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

  • 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 […]
  • Why the Low-Fat Advice You Were Given Made Everything Worse
    by Frances Norgate
    There’s a particular kind of tiredness I hear about constantly, and it usually comes from people who did everything by the book (low-fat spread, the cereal with the heart tick, the fat-free yoghurt, juice with breakfast) for years, feeling somewhat virtuous about it. And who got more tired, not less, heavier round the middle, and […]
  • What Your Skin Is Trying to Tell You About Your Blood Sugar
    by Frances Norgate
    Your skin is the one organ you can actually see — and sometimes it's flagging your blood sugar before a blood test does. In this episode, Frances Norgate explains three skin signs genuinely worth being curious about metabolically — skin tags, acanthosis nigricans, and adult acne — and, just as importantly, how to tell them […]
  • The real reason you crash at 3pm
    by Frances Norgate
    Why do you crash at 3pm? If you get an afternoon energy slump — foggy, tired, reaching for something sweet — the usual explanation is willpower. It isn't. This episode explains the blood sugar rollercoaster behind the afternoon crash: why a carb-heavy lunch sets up a mid-afternoon dip, why that dip triggers cravings and brain […]