Personalised Nutrition and Corporate Wellness with
Minna Wood (MSc, mBANT, CNHC), Digestive and Menopause Health Specialist Let me help.
MetaWell is a personalised nutrition, lifestyle medicine and mindset coaching clinic based in Bracknell (Berkshire UK), founded by Minna Wood (MSc, mBANT, CNHC). Minna is a BANT registered nutrition and lifestyle medicine practitioner, digestive and menopause health specialist and mindset coach. Book a free discovery call with Minna to see how nutritional therapy and lifestyle medicine can help you achieve your health goals: https://calendly.com/metawell/
What do you have a plan for? Have you ever thought of including health in those plans?
How do you want to spend your retirement? Stress-free and healthy?
Worried and sick?
Health is wealth and you most valuable currency.
I've talked with so many people who are recently retired, and they are now "consumed" with taking care of their health. They expected rest and an easy going time of life in their non-working years, but didn't prepare for it in the previous decades. It's so important to think and DO something for our health today.
Don't wait for retirement!
17/01/2026
Just booked my first full day seminar for my 2026 CPD:
'Effective solutions for healthy weight loss'
..in order to continue my learning on the various aspects of weight management and weight loss drugs:
💉 Different weight loss drugs (GLP-1, GIP and Glucagon agonist medications i.e., Ozempic, WeGovy, Mounjaro & Retratrutide.
💉 How to support clients using weight-loss medications.
🥗 Diet and lifestyle interventions to minimise muscle loss.
💊 Nutritional risks of weight-loss medications, calorie restriction and fasting approaches.
💊 Diet and supplementation for natural stimulation of GLP-1.
🍽️ Fasting interventions for sustainable fat reduction and weight loss.
👩⚕️ Effective collaborating with GPs and prescribers.
👩⚕️ How GPs are approaching assessment and prescription of weight loss medications.
If you need help in this area, please get in touch.
14/01/2026
~2 year old jar of honey fermented garlic.
It's been sitting in the cupboard for all these months and years while I've been scared of trying these for so long. The garlicky smell was not very inviting when I've undone the lid. 😁
But the other day I was brave and, in the hope of scaring the persisting cough away with garlic, I decided to dive in.
I chopped some cloves and mixed with brown rice miso and spread it on my cottage cheese and veg flat bread.
I topped it all with homemade fermented turnip slices.
Oh my! It was yummy.
Mellow garlic, sweet honey, tangy turnip.
What a combo!
Yum yum! 😋
Who's fermented something, forgotten it or been to scared to try and then finally realised how good it was?
That's the magic of fermentation!
Food doesn't go off and the flavours improve with time.
11/01/2026
The latest MetaWell email 'This too shall pass. Plus digging deeper...' just went out.
It's all about my own health rollercoaster ride over the past few months, as well as how I've been digging deeper to understand my body better.
Menopause, Metabolism and Cravings: Setting Yourself Up for a Healthier 2026
Join us, Karen Pancholi and me, in person, to learn how nutrition can ease menopause symptoms and boost your well-being.
A fun and eye-opening in-person (and FREE!) event on Tuesday, 20th January in central Bracknell.
Are you ready to start eating healthier but aren’t sure where to start?
Nutritionist Minna Wood will be sharing simple but powerful insights on how you can get a healthy ‘head start’ for 2026 and fuel your body for a smooth menopause transition, reduce cravings and boost your mood.
Thermomix Advisor Karen Pancholi will show some delicious, simple, healthy Thermomix dishes, time-saving tips, and clever techniques that you can use every day.
Expect education about menopause nutrition and diet.
Expect delicious food tasting.
This free session will be part nutrition talk and part cooking.
Booking required.
Comment ME 👇🏼 to get the link for reserving your free seat.
10/01/2026
Really looking forward to this event, finally getting to collaborate with my friend Karen Pancholi and her Thermomix.
Expect education on menopause nutrition and diet. 👩🎓
Expect delicious food tasting. 😋
Join us in person to learn how nutrition can ease menopause symptoms and boost your well-being!
07/01/2026
Multiple studies show that regular short bursts of movement can improve various health parameters.
1️⃣ 1-minute of vigorous activity counts as much as 50-100 minutes of light movement for cardiometabolic health benefits.
