A Brief Biography

Dr Marilyn Glenville PhD (Camb)

Dr Marilyn Glenville PhD is a registered member of the Nutrition Society, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, psychologist, author and broadcaster who obtained her doctorate from Cambridge University.

Dr Glenville has studied and practised nutrition for over 25 years, both in the UK and in the USA, focusing on the natural approach to female hormone problems. Today she is recognised as the UK’s leading nutritionist specialising in women’s health.

She is the President of the Food and Health Forum at the Royal Society of Medicine and is a patron of the Daisy Network, a charity for premature menopause. Dr Glenville was also formerly an observer on the Food Standards Agency’s Expert Group on the safety of vitamins and minerals.

Dr Glenville has had many papers published in scientific journals, frequently advises health professionals and has lectured at academic conferences held at The Medical Society, The Royal College of Physicians and The Royal College of Surgeons.

Dr Glenville was invited to give a presentation in the House of Lords to The Scientific and Technology committee, on behalf of The Nutritional Therapy Council (NTC), on the standards of nutritional training in the UK and the benefits of nutritional therapy to the general public.

In 2005, Dr Glenville was also invited to give a presentation at The Royal Society of Medicine as part of the celebrations to mark the RSM’s bicentennial year in conjunction with the Prince of Wales’ Foundation for Integrated Health.

With her special interest in the female hormone cycle, Dr Glenville frequently works with women who suffer menstrual problems such as heavy periods, painful periods, PMS, fibroids, PCOS and endometriosis, and who wish to work on a nutritional approach to these problems. Dr Glenville also helps couples who are having difficulty conceiving or having recurrent miscarriages.

Dr Glenville also lectures regularly for all the major nutrition schools in the UK at graduate and post graduate level.

Dr Glenville is a popular international speaker. As a respected author on women's healthcare she gives regular talks on radio and has often appeared on television and in the press.

She is the author of 9 internationally bestselling books (see below) many of which have become the standard reference books for practitioners and have sold over 500,000 copies worldwide.

Publcations

Marilyn Glenville is the author of nine international best selling books:

The New Natural Alternatives to HRT,
Osteoporosis – the Silent Epidemic,
Fat Around the Middle,
Healthy Eating for the Menopause,
Natural Alternatives to Dieting,
Natural Solutions to Infertility,
Overcoming PMS the Natural Way,
The Nutritional Health Handbook for Women,
and her latest book Getting Pregnant faster.

These books have been reprinted many times in the UK and have been translated and sold in over 20 countries around the world.

Memberships and Positions

President Elect on the Forum for Food and Health at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Former expert observer for the FSA (The Food Standards Agency) for safety of vitamins and minerals in the UK

Chartered Psychologist

Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Former Chair of the Nutritional Therapy Council

Former Chair of the British Association of Nutritional Therapists

Former Chair of Foresight - the Association for Preconception Care and Infertility

Member of the British Menopause Society

Member of the National Osteoporosis Society

Member of the British Fertility Society

Publications

Author of the international best selling book ‘Natural Alternatives to HRT’ published in February 1997 by Kyle Cathie. The book has been reprinted many times in the UK and is also being sold in Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Canada, America, South Africa and Japan. This book is a nutritional approach to the menopause and over 250,000 copies have been sold. Revised in 2002 and now called ‘New Natural Alternatives to HRT.

February 1999. Launch of `Natural alternatives to Dieting`. 32,500 copies printed in first run. Sold out in first week. Published by Kyle Cathie.

January 2000. Launch of ‘Natural Alternatives to HRT Cookbook’. 20,000 (Hardback) copies first print run. Sold out in first four months. Published by Kyle Cathie. Now called ‘Healthy Eating for the Menopause’.

April 2000. Launch of ‘Natural Solutions to Infertility’. Published by Piatkus Books.

2001. Launch of ‘Nutritional Health Handbook for women’ Published by Piatkus Books.

2002. ‘Natural Solutions to PMS’. Published by Piatkus Books. Now called ‘Overcoming PMS the Natural Way’.

2005. ‘Osteoporosis – the silent epidemic’ Published by Kyle Cathie.

2006. ‘Fat Around the Middle’. Published by Kyle Cathie.

2008. ‘Getting Pregnant faster’ Published by Kyle Cathie.

Glenville M
Nutritional supplements in pregnancy: commercial push or evidence based?
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2006;18:642-7.

Collaborated in a study on Preconception Care and the Outcome of Pregnancy undertaken by the University of Surrey and published in the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (1995), 5, 205-208. This study investigated the effects of controlled nutritional intake during the pre conceptual period on fertility, recurrent miscarriages, small for dates babies and malformations.

Author of ‘Health Professionals’ Guide to Preconception Care’ published by Foresight for doctors, nurses, midwives and health visitors.

Glenville M., Broughton R., Wing AM. and Wilkinson RT (1978)
Sleep, 1, 169-176

Glenville M (1979)
Chronobiologia IV, 2, 101

Glenville M and Broughton R (1979)
Chapter in P. Passouant (ed.)
Proceedings of the Symposium ‘Pharmacology of the States of Alertness'.

Glenville M and Wilkinson RT (1979)
Ergonomics 22, 8, 927-933

Glenville M, Broughton R, Wing AM and Wilkinson RT (1979)
Chapter in C. Mackay and T. Cox (ed)
Response to Stress published by IPC Science and Technology Press

Workshops conducted for:

 Barclays Bank
 Worthingtons
 NSPCC
 National Association for Pre-menstrual Syndrome at the Medical Society
 The British Society of Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians
 The Institute for Optimum Nutrition
 Foresight (The charity for pre-conception care)
 TMS
 The Hale Clinic
 The Festival of Mind, Body and Spirit
 Healing Arts Exhibition
 The Canadian Embassy
 American Women in England
 Flint House Clinic
 Women in Banking
 The Guides Association
 Champion Women
 Wimbledon Golf Club
 University College London
 Daisy Chain The Premature Menopause Society
 St Johns and St Elizabeth's Hospital (The Birth Unit)
 Stoke Manderville Hospital
 South Buckinghamshire Complementary Medicine special interest group
 American Association for Environmental Medicine
 Vitality Show
 Bright Idea. At the Royal College of Surgeons.

 

Dr Glenville has also conducted workshops internationally in:

 Australia.
 Croatia.
 Ireland
 South Africa.
 Switzerland.
 The United States.

Dr M Glenville has
Featured In

Newspapers

Sunday Times	Daily Mail
The Guardian	Daily Express
The Daily Telegraph	Daily Mirror
The Independent	The Observer

Magazines

Good Housekeeping	Women's Realm
Vogue	Zest
You	GQ Magazine
Top Sante	Women in banking
Women's Own	Kindred Spirit
Here's Health	Network Directory
Slimming	Insight
Positive Health	Lifesigns
What Doctor's Don't Tell You	PMS Helplink
National Childbirth Trust	Green Guide

 

TV	Radio
BBC 1 One O'clock and six O'clock News	BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour
BBC 1 The Ester show (Women's health)	BBC Southern Counties Radio
BBC 1 Kilroy (On the Menopause)	BBC Scotland
BBC 2 Trust Me I’m a Doctor	BBC Wales
ITV This Morning Show	BBC Radio Leeds
Channel 4 Diet and Male Infertility	BBC Radio Derby
Central TV Late and Live	LBC
Carlton TV London TV News	Viva
Carlton TV Liz Earl's A-Z of health	BBC Most regions
Yorkshire TV A-Z of Fertility
GMT Food and Health series