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Nutritional Therapist •International Lipedema Nutritionist• Women's Health Advocate I also offer zoom consultations worldwide.

Virginia Ziulu DipNT mNTOI

I am passionate about good Food and Nutrition and I strongly believe that every person is unique and therefore has different dietary requirements. My aim is to provide you with the best possible tools and knowledge in order to improve your quality of life. I offer 1:1 private consultations in the Active Body Clinic, Portlaoise and Roches in Dublin. Areas of expertise:

Lipedema and Lymphedema,Thyroid dysfunctions,Menstrual irregularities:Endometriosis, Fibroids, PCOS, Peri-Menopause, Menopause. Men's Wellness support: Sport and athletic performance

Fatigue, Sleep disturbances,Immune health. Healthy weight management support: Mindset coaching, Food education. Digestive wellbeing, Sleep fundamentals. Stress and lifestyle coaching, lifestyle support tools.

07/05/2026

📍Women's Health Metabolic Assessment

This has been a long time coming. As a Women's Health Nutritional Therapist who specialises in Lipedema and chronic illness I listened to my clients over and over. They found the relief but without a solid structure and support alongside it. Some were dismissed by their provider simply because they didn't meet the "BMI" criteria or weight loss criteria.

👉I'm here to change the narrative. To provide women with only the best support and guidance amongst the chaos. To provide structure and evidence based methods that simply work.

⏫This assessment will give you a starting point, an understanding of what's going on with your body, a safe place to be listened to and someone that will finally bring clarity to your symptoms and provide the right support and guidance.

♦️Comment the word "metabolic" to get more information about who we are and what is the metabolic assessment about.

The 21st of May is almost fully booked with only 2 slots available. You can book any of the other dates by sending an email to info@virginiaziulu.ie directly. **In person only for Ireland and UK patients.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

04/05/2026

Upping my MJ dosage wasn't what made the biggest impact in less than a year.

Every time you see or I speak about my results the first thing that you ask is if I have upped my dosage! As if to get real results you need a higher dosage. Sorry to tell you but this is not the case and rarely brings solid long term results.

Let me explain:

1️⃣Peptides are incredible compounds that have literally changed my life. They are powerful and a game changer for Lipedema but not for the way you think they may be.

❌it's not about looking for more suppression, it's not about eating less, it's not about shutting down all desire to eat.

✅it is about improving communication in your body, calming the inflammatory response to allow for bigger changes and healing to come. But you still need to put the right fuel, the right therapeutic supplements, the right movement, the right sleep and the right mindset.

What has really made the biggest impact for me is the mast cell stabilisation effect which allowed the blood sugar to be more stable( which was a big struggle with reactive hypoglycemia), sleep improvement and energy levels. I was on the lowest of dosages for months until I was able to settle still on a micro dose.

The 15kg weight loss was slow and steady and moreso the results of a deep cellular work I was able to put in thanks to the reduction of inflammation. I had very mild to no appetite suppression and I'm thankful for that as appetite was actually never an issue for me as I know how to control it and what really works for my body.

No results come without the work and if they do they are only temporary. In my clinic I work on long term results, root causes and healing the body from a cellular level not just scratching the surface. We have got to understand the driver before we can truly heal.

03/05/2026

We often hear the phrase" Lipedema is resistant to diet and exercise" but that doesn't mean you can't lose weight.

Let me explain:

🧗‍♂️losing weight with Lipedema is harder than someone else who doesn't have the condition. We are all in agreement with this. However it is still possible with the right method which is not a standardized protocol for everyone but it is individual.

I often hear: please tell me how to "fix" this, how do we fix Lipedema. The reality is there is not a fix button and anyone that claims to have it is scamming you. Simple as that. There are no blueprints, no magic pills and no magic sunshine that is going to fully cure it.

What is possible with Lipedema according to the latest research:

☑️We can lose weight, reduce inflammation and improve the overall pain and mobility in Lipedema. The fibrotic tissue can become more mobile, less painful and more flexible but it doesn't go away fully even with substantial weight loss especially if it has been there for a long time.

☑️ We can reduce Lipedema inflammation,help the tissue to breathe and improve metabolic health. Dietary interventions will be different from woman to woman depending on the severity of the inflammation and other factors.

What can make it more difficult to lose weight with lipedema and can increase inflammation burden:

🔻Reactive hypoglycemia and blood sugar dysregulation. This can be caused by viral damage and Long Covid and mould toxicity. A diet high in carbohydrates will make these issues a lot worse. So intervention often needs to be more severe in this group of women. These are often the women who struggle the most with progression and fibrosis.
🔻Endometriosis and adenomyosis due to the estrogen dominance component and low progesterone which worsen insulin resistance and inflammation.
🔻Women with chronic stress and undealt with trauma. Elevated cortisol for a long period of time can alter the adipose tissue signals and promote a state of insulin resistance.

