Who This Service Is For
This consultation is suitable for adults and children whose health, performance, or wellbeing would benefit from specialist nutritional assessment and a personalised, evidence-based eating plan. It is suitable both for patients referred by their doctor or specialist as part of a wider care plan, and for those seeking nutritional support independently.
This consultation is particularly valuable if:
- You are managing a chronic condition where nutrition plays a significant role — diabetes, cardiovascular disease, irritable bowel syndrome, PCOS, thyroid conditions
- You want structured, evidence-based support for weight management, beyond generic dietary advice
- You are an athlete or active person seeking performance and recovery nutrition
- You have identified food allergies or intolerances and need structured guidance on nutritional adequacy
- You are pregnant, postpartum, or planning pregnancy and want to optimise your nutritional status
- You have concerns about your child's nutrition — feeding difficulties, growth, or dietary adequacy
- You want to improve your gut health, energy levels, skin, or hormonal balance through nutrition
- You have been advised by your doctor or specialist that nutritional optimisation would benefit your condition
This service provides nutritional assessment and management. In Portugal, the dietitian can provide therapeutic nutritional support in the context of illness, integrated with the patient's medical management.
Areas of Nutritional Expertise
Weight Management
- Evidence-based nutritional approach to sustainable weight loss — not just calorie restriction
- Weight gain and body composition optimisation
- Metabolic health and nutritional strategies for insulin resistance
- Breaking the yo-yo dieting cycle through sustainable nutritional change
- Nutritional support alongside medical weight management — including GLP-1 therapy
Nutritional Support in Chronic Disease
- Type 1 and type 2 diabetes — carbohydrate management, glycaemic control, and meal timing
- Cardiovascular disease — heart-healthy dietary approaches, lipid management through nutrition
- Hypertension — DASH dietary approach, sodium management, and lifestyle nutrition
- Thyroid conditions — nutritional factors affecting thyroid function
- PCOS — insulin-sensitising nutritional approaches, hormonal dietary management
- Fatty liver disease — nutritional management and lifestyle optimisation
- Chronic kidney disease — nutritional support within appropriate clinical parameters
Gut and Digestive Health
- Irritable bowel syndrome — low FODMAP dietary approach and reintroduction
- Inflammatory bowel disease — nutritional support in remission and flare management
- Gastroesophageal reflux — dietary triggers and management
- Food intolerances — lactose intolerance, gluten sensitivity, and others
- Gut microbiome optimisation — prebiotic and probiotic nutritional strategies
- Bloating, constipation, and digestive discomfort — nutritional assessment and management
Food Allergies and Intolerances
- Confirmed food allergy — ensuring nutritional adequacy on a restrictive diet
- Food intolerance assessment and dietary management
- Guidance on exclusion diets and structured reintroduction
- Cross-reactivity and identification of hidden allergens
- Strategies for school and social eating in children and adults with food allergies
Sports and Performance Nutrition
- Pre- and post-training nutrition for endurance, strength, and team-sport athletes
- Nutritional planning for competition and events
- Recovery nutrition — optimising muscle repair and adaptation
- Hydration strategies for performance and recovery
- Body composition optimisation for sports performance
- Nutritional periodisation — aligning nutrition with training phases
- Supplement assessment — evidence-based review of nutritional supplements
Nutrition in Women's Health
- Nutrition in pregnancy — optimising maternal and foetal nutritional status
- Postpartum nutrition — recovery, breastfeeding support, and energy management
- Perimenopause and menopause — nutritional strategies for the hormonal transition
- PCOS — nutritional management of insulin resistance, weight, and hormonal balance
- Fertility nutrition — optimising nutritional status for conception
- Bone health — calcium, vitamin D, and osteoporosis prevention through nutrition
Nutrition in Men's Health
- Cardiovascular risk reduction through nutrition
- Testosterone and hormonal health — nutritional factors
- Sports and performance nutrition for male athletes
- Weight management and metabolic health
- Nutrition for prostate health
Nutrition for Skin, Hair, and Hormonal Health
- Nutritional contributors to acne — dairy, glycaemic load, and inflammatory dietary patterns
- Hair loss — assessment and optimisation of iron, ferritin, zinc, vitamin D, and biotin
- Skin health — anti-inflammatory nutritional approaches
- Hormonal balance through nutrition — adrenal, thyroid, and reproductive hormones
- Nutritional deficiency assessment — B12, vitamin D, iron, folate, omega-3
Paediatric Nutrition
- Feeding infants and young children — introducing solids, texture progression, and variety
- Fussy eating — practical strategies for expanding dietary variety
- Growth concerns — nutritional assessment for faltering growth or excessive weight gain
- Children with food allergies — ensuring nutritional adequacy on restrictive diets
- School nutrition — energy, concentration, and dietary habits
- Adolescent nutrition — supporting growth, physical activity, and a healthy relationship with food
Gut-Brain Connection and Nutrition in Mental Health
- Nutritional psychiatry — evidence-based dietary approaches supporting anxiety and depression
- Stress and cortisol — adrenal nutrition and lifestyle optimisation
- Sleep nutrition — dietary factors affecting sleep quality
- Energy and fatigue — nutritional assessment and optimisation
What Your Consultation Includes
Complete Nutritional Assessment. Your dietitian carries out a detailed assessment of your current eating pattern, food preferences, medical history, current medication, lifestyle factors, activity level, and nutritional goals — building a complete picture of your current nutritional status and the factors shaping it.
