The Cholesterol Coach

The Cholesterol Coach Hi, I’m Dr Kirstyn Norman - The Cholesterol Coach. I help people lower their cholesterol naturally, without restrictive diets or overwhelm.

Dr Kirstyn l Doctor-turned-Health Coach | The Cholesterol Coach
Personalised, sustainable, mindset-first support

Helping you lower cholesterol naturally - with science, support and zero judgement. After working as a hospital doctor, I saw just how many people were reaching crisis point with their health - when earlier support could have made all the difference. Now I specialise in prevention. I bridge the gap between medical advice and everyday life, using science-backed strategies and personalised coaching that actually works in the real world. If you’ve recently been told you have high cholesterol (or you’re simply ready to prioritise your long-term heart health), you’re in the right place.

💛 My approach is:
✔️ Rooted in medical science
✔️ Grounded in behaviour change
✔️ Tailored to you
✔️ Kind, realistic and empowering

I’ve helped clients reduce total cholesterol by up to 42%, avoid starting medication, and improve key markers like HbA1c - without fad diets, guilt or burnout.

✨ Let’s add more healthy, happy years to your life, together.
📩 Message me to book a free discovery call or find out more about 1:1 coaching.

HELP! I Have High Cholesterol… and it’s nearly Christmas.If that sentence feels a bit too real right now - this new podc...
03/12/2025

HELP! I Have High Cholesterol… and it’s nearly Christmas.

If that sentence feels a bit too real right now - this new podcast episode is for you.

I’m talking about:
- Why one Christmas dinner won’t ‘ruin’ your cholesterol
- How to stop writing December off as a lost cause
- Simple ways to enjoy the food, the drinks and still be kind to your heart

Perfect if you’re currently swinging between “pass the mince pies” and “I’ll just start again in January”.

The link is in the comments :)

28/11/2025

Anyone else feel like there's so much noise when it comes to getting healthy?

Eat this. Don’t eat that. Do more. Stress less. Start again on Monday...

If you’ve been told your cholesterol is high, have a family history of heart disease, or you just know it’s time to start looking after your heart properly - this is something that could genuinely change your life. And even add years to it.

✨ Introducing the Heart-Healthy Living Toolkit ✨
Created to help you take control of your cholesterol naturally - without overwhelm, guilt or guesswork.

Inside you’ll get:
🧠 A 12-chapter step-by-step handbook to guide you through the exact habits that support heart health
📝 Quizzes, weekly focus pages & mindset check-ins - so you actually follow through (not just “start again on Monday”)
🍽️ 100+ heart-healthy recipes with doctor’s tips so you know why they work
🎧 12 short, practical webinars to bring everything to life in real terms

And the best part?

🔐 Lifetime access

So you can:
✅ Start when you’re ready
✅ Go at your own pace
✅ Come back to it whenever you need a reset

This isn’t another “plan” to follow for a few weeks. It’s a toolkit to help you take care of your heart for life.

👉 Tap the link in the comments to get access
or
👉 Comment “HEART” or send me a DM and I’ll send you the link + answer any questions, no pressure.

Hey strangers 👋🏻It's been about a month since I took a step back from Instagram. Truthfully, I didn't expect anyone to n...
25/10/2025

Hey strangers 👋🏻

It's been about a month since I took a step back from Instagram. Truthfully, I didn't expect anyone to notice, but I have had some lovely messages checking in. So I wanted to pop on briefly with a little update and some reassurance.

I'm ok.

Last month, my incredible Grandad passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Yesterday, we celebrated his life in the most fitting way, complete with far too much cake and what felt like hundreds of golf balls flying off South Cerney driving range.

His final decline came at a time when I was already struggling a little mentally. So to lighten the load, I deleted Instagram and removed something that had begun feeling more like pressure than pleasure.

Despite everything else going on, the break felt good. Really good. No thinking about content, stories, filming reels or checking analytics. It was a relief to simply be present in my own life for a while.

I tell my clients all the time that sustainable, enjoyable habits are the only ones that truly support long-term health and wellbeing. So this is me practising what I preach. Choosing to channel my energy into the areas that feel nourishing rather than draining. Family, friendships, my amazing clients, Freddie, fresh air, building my business in directions I only ever dreamt about, and looking after my mind as much as my body.

Thank you for the kindness and the messages checking in. It means more than you know 🧡

How well do you reckon your lifestyle habits are working to protect your long-term heart health?Well wonder no more, I c...
23/09/2025

How well do you reckon your lifestyle habits are working to protect your long-term heart health?

Well wonder no more, I created a quiz for you to find out!

DM or comment 'QUIZ' and ill send you the link 😊

20/09/2025

Yes I'm a cholesterol coach. Yes I'm a relationship with food coach. But I'm also a human being who was given ice cream as a child when I fell over and scraped my knee.

There is nothing inherently wrong with turning to food for comfort. In fact, it's completely bloody normal.

The problem arises when food or drink is the only tool in your toolkit when you're feeling sad, stressed, angry, low, or it's just been one of those days.

Right now, I'm eating Ben & Jerries because I'm feeling a bit sad. But on other occasions when I've felt like this, I've turned to other things in my dopamine toolkit;

🐕 Taking the dog for a long walk
🏋️‍♀️ Going to the gym
📱 Calling my best friend
🧹 Cleaning the house (Weird? But tidy house, tidy mind 😅)
🎙 Listening to my favourite comedy podcast
📚 Reading a book

Food is not just fuel. Food is comfort, joy, connection, creamy deliciousness with cookie dough and chocolate chips! But it shouldn't be your only source of dopamine when you need it..

