Date: Saturday the 18th January 2025
Time: 10.30am to 12pm
Location: Griffith College, Wolfe Tone street, Dublin 1
What you will learn?
- Understanding the Real Benefits of Gut Health Supplements: Explore the actual impact of probiotics, fibres, fatty acids, and other supplements on gut ecology, separating marketing claims from scientific reality.
- Comparing Supplements vs. Wholefood Nutrition: Learn how powdered and capsule-based supplements measure up against fermented foods and wholefood living for gut health.
- Insights from Decades of Experience: Gain practical knowledge from Edward Joy’s 30+ years of expertise in health foods and supplements, including the long-term benefits and limitations of probiotics and micro-organisms
Further Information
Description
Dublin Ireland In Person Event – 18th January 2025
There are so many products now to influence gut ecology: probiotics, mushrooms, Fibres and fatty acids are all promoted as such but marketing aside, what are the real world consequences of gut health supplements and where are the real benefits?
From butter to butyrate, kefir milk to Lactic acid organisms, mycorrhiza to mushroom bruschetta, what is the real value in what we take in powders and capsules and how does it stand up to what we can get from a diet of fermented foods and wholefood living?
On the 18th January 2025, join Edward Joy to weigh up the calculated difference between supplementation and old school nutrition, with over 30 years experience working with Health Foods, Supplements and herbs, he has a truly unique outlook on the subject. Find out where the long term benefits of probiotics really lies and where micro organisms don’t quite hit the mark.
About the Presenter -Edward Joy
- Integrative healthcare practitioner.
- Specialist in herbal medicine, nutrition and naturopathy
- Education and Product Development. Director Bionutri
- Founder and Managing Director Aquasol
- Public speaker and writer
Edward Joy has over 30 years’ experience as a complimentary healthcare practitioner. An an ethnobotanist, much of Edward’s time is now spent studying the components of plants in an aim to understand their nutritional benefit, his practice firmly adheres to Naturopathic principles. His main areas of focus are Food pathology – particularly in respect of links to human pathology- Ethnobotany, Gut microbiology and Bio-Chemistry.
His informal lectures and herb walks are attended by health professionals in the UK and throughout Europe from Ireland to Italy.
For the past 20 years Edward has worked with the Naturopathic Supplements Company, Bionutri, where his work includes procurement and product development. Working with an ingredient is one thing, ensuring the ingredient has some benefit once consumed is Edward’s particular point of interest.
As Bionutri’s Educational Director, Founder and Managing Director of Aquasol, Edward coordinates and supervises both companies on product development as well as formative programs in Nutrition and naturopathy on behalf of several associations within the health food industry
€8 members, and €16 non-members
*Please Note: Our ANP policy in regard to event cancellations; No Refunds will be given in the 2 weeks leading up to the event start date or after the event has been held. Tickets are Non-Transferable
