Gemma McGuigan Nutrition

14/10/2025

Chronic inflammation doesn’t just affect your gut or joints — it changes your brain 🧠

When microglia (your brain’s immune cells) stay switched on, they damage neurons, reduce synaptic connections, and accelerate cognitive decline.

The good news? You can calm the fire, prevent neurodegeneration, protect cognition by addressing the roots:
👉 Balance blood sugar
👉 Support gut and hormone health
👉 Reduce toxic burden
👉 Prioritise restorative sleep

Your brain thrives when inflammation is low and hormones are in sync. Prevention starts now.

Follow me for more prevention tips ✨

11/10/2025

As a founding member of the British Network of Functional Medicine (BNFM), I’ve had the great pleasure of helping to bring together some truly inspiring speakers for our upcoming event on November 8th.



Gillian Crowther



This gathering is all about advancing the conversation in functional medicine — connecting practitioners, sharing cutting-edge insights, and strengthening the community that’s changing the future of healthcare.

If you’re passionate about root-cause medicine and collaboration, this is one not to miss.

✨ BNfM Conference 2025
📅 November 8th
📍 Etc Venues Monument London
🔗 Book via Link in bio

29/09/2025

❔What would it mean to have a great menopause with minimal symptoms?

1️⃣ Accelerate health
2️⃣ Focus on prevention & health span
3️⃣ Step into midlife with clarity and energy

Menopause isn’t just hot flushes — it’s a powerful neuro-endocrine transition. When you understand your body and support it with the right strategies, this stage becomes a launchpad for vitality, not decline. ✨

Join me at the stunning Lime Wood for my October Menopause Workshop Series — Functional Medicine approach, practical, cutting edge, science-led, and designed to help you feel empowered in your next chapter. 🌿

📍 Lime Wood Hotel
📆 1st, 6th, 14th Oct - come to one or all
🗓 Limited spaces
👩🏻‍🏫 Each day includes 2 menopause workshops
🥦 A delicious nutrient dense lunch
🧘‍♀️ A wellbeing class
🛍️ A wellness goodie bag

✨Day 1 - 1st Oct - Menopause unfiltered: What’s Really Going On In Your Body

✨Day 2 - 6th Oct - Menopause & Metabolism: Body Composition, Blood Sugar & Energy in Midlife

✨Day 3 - 14th Oct - Menopause & Longevity: Protecting Heart, Brain, Bones & Breasts

👉 BOOK NOW - Link in bio

13/09/2025

Most people believe neurodegeneration only hits in old age… but really, it starts decades earlier.”

Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Parkinson’s - We leave it too late!

By the time symptoms appear, damage has been quietly accumulating for years

Dementia currently costs the UK around £42 billion/year in healthcare, social care. By 2040 the cost is expected to more than double to about £90-£91 billion/year.

Never mind the fact that these conditions are heart breaking for all involved 💔

The good news? These conditions are preventable. You can protect yourself.

Over the next couple of weeks - I will give you a Functional Medicine approach to protecting your precious brain 🧠! Please share this with anyone who you think this may help. 🙏

09/09/2025

Menopause is the ultimate UPGRADE.

This stage of life is your chance to reset, recharge and reclaim your clarity, calm and confidence.

Join me at Lime Wood for my ✨Menopause Workshop Series✨ Oct 1/6/14, where I’ll share a functional medicine approach to thriving in midlife. Expect evidence based practical tools, fresh insights and a new way of seeing your hormones, energy and health.

🌿 1st Oct: Menopause Unfiltered; What’s really going on in your body
🌿 6th Oct: Menopause & Metabolism; Body composition, blood sugar and energy in midlife
🌿 14th Oct: Menopause & Longevity; Protecting heart, brain, bones & breast

Each session will include 2 workshops with me, a healthy seasonal 2 course lunch and an optional wellness class.

Spots are limited, discounted rate for all 3 — book your place today via link in bio.

This is your invitation to a beautiful midlife reset — come & be part of it with me ✨

06/08/2025

I often get asked “What is Functional Medicine?”

✨Functional Medicine asks WHY you’re experiencing symptoms — not just what can suppress them.

Doctors are brilliantly trained in disease medicine - Functional medicine practitioners are trained in health medicine!

Instead of matching a drug to a diagnosis or symptom, we look at the root causes behind your fatigue, hormone imbalance , gut issues, skin issues, or immune dysfunction.

🧬 We ask:
→ What’s out of balance?
→ What systems are talking to each other?
→ What are your triggers and burden, which are preventing you from healing (repair)

We work with your biology, not against it, using nutrition, lifestyle, environment, and targeted support to bring the body back into balance.

It’s science meets systems thinking. We are system biologists - connecting all the dots
It’s personalised.
It’s proactive.
It’s powerful.

