Helen Olphin is currently a Nutritional Therapist and Coach. She started her professional career as a physiotherapist specialising in surgery, A&E and intensive care, working in this country and then as head of surgery at the world famous Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, where she treated Nelson Mandela, working in a multi cultural team which became a world class leader in the treatment of chest trauma.
She later worked at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, working with Marius Barnard a cardiac specialist, who performed the world’s first human heart transplant with his brother Chris. As a result of her hospital work, she developed a deep understanding of the integration of body systems and the effect that infection, surgery and trauma can have on it. She has lectured worldwide on the subject of blunt and penetrating chest trauma.
On returning to the UK she became part of the Senior Management Team at Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham and completed a masters programme in Organisation Development, developing a specialism in change management. This resulted in her setting up her own business to work primarily in the corporate private sector on leadership, team and personal coaching and organisational development. This she ran successfully for 15 years, but then developed a passion for working more holistically, when choosing to support children who had learning difficulties. She completed a 3 year Nutritional Diploma at the prestigious Institute for Optimum Nutrition in 2013, to further develop her knowledge of integrated Functional Medicine and in particularly energy systems, having experienced chronic fatigue herself. For her achievements as a student she was awarded the final year student prize for Clinical Excellence reflecting her work in clinic.
She now runs Optimal Energy Nutrition which she started in 2013, an integrated Nutritional and Coaching business for people with chronic illnesses, long COVID, Lyme, auto-immune conditions, ME/CFS, Chronic Fatigue, stress related conditions and chronic exhaustion, Autism, skin conditions and hormonal issues with clinics in London and Bedford.
She is registered with BANT and the CNHC and also The Institute for Functional Medicine and has completed the AFMCP course in London (the application of Functional Medicine) and other IFM courses
She continues to educate herself having completed The ART courses (beginner ART 1 and 2, intermediate, and advanced) with Dr Klinghardt at the Klinghardt Academy and numerous chronic illness conferences in the USA every year focusing on Lyme, mould and chronic ill health. She has also completed most of the Kharrazian Institute courses on the gut, diabetes, immunity and immune tolerance, neurology and neuro inflammation with traumatic brain injury, thyroid and fertility/infertility.
CPD Certificate – AFMCP 2015 >
