We are a team of gut-specialist registered dietitians who not only work at the forefront of gut health research at King’s College London, but have a wealth of experience helping people get their tract back on track. We're here to help you become your healthiest, happiest self, by empowering you with practical and easy-to-digest, evidence-based advice and support.
The health and safety of our patients and team at The Gut Health Clinic is our top priority and all of our appointments and patient care will continue throughout this pandemic. We are monitoring updates closely and, in light of the government guidelines, we are carrying out all of our appointments online until further notice.
All of our clinicians are experienced in telehealth to provide health services remotely, and the high quality of your care will remain.
Meet our team of registered dietitians and find out more about their specialist areas, from optimising general gut health to specific and more complex conditions.
Specialist areas: Oncology, malabsorption, support during cancer treatment, digestive enzyme replacement therapy, stoma support, IBS & low FODMAP diet, SIBO and pregnancy nutrition.
Jo Cunningham is a gut specialist dietitian with in-depth clinical dietetic experience ranging across both NHS and private healthcare settings.
Jo is experienced in helping clients to resolve gut symptoms including reflux, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea, and abdominal pain. She also specialises in the management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and in the use of the low FODMAP diet.
She also has extensive experience in oncology, and is passionate about supporting patients throughout their cancer treatment. Jo is able to debunk myths surrounding cancer and diet, help manage common treatment side effects, as well as optimise nutritional status to support the immune system through treatment and beyond.
Other areas that Jo regularly treats in clinic includes: dietary management of SIBO, the malabsorption of nutrients due to surgery and/or cancer treatment, digestive enzyme replacement therapy, stoma support, and nutrition before, during and after pregnancy.
Alongside clinical consultations, Jo is also the Clinical Director at The Gut Health Clinic ensuring the Clinic provides a high-quality service for all patients.
Specialist areas: IBS, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Coeliac Disease, Cancers, nutrition following gut surgery (including stomas)
Tanzil is a gut specialist Dietitian who has a wealth of experience in helping clients with a broad range of conditions, developed through 8 years of working in various roles. She combines a strong clinical background of managing complex nutritional issues, with a passion for improving her patient’s health, well-being, gut function, and quality of life, through tailored dietary and lifestyle strategies.
Tanzil can provide bespoke nutritional advice for those with functional gut symptoms (Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), constipation, bloating, diarrhoea, reflux etc), and is experienced in the use of the low FODMAP diet for the treatment of IBS and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO).
She also specialises in assisting those who have underlying conditions which may affect their gut function including Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis), Coeliac disease, cancers and following surgery.
Alongside her work at the Gut Health Clinic, Tanzil continues to practice as a specialist Dietitian in one of Europe’s leading teaching hospitals. Here she supports patients with incredibly complex gut conditions who require dietary manipulation and provision of intravenous nutrition and hydration.
Specialist areas: Paediatric gut health, child food allergy, faltering growth, GORD, infant IBD, constipation, toddler diarrhoea, coeliac disease, fussy eating.
Lucy is a paediatric gut specialist dietitian with in-depth experience in both NHS and private healthcare settings. She is registered with the HCPC and a full member of the British Dietetic Association.
Lucy has extensive paediatric experience, specialising in paediatric gastroenterology and currently working at Great Ormond Street Hospital, alongside private practice. Lucy’s area of interest is gastrointestinal food allergy and she has extensive experience of managing this condition. Her expertise also include faltering growth, GORD (gastro-oesophageal reflux disease), IBD (including the use of EEN to induce remission), dietary management of constipation, toddler diarrhoea, coeliac disease and fussy eating; offering practical, personal dietary advice and support to parents and children. Lucy is passionate about helping children achieve the best start in life through good nutrition.
Lucy is also passionate about standardising practice for complex gastrointestinal food allergy. Alongside clinical practice, she is a member of the British Society of Paediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Nutrition (BSPHGAN) working group for eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE).
Specialist areas: food intolerances, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea, IBS and low FODMAP diet, coeliac disease, Crohn's disease, Ulcerative Colitis, diverticular disease, surgery preparation. Sports: athletic performance, recovery and injury, optimising body composition.
