Anél studied at Stellenbosch University and qualified in 2002. After completing her compulsory community service year in Potchefstroom, she travelled to the United Kingdom where she lived and worked for four years as a Locum Dietitian and later on worked as a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian. Anél gained a wealth of experience during her stay in the UK – consulting paediatric patients in the allergy, cystic fibrosis, diabetes and feeding clinics, as well as patients on ward level, stroke rehabilitation, and adult ICU. Anél returned to South Africa in 2008 to pursue a career in private practice. Furthering her skills in adult and paediatric nutrition and dietetics. Anél continued her studies and completed her Master’s Degree in Nutrition (2011) – her thesis focused on childhood obesity.

As an experienced public speaker, Anél often presents talks to the public and other health professionals – keeping them up to date with the latest nutrition-related topics and research. She consults regularly for the media and has contributed to various publications on nutrition-related topics.

Anél has vast experience in managing a variety of diseases requiring nutritional treatment. Her time in private practice has provided her with special skills to treat and manage weight loss, insulin resistance, and associated metabolic syndrome. Other special interests includes women’s health and nutrigenomics. Anél has completed the Foundations in Nutrigenomics course and the in-depth Manuka Nutrigenomics course. This allows her to interpret an individual’s nutrigenetic results and transition them into personalised food solutions.

Catherine is a registered dietitian based in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town. She provides scientifically sound and individualised nutrition advice and recommendations to her patients. With over 10 years of experience, Catherine can help you make lifestyle changes to adopt for the long-term, to achieve your health and weight-loss goals. This is only truly possible if the recommendations given to you fit into your life.

Catherine is a former lecturer from the Division of Human Nutrition, Department of Biology at the University of Cape Town. She has a passion for teaching her patients about nutrition and lifestyle. Catherine’s approach to nutrition is simple but requires dedication. She will help you find solutions that suit your lifestyle. Catherine considers mental health when it comes to ‘healthy’, and this approach allows her to have a holistic approach.

Danielle is a registered dietitian and qualified chef. After working in top restaurants in the Cape and in the UK for seven years, it was her passion for creating healthy delicious food, and a keen interest to learn more about the details of nutrition, that lead her to study a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics. Since 2008, she has been working as a registered dietitian at a private hospital and in the private sector, at her practice Danni Health. She has also been contracted to the Sharks Rugby Team since 2010, looking after their sports and performance nutrition needs.

Her goal is to be able to empower you to change what you can, to the best of your ability, and to become a healthier version of yourself. All in order to live your best life! She believes good nutrition is a part of your daily lifestyle, and helps create peak physical form, better health, and more vitality.

In nutrition, her passion is finding the underlying cause, not the symptoms, and treating the client holistically. She enjoys the ‘why’ and loves working with chronic diseases. Danielle has worked in nutrigenomics since 2017, and enjoys the valuable information DNA testing provides to giving more accurate nutrition advice. She has completed her diploma in Nutrigenomics, and a CDE diploma in Diabetes Management. Due to her active lifestyle, she also has a keen interest in sports nutrition for improved lean muscle mass, athletic goals, and mental performance.

Dr Maria Christodoulou is a medical doctor, coach, and facilitator, with a wide range of knowledge and experience derived from over 30 years in integral healthcare.

She has run a successful integrative medical practice, pioneered health and wellness coaching in South Africa, designed and taught curricula on integrative medicine and integral coaching, and coached patients, clients, colleagues, and leaders in the healthcare sector. Her approach is individualised to each client and spans the spectrum from genetic wellness screening, to conversations about social identity and sacred activism.

Maria is also a homeopath, an astrologer, an academic, and a dedicated yogini, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. She is passionate about feminine spirituality, walking in nature, reading, dancing, singing, music, knitting, embroidery, and watching TV series! She has spent most of her career supporting people to reclaim their health and transform their lives by accessing inner resources and defining new and creative ways of being.

Jane is passionate about health; health the way you want it!

We are all unique. Our life experiences, ideas, values, goals, and genes are not quite like anyone else’s. Because of this, we all define health slightly differently and need a unique life strategy to reach the goals we set.

Nutrigenomics helps us understand what our bodies need to optimally achieve our goals. How you eat, move, sleep, relate, and respond to your environment fundamentally defines your health. If you want to change your health trajectory, you need to address each of these and ensure they are not out of sync.

Jane has worked in a tertiary referral hospital, tertiary education, research, assisted in editing books and contributing to chapters, travelled, taken time out to have kids, and is now in private practice.

