Helen Perks BSc.

18/08/2025

Health blooms when you create the right conditionsThese white Calla (trumpet) lilies in my garden symbolise purity, resilience, and new beginnings.In many ways, they mirror what health and wellbeing are all about. Just like these flowers thrive when given the right soil, light, and care, our bodies flourish when we give them the right nutrition, rest, movement, and environment.Your health isn’t about perfection, it’s about creating the right conditions for your body to bloom.That’s why I created my RESPECT® model, to help people rebuild their health from the roots up, with personalised nutrition and lifestyle medicine.If you’re ready to restore your energy, balance your hormones, or simply feel more like you again, feel free to send me a message. RESPECT® Your Future by Nourishing Today. 💚

17/08/2025

How running a business has changed me personallyWhen I first started out, I thought running a business was purely about growth, numbers, and creating impact for others. What I didn’t realise is just how much it would change me.It’s pushed me outside of my comfort zone again and again, and each time, I’ve grown stronger.It’s taught me resilience: setbacks no longer feel like failures, they feel like lessons.It’s deepened my empathy, because every client I work with reminds me that behind the symptoms is a whole story, often years of being dismissed or let down by the system.It’s given me clarity about my own health and boundaries. If I don’t take care of myself, I can’t take care of others.And most importantly, it’s reconnected me with my purpose.I help people take back control of their health, often after the NHS has left them without answers. I’ve written GP and consultant letters with a 100% success rate for over 12 years, ensuring my clients get the tests and referrals they deserve. That work began because of my dad, his misdiagnoses and missed tests shaped my drive to make sure no one else is left in that position. His legacy is now part of everything I do.Looking ahead, I’m excited to expand into oncology support (pending the results of my final assignment in September). This will enable me to help people lower their risk of developing cancer, supporting them through chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy, and crucially, walking alongside them after treatment ends when NHS support is no longer there.For me, running a business has been one of the greatest personal development journeys I could ever have taken. It’s shaped me just as much as I’ve shaped it.I’m curious, for those of you who run a business, what has been the biggest personal change for you?

16/08/2025

Expectation vs Reality 🛏️🐾

You know that feeling when you’ve just changed your bedding, walked upstairs ready to sink into fresh linen, and…

👀 This is what you find.
Keffy, sprawled out, owning the place!

My mindset: “I can’t wait to enjoy my fresh sheets.”

The reality: “Your fresh sheets? Nope, they’re mine now.”

Sometimes life (and business) is exactly like this, we set our expectations, but reality has other plans. The trick is in how we respond: laugh, adapt, and carry on.

Question for you: what’s your “fresh bedding” moment this week, where reality didn’t quite match expectation?

16/08/2025

Weight-loss drugs and diet apps: £383 million of NHS funding, but what about prevention?

Once again, money pours into drugs and tech solutions. This time it’s weight-loss meds paired with diet apps. But the bigger question is: why are we not addressing the root cause? The elephant in the room. The food industry!

We already know the truth:

❗️The UK has the highest rates of childhood obesity in Europe.

❗️Ultra-processed foods dominate our diets, cheap, addictive, nutrient-poor.

❗️The pharmaceutical and food industries profit while the NHS crumbles under the pressure.

❗️And here’s the shocking reality that rarely makes headlines: up to 50% of cancers are preventable through diet and lifestyle.

The evidence is clear:

👉 Alcohol significantly raises the risk of breast cancer.

👉 Ultra-processed foods drive inflammation, obesity, and metabolic dysfunction.

👉 Diet and lifestyle medicine can dramatically reduce disease risk.

So why aren’t we:

✅ Educating people daily about these risks?

✅ Running TV campaigns showing the connection between lifestyle and cancer, as we do for smoking?

✅ Empowering people to make informed choices instead of leaving them to apps, injections, and prescriptions?

Imagine the impact if we shifted focus:

✅ Less obesity.

✅ Lower cancer rates.

✅ Fewer GP visits and hospitalisations.

✅ More children thriving in classrooms.

✅ Adults with more energy and vitality.

This isn’t fearmongering, it’s empowerment. It’s giving people back control over their health instead of outsourcing it to systems that put profit before people.

