About Laura, and how these guides are written

Who is behind Chew On This?

Laura is a registered nurse in the United Kingdom, registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Chew On This is her own publication. It is not a clinic, not a brand, and not owned by a supplement company.

She started writing because of what happens in the ten minutes after a diagnosis: a prescription, a leaflet, and no conversation about food. The guides are the conversation she would rather have had.

What the guides are for

Most people leave an appointment with a leaflet and no plan. The guides are the opposite: a small, practical thing you can fill in on your phone and actually use. A seven day symptom log to take to your GP. A plate you can build without a recipe. A way to read what is really in the packet.

The newsletter goes out two or three times a week and most of it is free. One piece a week goes deeper and is for paid subscribers. The four books, for when you want the whole plan, are on the front page.

One guide opens straight from the front page with no signup, because knowing when a symptom needs a doctor should not cost an email address. Five more are free when you subscribe: leave your email and they unlock on the free guides page.

Where the information comes from

Every health claim on this site traces to a named source, and the source is listed at the bottom of the page it appears on. In practice that means the NHS, NICE, the British Dietetic Association, the Food Standards Agency, GOV.UK and UK charities such as Guts UK and Coeliac UK, plus peer reviewed research where it is relevant.

• The organisation is named in the sentence, not hidden in a link, so you can check it.
• Where something is a convention rather than evidence, the page says so and says who made it up.
• Where the evidence is thin, the page says that too, rather than rounding it up into a promise.
• Every page carries the date it was published and the date it was last checked.

Nothing here is written from memory. Every page is built from a list of claims and the source each one came from, and that list is checked before the page goes live.

What this site will never do

• Diagnose anything. No page here can tell you what is wrong. Symptoms that are new, persistent or worrying belong with your GP, or with NHS 111.
• Tell you to delay care. Red flag symptoms always point to a doctor, never to a guide.
• Sell you a supplement, or take money from one. There are no adverts here, no sponsored posts and no affiliate links. If that ever changes, it will be labelled on the page before you read a word of it.
• Use a made up review. Reader quotes appear only when a real reader has said it and agreed to it being used.
• Claim to cure, treat or heal. Food is not a medicine and this site will not pretend otherwise.

How a page gets published

1. The question comes from what readers actually ask, or from what people are searching for and finding no good answer to.
2. It is researched against primary sources, and every claim is written down next to the source it came from.
3. Laura checks that list line by line before anything goes live, and anything she cannot stand behind is cut.
4. The page says when it was last checked. If guidance changes, the page is updated and the date moves.

Research and first drafts are put together with the help of AI tools. Nothing is published on that basis alone: every claim is checked line by line against the sources listed on the page, and Laura signs it off before it goes live.

Getting something wrong

If something here is out of date, unclear or plain wrong, say so. Corrections are made openly and the checked date is updated. The quickest way to reach Laura is to reply to the newsletter, or to leave a comment on the Substack.