clients internationally.
Studying Nutrition
After working as a biomedical scientist, I took the leap to start an MSc in Personalised Nutrition.
Throughout my masters, my life changed so much. From one lecture to the next, I began making changes across many aspects of my life - from my kitchen, to the food I ate, the skincare I used, and much more.
Understanding HOW everything we consume influences our health was very powerful in reshaping the way I saw food and health.
My Story
My own health story started from a very young age. From weaning off breastfeeding, I became an unhappy baby - moody, my skin was red and puffy across my face and I become asthmatic. After no luck at the doctors for many years, my mum, as a last resort, experimented by changing my diet to dairy free. And this was the magic answer.
However, as I got older, I struggled with tonsilitis, blocked ears, congestion, and Raynaud's. In my midteens, I started struggling with IBS-like symptoms which caused me to avoid certain foods or food altogether to avoid triggering onset of my symptoms.
This felt like a long list of health complaints and I was fed up of prescriptions.
At this time in my life, I was studying chemistry, biology and psychology, and choosing my undergraduate degree. I wanted to learn more about health, disease and biochemsitry - so I chose biomedicine. And I loved it! I loved learning how the body works on a large and small scale, but the picture still felt incomplete.
I was learning about each part of the body in turn, but never as one complex, interwoven system. Then my lightbulb moment arrived - I started a summer internship with a Nutritional Therapist & Functional Medicine Practitioner. I had found a kind of medicine that focused on understanding biochemistry using a systems approach, that looked to the root cause of disease and used nutrition to support health. I was fixed.
I finished my undergraduate degree, squeezing in extra nutrition webinars whenever I could.
Later, working as a biomedicial scientist, I worked in a histocompatibility and immunogenetics lab, then moved into molecular sciences - first diagnostics, then research, but the idea of studying Nutritional Science kept beckoning...
