susan birch
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Get into shape with the Health Detective's Handbook
Are you tired of diets that don’t work? You’re not alone. The Health Detective’s Handbook helps you understand why, so you can break the cycle and feel your best.
Drawing on over 40 years of experience, nutrition and exercise expert Susan Birch explains metabolism, hormones, and nutrition in clear, engaging language. Instead of quick fixes, she gives you tools to make informed choices that work for your body and your life.
You’ll uncover why past diets failed, how your body really works, and how to fuel it for lasting health, energy, and vitality. Susan shares practical, evidence-based strategies for eating and moving that fit into real life, helping you create a personalised, sustainable plan.
The book also features 17 case stories, including Susan’s own, showing how people overcame weight struggles, chronic fatigue, diabetes, and brain fog through small, science-backed changes. With warmth, humour, and the curiosity of a true health detective, Susan shows you how to treat your body well so it can carry you through life’s adventures.
Health Detective’s Guide to Cholesterol and Heart Disease
The Health Detective’s Guide to Cholesterol and Heart Disease helps you cut through the confusion around cholesterol, heart disease, and cardiovascular risk. It goes beyond cholesterol alone to explain the key blood markers, patterns, genetics, and underlying drivers that may influence risk, including inflammation, metabolic health, and the broader context that’s often overlooked.
Rather than reducing cardiovascular risk to a single number, this guide takes a wider, more practical view. It’s designed to help you better understand what your results may be telling you, inform discussions about possible treatment options, and support more meaningful conversations with your GP, specialist, or wider medical team.
Health Detective’s Guide to Blood Chemistry Analysis
The Health Detective’s Guide to Blood Chemistry Analysis is a practical resource for anyone wanting to better understand what their blood test results may be saying about their health. Written for GPs, practitioners, health coaches, and the public, it uses a unique systems-based approach that explains key markers, pattern recognition, and how different body systems connect and influence one another.
It helps connect the dots between markers instead of viewing each result in isolation. It’s designed to help GPs, practitioners and health coaches interpret results with more context and guide their patients and clients more effectively. It also helps the public better understand their health, ask better questions, and take a more active role in discussions with their GP, practitioner, or wider medical team.
