About Us
Clinical Nutritionist, Michael Franklin MA (Oxon) Dip NS, is the founder of Crohn's Colitis Solutions. The author of a highly acclaimed book on CFS/ME, he specialises in helping people find the root cause of hitherto unexplainable symptoms. He has written many articles on health for magazines such as Time Out, Health Advisor, Holland & Barrett magazine and Healthy Eating and has been quoted in many other national magazines and newspapers including the Daily Mail and The Guardian. He is a member of the Guild of Health Writers and the Royal Society of Medicine.
One of his articles, The Real Causes of IBS, which summarises his research into 120 cases of IBS, was the cover story in a recent issue of Positive Health magazine.
Many patients have been kind enough to say that Michael Franklin and Wilma Kirsten have an uncanny ability to see the links between their different symptoms and explain to them for the first time in their lives precisely how their health has gone wrong and what they should do about it.
Wilma Kirsten is an exceptionally able practitioner with a real ability to get to grips extremely quickly with each patient’s underlying health problems and explain them in a lucid, intelligent, articulate manner.
Originally from South Africa, Wilma, who is 39, has a BSc in Nutrition and has been seeing patients since 2005. She has a particular interest in helping patients with fatigue, adrenal and thyroid problems, IBS, Crohn’s, Colitis, intestinal permeability, intestinal parasites, dysglycaemia and almost all those conditions that respond well to nutritional therapy.
Wilma is also fluent in Italian and so can be of real help to any Italians living in England with health problems that they have not been able to sort out.
Success Stories
"Although I continue to take anti-inflammatory medication, the whole constellation of unpleasant symptoms has been eliminated by mere attention to diet. The rewards in terms of health have been, in my case, extraordinary."
One of our patients with Crohn's
"Michael Franklin's work has been especially helpful to all those who have suffered from chronic, niggling problems for several years."
The Sheffield Journal
“It seems like only yesterday I was reading your godsend of an article in Healthy Eating magazine that would change my life forever. But in fact you have been helping me for a little over four years. Many thanks for being the pillar of support that you always are and for helping my friends and family as well.”
Patient in New Year card
“I’m very happy to report that I am in very good health, better than I’ve been for years. During the last six months I have followed a diet from my nutritionist (Michael Franklin) which has worked wonders … the change has been dramatic. The diet has fixed so many other things too. I sleep better than I have done for years, my stomach and bowels, which had been a problem for me for many years, are now regular, my nails are stronger, my hair is thicker, and I am no longer cold and shivery all the time. My plan now is that this is a diet for life. I will be sticking to it as the benefits are enormous.”
Patient in a letter to her GP and to her consultant
“I just wanted to put in writing all my thanks to you. I came to you having explored various options without success and I just had absolutely no idea how much better I could be with the aid of nutritional medicine. I am really enjoying my new way of eating and I’m off to my grandson’s Christening tomorrow in an outfit I was sure I would never fit into again! All my symptoms have decreased and I feel just so much better.”
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