I’m Frances Norgate — a qualified Nutrition and Lifestyle Advisor, Public Health Collaboration ambassador, and someone who has navigated the specific frustration of feeling consistently unwell while being told, repeatedly, that nothing is wrong.

I work with people who are in the same situation. Tired in a way that sleep doesn’t fix. Digestion that’s unpredictable no matter what they cut out. Blood sugar that feels chaotic even though their GP says it’s fine. Symptoms that don’t fit neatly into a diagnosis and therefore tend to get dismissed or managed rather than actually addressed.

I know what that feels like. Intimately.

The blood sugar story

In my late thirties — while studying nutrition, which makes this more embarrassing in retrospect — I wore a continuous glucose monitor for two weeks. I’d always been slim. My blood tests had always come back normal. I ate what I genuinely considered a healthy diet. But I had this reliable afternoon energy slump that nothing seemed to fix, and I was drinking several coffees a day to prop myself up in a way that I’d started to think was just how I was built.

The CGM told a different story. My blood sugar was spiking significantly after foods I considered healthy — sweet potato, an apple eaten on its own — and crashing in the hours that followed. The afternoon slump wasn’t my personality. It was a metabolic pattern playing out every single day that nobody had ever identified, because a standard fasting blood test taken first thing in the morning would never have caught it.

I changed the composition of my meals — protein and fat at every meal, eating fruit alongside something rather than alone, paying attention to food order. The afternoon crashes reduced. The coffees reduced. My energy evened out in a way I hadn’t experienced in years. Small changes, targeted at what was actually happening rather than generic advice about healthy eating.

Nobody told me to do this. I had to find it myself.

The gut story

Before the blood sugar discovery there was a longer, more frustrating story — years of gut symptoms that every GP and specialist I saw either dismissed or failed to help me with. I eventually resolved them myself through nutrition and lifestyle changes. It took longer than it should have, and the experience of being told there was nothing to be done — when there clearly was — is something that sits behind everything I do now.

The fertility story

There’s a third chapter. It involves two miscarriages, a vegan diet, a significant change in how I ate, and a healthy pregnancy. I share it carefully because I’m not making a clinical claim — I’m sharing what I did and what happened. But it’s part of the picture of how I came to understand what the body actually needs to function well. You can hear the full story in the Nourished & Found podcast.

What I do now

I’m currently completing my BSc in Nutritional Therapy at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition. I work as a qualified Nutrition and Lifestyle Advisor, offering integrative nutritional support for blood sugar balance and pre-diabetes, general digestive health, and metabolic wellbeing after GLP-1 medications — always alongside existing medical care, never instead of it.

If you’d like to work together, the first step is a free 20-minute discovery call. No obligation, no pitch — just a genuine conversation about what you’re experiencing and whether working together makes sense.

If you’re not ready for that yet — explore the website, listen to the podcast, read the newsletter. The answers are here when you need them.