Testimonials

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 I have recently spent two weeks at Cwmdu Retreat in beautiful Wales. This wonderful retreat hosted and expertly run by Nadia Brydon was a totally life affirming and life changing experience.  

I had few expectations, I understood that I would be detoxing eating a raw vegan diet and juicing for two weeks but I was totally amazed with how much loving care and attention Nadia gave me each and every day. 

Nadia was the perfect hostess and is an expert practitioner who has so many years experience in so many healing modalities. Nadia was totally committed to ensuring my experience was not only therapeutic but also filled with many personalised treatments including acupuncture, hydro therapy, shiatsu, Reflexology, detoxification, water enemas and daily castor oil liver packs. 

When the sun shone, Nadia escorted me on wonderful trips with her assistant raw vegan  chef Olga, we visited  the coast, swam in the sea, climbed a mountain, went on daily walks  and visited other beautiful locations in the Brecon Beacons and the surrounding countryside. 

Nadia made every moment of my stay comfortable, transformational, educational and fun.  Nadia has such a passion for healing and I came away feeling totally healed both mentally and physically. 

I had for the previous 6 months been suffering from a dark depression that had left me feeling hopeless, disconnected and not able to enjoy or engage in life. I was desperate and suicidal.   My intuition told me  that I needed to focus on the healing properties of nature in a beautiful location, detoxing my body and my mind,  healing and finding a new purpose and happiness in my life. Fortunately for me I found all things and more with Nadia at Cwmdu Retreat. 

Cwmdu Retreat is in the most beautiful, remote rural location nestled at the foot of a mountain. It is place where you can relax and forgot your phone and engage with nature and the magnificent Welsh countryside. 

Everyday I would awake to the sound of bird song and sheep and lambs bbba bahing !! The only occasional vehicles on the single track road was the local farmer on his tractor, horse riders and the local farmer ! 

It was perfectly quiet and allowed me to relax and totally reconnect with nature. 

The Hippocrates programme I followed under the expert guidance of Nadia was wonderful. The raw vegan meals were always a feast, enjoyed in company of Nadia and Olga who spent hours lovingly preparing the gorgeous raw vegan food each day.   I was truly amazed with the creative culinary delights that  would be presented to eat.  It so exquisitely opened my eyes (and taste buds!) to the Mother Nature's abundance, variety and taste of an expertly prepared raw vegan diet. I was never ever hungry !! 

I could write a small book about my wonderful experience, yet suffice to say I left Cwmdu Retreat and Nadia feeling so very full of life, totally optimistic for my future and not a hint of feeling any depressive symptoms. In addition I had been on Bio identical hormones for nearly ten years for my menopause. I had suffered with brain fog, loss of memory, night sweats, anxiety and muscle aches to name a few of my menopausal symptoms! However, I did feel that the Bio identical hormones were no longer serving me, so under Nadia's guidance and expertise I was able to come off all my HRT and Nadia ensured my hormones were stabilised by introducing natural remedies into my smooothies. Three weeks later I'm very happily symptom free of all troubling menopausal symptoms. 

My energy levels are amazing  and I have a renewed clarity of mind. This 'new me'  continues three weeks after leaving Cwmdu. 

As I said the retreat was life affirming,  life changing and  educational.  I  left with so much new knowledge of naturopathy, detoxification, juicing and raw vegan food and many more healing modalities. Nadia kindly spent hours with me, patiently educating me and demonstrating how to prepare many raw vegan dishes  and  the delicious juices and smoothies.  Nothing was ever too much trouble for Nadia who cared so deeply for her guests and their individual healing journeys.  

I would so highly recommend this unique retreat and Nadia to anyone who needs to heal from whatever ailment they are suffering from. 

Love and light to you all  

SC

Dearest dearest Nadia,

I just wanted to thank you so much for such a beautiful 7 days .  Your level of light, your level of care, your level of generosity and your level of being is just so so  beautiful and I want you to know how much I appreciated being with you and in your presence and receiving .  Actually receiving,  it was so lovely to receive because I give as much as you give to my clients even though I am a friend of yours and becoming more so, but it was beautiful for me to receive and thank you for your untold care and you sweetness and your laughter and your platform thirteen and a half and all of it.   I absolutely so appreciated it.  I appreciate you .  I appreicate everything you are doing and I thank you for your guidance.  Really thank you for your guidance.  I am going to take it all on the chin and in to my heart and do the very best I can.  I feel lighter since I've come home, I definitely feel lighter in my body.  I am going to  just send you a link of my weight and let me know when that scale is set up and I can send you my weekly readings which we could say would be Monday morning  because that would  just be a simple day when I could send you my weight readings every monday.  So thank you dear friend, thank you for all the light you bring, thank you for all the radiance you are and give my love to that you know who Rosie.  OK I wll be in contact . I'll let you know how I am doing and all is good.

A friend suggested I get in contact with Nadia and am very glad I did.

I wanted somewhere to chill out for a week, get some rest and get some professional advice about my diet.

