The Endometriosis and Fertility Clinic

"Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food"
Hippocrates (460 BC)

Dian Shepperson Mills
Cert Ed, BA, Dip ION, MA

Dian is the founder and lead nutritionist at the Endometriosis and Fertility Clinic. She is an MA graduate of the University of Brighton Faculty of Health Department, and tutors on endometriosis, infertility and nutrition at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION) in London.

Dian received her Cert. Ed. in nutrition from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1971 and lectured in nutrition for seventeen years. She gained a BA degree in Education and Psychology from the Open University in 1980, and the Diploma in Nutrition from ION in 1991. She has an MA in Health Education (Europe), where she researched nutrition/health policies and guidelines and looked at phyto-chemicals in food and their effects upon health. Her dissertation was on 'The Role of Nutrition in Preconceptual Care'. She mentors ION second and third year students with their clinical practice and advise them on their dissertations.

Dian’s research interests are in women's health areas, endometriosis, male and female infertility, premenstrual syndrome, endocrine disorders in males and females, and menopause. She has researched the relationship between endometriosis and diet for ten years, and works closely with physicians in Europe and North America. Dian has published several papers, abstracts and book chapters and has given lectures at scientific meetings in the USA, Europe, Asia, and South America.

Dian is an active member of:
• the British Association of Nutrition Therapists (BANT)
• the Nutritional Therapy Council
• the Institute of Optimal Nutrition
• the Endometriosis SHE Trust (Simply Holistic Endometriosis Trust) in the UK
• the Endometriosis Association in the USA
• the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)
• the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)

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