Biography
Angela Beecroft Clinical Nutritionist
BSc(Hons), RN, Dip HV, AFMCP (London), mBANT
Angela has been practicing Functional Nutrition for 15 years at clinics in Richmond, North Yorkshire, Centaurus Private Healthcare in Stockton on Tees where she works in close collaboration with Dr Bruce McLain, Consultation Paediatric Gastroenterologist, and the Harley Street Skin Clinic promoting health, wellness and “Turning Back Time” with Dr Aamer Khan.
With over 40 years experience in healthcare, Angela's special area of interest is balancing the microbiome to support individuals to achieve optimum heath & vitality. She has a special interest in the influence of gut health on brain chemistry, cognition and optimal ageing. Using cutting edge genetic profiling and mapping of the human microbiome she is able to understand epigenetics - the practice of environmental influences on gene activity.
Angela has a background in education and has lectured on the manipulation of brain chemistry with nutrition at The University of Teesside. Between the years 2004 - 2008, Angela was involved in The Cactus Clinic, a specialist treatment and research centre for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and associated conditions. The clinic worked in close collaboration with the Brain Bio Centre in London and expanded to the USA to work with Dr Paul Cates, Educational Psychologist, offering nutritional and psychological profiling and clinical treatment programs for many of his patients.
Angela has also worked as a Nutritional Consultant for a leading allergy & food intolerance testing company and was formerly on the advisory board of Allergy UK.
She has lectured extensively, written articles for the popular press and magazines, has spoken on national radio and TV and frequently speaks on BBC Radio Tees.
As a Senior Associate of the Royal Society of Medicine and a graduate of the Institute of Functional Medicine, she has worked with the Map My Gut team at Guy's & St Thomas in London, GlycanAge and Wellcode Life as an affiliate health care professional.