She loves helping others to live their optimal life. Healthy, happy, and whole.

Judith is an outdoor enthusiast who is passionate about people and creating the balance of life through good health. She is a registered dietician, practicing integrative nutrition therapy with 25 years of experience in private practice, and is now a consultant for 3X4 Genetics in Cape Town, specialising in nutrigenomics (gene-based personalised nutrition), chronic diseases, sports nutrition, diabetes care, weight management, gastrointestinal tract (GIT) disorders, holistic well-being, and complementary medicine. She has recently co-authored a book with Dr Yael Joffe, entitled ‘Genes to Plate’, detailing the practical aspects of food choices according to your gene-based health pathways.

Through her own journey with health challenges, she discovered the benefits of mind, body, and soul wellness.

Kerryn qualified as a dietitian in 2003. She is married to a man of the sea and has two children. She has been consulting with people from all walks of life and all ages for 18 years. She has worked in rural state hospitals in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN), as well as large tertiary hospitals in London. For the last 10 years she has been working in a private practice in KZN.

She has gained extensive specialist experience in the areas of general medicine, community nutrition, paediatrics, fertility, pregnancy, surgery, gastroenterology, allergies, food intolerances, sports nutrition, genetics, and functional medicine. She continues to further her studies on all of the above topics by completing courses and attending webinars regularly. She is about to embark on studying again to become a functional medicine practitioner.

Kerryn has always believed in using food as medicine. She educates people on how to better understand how their diet can contribute to a better state of wellness.

“This should always be someone’s ultimate goal. I get clients to question whether they feel the best version of themselves or not. Once this is established as a benchmark, I help clients to make changes to, not only their diet and eating habits, but also to their overall lifestyle choices. It is incredibly beneficial to well-being, and the prevention of disease to understand the key variables that contribute to someone’s state of wellness. If you feel the best version of yourself then you are well, and you are actively preventing disease.”

In the absence of clinical symptoms people assume that they are well and just carry on. Society tends to wait until there is a diagnosable symptom before they address their lifestyle choices. Often it is too late. The true value in health lies in the prevention of and delaying in the symptoms from surfacing. People take their bodies for granted, believe they are invincible, and do not take care of themselves. People underestimate how the small choices they make on a day-to-day basis can significantly affect their health in the long run. All of the small, bad choices we make progressively, put strain on our defences until they can no longer cope. This is when symptoms of disease start to appear. Kerryn helps clients to understand their weak links as well as how to best support these.

“Everyone is different and we simply can no longer apply a blanket approach to how we manage our health. We now have sufficient scientific evidence to prove this. Assuming that everyone is on a level playing field with regards to their health, disease risk and how carefree their lifestyle choices need to be is not only irresponsible, but also potentially dangerous.”

The above principle applies to everyone; infants, children, adults, athletes, healthy people, and those with clinical symptoms. Each person needs to establish a key set of principles that they need to apply to their overall lifestyle behaviour. No matter your age, background, or activity, Kerryn will work with you to help you to understand what these principles mean for you. The best part is that she practices what she preaches.

Marlene is a registered dietitian and private practising dietitian in Somerset West, Western Cape. She spent eight years in the UK mainly specialising in gut disorders and paediatrics. She also worked for five years at the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.

She then returned to South African in 2014 as the owner of Vergelegen Dietitians, a private practice in Somerset West. She obtained her masters degree in 2006. She embarked on the journey of nutrigenomics in 2016 and has since completed the Foundations Course through the Centre of Translational Genomics, as well as completed the Manuka Science Translational Nutrigenomics course. She has a keen interest in nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics.

Monique has a passion for being healthy and achieving this through nutrition. She studied at Potchefstroom University and has been practicing her passion for the last 18 years.

Her special interests are functional nutrition (achieving health and harmony through eating wholesome and healthy), weight management, hormonal health (endometriosis, PCOS, perimenpause, menopause, osteopenia, and osteoporosis), adrenal health, diabetes mellitus (CDE accredited practitioner), cardiovascular disease, thyroid health, autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, osteo arthritis, lupus and fibromyalgia), gastrointestinal disorders and reaching gastro intestinal harmony, as well as all inflammatory conditions including joint and muscle health.

As a dietician, she uses genetic testing to empower her patients with knowledge. She believes genetics can help a person to regulate their health much more directly as it is it based on individual results.

She completed her two-year postgraduate diploma through the International Functional Nutrition Academy and her Foundations course from 3X4 Genetics. Furthering her studies allows her to provide patients with up-to-date knowledge.