Nutritional Analysis. Based on the assessment, your dietitian identifies gaps, imbalances, or nutritional patterns affecting your health, energy, performance, or wellbeing — and explains the clinical and nutritional basis for the recommendations that follow.
Personalised Eating Plan. A structured, evidence-based nutritional plan, tailored specifically to your health status, goals, lifestyle, food preferences, and cultural context. Your plan is practical and sustainable — not a generic template, nor a diet you won't be able to maintain past two weeks.
Test Recommendations. When nutritional tests are clinically indicated — ferritin, vitamin D, B12, zinc, folate, hormone profile — your dietitian advises on the appropriate tests. Test requests can be coordinated through our Referral and Complementary Tests service.
Supplement Assessment. An evidence-based review of any supplements you are taking or considering — assessing clinical suitability, dosage, interactions, and value for your specific nutritional profile.
Practical Implementation Guidance. Meal-planning structures, shopping strategies, portion guidance, label-reading, advice for eating out, and practical tools for implementing your nutritional plan in your real life — not just in an ideal scenario.
Ongoing Follow-Up. Nutritional change takes time to implement and adjust. Follow-up consultations are available to review progress, work through difficulties, adjust your plan, and ensure your nutritional approach continues to serve your evolving health goals.
Nutrition and Your Doctor — How They Work Together
Nutritional support works best when integrated with your wider medical care. Our dietitian works together with your GP and specialists — not independently.
If you were referred by your doctor or specialist: bring any relevant clinical letters, test results, or management plans to your consultation. Your dietitian reviews them in full and develops a nutritional plan that complements, rather than conflicts with, your medical management.
If you are accessing the service independently: your dietitian advises where medical involvement would strengthen your nutritional management — for example, where tests would clarify your nutritional status, or where medical oversight of a chronic condition would support the nutritional approach.
Communication with your care team: with your consent, your dietitian can provide a clinical summary to your doctor or specialist — ensuring your nutritional management is documented and integrated into your wider care.
Why Choose Our Care
Dietitian registered with the Portuguese Order of Nutritionists. Our dietitian is registered with the Portuguese Order of Nutritionists — the regulatory body for the profession in Portugal. Nutritionist is a professional title protected by law in Portugal, which guarantees recognised academic training and regulated practice.
Evidence-based nutritional science. Our dietitian applies current scientific evidence in nutrition to your individual clinical picture — not fad diet advice, detox programmes, or generic eating plans. Every recommendation is grounded in research and tailored to your specific health status and goals.
Dedicated consultations, from €39. A nutrition consultation dedicated entirely to your assessment and plan — at a price that makes specialist nutritional support genuinely accessible.
Integrated into your medical care. Our dietitian works within your wider care team — communicating with your doctor and specialists when relevant, and developing nutritional plans that complement your medical management.
Paediatric nutritional expertise. Nutritional support for children — from infant feeding to adolescent nutrition — is a core part of this service. Our dietitian provides evidence-based paediatric nutritional guidance for families at all ages and stages.
Test coordination. When nutritional tests are indicated, test requests can be coordinated through our Referral and Complementary Tests service — ensuring you get the clinical data needed to inform your nutritional plan without a separate consultation.
Multilingual. Consultations available in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Czech, and Romanian.
Same-day and advance appointments. Available seven days a week, including evenings and weekends.