I spoke with Nadia on the phone who seemed to understand my needs right from the start.

The train journey from London was pleasant particularly on the final leg which was on a single carriage train from Swansea to Llandeilo where I took in the beautiful Welsh landscape which Nadia said would be the case on the phone.

Nadia picked me up at the station and we headed to her retreat.

What can I say?

Thank you!

Thank you for the top class hospitality.

Thank you for the wonderful green smoothies.

Thank you for all the lovely meals and juices. 

Thank you for the attention to detail and kindness shown right throughout the trip.

Nadia went the extra mile and listened to me which really helped.

The room was tidy and clean with everything one would need.

The log fire and warm sitting room was like something out of the film The Holiday.

Nadia encouraged me to go on walks to breathe in the wonderful fresh air.

The water here is from a natural spring.

I have listened to her advice and I feel already so much better. The consultations were wonderful in her treatment room. The essential oil smell suggest ones in the right place.

I look forward to changing my dietary habits and cook the recipes Nadia has suggested.

Would thoroughly recommend speaking to Nadia and booking a trip.

JW

I met Nadia Brydon at the perfect time. Nadia Brydon is the queen of applied clinical nutrition and comprehensive optimum health. My mother had been diagnosed with health-weakening gall bladder stones, crippling her with pain and making surgery seem an unavoidable essential – yet, given her age, we all wanted to avoid it. To see if any alternatives existed, I emailed Nadia Brydon, describing everything about my mother’s condition, with a picture of her sitting amid some plants, greens and herbs. I included comprehensive details of my mother’s health and conversations with her doctors. Nadia replied with a complete, natural, nutrition plan, which I sent over to my mother - and which she started to apply at once.

She was only supposed to follow the plan for 3-4 weeks, but in time she felt so good that she neither wanted to stop eating the foods Nadia had recommended, nor to stop drinking the juices and smoothies Nadia had tailored to her condition.

Actually, for the first few weeks, she felt few improvements, but still continued. After 5-6 weeks she started to feel vastly better and completely rejuvenated. The pain disappeared completely. However, at one point, the doctors wanted to check progress with regard to the gallbladder stones, and called her to do another scan. She had the scan without any stones showing up: the doctors repeated the scan, thinking there must have been a mistake. My mother told them that she had changed her diet, but they just looked at her with patronisingly raised eyebrows. Of course, the second scan merely confirmed the total absence of gallbladder stones, so surgery was not needed.

I’m eternally grateful to Nadia for orchestrating the saving and prolonging of my mother’s life, giving her many years of great health.

Nadia was able give my mum the most effective clinical approach, comprehensive advice and nutritional services, even without her being present – a gauge of her strength, unique clarity and peerless understanding of natural body-healing mechanisms, advanced physiology and nutrition.

JA for mum MA

For the last 4 years I have had a skin condition which has been so difficult to get to the bottom of. Despite eating a healthy diet, it was not improving, and it has been very challenging. Then I met Nadia, who suggested to me adopting a low histamine diet, and gave me lots of info and advice about foods to avoid, and foods that were good for me. So I began juicing and eating the recommend foods, and began to notice a vast improvement with my skin.

 It is amazing that foods you think are healthy may actually not be helpful to the body and can in fact trigger symptoms or make them worse.  I am so grateful to Nadia for her knowledge and expertise, and kindness, as it really is life changing for me. I highly recommend booking a session with her. 

JB

I noticed the lump on the Sunday 7th of September, went to the doctors on Monday 8th where they gave me a provisional diagnoses of a thyroid condition. I had a blood test on Tuesday 9th and got the results back on the Thursday 11th September.  The results confirmed an underactive thyroid and an over active pituitary gland - free Thyroxine from my thyroid at 7pmol/L (normal 8-21) and my pituitary at 42.7mU/L (normal 0.35 - 4).
Thyroxine was prescribed but I decided not to medicate and see if I could improve the function of my thyroid through alternative means. I continued with weekly acupuncture and made an effort to eat seaweed on a regular basis for the iodine and to eat brazil nuts for the selenium and to try and maintain a balanced diet.
I had another blood test on the 28th September and received the results on the 2nd October - Free Thyroxine still at 7 and TSH down slightly to 36.74 - doctors thought this decrease was marginal and still recommended I medicate which I declined.
This is when Francis recommended I came to see you!
I had my appointment with you on the Thursday 16th October during which you recommended I have the green smoothie everyday with the chlorella, take Dr Schultzs super food, and the TH207 supplement as well as increasing my sprouts and fresh wheatgrass intake.
I bought the blender the very next day and started whizzing! from the 17th of October I had the smoothie everyday with the chlorella.   The supplements took about a week to arrive and the wheatgrass never grew but I did continue with the powdered wheatgrass. I was terrible at remembering the supplements and would manage about 1 every 2/3days.
I had my most recent blood test on 7th November 3 weeks after seeing you and starting to drink the smoothies every morning. I got my results on Tuesday 11th and my results were astounding. I knew things were going in the right direction as the swelling had gone down considerably however the results were even better than I expected, they were almost completely normal! my free Thyroxine was up to 13 and my TSH was down to just 4.21!!!
I am continuing with my smoothie and wheatgrass and the occasional supplement when I remember!   I have another blood test in a month to make sure things stay as they are,which I am sure they will! 

