Meet Suzannah
Hi, my name is Suzannah Winsor
I’m a Registered Biomedical Scientist (HCPC) and a Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC). I’ve also trained with the Institute of Functional Medicine, completing my AFMCP certification.
My mission is to help you uncover the root causes behind your health concerns by combining my expertise in biomedical and nutritional sciences with the personalised, whole-person approach of functional medicine.
Most healthcare professionals only get the opportunity to see a quick glance into your health story. But, in Nutritional Therapy and Functional Medicine, we explore your health and symptoms across your entire body and across your timeline. This allows us to connect the dots and patterns begin to emerge.
This support is offered to anyone, whether you are looking to proactively improve your health (the preventative approach), or have new, mild symptoms you would like investigating, or you have an existing diagnosis(es) that you would like to support through nutrition. The only exceptions are eating disorders/disordered eating, CKD and active cancer patients, which without further training, I cannot assist. However, I will instead provide trusted referrals.
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...
Studying Nutrition
After working as a 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.
Today
Fast forward to now, I have a passion for supporting individuals with chronic neurological conditions (such as MS and Parkinson's disease), as well as chronic inflammatory and digestive symptoms such as IBS and SIBO.
If you're interested in deepening your understanding of your own health, you are invited to book an appointment with me.