About Antonela

Academic expertise, paired with a genuine understanding of what you are going through.

I help women 40+ understand what is happening, recover energy and clarity, and decide how they want the next decades to feel — nutrition science, EFT, and brain-health coaching, without clinical coldness or empty empowerment language. Not a doctor. Not a dietitian. Beside you, not in front of a classroom.

Antonela M. Butuc, nutritional therapist in Dublin

MSc Exercise & Nutrition Science, University of ChesterMSc Nutrition & Food Safety, Carol Davila, BucharestNutritional Therapy Diploma, IHS DublinMaster EFT PractitionerBrain-Health CoachCertified NLP & Life Coach

How it began

It started with children. It led me to their mothers.

My work began by helping children through nutrition. In session after session I noticed the same quiet figure beside them: an exhausted mother holding everything together, putting herself last, and looking capable on the outside.

I understood her perfectly, because I had been her. I lived through inflammation, chronic fatigue, joint pain, and the slow hormonal shift that no one had prepared me for. I knew exactly what it was to feel like a stranger in your own body.

So I went back to the science, not once, but twice. I studied how the body actually works, and added tools that sit with nutrition — EFT, brain-health coaching — so a woman can understand what is happening and start from a Tuesday she is already in. I work with the whole woman, not one symptom at a time.

You are allowed to need support too. Not when everything else is handled. Now.

Hormones are doing this transition. Stress did not start it. A life with no recovery — poor sleep, load, no pause — can make the same weather harder to live in. In the room we often start with safety, not because the nervous system caused the hot flush, but because a threatened, exhausted body absorbs less of what you give it. Nutrition, sleep, tapping, and medicine can sit in the same kitchen. MHT is a conversation for you and your GP. What we hold is the rest of the week.

Women in Ireland and Romania can live more than a third of their lives after menopause begins. That is not a countdown. It is a reason to take sleep, heart health, bones, and thinking seriously — alongside a clinician, not instead of one. Lifestyle is not a dementia vaccine. It is stewardship of the years you still want.

Time is the resource we cannot increase. Health, energy and self-trust are how we spend it well. That is the centre of the work — not a side theme under hormones.

The result is a way of working that supports you as a whole, so you can remain yourself in the decades ahead.

The background behind the work

Qualifications you can trust.

Depth matters when it is your health. Here is the training that informs every plan I build. Education and coaching — not a clinic.

In their words

The proof is in how they feel.

Let’s begin

If this sounds like you, you’re in the right place.

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