Lucy Clarke Blog

Deep dives and helpful insights

From nutrition and functional testing to acupuncture and fertility, this blog explores the topics that matter most to the people I work with. Everything is grounded in research, shaped by real-life experience, and filled with practical takeaways. If you love understanding how the body works – and how to support your health – you’re in the right place.

What is Chinese Tongue Diagnosis?

When you come to see me for Acupuncture, I usually ask to see your tongue. Why? Because Chinese tongue diagnosis helps make acupuncture more effective. Here are some of the reasons...

Can Acupuncture treat your Back Pain?

Ever wondered if Acupuncture can treat your back pain? or Why Acupuncture seems to work for some people and not others? Your friend said acupuncture ‘works’ but your uncle said it did nothing for him. . . Let me explain why this might be...

Man holding painful back

7 Easy ways to drink more water

The benefits of drinking water and staying hydrated are well known. Any Google search will list why you should drink water and they include – improving and regulating your digestion, eliminating toxins, hydrating your skin, improving your complexion, aiding concentration and supporting clearer thinking. People have less headaches and it helps with weight...

Glass of water

What exactly is Cupping therapy and how can it help me?

These marks are left on the skin after Cupping therapy, one of the treatments I use alongside Acupuncture. Historically, cups were made from bone but nowadays they are made from glass, bamboo and many practitioners, including myself, use plastic cups with a hand pump. Cupping – How is it done? How does it...

Cupping marks on woman's back

5 Things to know about Chinese New Year

Ever wondered why Chinese New Year is not celebrated on the 1st January? Which of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals are assigned to different years and which animal is associated with your birth year? Then keep reading. . . Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is an...

Chinese lanterns

What is Distal Acupuncture?

As a patient, you expect to leave clinic feeling less pain than when you arrived. You want to leave feeling better and more relaxed.  What many don’t expect is to come for acupuncture and have needles inserted in a different area to where you experience pain! More often than not, I practice Distal...

Hand with two acupuncture needles in

Inclusivity Statement

Supporting every body

As a Fertility Support Trained practitioner, I am committed to supporting every birthing body, and all permutations of the people it takes to make a family. To using the correct Pronouns for each person who walks through the door. To recognise the unique journey taken by same-sex couples and the complex and sometimes traumatic journey that fertility work can represent to Trans and Non-binary people. To treat known egg donors and surrogates without judgement. To acknowledge the unique challenges medical racism (or even just existing in a black or brown body) can pose to people of colour, and within this, to recognise our own privilege and be open to course correction without fragility. To embrace people in bigger bodies, differently-abled bodies and people of all religions. And finally, to accept without question the lived experience of all people who walk through our doors. We aim to treat people fairly and to recognise and respond to their individual needs, experiences and aspirations. Firmly believing that human diversity strengthens and enriches our society, a Fertility Support Trained practitioner strives to provide healthcare without discrimination and with open-hearted, skilled, support.

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