If you’re living with an ongoing skin concern that hasn’t fully settled with creams and topical care alone, you may be wondering what role nutrition and gut health could play. We offer personalised nutritional therapy support across the areas below.
Eczema, psoriasis, acne and urticaria (hives) can look and feel very different from one another, but they’re often driven by a surprisingly similar set of underlying factors — gut health, food triggers, liver function, inflammation and stress. We offer personalised nutritional therapy for a range of skin conditions, taking the time to properly understand individual history, triggers and lifestyle, rather than treating the skin in isolation from everything else going on in the body.
Eczema is a common condition in the UK, particularly among the young, and can be genuinely difficult to live with given its effect on both physical comfort and appearance. Frequent contributing factors include food intolerance — cow’s milk, citrus fruit, eggs and wheat are common culprits — or an inherited tendency (atopic eczema) that runs in families.
The encouraging news is that eczema symptoms can often be relieved by identifying and addressing dietary contributing factors. This can trigger a surprisingly quick response — in some cases, symptoms change almost overnight once a particular trigger food is identified and removed.
Read more about Eczema →Psoriasis is a common skin condition in which new skin cells are produced roughly ten times faster than normal, causing the patchy, thickened, silvery-scaled skin that’s characteristic of the condition. It can also be accompanied by joint swelling and stiffness in some cases. While the exact cause isn’t fully understood, it does tend to run in families, suggesting a genetic component, and typically first appears between the ages of 10 and 30.
Contributing factors often include incomplete protein digestion, toxicity in the bowel, impaired liver function, alcohol consumption, a diet high in animal fat, and stress — particularly emotional stress. Addressing psoriasis nutritionally usually involves a holistic approach: improving digestion and gut health, supporting liver detoxification, addressing stress, and incorporating foods known to help reduce inflammation.
Read more about Psoriasis →Acne is often assumed to be purely a teenage concern, but it affects a great many adults too, and frequently has a real hormonal and gut-related component rather than being simply about “bad skin.” Blood sugar and insulin swings can drive the excess oil production and inflammation behind breakouts, which is why acne so often improves alongside broader work on blood sugar stability. Gut health also plays a meaningful role — an imbalanced gut microbiome can contribute to the low-grade, systemic inflammation that shows up on the skin.
Common contributing factors include:
Urticaria — raised, itchy welts on the skin, commonly known as hives — is very often histamine-driven. Mast cells (the cells responsible for producing histamine) sit in particularly high concentrations in both the gut and the skin, which is part of why gut health and skin reactivity are so closely linked. Flares can be triggered by specific foods, but also by heat, stress, hormonal shifts across the menstrual cycle, and an overall build-up of histamine load from multiple smaller sources at once, rather than always one single obvious culprit.
Nutritional support for urticaria typically focuses on identifying and reducing dietary histamine load, supporting the gut’s own capacity to break down histamine, and calming the broader inflammatory picture that makes flares more likely.
Read more about Urticaria →A relaxed 15-minute conversation about what’s being experienced and what support could look like. No pressure, no obligation.
A thorough look at health history, diet and lifestyle, followed by a tailored nutrition and lifestyle plan built entirely around the individual picture.
Regular follow-up to track progress and adjust the plan as needed, for lasting results.
Nutritional therapy is a complementary approach that supports general health and wellbeing. It does not replace individual medical assessment. Anyone currently taking prescribed medication should continue taking it as directed, and any changes should always be made through whoever prescribed it. Individual results vary and no specific outcome can be guaranteed.
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