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31/07/2025

To my adored treasured granda Walter Lewis the chief of our tribe….honouring his incredible life and his peaceful passing yesterday 🤍 - near 98 years - he is part of the very fabric of my being & has imprinted all his love, guidance, wisdom and incredible resilience into every cell. 🤍

My granda was a legend, a giant of a man, an inspiration, a true gentleman, a musician, an entertainer, a storyteller, a joker but all in all he was a family man who loved nothing more than being surrounded by his loved ones and his community. 🤍

Born in 1927 into humble beginnings in rural north of Ireland - a land so far from today’s world it is hard to believe. A musician from early on, teaching himself the fiddle, the saxophone and the clarinet, he then went onto form and be the front man of the “Walter Lewis Show band” famed far and wide bringing joy to many a dance hall across Ireland and England. His music was his love, his saviour, his joy, he once told me that his fiddle was his best friend and he never got lonely because of his fiddle. He was described as “A symbol of Ireland’s living musical heritage”

He used to tell me stories from the “olden days” these stories have shaped me in more ways than he will ever know.

A father to 6, a granda of 12 & a great granda to 5 - as much as the tears are flowing and the loss is so deeply felt, it is time for his next adventure, he has been the strong stable loving centre of our universe for so long, it’s now time for him to return home.

Time to go deep into the tribe to grieve, to process & celebrate Walter Lewis, my granda the legend & his incredible life 💜

27/07/2025

Delighted to share that I’ll be hosting 3 deeply empowering menopause workshops at stunning Lime Wood this autumn. Bookings now open via Lime Wood Hotel

We’re delighted to welcome leading Functional Medicine and Nutrition expert Gemma McGuigan to Lime Wood for a three-part workshop series supporting women through the hormonal transitions of midlife.⁠
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With her science-led, deeply personal approach to women’s health, Gemma will guide us through the realities of menopause — from everyday symptoms to the longer-term shifts that are often left unspoken. ⁠
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Each workshop focuses on a different topic and includes a seasonal 2-course lunch, optional movement class, and a thoughtful wellbeing gift to take home. Sessions can be booked individually or as a bundle of three. Click the link in our bio for more information!

05/07/2025

Delighted to announce that our number 5 .reset MIND. BODY. RESET Mallorca is locked in for next year 🙌

📆 20-26th June 2026.
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All the gang will be back mcguigan.health





Returning to the magical Son Rullan for our 5th year of mind, body and soul empowerment, immersed in nature from sunrise to sunset with the most beautiful humans.

It is a gift beyond gifts to yourself 💠

If you do fancy a transformational retreat of a lifetime, come and join us, we only have 4 rooms left, happy to support with payment plans. Deposit required to secure your place.

Make magic happen to YOU ✨✨✨✨

Please follow link in bio for all the details!

Love Gemma & Donna 🤍🤍

23/06/2025

Just returned from our 4th MIND. BODY. RESET .reset retreat at the breathtaking a 14th-century monastery nestled between mountains and sea, and steeped in pure wellness magic ✨

Each year, I’m filled with so much pride & joy for this heartfelt co-creation with my sister in healing,

It’s always an honour to walk alongside others on their journey to and within health. This year’s group — a truly beautiful gathering of humans — showed up with open hearts and embraced everything we offered.

Deeply grateful to each and every one of our guests for placing your trust in us. 💛

If you’re interested in joining one of our UK or Mallorca retreats, please subscribe at mindbody-reset.com — we’ll be releasing our next Mallorca dates next week!

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23/05/2025

I am super proud of the incredible event we & created last night. We brought together 2 amazing minds who helped us understand the root cause to many chronic health issues today.

💠Morley Robbins a legendary voice helping us understand iron dysregulation and how a major part of the iron story has been missing in action …. Cooper! So grateful to Morley and his team coming all the way from America to educate and inspire us.

💠Professor Douglas Kell - Head of systems biology at Liverpool Uni and one of the UK’s lead Long Covid researchers. It was such a privilege and honour to hear Douglas’s research findings regarding long covid and how microclots are at the root of the problem.

One of our greatest gifts is curiosity, I have for many years not fully understood iron as it is conventionally taught and by reaching out to these 2 wonderful men, it has opened up an incredible progression in my understanding and knowledge which continually supports my clients moving forward with their health.

Progression often takes disruption of concepts, beliefs, conditioning and these 2 scientists are shining examples of those who look deeper to seek the truth.

Feeling grateful to all those who joined us last night 🙏 we are always learning!

21/05/2025

I am loving the mighty SALAD at the moment, it helps when the ☀️ is shining - every time I say “ SALAD for dinner”, my husband rolls 🙄 his eyes but once he eats it, he always happy 💠! This one is a beauty, give it a try and feel the energy!

Directions
1: cover the bottom of the plate with finely shredded cabbage and microgreens (or cress)
2: layer on some finely sliced cucumber and radish
3: layer on some sliced cooked beetroot
4: add some sliced fig
5: slice some buffalo mozzarella and pop on top
6: scatter some pomegranate, seeds and fresh basil
7: generously drizzle with dressing (3Tbsp EVOO, juice of 1 lemon, 1 tsp of raw honey, seasalt & pepper)

Enjoy enjoy - do let me know if you try it and what the husband/wife thinks 😁

Ps I get this delicious buffalo mozzarella from