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Rebecca has worked in nutrition for 20 years since graduating from the University of Surrey with a 1st class degree in nutrition and dietetics. She began her career as a research dietitian investigating five popular weight loss diets. Over 6 months Rebecca helped to support 300 people to make significant lifestyle changes and improve their metabolic health.

Rebecca continued researching the effects of nutrition on metabolic health during her doctoral research investigating the effects of low carbohydrate diets on cardiovascular risk factors. Throughout her PhD, Rebecca was a partner in a private dietetic practice providing personalised nutrition advice to help people with metabolic syndrome, gastrointestinal conditions and weight loss.

Rebecca has also worked as an obesity specialist dietitian for the charity Weight Concerns and had dietetic roles in both NHS and private hospitals.

For the past 8 years, Rebecca has run a nutrition and wellbeing company to help people discover how to use food to enable them to thrive. This has involved running nutrition, yoga and mindfulness retreats, providing nutrition coaching to individuals and running nutrition training sessions for organisations.

Cristy graduated from University with a first-class degree in Nutrition and Dietetics where she spent many years working in a range of NHS hospitals, supporting varied patient groups.

Early in her career she helped to facilitate a study 'Investigating the use of app-based dietetic support in the remission of Type 2 Diabetes', which produced favourable results.

From here, she stepped into the digital health arena as a Specialist Diabetes Dietitian and Practice Manager for Oviva. At the time, Oviva were a start-up company, which grew over several years to become a successful company working alongside the NHS.

Oli has been practising combined healing for over thirty years following his journey to a more holistic way of life after a virus in his late teens impacted his own physical and mental health. A qualified Nutritionist, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Reiki Master, mBIT Coach and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Oli uses his unique combination of skills, knowledge, and life experience to help support others to make meaningful and sustainable changes to find their best health and wellbeing.

A strong advocate of the Combe Grove Food Ethos, Oli was the pioneering Executive Chef for Bristol’s iconic Watershed, developing and delivering The Plot to Plate Ethos and transforming the catering operation with ethically sourced, nutrient dense, food at a commercial level. Today Oli uses his love of fresh, locally sourced ingredients and culinary skills as an important element in providing nutritional health to his clients.

In his private practice and at Combe Grove Oli works on the basis that we are all individual and unique and therefore require individual protocols, plans and tools based on the Five Roots of Metabolic Health to facilitate personal change.

Emma gained her nutritional experience from working in the food industry. She has also worked with children aged between 5-15 and their families. Emma works across three different sections; leading the Dining Room Team, developing menus and updating nutritiics with the Chefs and working with retreat clients on 1:1 consultations.

Carly is a registered nutritionist with a first class degree in Human Nutrition and over 10 years’ experience in the food and nutrition industry. She loves supporting others to optimise their health and has a particular interest in managing insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes after working as a health coach with NHS patients on the National Diabetes Prevention Programme for 4 years.

Carly is experienced in helping individuals create personalised and sustainable lifestyle habits leading to positive long term changes. In 2020, she gained a diploma in cognitive behavioural therapy enabling her to provide psychological support to clients in overcoming challenges to change, and to help build a positive relationship with food and with themselves.

A strong advocate of the holistic approach at Combe Grove, Carly works with clients to improve their health and wellbeing.

Sarah, a qualified Nutritional Therapist and Nutritional Genomics Practitioner, brings a wealth of expertise to the field of functional nutrition. As a member of the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM), a leading institute in the USA, she has successfully completed the Applying Functional Medicine In Clinical Practice (AFMCP) training.

The initial driving force behind Adam attending Ulster University to complete a BSc in Human Nutrition with 1st class honours and a subsequent MSc in Sports and Exercise Nutrition was a deep interest in both bodybuilding and combat sports. Both of which are heavily influenced and arguably won or lost in the kitchen.

After graduating, Adam founded a company with his friend from University focusing on nutrition for elite level athletes and were fortunate to work with some of the best boxers in the UK. He then moved into performance coaching for individuals who wanted to change their physique and life. This evolved over years and grew to incorporate many of the principles taught at Combe Grove.