Toral Shah is a Nutritional Scientist (MSc Nutr Med), integrative oncology practitioner and functional medicine & nutrigenomics Master practitioner, Health writer and Consultant, as well as the Founder of The Urban Kitchen. She uses evidence based science and nutrition knowledge along with lifestyle medicine to help support others to optimise their health and reduce risk of disease.

She is particularly passionate about cancer prevention and recurrence and completed her MSc thesis researching diets that reduce risk of recurrence of breast cancer. She has created integrative oncology courses to support breast and prostate cancer patients through treatment and beyond to recovery. As a breast cancer patient and survivor, she understands how patients might want to change their diet and lifestyle post diagnosis. She is involved with a range of academic studies looking at prehabilitation and rehabilitation of cancer patients focusing on diet, physical activity and lifestyle including her work within the NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration, and Living Beyond cancer committees.

She is also passionate about health inequalities in cancer and is an educator, researcher and advocate in this field, and the co-founder of South Asian Supernovas.