Registered Nutritional Therapist supporting women's health with personalised nutrition and functional testing.
Helping you optimise health, improve vitality and restore balance.
08/12/2025
Ever wondered if changes to your diet and the way you eat might improve your energy, hormones, mood and overall vitality?
Nutritional Therapy can be transformative but it can feel like a big step. That’s why I offer FREE no obligation discovery calls so you can hear my voice, ask questions, tell me about any symptoms or health goals so we are both sure that we are a correct fit.
December is always a quiet month for me in clinic. After all who wants to speak to a nutritionist in the weeks leading up to the greatest feast of the year?!
So for me it’s a time to reflect. This last year has been fairly epic. In my personal life I’ve become a Grandma which has been wonderful and changed everything 💖
And at work I’ve also been extremely busy expanding my knowledge and I’ve just completed a ‘women’s health mastery programme’. A full 12 months of lectures, examining latest research, mentor sessions and case studies. The content has been a deep dive into all things women’s health and has been mind blowing. My head is full. So I will use the quiet of December to explore how I integrate all this learning into my practice to help my clients.
Watch this space for news on what this will look like for 2026. I’m hoping to offer new health coaching packages, as well as workshops to open up the nutrition space and make it more accessible and affordable for those on a low income. I’m also looking to work more collaboratively with my brilliant team at The Family Practice in Bristol.
There are also exciting plans hatching with my work with Dr Natasha Patel.
So for now I rest and reflect and more will follow in the New Year I promise ✨
19/11/2025
Feeling out of balance as the seasons change?
Through December andJanuary, Women’s Health Osteopathy patients can book a reduced-price Nutrition & Supplement Review with Anita Beardsley for just £80. This includes :
🍃 45-minute consultation with Anita plus a personalised plan, supplement safety checks, and resources.
Support your hormones, energy, and wellbeing naturally this winter.
✨ Book via The Family Practice and mention “Women’s Health Nutrition Offer.”
18/10/2025
Brilliant day this week catching up with these amazing women and fellow NT’s. We trained together (a long time ago now!) and still meet regularly to support each other and continue our learning and friendships. We always share lunch which as ever was delish. This week we had a special learning talk by the incredible Debbie Grayson all around testing. As nutritional therapists we have a vast array of tests available to us for use with clients. Choosing which tests to use and when is a great responsibility and a skill. This talk was a great reminder of how as clinicians we need to be focussing primarily on the person in front of us and not just the test and its results. As ever it’s complex. If you have a health concern and are considering testing do speak to a qualified clinician/nutritional therapist before you do or book in for a free discovery call.
28/05/2025
Eat a rainbow 🌈
❤️
27/05/2025
My nutritional therapy sessions always start with a conversation about you, your lifestyle and how food and cooking fits in.
Change isn’t always easy so having a plan to work towards that’s tailored to your unique needs can make all the difference.
If you’d like to explore how nutrition may support your health goals then do book in for a FREE discovery call on my website love-nutrition.co.uk
🩷
17/04/2025
Cod liver oil shots were offered as part of the breakfast buffet at all the hotels we stayed at in Iceland. Being a nutritionist I found this brilliant ! 👏
Cod liver oil is brimming with good things, including Omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin A and vitamin D.
I had my shot every day 🩵☺️
16/04/2025
I found these delicious and colourful taco’s on our Iceland trip. Iceland have embraced food halls and we’ve found them to be brilliant for meeting a variety of family’s tastes and preferences. Something for everyone. Our fav so far is the very trendy Old Dairy food hall in Selfoss where I found these delights 🩷
27/03/2025
Oysters! A nutrition powerhouse. A brilliant source of many nutrients especially zinc, B12, protein and iron.
Do you love or hate them?! And how do you eat yours?? 🦪
27/03/2025
Today I am once again speaking at the Bristol ‘Pelvic Pain Management Programme’. The programme is designed to support women living with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. It’s totally brilliant and provides practical tools and resources including stress management, EMDR, exercise, nutrition and so much more to help women manage symptoms. With my nutrition lens I will be sharing tips and information on how small changes to diet and nutrition may help. Today’s talk is especially timely given March is Endometriosis awareness month.
