Beverly Benster

Beverly qualified in medicine from the University of Nottingham, and trained in obstetrics and gynaecology in Nottingham, Malta and London. Her research was on complementary and alternative therapies for management of the menopause and she conducted trials on progesterone cream which at the time was perceived to be a natural alternative to menopause hormone therapy. In 1997 she co-founded the Centre for Nutritional Medicine in London which offered nutritional and lifestyle approaches to disease prevention.

With a young family and a quest for good food she started small scale farming of grey faced Dartmoor sheep in West Yorkshire. She took a law conversion course and worked as a medicolegal adviser for the defence organisations, then as a medical member of the tribunal service hearing appeals in the jurisdiction of social security and child support.

In recent years she returned to clinical practice in London as a menopause specialist integrating lifestyle approaches to healthy aging.