About · the founder

Meet Selen.

UK-qualified nutritionist, founder of alkaterra, and the woman behind the Alka-Terranean® method. She started as a computer engineer — then rebuilt her own health from the inside out, and turned what worked into a method thousands of women now follow.

UK-qualified nutritionist · Member, UK Health Coaches Association
Creator of the Alka-Terranean® method · 10,000+ clients since 2015

10,000+Clients coached
2015Coaching since
30 lbsLost in 2 months,
no dieting
3Languages
coached in
The story

From engineer to nutritionist

Selen didn't set out to become a nutritionist. She trained as a computer engineer. The method that thousands of women now follow began as a problem she was trying to solve for one person — herself.

She grew up in Turkey's Mediterranean region, on fresh, whole, simple food. Then, at twenty-one, she moved to the United States to study — and the standard Western diet took a real toll. She gained weight quickly, her digestion fell apart, and her confidence went with it.

So she did what everyone is told to do: cut carbs, skip meals, count calories. The harder she restricted, the worse she felt. That was the moment it clicked — the conventional advice wasn't just failing her, it was making things worse.

She went back to the one thing she knew how to do: she treated her body like a system to be understood, not a problem to be punished. Instead of cutting things out, she focused on balancing pH, calming inflammation, and supporting digestion with alkaline and Mediterranean principles. Within two months she lost thirty pounds, her energy returned, and the gut issues that had followed her for years disappeared.

"My engineering background became my biggest asset. I approach wellness like coding — with strategy, data, and systems that actually work."

Friends noticed. Then family. Then strangers. She qualified as a nutritionist while still working in corporate, and the coaching quietly grew until it out-earned her salary. So she left engineering behind — and built the method into a practice that has now reached more than ten thousand women. Read the full story →

Credentials & expertise

  • UK-qualified nutritionist
  • Member of the UK Health Coaches Association
  • Creator of the Alka-Terranean® method — Mediterranean rhythm meets alkaline balance
  • 10,000+ clients coached since 2015, across English, Turkish and Spanish
  • Specialist focus: gut health, anti-inflammatory and alkaline nutrition, sustainable weight loss without dieting

As featured in

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"You don't need another diet. You need someone who remembers what you ate on Tuesday, and what you said about it on Wednesday." — Selen

The method Selen built for herself, now in your pocket.

For years her method lived in a coaching practice and a Turkish platform with thousands of members. alkaterra is the next step: the same Alka-Terranean® principles, as a coach you can talk to every day. No rules, no tracking, no guilt.

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