Tanya Borowski Nutrition & Functional Medicine

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PMDD, Nutrigenomics & the Wheel of Misfortune — a live conversation with Tanya Borowski & Emma Beswick, Lifecode GxCome ...
12/06/2026

PMDD, Nutrigenomics & the Wheel of Misfortune — a live conversation with Tanya Borowski & Emma Beswick, Lifecode Gx

Come join us LIVE here on Instagram next week ✨ I'm sitting down with my friend and colleague Emma Beswick from Gx for a behind-the-scenes peek at what we're bringing to the Women's Health Practicum on 8th July.

Think: oestrogen metabolism, methylation pathways, histamine sensitivity, neurotransmitters — and the genetic fingerprint that explains why PMDD hits some women so hard.

This is practitioner gold, and we're giving you a wee taste before the big day.

To find out more about the Practicum Masterclass, take a look at the link in bio, we'd love to see you in the room.

What can you learn at the Women's Health Practicum? Here is what the day gives you…On PMDD: ✅ A working map of the HPO a...
11/06/2026

What can you learn at the Women's Health Practicum? Here is what the day gives you…

On PMDD:
✅ A working map of the HPO axis and the neuroendocrine interplay that shapes how your clients feel, think, and respond across the entire cycle
✅ The PMDD Wheel of Misfortune, a clinical framework that replaces reductive narratives with mechanistic understanding
✅ Confidence in when, what, and why to test, where serum pathology leads, and where nutrigenomics genuinely earns its place

On chronic pelvic pain:
✅ A clinical lens for endo, adenomyosis & central sensitisation that goes beyond organ pathology.We'll explore: ✅ The psychoneurological immune loop driving chronic pelvic pain → The nervous system's role in pain perpetuation
✅ Communication tools for women whose pain has been dismissed or minimised, and how to hold that space sustainably

For your own practice:
✅ Tanya and Peta's personal hormonal health and nervous system toolkit
✅ Clinical reasoning modelled through two real cases, worked collaboratively in the room
✅ 6 CPD hours · Fully referenced slide decks · Expert panel Q&A

This is what it means to raise the bar in women's health and could transform the way you support women with PMDD and chronic pelvic pain

Join us as we attend the Women’s Health Practicum on Wednesday 8th July at Rockwater, Hove

For bone health we need to consume 1300mg of dietary calcium a day - Greek yoghurt and tahini are wonderfully rich sourc...
11/06/2026

For bone health we need to consume 1300mg of dietary calcium a day - Greek yoghurt and tahini are wonderfully rich sources , and when paired with 50g of prunes (as per this study) “represents a valuable nonpharmacologic treatment strategy that can be used to preserve hip BMD in postmenopausal women and possibly reduce hip fracture risk”- we’ll take that ! Efharistó🇬🇷😉

09/06/2026

How can we better support women with Endometriosis in chronic pain or PMDD

Join me, Dr Peta Wright and Rachel Jessey for a day about fundamentally chaning how you think about women’s hormonal health.

THIS ⬆️ was delivered to me last week in the US and I am so proud to receive it!Here’s a little back story to fill you i...
04/06/2026

THIS ⬆️ was delivered to me last week in the US and I am so proud to receive it!

Here’s a little back story to fill you in… 18 months ago I was utterly shocked (and starstruck) to be asked by Datis Kharrazian to write and present the endocrine module for the Kharrazian Institute Academy of Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine certification programme.

Dr K, as he is fondly known, has for me, been one of the most influential educators in this world and to say I was honoured to be a small part in this programme, is an understatement - to say the least.

Writing the content itself was not without its stress, overwhelm and a little bit of imposter syndrome… followed by 2 full days of filming me presenting the content. It was absolutely worth it, an incredible experience and I am bowled over to have received this recognition, from a man I hold truly in the highest of academic regard.

Little did I know when I enrolled on Kharrazian Institute programme all those years ago that I would have a full circle moment like this... Dream big my fellow practitioners!

T xx

We all know the HPA axis story. A stressor - neurological, physical, inflammatory, metabolic, circadian stimulates corti...
03/06/2026

We all know the HPA axis story. A stressor - neurological, physical, inflammatory, metabolic, circadian stimulates cortisol and a cascade of responses ripples through tissues, organs, and entire systems.

But the body is far more than an HPA axis, even, than the HPA-Ovarian-Thyroid axis think- bigger….