Thank you so much Nadia for making my very rapid healing possible!   

RB

The few days with you has given me the most important reset of my whole life. I can’t thank you enough. 

I have kept the diet up in almost every way (I’ve had two coffees). Juicers arrived and today so did my wheatgrass. I’m juicing, smoothies, soups every day, salads and I have just started incorporating some fish. 

On the weekend I went for two 5k runs (on no food!); I’ve been in the gym and done two sessions of ten rounds of boxing, my energy is totally different, I haven’t had one hot flush and I feel TOTALLY different. I have shared your details with so many people. 

IK

We had a lovely time at Nadia’s Healthy Juices and Smoothies workshop in December. Nadia held the workshop in her beautifully converted barn that adjoins her house and retreat centre. We were all given handouts of some great recipes and instructions for making what we learned in the workshop at home. The takeaway information has proven very beneficial, and easy and fun to do.  It was like being in a Cooking Programme where all of the ingredients and blenders were laid out and we were walked through the process and learned about the health benefits of many different vegetables, herbs and natural supplements. Thank you Nadia for sharing your wonderful space and years of knowledge and experience! Thoroughly recommended to people who want to improve their health and share with their family healthy and effective practices!

PVdB

Despite being three times national champion in Martial Arts, and a nutritionist, I found myself in deep trouble when my health took a serious downturn. The many physical demands of national and international competition, and the huge residual stress and psychological pressure must all be managed carefully and appropriately otherwise athletes are exposing themselves to very serious health risks. By applying Nadia’s advice, I not only overcame my challenges, but started to recover very fast from my hard core workouts, no matter how hard I trained. I was sleeping much better, feeling completely reinvigorated when I woke up. Furthermore, I gained mental clarity and focus that I had never experienced before.

Nadia had just provided the best nutritional support you can imagine, with unique recipes of vibrant, colourful, life-giving raw foods, together with juices, smoothies, further nutritional recipes and sound lifestyle advice, helpful suggestions and small adjustments that at the end all makes huge difference.

Nadia supported me and inspired me to study nutrition further – and always to be at my best. I know that her complete clinical, nutritional approach to nutrition, lifestyle adjustments and traditional Chinese medicine, not to mention her uber-qualified herbalism, clinical acupuncture and Hippocrates lifestyle educator, can make a huge difference for everyone. With her powerful and comprehensive preventive natural approach, I’m confident that Nadia can add many years of high quality, excellent health to anyone’s life and I recommend her vast range of services and long term proven successful experience. 

Jazz  Alessi - http://www.personaltrainingmaster.co.uk/   Master Personal Trainer, Clinical Nutritionist, second generation Pilates teacher and Rehabilitation Sports Injuries specialist

Article by Olivia Buxton, clipped from the Sunday Mail, 9th March 2009

“I couldn't work out why I kept piling on weight. Then I was told my thyroid had gone haywire”

The day she graduated from Cambridge with a first-class degree should have been a joyous occasion for Imogen Lloyd Webber. Instead, she felt miserable. 

'It was just another day of having no energy and feeling completely exhausted,' recalls the 32-year-old daughter of theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber. 

'For months, I'd been living on cans of Pepsi Max to keep me going because I could barely get out of bed in the morning. I couldn't work out what was wrong, why at 22 I was feeling like this.' 

She also found herself constantly bursting into tears for no apparent reason. 'I put it down to working so hard for my university finals - I'm not particularly bright and I put myself under a lot of pressure to do well.' 

Then she started putting on weight. After months of working as a freelance journalist, Imogen had taken a job with a U.S. TV station and moved to New York. 

'Despite the fact I was always running around not eating much, I was getting heavier. I'd always been podgy for my 5ft 3in frame, but by the time I started working I was a size 14, rather than the eight to ten I should have been. Carrying all that extra weight really didn't suit me.' 

Feeling exhausted and perplexed by her weight gain, Imogen saw her doctor. Blood tests confirmed she had hypothyroidism, an underactive thyroid...

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  During the Summer of 2016 I suffered from Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) during which my muscles deteriorated by 60%. I was treated with steroids. 

Shortly after I twisted my knee badly due to the lack of muscle support and although the Polymyalgia symptoms improved I suffered a lot of tension and had difficulty standing from sitting and going up and down stairs etc.

My twisted knee did not seem to be getting better so I sought alternative medicine in the form of a high density plant diet which was liquidised and drunk during the course of each day.

After only a few days I noticed a significant change in my flexibility and well-being and I continued the course for 3 months. I also, as recommended, took Sun Chlorella as a supplement.

I feel my quality of flexibility has improved greatly due to this vitamin diet as I had been feeling very low after taking steroids for over a year.