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The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

016 - The Importance of a Plant-Based Diet - Edward Joy & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Edward Joy has over 20 years’ experience as a complimentary healthcare practitioner, as an ethnobotanist Edward spends much of his time studying the components of plants in an aim to understand their nutritional benefits but he also adopts naturopathy into his practice.  

Edward contributes regularly to articles for Only Natural and Holistic Therapist magazines. His  informal lectures and herb walks are attended by health professionals in the UK and throughout Europe from Ireland to Italy. 

For the past 12 years Edward has worked closely with the Naturopathic Supplements Company, Bionutri, where his work includes procurement and product development. Working with an ingredient is one thing, ensuring the ingredient has benefit is Edward’s particular point of interest.  

In an informal conversation with Dr Louise Newson, Edward Joy discusses the way herbs influence our health, particularly when integrated into the diet. 

Edward Joy's Three Take Home Tips:

  1. When it comes to the menopause, don't deny it. Don't look for foods and herbs that can 'turn back the clock', look for ways to support and facilitate this time in your life.
  2. Think about supplements but do your research and look for the best quality.
  3. Be true to yourself! Be honest about your diet and nutrition and the areas you might be able to improve.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast.

0:11.2

I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist, and I run the Newsome Health

0:16.5

Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon.

0:24.5

Today. Menopause and Well-Being Centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. Today I've got a nun doctor here, which is always exciting for me.

0:28.6

So I've got Edward Joy, who is a botanist and also a naturopath.

0:33.3

And he's come here just to talk about something that is probably a lot of people think about

0:39.7

but don't know much about, including myself. So I'm hoping the next half hour I can be enlightened

0:44.0

too. So welcome. Thanks for coming. So talk to me about your journey and how you've got to do

0:50.1

what you do now. Well, I've worked as a holistic practitioner in one way or another and with the

0:58.5

health food industry for 20 to 25 years. And my interest really started out simply with health

1:07.5

foods, buying and selling health foods. And later on in my work, in my early 20s, I was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.

1:18.2

Oh, gosh.

1:19.0

And over a period of two years, the prognotists got more and more difficult to treat.

1:34.2

The disease was either too responsive or not responsive enough to chemotherapy.

1:38.0

And eventually we decided to stop treatment.

1:38.8

Gosh.

1:46.0

And moved on to see how I could treat myself in an integrative way.

1:47.4

So how old were you then?

1:48.2

I was 21.

1:51.1

So huge things are going on.

1:52.2

Were you at university then?

1:54.2

Or where were you in your life then? I just left university and I had been travelling around the world.

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