Think HPAOTGBBKLAVUIM (Deanna Minich beautifully articulated this concept at IPM last week ❤️)

HPA. Ovarian. Thyroid. Gut. Bone. Biliary. Kidney. Lung. Adipose. Vasculature. Urogenital.Immune.Muscle.

Because that's what the biology is - a single, exquisitely dynamic web. And the signals moving across it? Hormones, cytokines, myokines, adipokines, osteokines. Not one-way broadcasts. Constant, bidirectional conversation.

Think of it like a spider's web stretched across the body. Stressors “land”, the web absorbs them — beautifully, intelligently — until the cumulative load becomes too much. The threads begin to buckle. And that's when symptoms emerge.

The web-system is a symphonic circuit, not a series of solo performances.

Messengers act within interconnected feedback loops: each signal both shaped by and shaping the environment around it. So when fatigue, low mood, weight changes, or cycle disruption appear, the instinct to reach for a single explanation (menopause, sub-optimal thyroid just because of a low T3 or out “functional range” TSH) misses the point. These symptoms more often reflect signalling disruption, not an absolute deficiency.

Applying a isolated replacement model, whether MHT or supplements for thyroid “support”, without identifying the upstream drivers of that disruption, is patching individual threads while the tension across the whole web remains.

The web doesn't work in isolation. Neither should our thinking.

02/06/2026

It’s time to break free from the clinical loops and linear thinking in Women’s Health…

Join me, Dr Peta Wright and Rachel Jessey for a day about fundamentally reorientating how you think about women’s hormonal health.

The Women's Health Practicum has just got bigger….I am so thrilled to add: Rachel Jessey to the afternoon programme. Alo...
28/05/2026

The Women's Health Practicum has just got bigger….

I am so thrilled to add: Rachel Jessey to the afternoon programme. Alongside Dr Peta Wright and myself, Rachel brings a clinical perspective that I believe every practitioner working with women needs to hear!!!

The morning maps the internal architecture: hormonal, neuroendocrine, nutrigenomic. Rachel then takes us to the question most clinical frameworks never ask: How is the environment shaping it?

Drawing on nutrition, biophysics, quantum biology, and circadian biology, Rachel's session: The Invisible Environment: Light, Frequency & the Neuro-Immune-Endocrine Axis - addresses the environmental load that may be far more clinically significant than we have been trained to recognise.

Light as biological information.
EMF exposure and nervous system regulation.
Structured water in clinical practice.
Practical, proportionate guidance you can take straight into client care.

This session doesn't just shift your thinking — it hands you something tangible. Real resources, real tools, straight from Rachel's clinical practice, ready to use the moment you're back with clients!

Plus we still have our other expert panel contributors alongside our speakers; Emma Beswick and Tracey Randell.

I know this is going to be such a transformative masterclass for practitioners!

Don’t forget, the early bird tickets close soon . So if you’re thinking of the opportunities that being in the room and conversation with this line up - don’t hesitate, and there will be plenty of opportunities to network.

See you in July 🌊 Tanya x

🧀 Can eating cheese actually build stronger bones? A 2022 RCT in BMJ Nutrition tested 57g of Jarlsberg daily vs Camember...
27/05/2026

🧀 Can eating cheese actually build stronger bones?

A 2022 RCT in BMJ Nutrition tested 57g of Jarlsberg daily vs Camembert (same fat & protein, no K2) in 66 healthy women for 6 weeks.

The Jarlsberg group saw:
✅ PINP rise (bone formation marker)
✅ Carboxylated osteocalcin activate

What is carboxylated osteocalcin?
Osteocalcin is a protein made by your bone-building cells. But it only works when it's been activated — and that activation requires vitamin K2. Think of it like a key that needs cutting before it fits the lock. Once activated, osteocalcin binds calcium and anchors it into bone matrix, making bones denser and stronger. Without enough K2, osteocalcin stays inactive — calcium circulates but doesn't get properly deposited into bone.

✅ Bone resorption(breakdown) stayed stable

Serum calcium and magnesium also dropped — interpreted as being drawn into bone matrix. That's net bone formation.

Jarlsberg is fermented with Propionibacterium freudenreichii, producing long-chain K2 vitamers AND a compound called DHNA, which stimulates osteocalcin in ways K2 supplementation alone can't replicate.

When the Camembert group switched to Jarlsberg, markers followed the same pattern. Meaning tthis is not a general dairy effect.

57g daily, moved meaningful bone markers in 6 weeks. Food-first K2 delivery has a real evidence base, and it’s delicious too - what's not to like 🧀

26/05/2026

PCOS renamed PMOS - my thoughts….

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