My Areas of Expertise

How do I support you? Here are my areas of expertise:

Mindful Eating and Active Living Integration: I combine your nutrition goals with your daily hustle and training schedule, ensuring you gain a healthy eating behaviour that is at peace with food and sustainable without guilt.

Sports Nutrition: I create science-based strategies specific to performance and recovery, planned according to your training cycles.

Injury Period and Return-to-Sport Nutrition: I treat the injury process not as a loss, but as an opportunity for repair. I help you return to the field stronger than before with strategies that prevent muscle loss and accelerate tissue healing.

Science-Based Supplement Use: No guessing games. I provide guidance on safe, effective, and evidence-based supplement use to support your health and performance.

Nutrition for Female Athletes: Sensitive strategies that manage the effects of female physiology, hormone balance, and cyclical changes on performance.

Nutrition in Menopause: Nutrition plans tailored to changing hormonal structures, protecting bone health, preventing muscle loss, and ensuring you navigate this process comfortably.

Gut Health and Microbiota: By supporting gut health (IBS, bloating, etc.), I help increase your immunity, endurance, and overall quality of life.
Eating Disorders and RED-S in Athletes: I identify risks of Low Energy Availability (LEA) and RED-S syndrome in sports and develop curative solutions for them.

EDUCATION AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETENCE

PhD & Academic Degree: Undergraduate degree at Ankara University; Master’s and Doctorate at Hacettepe University (Graduated with honours and 2nd in Faculty).

CORU Registered Dietitian: A dietitian with international competence, registered with the Health and Social Care Professionals Council of Ireland.

Post-Doc Researcher: Two years of postdoctoral research on endurance athletes and metabolomic analyses supported by the Irish Research Council at Dublin City University.

CLINICAL AND ATHLETIC EXPERIENCE

Global Nutrition Consultancy (2015 – Present): Nutrition consultancy for a wide portfolio, primarily endurance and elite athletes, across Turkey, Ireland, and the Netherlands.

Clinical Expertise: 3 years managing Type 1 diabetes and endocrine diseases at Ankara Training and Research Hospital Endocrine Clinic.

INSTRUCTION AND SPEAKING

12 Years of Academic Career: Past experience as a lecturer and research assistant conducting courses on Sports Nutrition, Nutritional Biochemistry, Nutrition Education and Counselling and Scientific Literacy.

100+ Stage Experiences: Over 100 seminars and workshops for a wide audience ranging from athletes to health professionals at universities, clubs, and congresses.

Mentorship: Sports nutrition instructor in international programs supported by Cambridge University.

Skills and Specialist Training

• Internationally certified ISAK Level 3 Anthropometrist (Instructor).
• FODMAP trained dietitian – Monash University (Australia).
• Experience in metabolic testing, body composition assessment, gut-focused nutrition strategies, and interpretation of laboratory results.

Research and Publications

• Over 20 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of sports nutrition, gut health, metabolic rate, eating behaviour, and body image;
• Over 600 citations and an h-index of 9 on Scopus (my articles).
• Ongoing collaborations with research groups in Ireland, the UK, Belgium, and Switzerland on endurance performance, supplements, and microbiome-based projects.
• Editorial Board member for the journal Food and Agricultural Immunology.