Name: Benjamin Richardson
Address: GB
Rating: 5

Question 1

What is a Discovery Call?

Accepted Answer

Nutritional therapy works best as a strong, trusting client-practitioner partnership. We begin with a discovery call to determine whether we share confidence to go forward together.

By the end of the call, you should feel comfortable and confident in the choice you will make to work with me and which package is the best fit for you.

If anything you want or need is outside of my scope I will explain that up front, and help you connect with others if appropriate.

Question 2

Is Nutrition and lifestyle therapy right for me?

Accepted Answer

Unless your diet and lifestyle are models of perfection, very probably. It can be surprising to find how many positive changes can be enjoyed by making great use of the extensive research and clinical insights within nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

Nutrition and lifestyle medicine does not claim to treat or cure any disease. If I identify any health issues that I cannot help you with I will tell you about them up front.

Question 3

Is nutritional therapy science-based?

Accepted Answer

You can fully expect that everything that we include within your personalised health plan has an evidence base within the scientific literature.

You also have the assurance of working with a BANT and CNHC registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, working in alignment with a code of conduct for professional practice and assurance of ongoing education.

https://bant.org.uk/our-standards/

https://www.cnhc.org.uk/choose-confidence-0

Question 4

What is "lifestyle medicine"?

Accepted Answer

Lifestyle medicine refers to many things, excluding diet and nutrition, that can influence our physical, mental and emotional health and disease risk. Well researched examples include exercise, activity, sleep, breathing, stress reduction, social contact and purpose.

Question 5

Can you use Health Insurance for payment? e.g., BUPA?

Accepted Answer

Your health insurer *may* include cover for Nutritional Therapy service within your policy. This varies by policy, and all of Aviva, Axa Health, BUPA, Simply Health, Vitality and WPA have at least some policies that include eligibility. If your policy includes cover, it will be in the form of reimbursing *you* part or all of the fees. To be sure, please do query directly with your policy provider, asking them about cover for nutritional therapy consultation or service.

Question 6

Can we hold a consultation in person?

Accepted Answer

I do not current rent regular clinic space.

However where possible, if you have access to fully private office space in your place of work and your office is within central London (Zone 1-2), City of London or Canary Wharf, I will very happily visit to make one or more of our consultations in-person.

Benjamin Richardson

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