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Before becoming one of London’s most respected voices on gut health, Eve Kalinik spent thirteen years in fashion PR, leaving her role as PR Director at Karla Otto to retrain as a nutritional therapist. It’s a useful piece of history: she understands the pressures and time constraints of city life from the inside, and it shows in how she works with clients. She is a registered practitioner with the Institute of Functional Medicine, holds a BA in Psychology and is currently studying for an MA in Psychotherapy – a combination that makes her unusually attentive to the psychological side of how people eat.

How she works

Her specialism is the gut and the gut–brain connection, and her starting point is a full picture rather than a quick fix. Functional testing often follows an initial consultation (hormone profiling, stool analysis and nutrient assessment among them) so that any plan is built on evidence rather than guesswork. What she is emphatically not interested in is restriction. Her stated position is that eating well should mean a broad, varied and genuinely enjoyable repertoire, tailored to the individual, and she is openly sceptical of one-size-fits-all thinking.

Skin, stress and the wider picture

Because she sees gut health as foundational, her remit stretches further than you might expect. She works with clients whose concerns are dermatological as much as digestive — acne, eczema, psoriasis, rosacea — on the basis that what’s happening internally often shows up on the skin first. Stress gets the same attention, given how physically it registers. Beyond the clinic she’s the author of two books on gut health, Be Good to Your Gut and Happy Gut, Happy Mind, co-hosts the podcast The Wellness Breakdown, and writes and consults for a long list of health and editorial brands. You’ll find her at Young LDN in Notting Hill, or you can book a consultation with her online.