Rachel Boon, Naturopath and Herbalist in Worthing

11/11/2025

DON'T OVER THINK YOUR LUNCHES, LADIES!

If you're short on time, here's a gentle reminder that the following are all okay make pretty decent lunches to down tools to:

-Fresh section soups (check protein content and pinp with beans/avo/tofu cubes accordingly)
-Fresh section stews and curries (I like as they have 2 of your 5 a day which you can then further pimp with coriander, parsley, spring onion, tahini etc)
- puy lentil and/or precooked quinoa sachets are great to add to a poke bowl, chuck in a jacket sweet or white potato or make a sinple cheat bolognaise with
-Shop bought falafel, left over rice, dollop of houmous, half an avo and handful of mixed leaves, olives, cherry tom's, grated carrot/courgette etc
-leftover ANYTHING is the ultimate easy lunch, so try to make extra, coz rules 🙌
-beans on gluten-free seedy toast with a side salad, avocado, and mixed seeds
-Store bought superfood salads (go for the beany/quinoa-y ones if poss)
-Scrambled tofu with mushrooms, spinach, garlic, onion and a side salad

These are all GF/DF options which omnivores can add their preferred animal protein to quickly and easily knowing that they've already hit a big fibre tick.

Right, I'm off to my hypnotherapy session with now!

Happy Tuesday to you!
Much love,
Rach x

19/10/2025

Word up plant-lovers, a new study shows that following a greener Mediterranean diet may actually help keep your brain younger! Green tea and leafy greens for the win! R x (small caveat-I would suggest naturally decaffienated green tea for my menpausal community as caffeine tends to be more of a foe than a friend at during this life phase) X

The low-meat eating plan focuses on whole grains, nuts, and polyphenol-rich foods.

06/10/2025

UNFORTUNATELY I DO LOVE

Love this trend! Here's mine...warts snd all!

-Badedas
-Processed potato products
-A bedtime insta scroll
-Buying allll the books
-Being pressure prompted
-Bath snacks
-Oversharing
-Brutal honesty
-Percy Pigs
-The C word
-Travelodge beds
-Chipshop chips
-Vegan cake (I'll take the gluten hit)
-Talking about progesterone non-stop
-Dan Brown, Colleen Hoover, Freida McFadden (bite me🖕)

AND saying, f*ck it, YOLO pretty much daily which is why my house and garden appear 'lived in' but my heart is full!

I'll have a tidy house and nice garden when the kids leave home (maybs 🤣)

Tell me what YOU love that you prolly shouldn't in the comments👇👇👇

Because you know I'll be taking a sneak peek at bedtime when I deffo should be asleep-arggghh!

R x
PS-Giant v***a courtesy of this weekends event in London

19/09/2025

RACH RANT!

Never personal, always patient- focussed.

Love to hear your thoughts, herbalists AND naturopaths/nutritional therapists as I'm increasingly finding that influencers are often giving unqualified nutritional advice too.

No naming and shaming please, that is deffo not my vibe (hence not tagging DT) but are you all hearing an increasing amount of nonsense on here or is it just me?

R x

17/09/2025

Hallo and welcome to my lil' womens health corner of the 'gram!!

Incase we've not met yet, I'm Rach, a vegan, dog-loving, Mumma of teens, wife of Andy, runner, yogi, snowboarder and sauna-loving-cold water afficionado, who is as addicted to fresh air, houmous and talking about hormones as she is eating in the bath, reading allll the books and dancing to house music.

Work-wise, as a women's health specialist naturopath and herbalist, I help women get a handle on their hormones, so they can experience:

-Easy and pain-free monthly cycles (without the side of psycho)

-A reduction of endo, adeno and PCOS symptoms (so you can suffer less and live more)

-A kinder menopause transition (think rduction in hot flushes/night sweats, anxiety, insomnia, migraines and more!)

-A degree of hormone literacy that will serve them life-long

Professionally, my raison d'etre is simple: To reduce suffering in women and I feel that bespoke herbal medicines, alongside targeted naturopathic diet and lifestyle adjustments, have SO MUCH to offer!!

I've been seeing patients face to face in clinical practice for the last 20 years, and virtually for the last five years too.

As a human biologist first and naturopath and herbalist second, I have a foot in BOTH the scientific and traditional medicine camps and I relish working with each wonderfully unique woman to create action plans that are simple, achievable and sustainable so they fit in alongside their already busy lives.

There is no one size fits all here, so no sodding female multis, no miracle 'hormone balancing powders' and definitely no pre-mixed herbal tinctures or capsules! The latter are made to measure, we are herbalists not H&B!