Evelyn is a registered dietitian specialising in digestive issues, gut health and sports nutrition. She has over 12 years experience working across the NHS, the private sector, corporate speaking and in the media, having featured on influential platforms such as ITV’s This Morning show.
Evelyn is experienced in helping clients optimise their diets to manage food intolerances, resolve gut symptoms such as bloating, constipation, diarrhoea and irritable bowel syndrome, adapt their diets to manage medical conditions including coeliac disease, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and diverticular disease. She is very experienced in supporting clients through the Low FODMAP Diet, and helping prepare patients for surgery, and then to recover afterwards.
She is a qualified sports dietitian and is passionate about helping clients to perfect their athletic performance, improve their recovery, reduce risk of injury and optimise their body composition, working with both recreational and professional athletes.
Evelyn considers it especially important to stay up to date with the latest research and development in her field and is the secretary for the British Dietetic Association’s Gastroenterology Specialist Interest Group.
Specialist areas: bloating, diarrhoea, constipation, IBS, low FODMAP diet, SIBO, IBD, coeliac disease, EoE
Lucy Kerrison is a gut specialist dietitian who is passionate about dietary manipulation to reduce debilitating gut symptoms such as bloating, diarrhoea, constipation and pain. Lucy understands the stresses and hectic nature of modern day life and provides a holistic approach, which is flexible and fun. She will work with you to ensure changes are personalised and realistic within your current and future lifestyles.
Lucy has a wealth of experience within busy NHS teaching hospitals, which deal with the most complicated conditions and are at the cutting edge of research and technology.
Lucy has extensive experience in the management of a variety of gastrointestinal conditions including IBS, SIBO, IBD, Coeliac disease, as well as rarer conditions such as Eosinophilic Oesophagitis (EoE). She has training in specific diets, such as the low FODMAP diet for IBS, exclusive enteral nutrition and the Lofflex diet for IBD, as well as the six- and four-food elimination diets for EoE.
Lucy is passionate about gut health and will wholeheartedly help you manage and optimize your gut health.
Founder
Dr Megan Rossi is considered one of the most influential gut health specialists internationally. A Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist with a PhD in gut health from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia, Megan is passionate about empowering others to take control of their health and happiness from the inside out. Her PhD was recognised for its contribution to science receiving the Dean’s Award for outstanding research Higher Degree and was selected as one of nine international female success stories by Cosmopolitan.
Megan has a broad range of nutrition experience, having worked as a clinical dietitian specialising in gut health, sports nutritionist for the Australia Olympic Synchronised Swimming team and consultant dietitian to several companies, from well-established to start-ups.
A leading Research Fellow at King’s College London, Megan is currently investigating nutrition-based therapies in gastrointestinal health, including pre- and probiotics, dietary fibres, the low FODMAP diet and food additives. Megan is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Queensland and was the recipient of the British Medical Journal Open Gastroenterology prize ‘Best Clinical science abstract for oral presentation’ and the British Nutrition Foundation ‘Drummond Pump Priming Award’.
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Communications Director
Whether you are struggling with gut symptoms or just want to maximise your gut health, get in touch to find out how we can help you achieve your goals using the latest research and an evidence-based approach.
It’s clear that boosting the health of our gut is one of the most effective ways to enhance our overall health and wellbeing.
But first, what exactly is gut health? Gut health relates to the workings of your entire gastrointestinal tract (the tube that delivers food from entry to exit). This involves the digestion and absorption of nutrients, the “leakiness” of our gut, 70% of your immune cells, and many other functions that happen without us knowing.
But it doesn’t end there. More recently we have discovered the community of trillions of bacteria living in our gut, uncovering a whole new way in which we can better manage gut-related conditions and also improve overall health and happiness. In fact this community of bacteria, known as the gut microbiota, is thought to impact many conditions external to the gut, including depression and Type 2 diabetes.
Whether it’s an occasional inconvenience or a debilitating daily occurrence, no one should have to put up with ongoing gut symptoms. Unfortunately, many do – in fact, as many as 30 per cent of people worldwide report living with gut symptoms that impact their quality of life.