2️⃣ 2 sessions of strength training per week, even when started later in life, can mitigate age-related functional decline.
3️⃣ Interrupting prolonged sitting time with standing or light-intensity walking can lower blood glucose levels and improve insulin sensitivity, significantly reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes.
4️⃣ Daily hopping can improve hip bone strength.
5️⃣ Moderate exercise enhances gut microbiome diversity, increases SCFA production, improves nutrient utilization, and modulates neural and hormonal pathways, improving gut barrier integrity.
6️⃣ Regular exercise snacks throughout the day are better for regulating blood glucose levels than 1 longer session.
7️⃣ HI IT, e.g. 6x 6-second sprints on stationary bike, with 1-min rest in-between increases brain energy levels, oxygenation, blood supply and fuel utilisation, improving focus, cognitive functions and mental status.
👉🏼To get health benefits from exercise, you don’t have to spend hours on the treadmill/at the gym.
Here 👇🏼 are some of my movement non-negotiables and small but great habits from 2025 that I will take with me into the new year.
These don’t take long to do but give me so many gains:
🦵🏼 A stretch/mobility session on waking
🧘♀️ A weekly mat yoga class
🤸♀️ A monthly swing yoga class
🏋♀️ 2-3x short (outdoor) strength training sessions per week
🤸🏼♀️ Daily headstand practice
🚶♀️ Almost-daily walks
⭕ Almost-daily rebounding
💆♀️ Daily MELTing
🏊♀️ Lake swims in the summer, twice daily during our summer holidays in Finland
A further habit that I want to make more consistent this year but often forget, particularly now in winter when it's dark and cold and going out is not so attractive, is a short walk/movement session after dinner.
The benefits of moving you body go well beyond the superficial!
It can be your health insurance against frailty and cognitive decline as you age.
What are your movement non-negotiables in 2026?
02/01/2026
New Year - New You?
STOP!
You don't need a new you.
You are not a high end consumable that needs replacing every year.
The old you is good enough.
Cherish it!
Nourish it!
Love it!
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Hello, I’m Minna, a Nutrition Geek & Gut Health Detective!
I’m here to help people dig deeper, in order to understand the root causes of chronic symptoms and help them feel better for good.
I enjoy showing my clients how health starts on the plate & in the mind and how the little creatures in the gut, aka the gut microbiome, affect the health of our whole body and mind, and how, in turn, our food and lifestyle influence these creatures that call our bodies their home.
Our environment – 24/7 society, chronically busy and stressed lives and constant temptation of unhealthy, sugary and processed foods – doesn’t really encourage us to stay healthy and balanced. And constant conflicting headlines in the media about what's healthy and what's not can be very confusing! We all know that fad diets don’t work! Instead, sustainable and consistent changes in lifestyle are required to achieve permanent long-term results. And sometimes we just need help to kickstart the process, and I'm here if you need support!
I can help you get to the root causes of your symptoms, support you with personalised recommendations, help you stay on track and empower you to take control of your health for good so you can start being the creator of the health that you really need and want.
I love working on a 1-to-1 basis and personalising my advice to each individual but I also get a buzz from educating and inspiring groups of people, whether it's staff members of large corporations, smaller companies, charities and organisations, or just a small group of friends wanting to have an alternative get-together making ferments or watching a healthy food demo and tasting the food prepared, with a glass of kombucha in their hands, of course!
With my MSc degree in Personalised Nutrition science and diploma in Nutritional Therapy Practice, as well as my NLP mindset coaching training and skills, the tips and advice I will give you are always evidence-based, personalised (when working 1-to-1) and very practical.
I see clients at my home nutrition clinic in Bracknell and via Zoom for personalised nutrition programmes and mindset coaching, and I also run cooking and fermenting sessions with individuals and groups in the local community.
If you want to read some (fun?) facts about me, check out this post: https://bit.ly/2TnKMYI
Minna x
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To get personalised advice and recommendations on how you can support your own health with nutrition and lifestyle medicine, please get in touch with me to book your free 20 minute discovery call: calendly.com/metawell/. Let’s have a chat about how I could help you find the root causes of your chronic health issues and achieve your health goals.
And in the meantime, I’d like to welcome you to come and join our friendly and supportive tribe on my Facebook group for free health and nutrition tips and recipes and meal/snack ideas: https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthynewyouforlife/