If you'd like to hear more about how herbal medicine and naturopathy can support you (or your daughter), do book in for a FREE 30 minute Discovery Call via the link in my bio, so we can chat about where you're at, where you'd like to be and how we can get you there ASAP. Turns out 'm a poet too 😂

Chat soon babes!
R x

15/09/2025

OMG the long awaited Tropic Skincare advent calendar just dropped!!! £320 worth of skincare for £149 (saving you £171!!) -it is SOOOO mega featuring 12 daily treats including 6 FULL SIZED products!!! Beautifully designed as a keepsake, the calendar features 12 numbered, dark green drawers that you can treasure and refill for years to come. Available for pre-order now/delivery in November. This is the first time Tropic have EVER done advent calendars so these will sell out for sure! R x

Discover 12 days of Tropic magic with our natural beauty advent calendar. A festive treat packed with skincare, body care, and makeup bestsellers and exclusives.

29/08/2025

LASTCALL for anyone who'd like to join us on next week's Boon Juice Cleanse (1st-5th September, 2025):

If you live in the Worthing area and dream about getting away for a juice retreat but just can't swing it, this is for you!

The Boon Juice Cleanse includes:

🍋 4 days of zesty, organic, cold-pressed juices (3×500mls/day) using mostly local, organic produce from 🌿
🥒 1 day of nutritious, colourful smoothies (3×500mls)
🍋Hand-picked detox support supplements and teas
🥒A tick box schedule to take you through each day to help you stay on track
🍋Real time online support (WhatsApp) from a Naturopath and Herbalist, experienced in supervising juice cleanses since 2014 (moi!)
🥒Pre-cleanse guidance and breaking the fast support so you go into and come out of the cleanse gently and safely (full PDF emailed upon booking)
🍋End of fast recipe sheet of everything you've enjoyed during the week so you can continue juicing and blending at home!
💚The charge is £185/5 days INCLUDING NEW doorstep delivery in the Worthing, Goring, Lancing and Shoreham area

You just have book (link below) and get excited:

https://www.rachelboon.co.uk/product-page/5-day-boon-juice-cleanse-package-august-25th-29th-2025

We have just TWO places left for September 1sr-5th cleanse, so don't hang about if this is something you'd like to do.

With love, lemons and hope you can join us!

R x

PS-Most of the current Boon Juice Cleanse gang are repeat cleansers which speaks for itself *blushes*

27/08/2025

To say I LOVE talking about hormones is an understatement! So when I get to teach a bunch of lovely yogis in a beautiful yoga studio just 5 minutes from my house, it's kind of a pinch me moment!

LOVE being part of your teaching faculty Sally Parkes Yoga School!
LOVE teaching at Salt Water Studios too!
R x

19/08/2025

If you CBA to click through to this article in Neurology (2025), I'll lay it out for you here:

A 2025 US cohort study, which followed over 77,000 adults across 30 years, found that:

*Processed red meats (bacon, hot dogs, sausages, salami and other processed meat products) were clearly problematic. ----*Consuming just 0.25 servings per day or more was associated with a 13% higher risk of developing dementia compared with those eating less than 0.1 serving (1).
* Even unprocessed red meat (e.g. beef or lamb) was linked to a 16% increased risk of subjective cognitive decline – that is people reporting that their memory or mental sharpness was worsening – when consuming more than one serving daily compared to less than half a serving per day.
*Encouragingly, replacing one daily serving of processed red meat with a serving of nuts, lentils, or beans was associated with a 19% lower risk of dementia.

Houmous or dhal for the win people!
R x

Red Meat Bad for Your Brain? Studies link processed meat to dementia risk, while fish supports brain health.

17/08/2025

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/oats-fibre-supplements-diet-forever-chemicals-b2763367.html?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=The%20Sunday%20Journal%20172%20-%20HCPs&utm_id=01K2C9A88GVF8VV5CBJZQ0WG64&_kx=wnD6TkqA1nS1q1zfYy1SBvO0nI-TSExJis3RoEIevIE.YieThi

DYK good old oats can help flush out PFAs (forever chemicals) in a small but promising study in Canadian men aged 18-65. Turns out beta-glucans molecules found in oats, barley and rye can bind to PFAs in the digestive system thus facilitating their removal.

Overnight oats or porridge for the win!

Such an easy and tasty brekkie-just make sure you add a decent dollop of protein to it!

R x

Study offers first step to formulate diet to remove forever chemicals from body

07/08/2025

If you're like me and ALREADY dreading the end of summer you might wanna eeek out the beach waves a little longer with Tropic's latest hair product!

Introducing Beach Waves, a texturising salt spray with, aloe vera, pro vitamin B5 and sea salt. It's your summer hair essential in a bottle WITHOUT crunchiness, stickiness or stiffness.

Get via my Tropic shop soon and if you spend over £100 you'll get a FREE Total Glow Duo too (FULL size Shimmer Body Lotion and a FULL size Facial Bronzing Drops, yes 100% FREE!!).

https://tropicskincare.com/products/beach-waves-texturising-salt-spray?variant=44999497810116