Because if we don’t change, generations to come will suffer even more than they already are.

It’s time to take responsibility. It’s time to take back control!

RESPECT® Your Future by Nourishing Today.



NHS will pay diet apps who help to slim patients with weight-loss drugs

Tech companies will be paid according to how many patients stick with their regime and whether they lose enough weight after a year

15/08/2025

If I could go back in time…

I’d tell my younger self:

Stop over-analysing what you say.

Not everyone will like you, and that’s fine.

You’re not here to fit in, you’re here to stand out!

Look after your body now, as it’s the only place you’ll live for the rest of your life.

Confidence grows when you stop twisting yourself into shapes for other people and start investing in your own health, happiness, and purpose.

Because the earlier you take care of your mind and body, the longer they’ll take care of you!

What would you tell your younger self?

RESPECT® Your Future by Nourishing Today

13/08/2025

How I Turned My Pain into the Power Behind My Business

I didn’t start my business because everything was perfect. I started it because I knew what it was like to feel broken, dismissed, and unheard.

Seventeen years of M.E., three miscarriages, o e of them nearly costing my life, watching my dad suffer from a misdiagnosis that turned out to be neuroendocrine cancer… those experiences could have kept me small. But instead, they lit a fire.

They taught me the value of listening to the body, of digging for the root cause, of refusing to accept “there’s nothing we can do” as an answer. They showed me the gap in healthcare that I now fill for my clients every single day.

My pain became my why!

It gave me the drive to start my clinic and create my RESPECT® model of health and wellbeing, to advocate for my clients’ referrals and tests, and to show others that healing is possible.

If you’re in the middle of your own struggle, know this, one day, your pain might just become the power behind your purpose!

If you need support with your health right now, and you want to take a different approach, working with someone who has studied functional and lifestyle medicine, is a Registered Nutritional Therapist with a BSc in Nutritional Medicine, and has a 12-year, 100% success rate in securing GP and consultant letters for tests and referrals, feel free to DM me.

Please share this post to help reach others who may be looking for a kind of health support they’ve never experienced before.

RESPECT® Your Future by Nourishing Today

12/08/2025

Breakfast al fresco!

Homemade gluten‑free mini pancakes, organic yoghurt, and a berry quartet, including, blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, and raspberries. Added a drizzle of maple and a dusting of cinnamon, finished with home‑grown grapefruit‑mint.

I love the black berries, and as Deanna Minich, PhD explains,

“their deep colour comes from anthocyanins (brain‑supportive polyphenols). Those tiny “hairs” you see on blackberries are dried flower styles, insoluble fibre that, along with the seeds/skins, adds gentle “scrubbing” in the gut.”

Pairing berries with yoghurt gives protein + probiotics for steadier energy, while cinnamon’s polyphenols may help temper the post‑meal glucose rise.

Food that’s beautiful and purposeful.

What’s your favourite berry topping?

RESPECT® Your Future by Nourishing Today.

12/08/2025

Today hit 34°C where I live. I needed to pop to my local shops, so instead of a hat I used my UPF 50+ UV protection umbrella, the same one I bought for myself and my mum when we visited Singapore to see my son and his wife.Why did I use an umbrella?✔ Shields skin from harmful UV rays✔ Keeps you noticeably cooler than a hat✔ Can be used in the rain and wind tooWhile chatting with a local shop owner, we agreed that if European summers keep getting hotter due to global warming, we’ll need to rethink how we deal with the sun, maybe even adopt afternoon siestas.Using an umbrella in the heat might look unusual here, but it’s common in other countries, as it was years ago when I lived in HongKong, and makes perfect sense for skin protection and comfort. So if you spot a Mary Poppins–style figure strolling with an umbrella on a sunny day near you… now you know why, and it could be me. 🤩RESPECT® Your Future by Nourishing Today.

09/08/2025

Sometimes the simplest swaps bring the most joy. Sparkling water, frozen organic raspberries, and a sprig of homegrown grapefruit mint.Refreshing, hydrating, and packed with natural flavour. Cheers to nourishing from the inside out.RESPECT® Your Future by Nourishing Today.