What's in your dopamine toolkit?

If you don't have anything in there just yet, comment "DOPAMINE" below and I'll send you a free resource that will help you create one, plus it has tonnes of other tools you can use to manage emotional eating 🧡

When it comes to your health and your hard-earned money, trust matters.So if you’ve ever looked at my Heart-Healthy Livi...
18/09/2025

When it comes to your health and your hard-earned money, trust matters.

So if you’ve ever looked at my Heart-Healthy Living Programme or Toolkit and thought, “This sounds good… but will it actually work?”

That’s a completely fair question.

Here’s the honest answer:
I don’t have large-scale study data YET.
But that’s about to change.

I’m partnering with the Health Innovation Network and a leading cardiovascular screening provider to run a pilot study of my programme - so we can start gathering robust data, at scale.

In the meantime, here’s what I can tell you:

Everything inside the Programme is rooted in research-backed medical guidance - packaged in a way that’s clear, doable, and designed for real life.

It blends evidence-based science, behaviour change tools and mindset work - because lasting health needs more than just a meal plan.

And it’s all been shaped by the real journeys of my 1:1 clients - people who’ve lowered their cholesterol, improved key markers, and broken free from that “start again on Monday” cycle.

If you're ready to start now, comment READY or send me a DM.

Not sure? Drop me a HEY and we can talk it through, no pressure.

You deserve support that’s grounded in science and built for real life.

That’s exactly what this is.

Let’s pretend for a second that genetics don’t exist. You see someone on social media, and you think “I wish I had their...
18/09/2025

Let’s pretend for a second that genetics don’t exist. 

You see someone on social media, and you think “I wish I had their…..”

We’ve all been there, I was there for years. 

Until I learnt this perspective...

If you want what someone has, you have to have their whole life with it, not just a part of it, all of it. And in exchange, you have to give up yours. 

I’m in pretty good shape. BUT... I don’t have children. I have one (relatively) low-maintenance dog. I have an incredibly flexible business that allows me to go to the gym or on long walks whenever I want. I have life pretty easy at the moment. So I can maintain my current physique without too much difficulty. 

You may want a part of your body to look a little more like mine, but would you actually want my life instead of yours? I doubt it! Not because my life is awful, of course, but because you probably love the majority of your life and the people in it. 

So the point of this post (other than to share some of the morning shots we got through from our photographer yesterday 🥰) is this, don’t waste another second of your one wild and precious life comparing yourself to a stranger on the internet. 

By all means, strive to become a fitter, stronger and healthier version of YOU. But give yourself grace on that journey, recognising you can only do the best that you can with all the other life responsibilities that you have.

And if you need help on that journey to transform your mind AND body, that's exactly what I do with my clients. I help them take their whole life into consideration and build a plan that works for THEM.

Comment or DM 'JOURNEY' and let's chat.

🧡

I don't want you wasting another second of your life endlessly googling about cholesterol. So I made you The Heart-Healt...
16/09/2025

I don't want you wasting another second of your life endlessly googling about cholesterol.

So I made you The Heart-Healthy Living Quick Start Guide.

DM me 'FREE' if you'd like the link to your very own copy!

For over a year, I tested, refined and perfected my dedicated cholesterol lowering 1:1 coaching programme.It helped peop...
14/09/2025

For over a year, I tested, refined and perfected my dedicated cholesterol lowering 1:1 coaching programme.

It helped people achieve incredible results;
💫 significant weight loss
💫 reduced inches and dress sizes
💫 improved sleep, fitness, mood, energy, mental health
💫 better relationship with food, exercise and the scales
💫 cholesterol reductions of up to 40% and avoiding statins

But it didn't sit right with me that it was only available to people who had the time, energy and money to invest in 1:1 coaching, so I transformed it into an affordable, self-paced plan.

Until midnight, the step-by-step Heart-Healthy Living Programme is available for just £89. And if you want extra support and 12 on-demand webinars that bring the concepts to life, it can be yours for just £179!

For more information, click the link in my bio to visit my website, and use code EB10 at checkout! Hurry, spaces are very limited!

Your journey to better health and lower cholesterol are just a few clicks away!

Today, my business turns 3 🎂Four years ago, I hung up my stethoscope. Three years ago, I took on my very first coaching ...
12/09/2025

Today, my business turns 3 🎂

Four years ago, I hung up my stethoscope.
Three years ago, I took on my very first coaching client.

I've had 3 different names and logos already. But the mission has and always will be the same. To help people.

Running my own business has been more challenging than I ever imagined. But it's also been more rewarding than I could have pictured.

From clients sending updated bloods with happy tears, countless messages about falling in love with exercise, to calls where they tell me they've never felt more at peace in their body, mind and with their new lifestyle.

Working 1:1 with clients will always be a part of my business because it brings me so much joy. But this year, with the creation of The Heart-Healthy Living Programme and Toolkit, it's mostly been about pushing the realms of what I thought was possible, with the goal of helping even more people.

I am so excited to announce that Year 4 will consist of an NHS-facing pilot study with an incredible cardiovascular screening partner, to help people not only catch risks early, but to then take the simple, doable steps that actually make a difference to their health in the long-term.

3 years ago, I couldn't have even imagined being at the brink of something so huge.

But if I've learned anything so far, it's that patience, perseverance, adaptability, and simply not quitting will eventually begin to reward you.

So thank you for being here - whether you've liked a post, sent a friend, or trusted me with your health, it means the world.

Here's to year four!

🥳

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