Nicola Hodges Nutrition

01/01/2026

Hold your horses for a sec! 🐎🐎🐎
It’s likely that thyroid disease has been brewing for a long time before it showed its name. No supplement will ‘fix’ your thyroid and building your health back comes before losing weight! Often restricting calories and increasing the intensity of your workouts will only make it worse!

If you want to know more about working with me - book a free 30 minute call - link in the bio ☝️

31/12/2025

Wishing all of my clients past and present - and followers on here a happy and healthy 2026!

24/12/2025

“It’s really good to see you.”
“No pressure at all, choose what works for you.”
“There’s a seat for you if you need a rest.”
“Let me know if you want to avoid eating/drinking anything.”
“How’s your energy today?”
“I’m just glad you’re here.”
“Do you need a hand with anything?”
“You bought your own food, cool, let me get you a plate”
“Totally fine if you’re not drinking, whatever works, there’s plenty of soft drinks/water”
“Thanks for telling me, that makes sense.”
“Your no is enough, no explanation needed.”
“I’ve got you.”

If someone with autoimmune disease or chronic symptoms has made an effort to see you at Christmas, regardless of what they eat or drink, you must matter and that’s enough.

10/12/2025

Don’t over think it!
This is ground beef with chipotle paste and fajita spices, sweet potatoe and veg. Boom!

No hunger pangs till lunch, no blood sugar crashes, no brain fog and hormonal swings!

03/12/2025

It makes all of the difference! Functional medicine covers so much more than just food, because there’s so much more to feeling well with autoimmune disease than just food. 🙏🙌

24/11/2025

- 💊💊No extra complex supplements muddying the waters
-🧐👨‍🏫🧑‍🏫🧑‍🏫No other conflicting alternative therapies contradicting my advice or creating unnecessary food fear
-🎞️🎞️No late night sending of reels from other influencers raving about XYZ to distract focus.

Just an engaged client that trusts the process and the ability for their body get healthier and does the daily work- music to my ears! 🙏❤️😊 🎶

17/11/2025

31/10/2025

🖤 Tattoo ink isn’t just ink
It’s a mixture of pigments, metals, preservatives, and nanoparticles.
These sit permanently in immune-rich tissue.
🛡️ Immune cells lock up the pigments
Your immune system sees the pigments as foreign → macrophages engulf them → become activated long-term.
📦 Ink travels
Pigment particles have been found in lymph nodes, meaning the immune system never stops “tracking” them.
🔥 Chronic immune surveillance
In some people this prolonged stimulation can tip the balance further toward
👉 inflammation
👉 autoantibody formation
👉 delayed hypersensitivity reactions
🧪 Red + yellow pigments are higher risk
Certain pigments contain nickel, chromium, cadmium and azo dyes which can trigger stronger immune reactions.

💉Botox isn’t just a beauty treatment -it’s botulinum neurotoxin, a foreign bacterial protein. And the immune system pays attention to it every time.

🔥 Immune stimulation can contribute to flares
Some people experience increases in:
fatigue + brain fog
joint or nerve pain
anxiety + dysautonomia
inflammatory skin reactions
📍 It may not stay local
Low levels can spread along nerves or into circulation.
If immune tolerance is already fragile… that matters.
⚠️ ASIA Syndrome is documented
Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants is uncommon but real -showing how a foreign protein can keep immune systems on high alert.
Botox has also been linked to Hashimoto’s!

👙Breast implants- Those of us with autoimmune disease already have an immune system that struggles with self vs. non self .
Adding a permanent foreign object that the immune cells would have to monitor for decades is another thing for the immune system to have to accept when it’s already struggling to tolerate its own tissues.

Hair dye 🧑‍🎤
The scalp is immune-rich tissue… so I’m picky about what I put on it.
Especially dark permanent dyes, which usually contain the highest load of immune-reactive chemicals like PPD/PTD.

I’ve opted for highlights!