Karen Newby Nutritionist

20/04/2026

Great to be back speaking at this year's International Music Summit as part of the Art of Areté.

I will be discussing how I intergrate Eastern and Western nutritional medicine, how to live well, even when you're working in the music industry crossing multiple timezones and working late; and how to shift the focus away from your body as 'the project', being endlessly monitored with often very expensive kit, to the project being all about living well.

I will be sharing the floor with two other brilliant practitioners; vibrational sound practitioner Tensuhi Storey and Vedic meditation teacher ; as well as DJ, producer and label owner .

If you are there, do join us at 1315 on Thursday. It's going to be immense!

05/04/2026

Do we need collagen supplements?

My full discussion is now on today’s Easter Substack…subscribe for free here:

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22/03/2026

My Cookbook with recipes curated by symptom is now 33% off on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Natural-Menopause-Method-Cookbook-empowering/dp/0008722595/ref=zg_m_bsnr_g_270760_m_sccl_1/260-6019284-7599262?psc=1

13/03/2026

Today is World Sleep Day 😴and I wanted to showcase one of THE most important minerals when it comes to supporting our nervous system and helping to regulate sleep.

Mighty magnesium ✨✨✨

🥬Magnesium rich foods include spinach, herbs like coriander and parsley, rocket. avocados, black beans, pumpkin seeds and almonds.

😵‍💫Because of our stressful lifestyles and soil depletions, we often don’t get enough magnesium to sustain our daily needs.

This is why I often recommend a magnesium glycinate supplement in my clinic. Like this brand new high potency magnesium glycinate from BioCare

🤸🏻‍♂️Magnesium coupled with glycine which is an important amino acid involved in many critical processes in the body, including nervous system function and energy. And look, this
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13/03/2026

Feeling sleep deprived is one of the top 8 symptoms I see in my clinic…and which is why there is a dedicated section of recipes in my new cookbook….

Buy your copy here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Natural-Menopause-Method-Cookbook-empowering/dp/0008722595/ref=zg_m_bsnr_g_270760_m_sccl_1/260-6019284-7599262?psc=1

08/03/2026

The pressures on us are HUGE….

We don’t need to be thin.
We don’t need to know what our biological age is.
We don’t need to look 20.
We don’t expensive gadgets to age well.
We don’t need to weigh our food.
We don’t need to over complicate food.
We don’t need to feel guilty about food.

This is all a distraction from being contented, grounded and energised in the body we are in.

I hope to always bring you sane menopause advice to keep you energised and well nourished so you can go on to sleigh the patriarchy and advocate for those women and girls coming behind us💪

08/03/2026

Happy International Women’s Day! Read my newsletter which is a bit of IWD rant……plus there is a lovely Rancheros Eggs brunch recipe in there too….

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06/03/2026

🤬A supplement will not make you drop two dress sizes. Posts like these need to be banned! They are making HUGE unfounded claims about their product.

‼️And this brand is particularly good at doing this.

😱Images like this make us feel like we are failing, or are broken because we don’t have that torso - I mean what healthy 40 or 50 something does? So we start (or continue) battling our body and trying to shrink it.

📢The addition of the ‘cheesy pasta’ is also a subtle shaming of that food - so many of us have become hyper vigilant about what we are eating so are likely to feel a lot of guilt around eating cheesy pasta that this supplement brand is now giving us ‘permission’ to eat which feeds into the damaging psychological effects of the ‘diet trap’.

🫶Midlife is the time to start giving our body some grace, and celebrating all that it has gone through to get to this point, which as we know, is a privilege many don’t get.

💕I often want my clients to eat more – but more helpful foods. We need to start seeing food as love and nourishment.

‼️A highly restrictive, low fat, low joy(!) diet is not helpful. Restricting food can reduce our metabolic rate and then we have low energy which isn’t going to help us want to move more.

💊Supplements can of course be helpful if you are looking to lose that weight around the middle. But they are as an addition to food and lifestyle shift not an instead of’ which is the underlying message of this ad.

25/02/2026

Excited to share that I’m featured on Episode 6 of the new podcast series Bang In Some Beans from The Food Foundation 🎙️

In this episode, I work with five women navigating period and menopause symptoms — exploring how something as simple as increasing their bean intake can make a meaningful difference. We discuss the science and the real-life results. It’s a powerful reminder that cheap, accessible and sustainable food choices can have a big impact on our health (no expensive LED lights or PEMF mats needed....).

This is why beans are an essential part of my diet:
- Beans are cheap, sustainable, a brilliant source of plant based protein and a brilliant fibre source.
- A higher bean intake is consistently linked with better blood sugar control, lower stroke risk, and better metabolic health.
- Half a cup delivers 8–11g of protein plus fibre, calcium (esp chickpeas), iron (esp red and white beans), magnesium (esp black beans), antioxidants and no cholesterol.
- The Harvard’s Nurses’ Health and Health Professionals studies found a 26% lower risk of cognitive decline when people swapped animal protein for plant proteins like beans.
- Soya beans help reduce hot flushes because of their isoflavone content. A recent randomized, controlled trial published showed an 88 per cent reduction in hot flushes after just 12 weeks of a low-fat, vegan diet with a higher intake of soya beans and fava beans.
- The longest living communities on the planet eat beans daily!

Enough said.

I will share when it is out! And if you want to start cooking more beans then buy my Cookbook, with recipes arranged my menopausal symptom which has lots of beanie recipes in it. Currently 28% off on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Natural-Menopause-Method-Cookbook-empowering/dp/0008722595/ref=zg_m_bsnr_g_270760_m_sccl_1/260-6019284-7599262?psc=1

17/02/2026

Momentum….courage…..growth…..🔥🐎

The Year of the Fire Horse reflects the transformative years of the menopause; where we let go of things that don’t serve us well and move forward with renewed purpose ✨

I have always been a fan of change ✨
�Happy Chinese New Year of the Fire Horse-start galloping! 🐎 🐎🐎
�Gong Xi Fa Cai 🇨🇳 // Chúc Mừng Năm Mới 🇻🇳 🧧

16/02/2026

A special 28% off my Cookbook on Amazon today! So if you’ve been thinking about buying and want to start cooking recipes that can help your symptoms then now is your chance to buy!

The Natural Menopause Method Cookbook: The empowering healthy cookbook for wellness and lifestyle choices in midlife

16/02/2026

Who feels like a coiled spring? 😖

Is there constantly a tiger in the room 🐯

So many of us wake up with a heightened cortisol response too - a quick beating heart and immediately we feel anxious 😱

This is something I see a lot in my clinic. And burn out.

Menopause is a time when our body is screaming at us to make changes and reducing our stress chemistry overload is one of them 🙏

Do you feel like this?

I’ll post more on this throughout the week……so let me know if there’s anything in particular who want to know about 💘

More details in the first part of The Natural Menopause Method 📖 and if you are more of a visual learner lots of talks on stress and how to calm our nervous system on my Online Course 👩🏻‍💻including a beautiful yoga nidra by ✨✨✨