Sarah Summers Nutrition

Sarah Summers Nutrition On a mission to empower mid-life women to redefine their health & reclaim their vitality.

I bloody love Nutrigenomics.Not because I want to know every genetic variant I carry.And definitely not because I want a...
02/09/2026

I bloody love Nutrigenomics.
Not because I want to know every genetic variant I carry.
And definitely not because I want a report that tells me all the terrible things that might happen to me.
I love it because, when it’s interpreted well, it can give you direction.
A SNP (pronounced “snip”) is simply a common variation in your DNA. We all share the same genes, but we don’t all carry the same variants on them.
And some of those differences may help explain why one person can drink coffee at 4pm and sleep like a baby, while someone else is staring at the ceiling at midnight wondering why their heart is doing a drum solo.
Or why certain areas - vitamin D, appetite regulation, stress response, hormone metabolism, alcohol, body clock - might deserve a bit more attention for YOU.
The important bit?
Genes aren’t simply about destiny.
They’re one piece of information I look at alongside your health history, symptoms, lifestyle, food and environment.
Because knowing you have a variant is useless unless it helps you answer..
So what do I need to do differently?
That’s where nutrigenomics becomes useful.
Less guesswork.
Less generic advice.
More understanding of the environment your body is likely to thrive in.
And sometimes a very satisfying:
“Well that explains a lot!!!”
I use LifecodeGx nutrigenomics testing within my Midlife Blueprint service, and as standalone testing.
DM me BLUEPRINT 🧬 if you want to know more .

You don’t need to avoid the “start again on Monday” mentality.You just need something solid you can always come back to....
30/08/2026

You don’t need to avoid the “start again on Monday” mentality.
You just need something solid you can always come back to.
Not someone else’s plan. YOUR Foundations. The ones that actually work for YOUR body and YOUR life.
Built by questioning the belief systems and patterns that have kept you stuck, and replacing them with something that’s genuinely YOURS.
Creating those lasting foundations is easier when you have the right guide. Someone who’s lived it. Who has nearly a decade of experience supporting midlife women.
Someone who combines nutrition with coaching, functional testing & nutrigenomics to help you finally understand what’s going on.
That’s what the Foundations Formula is.
Spaces available from October.
DM me FOUNDATIONS and let’s find YOURS

Everyone’s talking about avoiding starting over on a Monday 🥱. I’m not sure that’s actually the answer.You wouldn’t be h...
29/08/2026

Everyone’s talking about avoiding starting over on a Monday 🥱. I’m not sure that’s actually the answer.
You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t have those mornings when you felt like starting over. The morning after your “sod it” moment. The slightly hollow feeling where you can’t quite work out if you need your get back on track or not.
The women I work with still have plenty of those moments - weekends away, meals out, weeks where life just happens. What changes is they stop feeling like they’ve blown it. Because they have something to come back to.
That’s what I actually help with. Not the need to fix the feeling of starting over. The knowing what to come back to.
Because that bit need to feel like yours. Not generic, not borrowed from someone else’s plan. Yours - for your body, your life, the way you actually live.
When you work with someone who’s lived it, has nearly a decade of experience supporting women through midlife, and combines coaching with nutrition, functional testing and nutrigenomics, you’re not getting middle of the road advice.
DM me ‘FOUNDATIONS’ and let’s work out what that looks like for you.

Something clicked for me this year when I was staring at a patch of soil willing my seeds to grow.I’d been watering them...
26/08/2026

Something clicked for me this year when I was staring at a patch of soil willing my seeds to grow.
I’d been watering them every day. Nothing. Not a single sign of life. And I genuinely nearly dug them up to check if anything was happening.
And then I thought - I do this to myself constantly. We all do.
We make a start on something. We do the things. We wait approximately four days for dramatic results. And when they don’t come, we assume it’s not working.
But the seed doesn’t know you’re watching. It’s just doing what seeds do, quietly, slowly, invisibly becoming something.
Your body’s the same.
The changes that last aren’t the ones that happen overnight. They’re the ones that happen in the unremarkable middle bit. When nothing seems to be happening, but everything is.
The small stuff IS the work.
Keep watering it. X

24/08/2026

Nothing to see here. Just a woman surviving without a sleep tracker telling her how well she slept.
Which is quite funny really, because when I was at nutrition college over a decade ago, half my lecturers seemed to have Oura rings.
This was years before they became mainstream. Back when biohacking felt slightly underground and exciting, rather than a second job involving graphs.
And yes, I was fascinated by it too.
But these days, I’m increasingly interested in the opposite:
How much do we actually need to measure?
Because there is a point where useful information becomes another thing to worry about.
Sleep researchers even have a word for the obsessive pursuit of “perfect” sleep data: orthosomnia.
It describes becoming so focused on your sleep score, REM, deep sleep, recovery, HRV and whether your device thinks you’ve had a “good” night that the tracking itself can start creating anxiety around sleep.
Which is mildly inconvenient, given that being anxious about sleep is a pretty effective way of sleeping badly.
Especially in midlife, when frankly we do not need another dashboard telling us where we are allegedly underperforming.
Weight. Steps. Glucose. HRV. Sleep score.
At some point, wellness starts looking suspiciously like an annual appraisal.
I’m not anti-tracker. Data can be genuinely useful when there’s a reason for collecting it.
But I am increasingly anti collecting data simply because we can.
Sometimes the better sleep strategy is considerably less exciting:
Morning daylight.
Moving your body.
Eating enough during the day.
A reasonably consistent rhythm.
Less stimulation at night.
And waking up and asking the deeply technical question:
“Do I actually feel rested?”
Radical, I know.
Turns out the human body came with a clock already installed.
No Bluetooth required.

