ABOUT ASTRID · SWISS-TRAINED NUTRITIONIST

Nutrition that meets women where they actually are.

Swiss-trained nutritionist working with women through perimenopause, menopause, and the decades that follow. Practical, evidence-based, and unhurried. Based in Dubai. Working with women across the UAE and Europe.

Swiss-trained nutritionist, practising in Dubai.

I trained as a nutritionist in Switzerland — a country where nutrition is taught as a serious clinical discipline, where the science comes first, and where unhelpful trends are treated with quiet skepticism. That training shaped how I work.

I hold a Swiss Diplôme en Nutrition and a Certificat en Anatomie, Physiologie et Pathologie, both from École TCMA in Geneva. My practice is recognised under Geneva’s cantonal framework for complementary therapy practitioners (loi K 1 03).

Today, I practise in Dubai, where I see women across the UAE in person and online. A growing part of my work is also with women in Switzerland, France, and the wider Mediterranean region — women who often share the same questions but are looking for nutrition advice that takes their stage of life seriously.

My focus is women 45+. Not because the other work — general health, weight, family nutrition — isn’t real, but because the questions women face from perimenopause onward are different, more layered, and far too often dismissed. That’s the conversation I want to have.

How I work.

Three things make my practice different from the standard nutritionist appointment, and they show up in every consultation.

Evidence first. Every recommendation I give traces back to peer-reviewed science, the most current meta-analyses, and clinical guidelines — not the latest trend on social media. If the evidence is mixed, I’ll tell you. If it’s strong, I’ll tell you why.

Honest about limits. I’m a nutritionist, not a doctor. Where the conversation needs to involve medication, hormone testing, or a specialist, I’ll say so clearly and help you bring the right questions to the right professional. The boundary keeps the work clean.

Specific to your stage of life. A 25-year-old’s nutrition is not a 50-year-old’s nutrition. The body shifts. The needs shift. The advice has to shift with them. Most generic nutrition guidance was never built with midlife women in mind. Mine is.

A bit about me.

I’m African origin, Swiss-trained, and have called Dubai home for many years. I’m a mother, a wife, and — depending on the week — a fairly competitive padel player. I move between three cultures and three languages, and that mix shapes how I think about nutrition: there is no single right way to eat. There is the way that works for your body, your stage of life, and the cooking traditions you grew up in.

I write a weekly Friday newsletter on Substack for women 45+ — practical, evidence-based, and unhurried. I share research, occasional recipes, and what I’m learning from clients (with their permission and anonymised). If we end up working together, much of what I write about you’ll recognise in the way I practise.

Most of all: I treat the women I work with the way I’d want to be treated. With time. With honesty. With no nonsense. And with the assumption that they’re intelligent adults who can handle real information about their own bodies.

My own journey through perimenopause is what made this work personal.

Two ways to start

Read the Friday letter.

Not ready for a consultation? The weekly newsletter is the easiest way to see how I think. Practical, evidence-based, written for women 45+. Free, no commitment.