Natalie Osman

About

I'm a Registered Nutritional Therapist based in Watford, working with active adults whose energy, recovery and performance aren't quite where they want them. I play padel myself, which is partly why I'm interested in it clinically. It's a sport people come to later, often in their forties and fifties, and it asks things of the body that running or the gym never did. All that twisting, stopping and changing direction. Then they're playing three times a week, loving it, and wondering why everything aches and why they're exhausted by Thursday. That's usually not about training harder., it's about what your body has available to fuel and recover with. My work starts with finding out what's actually going on rather than guessing. That might mean looking at your food and training patterns, and where it's warranted, functional blood testing or nutrigenomic profiling. I only recommend a test if I think it will change what we do. I work with people on things like persistent fatigue, slow recovery between matches, recurring soft tissue niggles, energy dips, gut symptoms that interfere with playing, and the changes that come with perimenopause and midlife. Food first, always. No generic meal plans, no rules handed down, and no protocol you couldn't explain to someone else. My aim is that you finish our work understanding your own body well enough not to need me. Consultations online and in person in Hertfordshire. BSc (Hons) · DipION · mBANT · rCNHC

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