Nourished & Found
— the podcast

One practical evidence-based insight per week on blood sugar balance, metabolic health, and digestive wellbeing.


Nourished & Found is a weekly podcast for anyone living with symptoms that conventional medicine hasn’t been able to explain or resolve. Each episode covers one specific topic — a mechanism, a symptom, a practical change — in plain language, with one clear takeaway you can act on immediately.

Hosted by Frances Norgate, qualified Nutrition and Lifestyle Advisor and Public Health Collaboration ambassador.

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Latest episodes

  • The healthy breakfast that's making your blood sugar worse all day
    by Frances Norgate
    In this episode, Frances Norgate explores why commonly recommended healthy breakfasts — porridge, wholegrain toast, fruit, cereal — can trigger a blood sugar spike and crash cycle that drives afternoon fatigue, cravings, and poor energy for the entire day. Includes practical guidance on how to change breakfast composition for more stable blood sugar and sustained […]
  • I wore a CGM for two weeks and I didn't like what I found.
    by Frances Norgate
    In this episode, qualified Nutrition and Lifestyle Advisor Frances Norgate shares the personal story behind Nourished & Found — how wearing a continuous glucose monitor revealed significant blood sugar dysregulation despite normal blood tests and a healthy diet, and what she changed as a result. If you've been told your blood sugar is fine and […]
  • Why You Can't Switch Off (Even When Nothing Is Wrong)
    by Frances Norgate
    Episode Overview:Frances explores chronic low-grade stress through her own experience — the constant tension, the noise sensitivity, the reactivity to small things, the "always on" quality of homeschooling and working simultaneously. Through the HPA axis, cortisol dysregulation, polyvagal theory, and quantum biology research on grounding and photobiomodulation, she explains what the nervous system is doing […]
  • You're Getting Enough Sleep. So Why Are You Still Exhausted?
    by Frances Norgate
    Episode Overview:Through the story of five and a half years of broken sleep from night feeding and breastfeeding — and the specific cognitive and physical toll that followed — Frances explains the architecture of sleep: what the four stages are, what each one does, and why slow wave sleep (the most physically restorative stage) is […]
  • I Thought I Was a Night Owl for 25 Years. I Was Wrong.
    by Frances Norgate
    Frances shares the most personal episode of the series — the story of 25 years believing she was a night owl, and what happened when she started going outside at sunrise one February in Ireland. Through her own unexpected changes (eczema clearing, gut issues resolving, waking without an alarm, eventually no longer yawning through the […]