Our dietitians have a wealth of experience in fine-tuning your diet and lifestyle to help you get on top of common symptoms, such as bloating and excess wind. For some, these symptoms may be worse when traveling, under stress, or perhaps for you are completely unpredictable – whatever your trigger, we can help!
There is no denying that food intolerances can be confusing to navigate, which is why the medical guidelines recommend seeing a dietitian. We are experts in helping determine whether a specific food or component really doesn’t agree with you or whether there is actually another cause for your gut symptoms, such as IBS.
Our dietitians have a wealth of experience in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Whether you have Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, we will consider your full medical history and listen to your dietary concerns. Are you unsure about what you should eat? Worried that certain foods cause flare-ups? Are you restricting foods but now concerned you have an unbalanced diet? Have you read about diets for IBD on the internet but now feel more confused?
In your consultation, we can explore the evidence behind novel foods and diets to help your IBD or manage your symptoms. Or, if you have more specific concerns about pre-operative nutrition, post-operative nutrition, ileostomies and colostomies, we have experts in those too.
Our team not only have clinical experience of IBD, but we conduct research in IBD and diet too. This means we keep up-to-date with the most recent evidence to provide you with individualised nutrition care that works for you.
Commonly referred to as SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is characterised by an increased number of microbes invading the small intestine. The small intestine is much more sensitive than the large intestine and so it doesn’t fare well when having to accommodate these extra microbial guests (and their fermenting feasts). As a consequence, they can interfere with the small intestine’s normal functioning, causing IBS-like symptoms, such as tummy pain, bloating, excess flatulence and diarrhoea.
Our dietitians can help diagnose SIBO with breath tests and support you through the diet and lifestyle management pathways.
The only treatment for coeliac disease is a strict gluten-free diet. We know how hard this can be and it can often feel impossible to enjoy food and eat out in the same way after your diagnosis. We provide advice on how to reverse the intestinal damage from consuming gluten and improve your gut symptoms. Our expert team will give you support on how to follow a nutritionally balanced and tasty gluten-free diet. We have clinical experience of managing the complications from coeliac disease, including osteoporosis, iron deficiency anaemia, fertility issues and nutritional deficiencies.
Many people with coeliac disease also experience other dietary intolerances and gut health conditions, despite strictly following a gluten-free diet. We can help you understand symptoms and provide tailor-made dietary advice to improve your gut health.
Do you have abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhoea or constipation? Are you worried the foods you eat trigger your gut symptoms? Have you tried modifying your diet on your own, yet your symptoms have not improved? Diet plays a pivotal role in IBS and, thankfully, there are several dietary strategies to tackle IBS symptoms.
Our expert dietitians from King’s College London are at the forefront of research that focuses on improving IBS symptoms through dietary strategies and are therefore very well-equipped with the latest evidence in the treatment of IBS. Our team will help you understand why you experience gut symptoms and support you in identifying potential dietary triggers for your IBS symptoms. We will also give you a detailed dietary plan on how to manage your symptoms with comprehensive practical suggestions, with the ultimate aim to improve your gut health.
The low FODMAP diet is a treatment option for people with certain IBS symptoms. Some carbohydrates can trigger IBS symptoms because they are fermented by gut bacteria. These carbohydrates are called Fermentable, Oligo-saccharides, Di-saccharides, Mono-saccharides and Polyols (FODMAPs). The diet involves a strict exclusion phase and then a systematic reintroduction phase. Our team have extensive experience researching and advising on the low FODMAP diet. Not only do we guide you on the principles of the diet and how to limit any negative side effects, but we can make the diet practical to fit around your lifestyle. Clinical guidelines recommend that the diet should be undertaken with dietitian support and research by our team has shown that success rates on the low FODMAP diet are higher with dietitian support than without!
The diet is not suitable for everyone and can even make some IBS symptoms more troublesome. The expert dietitians at The Gut Health Clinic will carry out an individual assessment of your medical history, symptoms, diet and lifestyle to tailor individualised dietary advice for you.
