Nourish & Flourish: Menopause Awareness Month Event – 20th October 2025

Christine Bailey is an award-winning Registered Performance Nutritionist, Functional Nutrition Practitioner, and Chef with over 20 years of experience across the catering, nutrition, fitness, and wellbeing industries. With advanced training from the Institute of Functional Medicine and the Institute of Performance Nutrition, she brings science-led, personalised nutrition to the catering sector and her clinical work. Christine also holds a degree in Environmental Sciences and a Master’s in Ecological Sciences, equipping her with a unique ability to integrate nutrition with sustainability and holistic food system strategies. She integrates this expertise to develop sustainable, high-impact wellbeing and nutrition programmes for UK and international clients.

Her soon to be launched book The Personalized Nutrition Guide to Menopause: Reset, Renew and Rebalance the Body and Mind is based on the latest scientific research into nutrition, and takes a functional medicine approach. This book is a must-have for both nutritionists and their clients. This evidence-based, and accessible guide enables the reader to create a personalized health plan for optimal well-being before, during, and after menopause.

Bethan Thomas is a renowned tea expert, with over 18 years commercial experience blending and buying tea for the UK’s most prestigious tea companies before establishing her own successful brand, HotTea Mama.  Unlike other generic ‘healthy’ tea blends, HotTea Mama teas have specific, functional benefits designed for women’s bodies.  They have developed a tea to support you with the menopause a tea to help PMS and support fertility, and once you become pregnant, an award-winning blend to ease morning sickness, a blend to support breastfeeding, a raspberry leaf tea blend to prepare the body for labour, a caffeine free pick me up, a sleep aid, and a high caffeine cuppa.

After graduating from Oxford University with a masters in Chinese Studies, Bethan was the first non-Chinese national to gain a degree in Tea Science from the University of Agriculture and Forestry in Fujian, giving her a unique knowledge of the bio-chemistry of tea, production methods, blending techniques and tea culture.

Christianna is a women’s health nutritionist with expertise in perimenopause and menopause. She is dedicated to helping women feel healthy, happy and confident through their food and lifestyle choices. Her approach is to use evidence based nutrition science, to educate her clients, so they can apply these principles in a way that works for them. She advocates for women’s health and wants to be a source of accurate, helpful information for her clients and social media following.

When she isn’t working with clients  in her clinic, she does corporate and brand work; delivering webinars, creating content and advising on health policy. She also loves to cook and develop recipes that are all about making nutrition easy, delicious and family friendly. As a perimenopausal woman herself, she is passionate about showing women that age doesn’t define health and that every woman can feel their best.

Mex Ibrahim is passionate about gender equality, co-founding Women in the Food Industry in 2019. The organization supports women across the food sector, advocating for equality, inclusion, and leadership opportunities, and empowering women to achieve their career goals in the industry. It became a non-profit social enterprise in 2023.

With expertise in sustainability, entrepreneurship, and ethical eating, Mex is a trustee of the charity School Food Matters, a member of the Guild of Food Writers, sits on the advisory board of New Food Magazine, is an associate of the Royal Society of Public Health and was recently awarded Best DEI Champion in the Specialty & Fine Food Fair Awards. Mex also runs her own successful freelance business in social media, content creation, and digital strategy.

Together, they’ll explore how food, nutrition, and community can support women before, during, and after menopause – and how we can build a culture that celebrates and empowers women at every stage of life. You will also have the opportunity to sample and enjoy some seriously good, health-focused snacks courtesy of Todelli. Both before and after the panel you can try some innovative, clean, preservative-free products from independent British makers committed to health and sustainability.

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