Kate Cook

In this confusing time, health and wellness are on everyone’s mind. How can we get ourselves into the best possible condition and how can diet and lifestyle help?
Rather than doing one thing well, Kate Cook, Corporate Nutritionist, author and speaker of 20 years, suggests we need a few solid wellbeing foundations in place. Diet and Nutrition are of course fundamental, but what else can we do?
Kate sessions are vibrant, fun, but with hard-hitting, do-able, and practical messages!

Any new parent, or even a veteran, finds that juggling a job/home/demands of parenting an almost impossible task. Since of course, we always put our children before ourselves our ability to cope is compromised.
What is less well known, is how, getting the foundation of a healthy diet sorted, that balances hormones, balances stress responses and gives our bodies and our minds the best chance of managing the many mental stresses of parenthood from a physical perspective first, and then of course, there are many ways to train ourselves and our minds to deal with the stresses that parenthood flings at us.
This session therefore, concentrates on the nutritional foundation that creates a steady platform for other coping modalities, such as CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), or other strategies.

There is no mental health pathology that does not have Sleep as part of the diagnosis – and yet, so many people are struggling to achieve good, deep restful sleep. This session pulls heavily on the research or Dr Matt Walker who wrote a ground breaking examination of sleep in “Why We Sleep” but goes further in looking at some top nutritional and lifestyle strategies to making a restful night within our grasp.

“Mood” is such a will-o’-the-wisp concept, an ephemeral passing cloud on the screen of life! So, isn’t it up to us how we feel and react to the world around us? Can’t we just force ourselves, resolving to grin and bear it? Aren’t some people just born in a good mood whilst others with a scowl on their faces? After being buffeted around by life’s fortunes and mostly misfortunes for the last couple of years, Kate Cook, leading Nutritional expert of 20 years, shows you just how to get a grip on your mood through the one thing we can control, what we eat. It turns out that all sorts of mechanisms influence how we feel from good gut health, adequate light, our environment and particular nutrients. We are not the product of our genes it turns out, but our epigenetics and we have a great deal of control on just how to influence our “biochemistry” so that great mood, is pretty much guaranteed!