Do you suffer with bothersome gut symptoms at least once a week?
Have they been persisting for at least 6 months? If you answered yes
to both, you may have what is call a functional gut disorder. Functional Gut Disorders are a category of conditions that include irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional bloating, where the structure of the gut is normal but how it works isn’t. Somewhat like a show house or a model home, everything looks okay but, on closer inspection, often the plumbing and electricity don’t actually work. If it turns out that this applies to your gut, don’t panic, as such disorders really are very common, affecting around 20% of people.
Our research team at King’s College London are currently investigating a range of different
diet-based therapies to help manage different types of Functional Gut Disorders with great success. At The Gut Health Clinic, all our dietitians are experts in this area. They will help you identify which type of Functional Gut Disorders you may have, recommend any tests needed and provide tailored dietary and lifestyle advice to help get your symptoms under control, and your quality of life back on track.
Good nutrition is an essential element in the growth of children and young adults, and a gastrointestinal disorder can limit your child’s ability to have the variety of food and nutrients needed.
Our experienced paediatric dietitian is qualified to provide advice on common problems such as diarrhoea, constipation, gastroesophageal reflux, and fussy eating as well as food intolerances, sensitivities allergies, and coeliac disease. They are also experienced in assisting in the dietary management of inflammatory bowel disease and eosinophilic esophagitis as well as iron deficiency anaemia and poor growth.
We can also provide weaning support and advice for gut health optimisation as your child grows.
Cancer or its treatment can cause digestive issues including constipation, diarrhoea, stomach cramps, sickness and sometimes a blocked bowel. Other common treatment side effects include taste changes, difficulty swallowing, a sore or dry mouth and poor appetite. All these symptoms can make eating and drinking difficult and lead to weight loss or nutritional deficiencies
We have experienced cancer dietitians who can help you manage unpleasant side effects of treatment, optimise your nutritional status to support your immune system through or after treatment (including advice on nutritional supplements), and understand the evidence behind common myths around cancer and diet.
As well as a range of different cancers, our team are also highly experienced with complex gastrointestinal cancers where nutritional status can be greatly impacted. We are able to assess, diagnose and assist in the management of pancreatic enzyme insufficiency, dumping syndrome, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, and bile acid diarrhoea as well as provide support for those living with a stoma.
We can help you treat conditions such as PCOS, which affects approximately 10% of women globally. Your dietitian will help you to develop a diet plan consistent with a low GI diet that is balanced. By reducing swings in blood sugar, it may also help to make physical activity more effective.
Getting the right nutrients is important at any stage in life, but it is crucial when trying to conceive, throughout pregnancy and once the baby is born. We can help you optimise your nutritional status before, during and after pregnancy including advice about nutritional supplements as well as pregnancy on a vegan diet. We also support women with pregnancy-associated constipation, nausea and heartburn, and provide weight management and gestational diabetes advice.
Whether you’re a professional or a recreational athlete, getting your nutrition and hydration strategies right for your sport can help improve every aspect of your performance and health. It will help you train longer and harder, delay the onset of fatigue, recover faster, enhance your performance, protect your immune system, optimise your body composition, improve your strength and reduce your risk of injury.
Sports nutrition and hydration isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Working with a qualified sports and exercise nutrition dietitian will help create an individualised strategy that works for you, taking into account and helping you manage any challenges you may have, for example ‘Exercise Induced Gastrointestinal Syndrome’ or ‘Runners Tummy’.
Using our expertise, we can analyse your diet, help you identify where improvements could be made and leave you feeling confident in adapting a way of eating to support and achieve your goals.
Our team can analyse your current diet to make bespoke recommendations to have a positive impact on your health. We can offer you expert guidance and end confusion about lots of those fad diets that are commonly attempted to get on top of symptoms.
We will work with you to develop a nutritional plan and stay motivated and empowered about controlling your conditions for the long-term.
Is your friend or family member struggling with gut symptoms? Treat them to a gift voucher for a consultation (or a course of appointments) at The Gut Health Clinic, so you can give your loved ones a personal gift to help them get their guts back on track and transform their overall health and happiness.