Endometriosis is complex and science still isn’t sure of the exact cause. When thinking about how nutrition can support my focus is on encouraging consumption of foods that can help reduce inflammation, modulate the immune system, optimise the gut microbiome, help with oestrogen metabolism and soothe the nervous system. It’s a whole body approach. Last year I did a webinar for Endometriosis UK with the wonderful consultant gynaecologist Jess Preshaw where we talked about exactly this. It’s on their website if you’d like to learn more … here’s the link…
New cook book just arrived! Very excited about this one. I spend a great deal of my time talking to my clients about the importance of protein so hoping I can recommend this as a kitchen resource. Thanks 🩷👍
Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Love Nutrition posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
My name is Anita Beardsley and I am a registered Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist. I am often asked what exactly that means and what planted that seed, so here is my story.
I have always loved food. Growing up my parents grew vegetables, herbs, fruit and Dad was forever foraging for wild mushrooms. We kept rabbits, goats, bees and chickens which we loved and gratefully ate their produce and them (much to my young hearts dismay!) Everything was cooked from scratch and takeaways were not something I ever knew. Our cupboards brimmed full of chutneys, honey, jam and home-brew too. We lived next door to a fascinating Naturopath (only now do I realise that’s what she was!), who always had a herbal tincture or natural remedy at hand. That was just how life was and I never questioned its authenticity.
Years later in my adult life things were different and somehow this ‘organic lifestyle’ was replaced by convenience to accommodate a busy life. Sound familiar? I did my best, as we all do, and didn't consider the significance.
During my first career as a sustainability practitioner I worked for a number of prestigious environmental charities. Here I learnt the importance of organic farming for the soil and human health. I started to see first hand the devastating effects our intensive farming practices and use of toxic pesticides were having on our nutritional status and long-term health. I worked with young children in the UK and India connecting them through Skype and food based projects encouraging them to explore health, culture, food, friendships etc. They grew herb gardens, learnt to cook each others native dishes and shared stories. What I began to notice was the impact of food on their physical, emotional and educational health - it was a light bulb moment.
Around the same time myself and family members were struggling with health issues and conventional medicine wasn't offering a complete solution. I started to look elsewhere and fell upon the functional medicine approach. Functional medicine is a systems based approach to health that considers the whole person and not just a set of isolated symptoms or a disease process. Its more holistic, natural and can offer more insights and possibilities for healing. Food and nutrition was at the heart of this for me.
After lots of research and some personal success I was hooked but needed to learn the science. I signed up with the College of Naturopathic Medicine to study Nutritional Therapy where I spent 3 incredibly busy years training in anatomy, biomedicine, pathology, pharmacology, functional medicine, physiology, biochemistry, nutritional science and clinical skills. The course also included 2 years of supervised clinical practice. The whole experience was robust, inspiring and totally life changing.
So, what actually is nutritional therapy? In a nutshell it is the application of nutrition science in the promotion of health, peak performance and individual care. As a nutritional therapist I am uniquely trained to understand how nutrients, food and lifestyle factors influence the function of the body. I use a range of skills and tools to assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and overall health (mind and body). I then implement changes (diet and lifestyle) to support health and wellbeing - as humans we are lucky, given the right raw materials (vitamins, minerals, air, water, sleep) the body will always strive to heal and find balance, clever huh?!
Importantly for me underneath the naturopathic approach nutritional therapy is based on science and what we do is always evidence-based.
And thats it really! I am now running private clinics in Bristol and online via Zoom and Telehealth and I have lots of exciting plans for sharing my knowledge and experience to help people feel able to make informed decisions about their health and the food they eat. Food is wonderful and somehow we have become disconnected with its roots. I am passionate about inspiring and educating people to rediscover the healing power of food.
