Elemental The Skin Coach

Test. Train. Perform. 💪

But performance doesn’t start in the gym.

It starts at a cellular level.

How well you recover.
How well you adapt.
How stable your energy is.

Two people can follow the same plan …
and get completely different results.

Because the difference isn’t always effort.

It’s what’s happening underneath.

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Healthy diet… but still struggling with your skin?

You can eat well, train well, do all the “right things”…
and still feel like your body isn’t responding.

Because effort isn’t always the issue.

Biology is.

This is where test-based nutrition changes everything.
We stop guessing … and start understanding.

You are not inconsistent.
Your physiology is.

Some days you’ve got energy, your skin behaves, everything feels “on”.

Other days… same routine, completely different outcome.

That’s not a motivation issue.
That’s biology.

Two athletes can follow the same programme…
and get completely different results.

Even twin sisters.

It’s not always effort.
It’s not attitude.
It’s what’s going on underneath.

This week I was part of a really interesting discussion on something we’re going to see more of in sport.

Test-based nutrition.

Not “take more supplements”…
But actually understanding what’s happening inside the body.
Because most athletes are doing the right things,
training hard, structured, eating well …

Yet responses still vary.

👉 Some recover quickly
👉 Some don’t
👉 Some stay well all season
👉 Others struggle

And this matters even more for female athletes.

Same sport on the outside …
very different physiology underneath.

Hormones. Recovery. Energy availability.

And still ... much of the guidance is based on male data.

So we apply general advice,
to very individual bodies.

For me, it comes back to this 👇🏻

It’s not about what you give someone.
It’s about what actually changes.

If you want my notes from the session, just comment NOTES or DM me 👍

Because guessing isn’t a strategy.

I’m hosting something a little different on 29th April …

An Inside-Out Wellness evening at Cedar Court Hotel Huddersfield looking at how nutrition and lifestyle actually influence your health (without all the guesswork).

It’s not a sales thing - just a really practical, informative session and a chance to understand what’s going on in your body a bit better.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing all the right things but not getting the results you expect, this will make a lot of sense.

Tickets are £10 (includes a drink). You can find more details in the event which is in my bio 👆🏻

Most wellness events tell people what to do.

Mine help them understand why things aren’t working.

I’m opening a limited number of Inside-Out Wellness event dates for clinics, communities and spaces that want something a bit different.

Not guesswork.
Not trends.
Not another generic nutrition talk.

But real conversations around skin, hormones, energy, inflammation ...

… and how to actually support them properly

Options include:

• Test-based consultation days
• Small group workshops

If you’re a clinic owner, coach, or space holder and want to create something impactful for your clients …

Comment INSIDE OUT or message me.

Take a look at this photo from the 2022 HeRLegacy tour with to this week! 🥰 amazing memories!

Thankyou 🥰

🌍 It is Global Omega-3 Day 🌍

And before anyone rolls their eyes at another “health awareness day”… this one actually matters.

Omega-3 is not trendy.
It’s not influencer wellness.

It’s structural.

It literally forms part of your cell membranes. All 37 trillion of them!

Your brain runs on it.
Your skin depends on it.
Your nervous system uses it to calm inflammation.

But here’s the bit I always come back to.

Do you actually know your levels?
Because I see this every week.

People taking fish oils for years … and their results still show imbalance.

Why?

Because what you swallow isn’t always what your cells absorb.

Digestion. Stress. Hormones. Conversion. Oxidation.
It all matters.

And I’m just not a “take this and hope” kind of practitioner.
So we do it differently.

🧪 Test first. We understand the pattern.
⚖️ Personalise. Based on your physiology.
🔁 Re-test. Because if we’re doing this right, we measure progress.

No guessing.
No generic routines.
No bandwagons.

Just structured, inside-out clarity.

Because if we’re going to talk about inflammation, recovery, skin health, mood or performance … and so so much more ...

We need to look at the membrane.

We don’t have a collagen problem.
We have an expectation problem.

The media have jumped on a new study about collagen supplements from Anglia Ruskin University.

The headlines are predictable.

“Collagen won’t stop wrinkles.”
“Not an anti-ageing quick fix.”

And I agree, that part is true.
But it also slightly misses the point.

Because collagen supplements are not collagen.

They’re not tiny pieces of skin travelling to your face to fill lines. They’re hydrolysed protein peptides, broken-down fragments that your body digests and uses as signals and building blocks.

The study itself (a large review looking at over 100 clinical trials) actually found something much more interesting.

✅️ Improvements in skin elasticity.
✅️ Improvements in hydration.
✅️ Gradual structural support to the deeper layers of the skin over time.

What it didn’t show was a direct change in wrinkle appearance. And biologically, that makes complete sense.

You see wrinkles are not just a collagen problem.

They reflect changes in hormones, fat distribution, muscle movement, inflammation, sun exposure, nervous system load and quite simply … time.

Collagen supplements don’t override ageing.

What they may do is support how tissue behaves within ageing, improving resilience, hydration capacity and structural function.

Not fireworks. Foundations.

The real issue isn’t the science.
It’s expectation.

For years collagen has been marketed as a cosmetic shortcut, when in reality its effects, if they occur, are slow, systemic and dependent on the wider environment of the body.

Skin is never improved by one input alone.

It responds to systems. Nutrition, inflammation, sleep, hormones, barrier health and cellular signalling working together.

So the takeaway from this study isn’t that collagen “doesn’t work.”

It’s that biology is more honest than marketing.

And good skin has always been built from the inside out.

What do you think?

Are we expecting too much from single supplements, or not enough from consistent foundations?

A small case yesterday reminded me how much we learn when we look at the body as a whole.
She’d been struggling with persistent dry eyes and eczema around the eyelids.

Not dramatic.
But uncomfortable enough to affect daily life.
The kind of thing many people manage with creams and drops… without ever understanding why it keeps happening.

So instead of focusing only on the skin, we stepped back.

When we looked at her fatty acid balance, gut function and vitamin D together, one clear pattern appeared.

The body relies on three systems working in sync 🙏

• Cell membranes
• Gut bacteria
• Immune regulation

For her, all three were slightly under-supported at the same time.

Nothing was “wrong.”

Her body just didn’t have enough of the signals that help inflammation switch off and repair begin.

And suddenly the symptoms weren’t random anymore.

They were logical.

Dry eyes and eyelid eczema often show up when protective signals are low and delicate tissues need more support.

This is the part of my work I love most, when confusion turns into clarity.

Because when we look at patterns instead of chasing problems, the body usually makes sense.
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