Life is all about balance
My Team
Ruth is an integrative medicine doctor with a broad generalist background, who specialises in the sports and rehabilitation field, as well as in health optimisation.
Ruth spent 17 years in the British military, working in many different locations and environments around the world. She trained in both emergency medicine and general practice, and supported severely injured military personnel through their recovery at the esteemed Defence Military Rehabilitation Centre.
In addition, both Ruth and her husband, also a former military doctor, have had first hand experience of injury and rehabilitation and both have made significant changes to their lives and career pathways as a result. Ruth has tremendous personal insight into the determination and commitment it takes to work through physical and emotional challenges and to re-establish an equilibrium that brings fulfilment. Ruth supports her patients to work through their own challenges and offers insight and guidance to help them build better foundations for their future and longterm health.
From 2020, Ruth has worked extensively with the Strength for Endurance athlete community, providing education and integrative medical support to help them achieve their health and performance goals.
Ruth and her husband now live in Canada and Ruth continues to offer an international advisory service online. She has a thirst for continuous learning and is currently studying sports nutrition. She is an experienced instructor for the UK Resuscitation Council, a member of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Institute of Functional Medicine and has qualifications in Wellbeing Coaching and Personal Training.
Ian is a passionate practitioner and educator in the field of sports nutrition.
With his joint academic backgrounds in exercise physiology and nutritional therapy, and a 20-year career as a British middle-distance athlete, he has been developing the concept of integrative sports nutrition since 2007; a fast-evolving discipline that considers both the health and performance of an athlete, from an integrative health perspective.
Clinically, Ian works with a large array of sports and exercise cases, plus complex health imbalances such as autoimmunity, chronic gastrointestinal issues, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, all of which are rapidly increasing in incidence, especially in the sporting world. To provide a complete immersion within the lifestyle, behavioural and belief changes necessary to improve the health of his clients, Ian works with a core team of talented practitioners, who collectively practice nutritional, exercise and psychological coaching, natural cookery, and integrative medicine.
Educationally, Ian is the author of the Struik Lifestyle book Wholesome Nutrition, editor of Functional Sports Nutrition magazine, and founder of the Centre for Integrative Sports Nutrition; the world’s first educational platform to train sports nutrition practitioners in a functional way of thinking and practicing.
Ian is a professional member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition & Nutritional Therapy (BANT) and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES).
Rachel is a certified natural food chef and an ex-South African triathlete, with a contagious and passionate enthusiasm for nourishing foods and optimal health.
She is a teacher at the School of Natural Cookery and is the first natural chef to extend these cooking methods out into the demanding field of athletic performance; hence being the host of the CISN natural sports cookery course. Rachel insists that for health, we need to keep things simple; she takes inspiration from previous generations with regard to the preparation of wholesome food.
Therapeutically, Rachel works alongside Ian and other team members as a health food coach, helping individuals to put nutritional interventions into a practical and nourishing food-focussed form.
She is the co-author of Wholesome Nutrition, within which she focussed on the food sourcing information and the beautiful recipe section, and she contributes regularly to the Functional Sports Nutrition publication. Her latest culinary projects include two-day bone broths, convenient but highly nutritious slow cooking recipes, fermented foods, sports granola bars, and homemade ice cream!
Rachel’s educational achievements include an honours degree in physical education and a masters degree in sport science and sport psychology. She is also NLP trained, and has spent the past 20 years immersing herself in the study of whole, traditional and living foods.
Dr Ruth Wilde
- GMC Number: 6098509
- MB BCh 2004 MRCEM 2012
- Institute for Functional Medicine IFMCP 2024
- Member of the British Society for Ecological Medicine 2018
- Member of the Association for Coaching 2019
- Certified Personal Trainer