Great nutrition is one of the keys to living a happy and healthy lifestyle. But going it alone and trying to figure it out for yourself can be daunting.
Luckily these days, social media gives us easy access to some of the best minds in the business when it comes to nutrition.
“Who should I follow and what type of diet will suit me best” might be a question you’ve asked yourself.
Well, we’ve taken the time to narrow it down a little bit for you. Over the past few weeks, we’ve scrolled endlessly through the various social media platforms and narrowed it down to a list of who we think are the top 30 Irish nutritionists and foodies to follow on Social Media (in no particular order).
The list is comprised of nutritional experts that follow various philosophies, from Vegan to Keto and anything else in between, and we think the content produced by everyone on the list is really useful for anyone interested in improving their nutrition.
So let’s do less talking and more learning about nutrition, go follow the 30 accounts below and soon you’ll know the difference between your micro’s and your macros, your avocados from your jackfruit and you’ll be on the path to a healthy lifestyle, happier gut, stronger heart and a more interesting dinner plate.
P.S, if you think we’ve left anyone out that should be on the list, feel free to message us and let us know!
Top Irish Nutrition & Food Experts List:
Roz Purcell
Roz created Natural Born Feeder in 2013 to document her love of cooking and to share her recipes. One of her main principles is that she only uses whole foods. She doesn’t support any one type of diet and loves to explore with vegan, gluten-free, paleo, raw recipes and many more. She appreciates that people will have varying requirements for their way of living.
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Rosanna Davison
Since winning the Miss World beauty competition in 2003, Rosanna has worked all over the world as a model and brand ambassador. Her career has taught her a lot about health and her relationship with food and body image, and in 2019, Rosanna acquired a master of science degree in personalised nutrition from Middlesex University. Her nutrition philosophy is to use only whole, unprocessed, plant based foods to support health and beauty goals.
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Claire O’Brien
Claire’s passion for nutrition came from her own struggles with food intolerance, allergies and blood pressure along with family members struggling to get the right nutrition to ensure their heart health. This led her to take a nutrition first approach to her health and become a nutritional therapist. She opened Honest + Goodness Nutrition to help people with their heart health and provide custom-made eating plans and lifestyle supports. She treats all clients on a case-by-case basis with no two clients getting the same program.
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Dave & Steve Flynn
Dave & Steve Flynn aka The Happy Pear twins started in 2004 with a little shop. While travelling, they both decided to switch to a plant based diet and haven’t looked back since. Since then, they have grown their business significantly, which now consists of 4 cafes, 40 products, 6 online products, 4 cookbooks, a farm and a roastery. It is much more than a business to Dave & Steve. They are always striving to create happier, healthier lifestyles and build communities through their work.
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Daniel Davey
Summary: Daniel is a performance nutritionist working in professional rugby with Leinster and elite Gaelic games with Dublin GAA. His 5 key pillars for optimum health and performance are nutrition, exercise, sleep, mental skills and lifestyle. He published his own book Eat Up Raise Your Game which contains 100 easy to follow nutritious recipes.
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Indy Power
Indy is the owner of Little Green Spoon and believes that food should always be exciting, creative and delicious. Her food philosophy is simple- eat to feel good. All of her recipes are plant based to help you feel good and also to help the planet. Keep an eye out on new recipes that she adds to her website every Monday.
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Suzanne Murray
Suzanne is a qualified Nutritional Therapist who has a particular interest in gut health, and it’s impact on overall wellbeing. Her interest in gut health stemmed from her own digestive issues which she had for over 20 years before being diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. She uses a personalised approach to nutrition and lifestyle when working with clients.
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Laura Warren
Laura of Elite Living Nutrition is a multi-award winning health and nutrition professional with a passion for all things health, fitness and nutrition-related. She focuses on making lasting changes to people’s eating habits to help them live a healthier and happier life. She specialises in health and nutrition coaching and sports nutrition for weight control and performance.
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Sylvia Diaz
Sylvia founded Fit with Sylvia with the purpose of helping busy professionals get fitter both physically and mentally. She doesn’t just focus on nutrition alone but also specialises in fitness, dance and wellness. Slyvia’s battle with anorexia helped her understand how important it was to develop a healthy relationship with food. This in turn led to her studying nutrition to help others better understand their nutrition needs.
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Rachel Graham
Rachel has a special interest in Healthy Aging & Women’s Health Issues – specifically Menopause & all the health concerns related to this life stage i.e heart health, brain health, bone health & hormone health. The goal of Rachel’s Nutritional approach is to educate you, to make effective dietary & lifestyle changes, that will transform your overall health & wellbeing. She’s all about practical, actionable advice that will result in greater energy levels, better quality sleep & feeling like the very best version of yourself in your 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and beyond
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Caroline Collins
Caroline’s interest in health and wellness was due to a serious health condition which conventional medicine couldn’t solve. Her studies in nutrition and health helped her recover from her illness. She specialises in helping with digestive problems, weight problems, cardiovascular health, hormonal imbalances, skin conditions, mental health and autoimmune conditions.
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Terrie Pugh
Terrie is passionate about personalised nutrition and takes a functional approach to health and wellbeing. She specialises in gut health and helps people who have problems like bloating, loose stools, constipation, heart burn, reflux, food intolerances and conditions such as IBS, IBD, Colitis, Crohns SIBO, Leaky gut etc as well as general tummy upset
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Rachel Young
Rachel of Eat Food Right has always had a passion for food and her approach is balanced, holistic and realistic. She typically works with people who are looking for better weight control, more energy, sleep and stress management, meal planning, improved immunity, digestive issues, food intolerances and many other goals.
