Ginny Kemp Medical Herbalist

10/02/2026

🌿 WE’D LOVE YOUR SUPPORT!
Life Rituals has been caring for the community from our beautiful clinic at 24 Mill Street, Oakham for 8 years now, and we’re so grateful for every one of you🙏
🌟We’ve been nominated for Rutland & Stamford’s Favourite Independent Shop Awards 2025 — 2026 and we’d love it if you could vote for us!
♥️Every vote helps raise awareness for independent health & wellbeing practices like ours 💚
To vote click link below
👉 https://www.aliciakearns.com/independentshopawards2025
👉 Then look for us under the category: Beauty, pampering and wellness
Thank you for your support

I am delighted to announce final voting for Rutland and Stamford's Favourite Independent Shop Awards 2025 is now open!

03/02/2026

Thanks to Rutland Living for another lovely write up of our fantastic holistic health team at Life Rituals on Mill Street, Oakham. Looking after our clients physical and mental health in a thorough, well rounded and collaborative way to reach their health goals

02/02/2026

Thank Ramla and family you for my 5 star review, such lovely feedback!
If you are looking for help with your 2026 Health goals, natural compounds found in plants have serious power in supporting digestion (bitters!), Calming anxiety (nervous system tonics), balancing hormones (liver herbs and phytoestrogens), improving energy (adaptogenic herbs) and so much more! For a bespoke blend to meet your individual needs do get in touch! ginny.kemp@theherbclinic.co.uk

29/08/2025

And another one! Also proud to be part of The Broad Street Practice in Stamford- that’s a lot of 5 star reviews for a very hard working team 🙌⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

With just 9 reviews where patients have left fewer than 5 stars, and over 330 solid 5 star reviews, Google have upped our average rating from 4.9 stars to 5!

Wow! it looks and feels good.

Thank you to everyone who's made the effort to go onto Google and endorse what we do.....

Word of mouth 2025 style!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🤣

29/08/2025

A beautifully written summary as always, thank you Stamford and Rutland Living Magazine. Im proud to be part of a place where "it's hard to imagine a space better suited to putting clients at ease before and during treatment." So much on offer here https://www.liferituals.co.uk

18/08/2025

Beta-glucans from Oats have lots of benefits such as assisting blood sugar regulation, lowering the risk of heart disease, reducing cholesterol absorption, feeding our microbiome and now, potentially reducing toxic PFAs ('forever chemicals') in our systems - read more here:

Study offers first step to formulate diet to remove forever chemicals from body

28/03/2025

This is an amazing statistic! Well done to the BSP team, so many 5 star reviews!
We are a fantastic practice with so much to offer. Have a look at thebroadstreetpractice.co.uk

18/02/2025

Good news...You can add 85% dark chocolate to your beetroot for extra microcirculation benefits!

Eating more dark chocolate was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to an analysis of prospective cohort studies from Harvard University and published in the British Medical Journal.

Among participants across three studies of healthcare workers, those who consumed ≥5 servings per week of dark chocolate had a 21% lower risk of T2D compared with those who never or rarely consumed dark chocolate (P=0.006 for trend).

There was no significant association between consumption of milk chocolate and T2D, instead intake of milk chocolate was positively associated with weight gain, while this was not the case for dark chocolate.

Dark chocolate is high in polyphenols, including flavanols (part of the larger flavonoid group), and studies have shown an association between higher dietary flavonoid consumption and decreased T2D risk.

For this analysis, the authors used data from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII) (both all female), as well as the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS; all male). Total chocolate consumption baselines for the NHS and HPFS were in 1986, and in 1991 for the NHSII, when comprehensive food frequency questionnaires were first implemented. The second baseline, for chocolate subtype analyses, were in 2006 for the NHS and HPFS and 2007 for the NHSII, when the survey added questions about chocolate types.

Participants' diets were assessed every 4 years, with questions about average consumption of a standard portion size of chocolate in the past year. In total, 192,208 participants were included from the three trials in the total chocolate intake analysis, with 111,654 included in the analysis on chocolate types.
Standard dark chocolate is still very high in sugar and relatively low in flavanols compared to the modern 85% and 90% products. Hence if this connection is robust, the benefits of say 85% chocolate (my favourite) in protecting against diabetes are likely to be much greater.

For more information see:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/diabetes/113215
and
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39631943/

18/02/2025

As a source of nitrate, beetroot has emerged as a potential strategy to prevent and manage conditions such as high blood pressure and dysfunction of blood vessel linings (a contributory factor in cardiovascular disease) . Beetroot is also being considered as a promising therapeutic treatment in a range of conditions associated with oxidative stress and inflammation...ie many of the chronic conditions that affect us as a society. Including it in your diet or the addition of beetroot juice may help to manage blood pressure and reduce inflammation. Get in touch if you feel you would like more in-depth help with these areas. ginny.kemp@theherbclinic.co.uk

20/01/2025

Thank you to the Stamford and Rutland Living Magazine for the lovely write up in January's edition! A great review of us at Life Rituals, our Fika Health Talks, and of personal experience in clinic with me🥰

06/01/2025

A fab herb that I use in lots of hormone balancing mixes. So beautiful too!

06/01/2025

Is 2025 the year to look after your gut? Come
Along to our Gut Health evening on Wednesday 29th January to find out where to begin…

Join us at Fika Talks to learn about how our daily life rituals impact our gut health and discover practical tips for a healthier digestive