Supporting brain health with nutrition and lifestyle medicine

Nutrition and the Brain was founded by Dr Kirstie Lawton, Director of You Nutrition Clinic to support those with neurological symptoms and diagnoses.

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Kirstie is an AfN registered Nutritionist, a BANT registered Nutritionist, and a CNHC registered Nutritional Therapist, with a nutrition career spanning more than 20 years. She obtained a BSc Hons in Public Health Nutrition and a PhD in Nutrition from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, and a DipION in Nutritional Therapy from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in Richmond, London.

 

She obtained a PGCE in Higher Education at the University of London to support her academic role. She is also completing an MSc in Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration through the University of Sheffield School of Medicine and Population Health. 

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In addition to her clinical role, Kirstie was integral in the establishment of the UK's first level 6 Graduate Diploma in Integrative Functional Nutrition at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in collaboration with Portsmouth University, which was developed to support medical doctors, allied and complementary healthcare practitioners, to understand and incorporate functional nutritional concepts into their current practice. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Nutritional Medicine Institute (NMI) and journal. 

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Her interest in brain health is based on her own experience with a seemingly undiagnosable range of neurological symptoms, which have improved through diet, lifestyle and nutraceutical support. She is currently focusing her clinical work on diet and lifestyle approaches to support those with Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and Motor Neurone Disease (MND).