Certainly, you can arrange a free 20min meeting to ask any questions you may have before committing, just get in touch by email or WhatsApp.

Payment conditions
You can pay for just the first consultation at £160 / 60 mins and then decide if you wish to continue with the programme over 3 or 6 months, payment structure can be agreed on a bespoke basis. You can pay using Natwest app or other bank transfer, WISE transfer or REVOLUT. Email for me for payment details.The programme commences once the deposit is settled. 60% deposit is required for SILVER and GOLD Nutritional Therapy NT Programmes. Conditions for payment of instalments depends on the programme and agreed beforehand with the client.

For just about any health condition except cancer. Programmes will be highly educational, sometimes challenging, but certainly enjoyable and delivered at your own pace. They are designed to help to help improve quality of life or even in many cases complete resolution to complex health conditions. For more complex conditions this will require times and strongly recommend you consider my longer-term NT for best support, particularly as we wont be able to address everything at once.

Follow-ups are crucial to guarantee the continued adaptation, safety and efficacy of your NT programme in order to understand any key changes to your personal life, health or medical condition(s). These are required to review progress and amend plans in accordance to your developing symptoms and goals, discuss unexpected challenges, changing lifestyle factors, medications, other treatments, whilst ensuring that your information disclosed on your questionnaire are still relevant. Therefore, it is advisable to conduct follow-up consultations as agreed with each client.

Will includes purchasing some new foods, ingredients or optional supplements may required to help achieve your heath goals. Ensure they are readily available in your food pantry to consume / prepare the meals. ANDREW FORTUNA NT will assist you so that this transformation is gradual to keep costs to a minimum.

A variety of optional diagnostic laboratory testing recommendations will be made throughout the period you are receiving support from ANDREW FORTUNA NT.  Lab tests are not included in the programme fees and you pay for them at the lab. Tests may be useful to track your progress, ensure your safety and provide the rationale for personalised recommendations.

 The field of personalised nutrition is still evolving before truly becoming an integral part of the future healthcare paradigm, and including personalised nutrition guidance and therapeutics. Personalised recommendations are necessary to help safely support your symptoms and medical diagnoses, whilst considering potential drug – nutrient – herb interactions with any prescribed medications or food intolerances /allergies. Supplement programmes are evaluated periodically to ensure efficacy and safety and may change depending on symptoms progress, medically diagnoses and/or other contraindications. You will be fully informed which types and forms of many supplements, and in what doses, is critical to achieve safe and effective outcomes whilst ensuring they do not interacted with any other foods or medications.

BANT is the leading professional body for Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners in one-to-one clinical practice and a self-regulator for BANT Registered Nutritionists®. BANT members combine a network approach to complex systems, incorporating the latest science from genetic, epigenetic, diet and nutrition research to inform individualised recommendations. BANT oversees the activities, training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of its members. Yearly CPD is a compulsolry requirement to register. BANT members are also required to register to an accredited register held by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) on behalf of the UK Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for Health and Social Care,

As part of his clinical training in Nutritional Therapy and membership of compulsory regulatory bodies (BANT & CNHC), ANDREW FORTUNA NT can use both titles. Registered Nutritionist is used when working with the wider audience, and the title Nutritional Therapy Practitioner is used when working in a 1-to-1 clinical setting.

NUTRITIONAL THERAPIST vs DIETICIAN

Both require a minimum degree-level academic qualifications in nutrition science. Only Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners and Registered Dietitians are trained and qualified in clinical practice to meet UK national standards and work in a one-to-one setting. Registered Nutritionists have met training and qualification standards and work with groups, and the wider industry, academia and in non-clinical settings. Additionally, In April 2015 the General Medical Council UK (the GP Register is a list of doctors who are eligible for appointment as a general practitioner in the UK, and by extension, Gibraltar) released guidance confirming that “Doctors can refer patients to practitioners on Accredited Registers”. Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners are members of BANT, who in turn are registered in an ‘Accredited register” and therefore, they can be suitably referred to by General Practitioners.

BANT is a professional organisation for practitioners of nutrition and lifestyle medicine. BANT practitioner members are required to be registered either with Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) or be statutorily regulated. CNHC holds a register accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA), an independent body accountable to the UK Parliament. BANT members are required to meet Continuing Professional Development (CPD) standards.

As part of his clinical training, Andrew Fortuna NT has completed an extensive, supervised clinical consultations with various real clients experiencing a wide range of chronic diseases, which also involves studying the pathophysiology of chronic diseases with special consideration to client safety and drug-nutrient-herb interactions, and understanding how nutrient availability, biochemical imbalances, genetic predispotion and lifestyle factors, may influence disease predisposition and development. He has supported a number of patients experiencing a. wide range of complx conditions, such as: Myocardial infarction, severe obesity, Long COVID, Crohn’s disease, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid arthritis, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Raynaud’s disease, Mixed connective tissue disease, Sjögren’s syndrome, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, hypertension, insomnia and many others.

ANDREW FORTUNA NT’s clinical training has been internally validated by the UK Nutrition Therapy Education Commission (NTEC) and externally endorsed by QUALIFI UK. NTEC accredited nutritional therapy courses are professionally accredited to the standard required for entry to an accredited register held by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) on behalf of the UK Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for Health and Social Care, the same body that overseas dieticians and GPs in the UK and Gibraltar via their respective regulatory bodies. Students who follow courses that do not meet this standard will not be able to apply for professional registration as a Nutritional Therapay Practitioner, until they have accrued three years clinical experience of working at the level of the National Occupational Standards, evidenced by the submission of a detailed portfolio of evidence.