About YesNutritionWorks!

Our Philosophy

Our mission is simple.

YesNutritionWorks! exists to provide reassuring and professional support to individuals interested in working towards good health. Our work is to educate and empower people to achieve their health goals and life aims.

Focus and Motivation

We see the nutrition health sector poised at an exciting stage of transition.

It has grown tremendously over the past few years, as people have become curious and motivated about the benefits it can offer. We believe the upward trend of personal investment in health can only develop further as the industry itself moves from strength to strength.

Quality Information

We passionately believe that knowledge is power.

The development of YesNutritionWorks! is the result of experience gained as fully qualified and registered Nutrition Consultants. Admittedly, our website has more technical information than most. From working with professional well-informed people, however, we have been told that they want the choice of having all the facts available.

When people fully understand why they are being advised to eat a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables every day, and what damage some foods can do to the body (such as sugar, for example), compliance is forthcoming. Our clients want to make informed choices. Backed by volumes of experience, the information given is highly practical and proven to be effective.

Fast-Track Changes

The path to achieving optimal health has never been faster.

Our individualized Reach Your Peak™ Health Profiles provide a fast-track way of effecting attitude change, developing life style skills and improving self-efficacy. We guide and support our clients through the necessary changes to their lifestyle. It is never easy, but with good support and management, we know that the vast majority will benefit from following our advice and find themselves able sustain the motivation to move to an optimal level of health.

Our Doctor

Dr. Brian McDonogh MBChB, BMedSci, T(GP), MScNutrMed

Dr. Brian McDonogh is a medical practitioner with a special interest in Nutritional Medicine. He has two Medical degrees (MBChB and BMedSci) from Pretoria, South Africa, as well as a Masters degree in Nutritional Medicine (MScNutrMed) from the University of Surrey in Guildford, United Kingdom, where he attained a distinction for his dissertation on the role of nutrition in the causes and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

He worked as a General Practitioner for 18 years until 2001, when he dedicated his time more fully to promoting the principles of nutritional medicine. He is more interested in identifying the root cause of a medical problem than simply suppressing symptoms with the use of medication. Dr. McDonogh is available for consultation on other health issues in addition to all topics presented on our website.

Our Nutritional Consultants

Lynette Ellison

Lynette discovered that optimum nutrition brought the answers to her own questions about living with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Now a trained nutritionist and a Master Practitioner of NLP, she finds that an ever-growing number of her clients are being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Fatigue or Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome. And there are others who are just as ill but have received no diagnosis for their condition.

She is also interested in many other health problems for which nutritional therapy so often holds the key. Her understanding of illness and related stress, and her practical approach to recovery, has enabled many to be restored to a full and healthy life.

Like all the nutritionists working with her, Lynette trained at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London, England, for three years, and went on to qualify at the Raworth Centre, a college for Sports Therapy and Natural Medicine. She is registered with the International Guild of Professional Practitioners. Lynette has a busy practice undertaking nutritional consultations in person, by postal mail (correspondence) and via the Internet. She also facilitates workshops and lectures on Nutrition related issues.

Leanne Reid

Leanne has always held an interest in Health and Natural Therapies, growing up in a family that values a healthy diet and exercise, and carries a strong belief that diet is a major key in the prevention of illness. After training as a Registered Nurse in London, her belief in "alternative therapies" grew, through the practice of conventional medicine.

Leanne completed the Nutrition Consultants Diploma Course at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London. During her training and after graduation, she worked in a Nutritional Medicine Testing Laboratory and Practice, gaining much needed experience. Leanne had a private practice in South London for 3 years, treating people with a wide variety of symptoms, as well as researching various aspects of Nutrition, The Immune System and HIV/AIDS.

Leaving London for Central America, she worked with a Nicaraguan Non-Governmental Organization for six months, called Community Movement, and was based in preschool centers and in a center for working children. Assessing the children for signs of nutritional deficiency, she improved the standard of food provided. Nutritional supplementation was monetarily out of the question, so all of the achievements obtained were by diet alone.

Leanne now lives in her home country of Australia, where she runs a private practice.

Joy Healey

Joy's background is in the computer industry, where high stress, long hours and poor diet eventually started to take its toll on her health - mainly manifested as crippling migraines every weekend. A friend with an interest in nutrition and supplements suggested some diet and lifestyle changes that, when adopted, amazed her with the improvement in the way she felt. Joy was sufficiently impressed by this to decide on a complete career change and studied for three years at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London.

Since qualifying she has built up a private practice in North West London - giving nutritional advice face-to-face or by post. She is a full member of the Guild of Complementary Practitioners. Her specialist subjects are migraine, stress and infertility.

Joy is a full member of the Guild of Healthwriters. She is the sub-editor for, and regular contributor to, the peer-reviewed 'Nutrition Practitioner' journal, which keeps a wide variety of health professionals up-to-date with the vast body of scientific evidence regularly emerging in support of a nutritional approach to improving well-being. Joy also edits the monthly YesNutritionWorks ezine.