Devon Nutrition

01/02/2026

I'm abandoning this bundle of gorgeousness for the day to be at Exmouth Healing Centre so please come and say hello!

Tasters and more from 10 till 3pm. 😊🌞🎊

27/01/2026

I shall be there from 10 till 3pm on Sunday if you'd like to come and chat to me about nutrition or qigong or try a taster metamorphic session. 😊🦋🌊☯️🍏

WE’RE FINALLY OPENING OUR DOORS – EXMOUTH HEALING CENTRE!

If you’ve walked past our building over the last 8 months, you’ve seen the journey…
The dust. The drills. The paint. The glow-up. Then the waiting. And more waiting.

The goal posts moved more times than we can count, but through it all this space has been held with so much intention, love, and belief in what it can be for our town.

And now we can finally say it…

Our official opening day is 1st February,
Perfectly aligned with Imbolc. A time of new beginnings, light returning, and fresh energy. We couldn’t have chosen a more meaningful day if we tried.

To celebrate, we’re hosting an OPEN DAY.
Come and explore the space, meet the faces, and feel what this centre is all about.

• Meet the practitioners who will be working from the centre
• Stalls & info about the different therapies and practices on offer
• A chance to look around, ask questions, and connect
• A warm, welcoming space created for healing, growth and community

We can’t wait to see you!!

25/01/2026

🧠 FREE MEN’S WELLBEING WORKSHOPS

Feeling stressed, burnt out, or just need some headspace?
Join a free, practical 3-week workshop for men — no pressure, no jargon, just useful tools and good conversation.

📅 16th, 23rd & 30th March
⏰ 10am–1pm
☕ Tea & coffee included
📍 Seachange, Budleigh Salterton

👉 Spaces are limited – booking essential.
📞 01395 446896
📧 help@seachangedevon.org

01/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone. Thanks to all my clients and followers for your support in 2025. I couldn't do this without you!

Looking forward to next year and learning more about gut and genetic testing to further personalize nutrition support.

Be well and rest well. Remember spring is the time for big changes. Right now we need gentle support and warming winter foods.😊🥣

31/10/2025

Very excited to announce that I've booked my training in Neutrigenomics, unravelling nutritional aspects of our DNA starting in January.

I'm going to be studying Nutrient Core, Methylation, Histamine, Nervous System, and Hormones and Detoxification.

I'll be taking the test myself and learning lots about my own health processes as I go.

Time to start taking the fish oil regularly to get my brain oiled I reckon! 🤣😊🥸🤩

01/08/2025

I'll be talking more about this in a talk on heart health at Budleigh library in the autumn.

Eggs lower cholesterol.

That’s right. A study just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition [https://bit.ly/45dCF4C] finds that eating two eggs a day LOWERS LDL cholesterol, if in a diet not high in saturated fat. The study compared different diets and the diet high in saturated fat did raise LDL cholesterol.

Those who have followed my writings will know that, since my fist book in 1981, I have told the truth about eggs: a) they never raise cholesterol, nor heart disease risk – in fact they lower it and b) that cholesterol isn’t the problem in the first place. I have a whole chapter on this in my book Say No to Heart Disease.

Heart disease is a ‘disease’. High cholesterol is not. While high LDL cholesterol is associated, weakly, with more cardiovascular disease, if above about 7mmol/l, this is more because of the things that raise LDL cholesterol, namely a high sugar/carb diet and low vitamin C, than cholesterol\s ‘fault’. The old rule was you’re Ok if your cholesterol is below 6. Some would say 7. But, in order to sell statins, this was changed to 5.2mmol/l, for which the evidence is lacking.

The other main problem is that what’s measured as ‘LDL cholesterol’ includes Lipoprotein(a). It is part of that low density lipoprotein family. Lp(a) goes up when vitamin C goes down. In a perfect world you’d also be told how much of that LDL cholesterol is Lp(a).

Much more important, and always measured, is your triglyceride level. This fat in the blood is created when you eat too much sugar and carbs and/or alcohol. If your level is below 1mmol/l, and your HDL is high (above 1.6mmol/l) you really have nothing to worry about, regardless of your LDL cholesterol level. Best of all is your triglyceride/HDL ratio. If this is 2 or less, eg you have no more than twice the triglycerides to HDL, your risk of cardiovascular disease is minimal.

None of this has anything to do with eggs. Do read my book Say No to Heart Disease [https://www.holfordnutrition.com/product/say-no-to-heart-disease-patrick-holford/] to get the full story. By the way, your homocysteine level predicts two thirds of heart attacks in older people and many who have heart attacks have ‘normal’ cholesterol. Don’t trust your doctor is they use the QRisk calculator from NICE, putting in your age and your cholesterol level to basically sell you statins. They do, reliably, lower cholesterol, but are remarkably ineffective in reducing heart disease risk in those, as above, not actually at risk.

22/07/2025

Very seaweedy down the beach this morning 😲. No good for eating when it's piled up on the beach but if picked while still growing seaweed is rich in selenium and iodine, beneficial for the thyroid and for healing the gut.

In Chinese medicine it has very cooling properties so good to eat in summer or for inflammation.

I soak in clean water, rinse well and store in the freezer to use in soups and stir fries. 😊

20/07/2025

Found an amazing deli on Magdalen street in Exeter. The salads were amazing and they had whortleberry jam 😊😊😊😊

09/07/2025

I'm taking August off this year. I have 7 more appointments left before the end of the month so please get in touch if you would like one of them. 😊🦥😊

02/07/2025

https://bant.org.uk/bant-analysis-of-the-governments-newly-announced-healthy-food-standards/

BANT welcomes Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom, Wes Streeting’s intention to tackle the obesity epidemic in the UK. BANT

01/07/2025

Lovely picnic and swim this lunchtime. Shame I forgot to take a picture before but it was soooo good.

Cold new potatoes with yoghurt/ coriander and lemon balm. Bit of cold chicken, half an avocado, spoonful of guacamole, sprinkle of seaweed and lime juice.

24/06/2025

I love my job. I learn something new all the time. I'm very interested in the role of vitamin A in lots of problems. I was researching the links between vitamin A and diabetic retinopathy for a talk I'm giving on Thursday and came across this article.

Many of are lacking vitamin A as it's only available in animal foods e.g butter, liver, eggs and oily fish.

The body should be able to convert betacarotene in orange/green/ yellow vegetables to vitamin A but often this doesn't happen efficiently enough.

I read recently that up to 50% of women have a genetic variation that makes this conversion difficult.

Anyone low in zinc (which is most diabetics!) is also unable to convert.

Researchers have found that insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas contain vitamin A receptors, and that blocking them reduces insulin secretion.