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Supporting Clients with Chronic Pain: Nutrition and Lifestyle Strategies
with Gwen Enright
Session Overview
Chronic pain is complex, affecting millions of clients worldwide, and as nutrition and health professionals, understanding its mechanisms is key to providing meaningful support. In this webinar, we’ll break down the types of pain, explore how nutrition and lifestyle influence pain sensitivity, and provide actionable strategies you can use with your clients to reduce discomfort and build resilience
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between major types of pain, including nociceptive, neuropathic, and nociplastic pain.
- Explain key mechanisms involved in chronic pain, including inflammation, central sensitisation, and nervous system dysregulation.
- Identify nutritional factors that may influence pain, such as blood glucose regulation, micronutrient status, fatty acid balance, and gut health.
- Recognise lifestyle contributors to pain sensitivity, including sleep disruption, stress physiology, and physical inactivity.
- Apply nutrition and lifestyle strategies that may support pain reduction and improved resilience in clients with chronic pain.
- Understand the role and limits of nutrition coaching in supporting clients with chronic pain and when referral may be appropriate.
Date & Time: Thursday 30th April
Time: 10-11.30am
Cost: €18/£15 (FREE for members of our Alumni Community Hub)
CPD points: 1 personal or NTOI registered point (contact ciara@iinh.net for Cert afterwards)
About GWEN ENRIGHT
Gwen studied Nutritional Therapy after completing a Masters in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition in 2007 (completing her thesis on nutrigenomics and disease) and wanting to learn more about personalised nutrition. Having graduated from the Institute of Health Sciences in 2015, Gwen set up Gwenright Nutrition alongside working for IHS for 7 years, first as a personal tutor and then as a lecturer and clinic mentor, the roles which also tie into Gwen’s other passion: education.
Gwen’s teaching experience spans not only NT and related physiology, body systems and functional medicine, but languages (English & German) as well as horse riding and orienteering skills.
Gwen’s main lecture areas included female hormones and immune dysfunction, as well as chronic conditions like RA and ME/CFS and Long COVID, macro & micronutrients and longevity. Gwen has also been mentoring NT students in clinic for 5 years. Now Gwen has joined IINH on the NT diploma, lecturing on Liver, Immune Pathophysiology and NT approach. In her own clinic Gwen focuses on women’s health and family nutrition, with particular focus on helping mothers thrive in motherhood and in perimenopause.
Gwen can be found on social media under Gwenright_Nutrition and her mentoring business at Gwenright_Mentoring on Instagram.
Request a Recording
Please note, this webinar is free to members of our IINH Alumni Community Hub, you will find the webinar recording on Brightspace.
