I’m a medical doctor with a background in nutrition and dietetics. I trained and worked in the NHS and am currently away from clinical practice due to family life. Stepping back from medicine has been harder than I expected. I still care deeply about evidence, physiology, and helping people think clearly about their health. This Substack is a way of weaving medicine back into my life in a form that fits my current reality.
I write about health, food, sleep, and the kind of advice that fills our feeds, particularly where it becomes overly confident, fear-based, or detached from real life. I’m interested in how lifestyle, environment and day-to-day choices shape health and disease, while staying grounded in what the evidence actually shows and where it is uncertain.
Much of this writing is shaped by what I wish I’d had access to during the years when I felt overwhelmed, stressed, and constantly worried about getting things wrong. When I was trying to do my best for my family and for myself, but struggling under the weight of contradictory advice, guilt, and impossible standards. This is the kind of place I would have wanted to go then.
My approach is evidence-aware but deliberately non-militant. I’m interested in whole-person medicine, including lifestyle and context, without reducing health to isolated rules, biomarkers, or optimisation targets. Where the evidence is mixed or weak, I say so. Where something helps me personally but isn’t well supported, I’m honest about that too.
This isn’t about optimisation or perfect choices. It’s about making sense of health advice without fear, guilt, or exhaustion, and about finding patterns that are realistic and supportive of real life.
Start here
- Start here (the best place if you’re new)
- From Tomatoes to Toxins
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Real Life
- Trade-offs No One Talks About
If you’d like to get in touch, you can find me on the contact page.
This site is for general education only and isn’t personal medical advice.