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About Laurentia (Laura)

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Making people, products, businesses and the planet healthier

Who is Laurentia Campbell?

Laurentia Campbell is a nutritionist with a MSc (with Merit) in Nutrition Science from Kings College London and a Biomedical Sciences degree (2.1, Hons) from Warwick University and a pgDip in Neuroscience from Roehampton university (distinction). She is a registered Associate (AfN) Nutritionist (ANutr) and a member of the Nutrition Society. She is also part the World Health Organization Fides committee, a team of expert science, health, and medicine social media influencers, where she works to help stop nutritional misinformation on social media and enhance the promotion of health aiding information.

Her ideas are everywhere, helping people, products, businesses and the planet get healthier.

She is a nutrition and health writer and campaigner and new product developer who works with startups and businesses to help them create new products that are good for people and the planet. She has worked with over 1000 food startups and corporates such as Holland and Barrett, reviewing and reformulating to improve the health benefits of current products, and developing new food evidence-based health tech and food products and brands. Laurentia is an author (due to be released in 2026) of Planetable, a book which talks about the nutritional benefits of many of the foods we traditionally waste, and Brain Charger (2028), a book which talks about how to supercharge your brain with food.

In her academic work, Laura has studied the effects of stress on the gut microbiota, the effects of plant, herb, and spices, plant polyphenols (the bioactive part of plants) on anxiety, depression, and cognition. She has also researched the effects of omega-3's on minimizing the effects of stress on the blood-brain-barrier and the role of insulin-sensitizing plants and herbs on stress resilience and cognitive performance. She has worked in gut microbiota labs, with polyphenols and her focus has always been on the effects of food on mental health and brain cognition as well as the environmental impact of foods. She presented her personal research on the “effects of plant polyphenols on mental health” this year at the May 2024 Nutrition Society Polyphenols symposium and is a regular at the Integrative and Personalised Medicine Conferences.

She has worked with businesses including Careology, Newcastle Public Health, Gutxy, Adonis bars, Pip and Nut Butter, Manilive nut butter, Yumi, Martha&me Kombuca, Clipity Yoghurts, Erlystage, Koniver Health, Globmed, Nibble Snacks, Paleo Foods, Kouo, Quappy Mental Health, Unique Health, Georgeous and many other startups. She has also helped advertising and PR agencies such as Cohesion Labs, 99’ers, Havas and through this has worked with clients including Lloyds bank (writing their staff resillience training programme), to 88 Genetics (writing on complex genetic technology), Innovate NHS Mental Health, NHS England, Public Health England and many more companies.

Her content is everywhere helping people, products, businesses and the planet get healthier.

She has helped over 1000 businesses innovate and develop new healthier products and supplements based on credible scientific evidence. She has worked with Startup Direct (part of the government Startup 2011 scheme) and the Centre for Entrepreneurs (now part of Founders Factory) and the New Entreprise Foundation, and with 20 top venture capitalist companies worldwide and through this has mentored entrepreneurs and grown businesses. Through this she has become on the pulse of trends and is fantastic at helping food, nutrition and health startups innovate and sell new products based on scientific information and great content. She uses her expert content writing, food and supplement ingredients and flavours and helps create products that speak for themselves. She has also worked with big organisations such as Vita Coco, Holland & Barrett and Food for the Brain and many more, helping corporations to make credible health claims and products that are as unprocessed, low refined sugar, sustainable and HFSS compliant as possible.

Her products are everywhere helping people, products, businesses and the planet get healthier.

With over 10 years of writing experience, over 20,000 followers already on social media, multiple podcasts series including “mood, food and sleep” with the happiness index and hundreds of published articles to her name on everything from nutrition, gardening, edible-plants, foraging, neuroscience, health-tech, medicine and mental health, Laurentia is an established science writer, educator and entertainer with mass appeal.

She is a gardener and plant lover, with a growing potted plant garden in her small London flat that she shares with Daisy. She is a yoga teacher and avid dog walker, with an obsessive passion for helping the planet, stopping nutritional inequality, and feeding the hungry. She spends her time with her family, friends and community, in her garden, walking, doing zumba or yoga, singing in her choir, forensically researching nutrition and writing.