29/04/2026

Thanks to for the warm welcome last week for my official recording of the Lipedema Summit .summit hosted by the amazing Erika .

My piece will discuss the topic of environmental toxins in Lipedema inflammation and progression, what we should look out for and what these chemicals do to our own hormones and how this can this may influence Lipedema inflammation and progression.

Make sure to register soon and do not miss the chance to listen to all the other fantastic speakers on the day.

27/04/2026

What would I do if I got a Lipedema diagnosis today?

1️⃣Get comprehensive labs done to understand where I am at. There is no point in cutting down everything and doing the guess work. You need to know where to start and where your focus should be. Anti inflammatory diet is such a vague term that means nothing and it's not personalized.

2️⃣Understand your genetics. Actionable genes. They can make the biggest impact in how your Lipedema will progress and it's managed. It tells the story and your dietary and lifestyle options will shape its course. Genes never change and you will have this forever.

3️⃣ADHD is so prevalent amongst the Lipedema community and undiagnosed ADHD can literally ruin your relationship with food. Understanding your brain biochemistry will literally change your daily choices including how you reward system( alcohol and sugar in particular)

4️⃣Environmental toxins play a HUGE role in Lipedema progression and outcomes. These can really trigger a pronounced state of inflammation in the body altering cell signalling, fat cell growth and hunger/ fullness responses. They are a real threat to Lipedema.

What would you have done and have done so far? Would love to know 👇

15/04/2026

My last reel started a debate that we should have had back in 2005 when I first set my foot into Ireland. A beautiful country with beautiful people that welcomed me from day 1 and gave me the opportunity to live a good quality of life which my own country would have never given me.

But there was always one thing that I couldn't understand...why all these beautiful green lands and no local food being made...why was all dairy limited to 1/2 cheeses and why so many limited Irish produce. I just couldn't understand. The food in the supermarkets tasted awful, underripe, hard tasteless and looked fake. Myself and my now husband decided we have to grow our own food somehow...we miss it so much ...

So we started with an indoor light system to grow herbs and a little greenhouse outside in our first rented accomodation. We didn't have space and money to rent anything else.

Then we bought our first home and the goal was a decent size garden to grow some food. Then we expanded into an allotment and the final expansion where we bought our forever home with some decent land....the dream came through.

Between my cancer diagnosis in 2016 and the birth of my 2 children I wanted a place where I could grow most of my own food and let my children learn this life skill with us while I took some time off from my Nutritional therapy career.

During Covid I studied Organic horticulture and loved it. That's it we have to open a business and share our passion with others...my husband left his job( as the sole home provider) to open . In the meantime I was left to hold the fourth which nearly broke me.

2 years later we decided to close that business because it became non-viable due to lack of business and sales..we tried...we really did. But the market was not ready for it.

Will I do it over again as a business? No. But I will continue to grow my own food and motivate every single client in my clinic to grow their own and buy local.

When I hear nothing grows in Ireland I get really frustrated because Ireland has huge potential...and we need to fight for it!

13/04/2026

🧬Genetics and toxins

After yesterday's reels I got such a huge positive response. But there is a reason why I'm so passionate about this topic and it is a personal one.

I explain how genetic testing can be powerful in supporting your body and understanding your own sensitivities. We may not be able to block off everything but we can assist our bodies in the best possible ways with lifestyle modifications and supplements to support our biology.

Some of my key findings( before I got to act on them) were poor detoxification genes and slow estrogen metabolism. Meaning that my body can struggle to clear ANY toxins, medications, pollution etc. and with Lipedema and sluggish lymphatics this is not in my favour.

I also have a high risk of burnout due to a low stress tolerance and my body doesn't function very well with poor sleep( as in metabolically and functionally not by just being tired).

Did you know understanding your genes was so important?

But also equally as important putting them into perspective has having a gene doesn't automatically convert into bad things. But when you have all the dietary, lifestyle and environmental factors against you it will definitely have a huge impact.

08/04/2026

Lipedema and shorts

I can't believe I have not owned a pair of shorts since my teens. Last week I looked back at some of my teens photos and I remembered how long it had been since I actually bought shorts.

⏬I have been very self conscious about my legs all my life but moreso since I am in the profession I am in. There always has been a feeling of not being good enough and guilty about my Lipedema progression over the years as if this was all my fault.

In fact this negative thinking was only sabotaging my own health and nervous system. I never paused and reflected on how much my body has been through in the past 20 years. Moving to a completely new country, an unexpected abdominal surgery in my early 20s, a cancer while pregnant...

Sometimes I ask myself how the hell I coped with all of these?

So the year I turn 40 has to be the year where i finally make peace with my Lipedema body and myself. Also the year I'm buying all the shorts...and maybe I can allow myself some credit for the person I am today.

I hope this post inspires you to do the same...and don't wait until you are 40. You are more than enough just the way you are 💜.

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