About Us
Clinical Nutritionist Michael Franklin MA (Oxon) Dip NS, is the founder of the IBS and Gut Disorder Centre. The author of a highly acclaimed book on CFS/ME, he specialises in helping people find the root cause of hitherto unexplainable symptoms. He has written many articles on health for magazines such as Time Out, Health Advisor, Holland & Barrett magazine and Healthy Eating and has been quoted in many other national magazines and newspapers including the Daily Mail and The Guardian. He is a member of the Guild of Health Writers and the Royal Society of Medicine.
One of his articles, The Real Causes of IBS, which summarises his research into 120 cases of IBS, was the cover story in a recent issue of Positive Health magazine.
Many patients have been kind enough to say that Michael Franklin and Wilma Kirsten have an uncanny ability to see the links between their different symptoms and explain to them for the first time in their lives precisely how their health has gone wrong and what they should do about it.
Wilma Kirsten is an exceptionally able practitioner with a real ability to get to grips extremely quickly with each patient’s underlying health problems and explain them in a lucid, intelligent, articulate manner.
Originally from South Africa, Wilma, who is 39, has a BSc in Nutrition and has been seeing patients since 2005. She has a particular interest in helping patients with fatigue, adrenal and thyroid problems, IBS, intestinal permeability, intestinal parasites, dysglycaemia and almost all those conditions that respond well to nutritional therapy.
Wilma is also fluent in Italian and so can be of real help to any Italians living in England with health problems that they have not been able to sort out.
Success Stories
“Dear Mr Franklin,
I must express my sincere gratitude for all the help and support you have given me in finding the causes of my apparent IBS symptoms. The food intolerance test and CSA results have really been enlightening. To discuss my problems with you and to hear such obvious care combined with professionalism was an absolute joy after years of frustrating conversations with GPs and consultants.”
Recent patient with IBS
“I would like to say a big thank you to you and all your staff who have been most helpful. I feel much better these days, I’m able to do much more which is absolutely great and I have a new lease of life.”
Patient from Scotland with IBS
"Michael Franklin's work has been especially helpful to all those who have suffered from chronic, niggling problems for several years."
The Sheffield Journal
“I contacted you last August about a CSA test after two years of absolute misery. After a couple of telephone consultations with you based on the questionnaires you sent me, I started following your advice and taking the supplements you suggested. Since then I have got better and better. I would like to thank you again for all your help as I was at my wits’ end when I contacted you and I don’t know how I would have carried on without some treatment - you really have given me my life back.”
Patient with IBS
“It seems like only yesterday I was reading your godsend of an article in Healthy Eating magazine that would change my life forever. But in fact you have been helping me for a little over four years. Many thanks for being the pillar of support that you always are and for helping my friends and family as well.”
Patient in New Year card
“I’m very happy to report that I am in very good health, better than I’ve been for years. During the last six months I have followed a diet from my nutritionist (Michael Franklin) which has worked wonders … the change has been dramatic. The diet has fixed so many other things too. I sleep better than I have done for years, my stomach and bowels, which had been a problem for me for many years, are now regular, my nails are stronger, my hair is thicker, and I am no longer cold and shivery all the time. My plan now is that this is a diet for life. I will be sticking to it as the benefits are enormous.”
Patient in a letter to her GP and consultant
Links
www.naturopathy-uk.com
www.nutritionstudy.com
The College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM) provides excellent training for students wanting to become a Naturopath, Herbalist, Homeopath, Naturopathic Nutritionist or Acupuncturist. It has 8 training centres in the UK (4 in Ireland) and is internationally widely recognised.
www.anaphylaxis.org.uk
Anaphylaxis Campaign - For excellent information on rapid onset allergic reactions to foods such as peanuts which might cause anaphylactic shock.
www.camnutri.com
Cambridge Nutritional Sciences offer various tests including the following:
Helicobacter Pylori
Thyroid peroxidase antibodies
Anaemia, intrinsic factor antibodies
Osteoporosis: N-telopeptides
www.glutenfree-foods.co.uk
www.foodcanmakeyouill.co.uk
www.bcnh.co.uk
The UK College of Nutrition and Health offers quite possibly the single best training for students wanting to become a clinical nutritionist.
www.hacsg.org.uk
The website for the Hyperactive Children’s Support Group, a really excellent charity that helps children with ADHD and associated disorders and points out exactly how they can so often be traced back to food, additives and allergies.
www.foodsmatter.com
The UK’s only specialist magazine for people with food allergies, intolerances and sensitivities.
www.viva-mayr.com
For a wonderful holiday at an Austrian health spa/luxurious hotel on the shores of Lake Worth in Carinthia, you might like to visit www.viva-mayr.com. Viva Mayr is run by a distinguished naturopath called Dr Harrald Stossier. It specialises in detoxification and takes a very sensible approach to most health problems, especially those concerning the gut.
Practitioners in or near Oxford
Dentists:
www.botleydental.co.uk
The Botley Dental Practice (01865 250215)
Dr Kenth, Dr Nicola Beardsley and Dr Katherine Rees are all excellent dentists.
www.nomercury.co.uk
Pomeroy and Rust (01869 252228)
Tom Pomeroy is an excellent dentist and a very charming man who specialises in mercury-free dentistry.
Audiologists:
www.tripphearing.co.uk
Tara Tripp (01865 487100)
Very expert advice regarding hearing and almost all problems involving the ears.
www.ear-surgery.co.uk
Ian Bottrill
Brilliant ENT surgeon who sees private patients in addition to his NHS work.
The IBS & Gut Disorder Centre
Harley Street London, Oxford, Sussex, Essex
0845 456 0944
www.ibs-solutions.co.uk
(Michael Franklin, Wilma Kirsten, Julie Pegler, Hilary Thomas)
