eatwellgetwell – a nutrition and medicine study blog

Last night I attended the open evening of the course I am starting this autumn at the Falmer campus of the University of Brighton. The evening just confirmed and added to my excitement about starting this course and a career in Nutrition. Ute Allison, the Naturopath and Nutritionist who will be teaching our first year (which is the Medicine year) gave us a taster lecture on detoxing. She was a fascinating and engaging woman, a German woman with over 18 years of teaching experience and what looks like many years of experience as a practitioner and therapist. She was charming, funny, and explained complicated scientific processes in an accessible and simple way and using interesting analogies that made the information somehow stick in your head. I am very much looking forward to learning from Ute, especially seeing as I was looking forward to the first medicine year a little less than the other two more seemingly ‘practical’ years, which cover Nutrition. But just from the small time Ute spoke with us, I realised how important the medicine year will be to my knowledge and understanding as a practitioner – for how can I truly understand nutrition as medicine for the body when I don’t fully understand the body itself?