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Corinne Carthy
Corinne, a Nutritional Therapist, Lifestyle and Fasting Coach, has a love of natural foods and sees the value in healthy eating. She also believes regular detoxification is key to obtain ultimate health and vitality. She runs 7 days detox retreats as “The Fast Way to Detox” with fasting, nature walks & mindfulness. Corinne and her colleague Gabby Punch both feel it creates perfect psychological, physical and emotional harmony.
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Lisa Hughes
Lisa works with people looking to regain control over their health and support them to transform their lives by giving them the support, guidance and space they need to make long-lasting changes. She specialises in female and digestive health and has helped numerous people in their journey to better health.
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Laura Willard
Laura is passionate about helping people grow a healthy relationship with food. She has worked with Safefood and the popular TV show Operation Transformation in the past. She believes that eating well starts at home and that healthy eating should be straightforward and accessible to everyone. She offers a range of services including the very popular NutriFamily where Laura comes to your home and teaches your family about good nutrition.
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Paula Mee
Prior to establishing Paula Mee Nutrition, Paula has worked as a nutrition manager for Superquinn and as a senior nutritionist in the National Dairy Council. She believes in a plant-based fibre-rich sustainable meals to promote a well-balanced gut microbiome, prevent dysbiosis, support a healthy immune system, efficient metabolism, and mental wellness.
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Joan Moloney
Joan is a degree qualified Nutritional Therapist and certified Cook, practising since 2011. She specialises in Weight-Loss nutrition but also advises on gut and menopausal issues with her weight-loss clients. Her belief is that building strong client relationships using 1-on-1 motivational coaching gets clients to their goal weight. She uses Whole Foods to create tasty recipes which the whole family can eat and produces short nutrition education videos to share with clients. She lectures on Weight Management at ION in the UK.
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Andrea Cullen
Andrea has more than one string to her bow in that she is a functional medicine therapist, nutritional therapist, and pharmacist. She has a love of sport and this is where her main focus lies. She works with athletes of all levels and offers several different sports nutrition packages. Furthermore, she develops nutrition plans to help them perform at their best be it a 5 km, marathon or Iron Man.
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Aoife Deane
Aoife specialises in binge-eating, overeating and mindless eating. Working with her clients she wants them to gain a real love for all foods, a new enthusiasm for life, a relationship with food that takes into account eating out, holidays and a social life and knowing that they are taking proper care of themselves.
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Linn Thorstensson
Linn offers nutritional counselling to people who struggle with their relationship with food, eating and their body. She takes a client-centred and trauma and social justice informed approach with her clients. She uses a variety of modes such as intuitive eating, mindfulness, CBT, somatic practices and Nutritional therapy. All clients programme are designed to be unique to them.
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Kara O’Donnell
Kara takes a personalised and functional approach to health. She loves educating people about healthy eating and encouraging them to make informed choices when it comes to their diet and lifestyle. She looks to get to the root cause of the condition as opposed to just treating the symptoms.
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Catriona Courtney
Catriona is the owner of Elev8nutrtion with over 15 years experience working in food science and nutrition roles in the US, New Zealand and Ireland. She specialises in sports nutrition where she helps clients get the best of themselves in both their sport and daily lives. Catriona educates, motivates and provides support for all her clients to achieve their short and long term goals.
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Michelle Ryan
Michelle specialises in three areas of health how to be healthy whereby she works with people to move from processed foods to real foods, how to be weight wise where she gives people a guided solution to achieving their ideal weight naturally and how to be well where she works closely with people to provide them with a guided food plan that treats symptoms and builds immunity.
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Paul O’Sullivan
Paul is the owner of Bespoke Nutrition and focuses on making nutrition plans for his clients as easy to follow as possible to avoid any confusion. He also has a background in personal training spanning over five years. He specialises in fat loss, muscle gain and health and longevity.
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Alison Kingston
Alison believes in a whole person approach to health. She is passionate about educating and empowering her clients to understand their mind and body when it comes to nutrition, so they can take the most suitable approach for them. Not only does she have a background in nutrition, but she is also trained in transformational brain training and injury recovery.
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Shonagh Harpur
Shonagh has a particular interest in nutrition for sports performance, weight loss and health. She follows a food first approach when dealing with clients that is reinforced with evidence based research, centred around optimising athletic performance and health. She has worked as a performance nutritionist for the Wexford senior hurling team and also with the Sale Sharks rugby academy team.
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Anna McElhinney
Anna has over 25 years of experience working as a nutritionist in Limerick. Her expertise centre around weight loss or gain, managing a diabetic diet, irritable bowel syndrome, eating disorders and any other dietary issues. She also has a passion for fitness and sports nutrition.
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Cathriona Hodgins
Cathriona has over 10 years of experience working in nutrition. Prior to this, she spent 15 years in the Pharmaceutical world in research and development. She likes to get her clients full background first, so she can understand their exact needs. She adapts a keep it simple approach for her clients be it a busy mom of 3 or a busy professional who spends long hours in the office. Her services include weight loss and thyroid health.
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Fiona McEnroy
Fiona is the owner of Healthy Ever After and is a qualified nutritionist and chef. She runs classes for kids of all ages to cook delicious recipes that are easy to follow. She offers one free class to try before you buy. Not only that, but she runs camps during school holidays, weekly classes and also for birthday parties.
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