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

  • Maybe it was never the gluten
    by Frances Norgate
    In the episode I talked about gluten-free bread and your blood sugar, how the processed stuff is nearly always rebuilt from refined starch, and how “gluten-free” on a packet tells you what’s been left out, not what’s been put in. I promised I’d put the research in here, and I will. But first I want […]
  • Why Your Digestion Is Worse Under Stress (Even When You Haven't Changed What You're Eating)
    by Frances Norgate
    I’m guessing this might be a pattern almost everyone recognises. A stressful stretch arrives, and your digestion, which had been behaving, falls apart. Bloating, cramping, digestion moving too fast or too slow. Nothing about your what you eat has changed; you go hunting through your diet for the culprit, find nothing, and feel baffled. Or […]
  • The best questions from an in-person workshop day
    by Frances Norgate
    Real questions from real people — in this second Q&A episode, Frances Norgate answers six of the best questions from a workshop she ran at the Organic Centre in Leitrim. Is porridge good or bad for you? How can the order you eat your food in change your blood sugar if it all mixes in […]
  • Pre-diabetic? What it doesn't mean.
    by Frances Norgate
    Just been told you're pre-diabetic? Before you spiral, this episode is about all the things that diagnosis does not mean. Frances Norgate, a Qualified Nutrition and Lifestyle Advisor, gently takes apart the five wrong stories people tell themselves in the days after that text from the surgery: that you failed (you didn't — it's largely […]
  • The Timing of Your Meals Matters More Than You Think
    by Frances Norgate
    We spend an extraordinary amount of energy on one question: what should I eat? And almost none on another question that might matter just as much: when?It’s an easy thing to miss, because a meal feels like a fixed object. So many calories, so much carbohydrate, so much protein, does this or that to your […]