Your body isn’t just influenced by what you eat.It’s influenced by when things happen.Light. Meals. Movement. Darkness.N...
19/08/2026

Your body isn’t just influenced by what you eat.
It’s influenced by when things happen.
Light. Meals. Movement. Darkness.
Not wellness trends, but biological cues our body’s have been responding to for thousands of years.
Modern like just makes them a little trickier to read & the impact that can have on our energy, sleep, and risk of chronic ill health is worth paying attention to.
I’ve written about this in my latest blog, including why some of us have more metabolic wiggle room than others when those signals get muddy (especially in midlife!).
SPOILER: your genes have something to say about it.
DM me ‘RHYTHM’ and I’ll send you the link xx

I read this quote last week and genuinely had to put my phone down for a minute.“The future belongs to the adaptable, no...
17/08/2026

I read this quote last week and genuinely had to put my phone down for a minute.
“The future belongs to the adaptable, not the optimised.”
And I thought, yes, that right there…
We’ve been sold the idea that the goal is to monitor, track, hack and perfect our way to better health.
But what if that’s exactly the wrong approach for a woman’s body?
ESPECIALLY in midlife.
What if we’re meant to become the observer?
What if we should learn to appreciate the rhythmic nature of being a woman?
What if we need to appreciate the shifts we go through as new understandings?
Tell me.
Are you still listening to the wellness industry BS that’s trying to make your body follow the old rules?.
Or are you finally starting to adapt with it?

05/08/2026

Your hormones don’t want balance. They want rhythm.
One of the biggest myths in women’s health is that hormones should be “balanced.”
I don’t think that’s the goal at all.
Hormones are chemical messengers. They’re designed to respond.
They rise.
They fall.
They ebb.
They flow.
That’s healthy physiology.
Oestrogen isn’t supposed to stay the same.
Insulin shouldn’t stay the same.
Cortisol shouldn’t stay the same.
Melatonin certainly shouldn’t stay the same.
They’re constantly responding to what’s happening both inside you and around you.
But here’s the bit I think we don’t talk about enough…
Hormones don’t just need to send a message.
That message also needs to be received.
Imagine trying to have a conversation in a noisy room. You can say all the right words, but if nobody can hear them, communication starts to break down.
Your cells are no different.
So instead of asking, “How do I balance my hormones?”
I think a better question is…
“How do I create an environment where my hormones can communicate clearly?”
That means supporting the things that influence both sides of the conversation:
✨ Sleep.
✨ Nourishing food.
✨ Blood sugar regulation.
✨ Movement.
✨ Recovery.
✨ Light.
✨ Stress.
✨ Nutrients that help your cells respond to those hormonal messages.
Because your hormones aren’t looking for perfect balance.
They’re looking for the right rhythm, in the right environment, with a body that’s ready to listen.
And that’s a conversation I’m much more interested in having.
If you’re ready to stop chasing hormone balance and start understanding how your body actually works, let’s talk.

03/08/2026

Nutrition cannot promise you a symptom-free menopause.

But it can make a meaningful difference to how supported your body feels through it.

What you eat can influence your energy, appetite, blood sugar, muscle, mood and long-term health — and there may be simple additions or adjustments that help your plate work much harder for you.

This applies whether you use HRT, do not use it, cannot use it, or simply want to support yourself in every way available to you.

In The Menopause Plate, I’ll be sharing three simple areas I come back to again and again when working with women.

No perfect diet. No rigid plan. No nutritional theatre involving fourteen ingredients before breakfast.

Just practical guidance you can apply to your own life.

Thursday 13 August
7pm
Live on Zoom
Free for Hub members
£16 for guests

https://l.bttr.to/0aIWG

Over the last decade, I’ve felt my values bubbling up into almost every part of my life.My career choices.The work I’m w...
03/08/2026

Over the last decade, I’ve felt my values bubbling up into almost every part of my life.
My career choices.
The work I’m willing to do.
The people I want to spend time with.
The people I don’t.
The rooms I feel at home in, and the ones perhaps I’m prepared to leave.
It has meant some big shifts.
A fair amount of letting go.
And the occasional realisation that something I once tolerated quite happily now makes every cell in my body say, absolutely not.
But I think that may be exactly what this phase of life is for.
Discernment.
Clarity.
Boundaries.
The wisdom to recognise what matters.
And the courage to stop making yourself smaller, quieter or more accommodating when something no longer fits.
Not because we become hard or inflexible as we get older.
But because we know ourselves better.
We understand the cost of repeatedly overriding what we know to be true.
And we become less willing to spend our time, energy and attention on people, places and choices that ask us to abandon ourselves.
Your values aren’t something to apologise for.
They’re how you decide what belongs in your life, and what no longer does.
What have you become far more discerning about in midlife?

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