Hi Reddit,
I’m Daniel O’Shaughnessy. I’m a nutritionist, a Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a former addiction counsellor with a Master’s degree focused on integrative approaches to mental health, and I’ve spent more than 15 years working with people around nutrition, behaviour, body image and health.
My new book, The Queer Guide to Nutrition and Lifestyle, grew out of something I kept seeing in practice: LGBTQ+ health is often reduced either to medical risk or to how our bodies look, while a lot of the ordinary, complicated reality of looking after ourselves gets missed.
The book looks at health through a queer lens, not because LGBTQ+ bodies require an entirely different set of nutritional rules, but because our health is shaped by much more than biology alone. Identity, body image, social and cultural pressures, relationships, access to healthcare, stigma and lived experience can all affect how we eat, exercise, sleep, have sex, look after ourselves and relate to our bodies.
It starts with the foundations, including nutrition, digestion, stress, sleep, skin and hair, before moving into some of the areas where queer experiences and mainstream health advice often collide: weight loss and muscle gain, body dysmorphia and performance enhancers, sex and pleasure, transgender and gender-affirming health, HIV and PrEP, the party lifestyle, mental health, and LGBTQ+ fertility and family building.
I’ve tried to approach the subjects people sometimes find difficult to talk about without judgement or assumptions and without pretending health happens neatly outside the rest of our lives.
So ask me anything about queer health, nutrition, body image, sex and wellbeing, trans health, the party lifestyle, HIV and PrEP, fertility and family building, mental health, the wellness industry, or writing the book.
You can find The Queer Guide to Nutrition and Lifestyle here: https://uk.jkp.com/products/the-queer-guide-to-nutrition-and-lifestyle
Ask me anything!
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