Functional Medicine

As Functional Medicine Doctors, we believe in the power of food. What we eat can be incredibly healing, nourishing and therapeutic, but can also be damaging and disruptive to our physical and mental wellbeing. There is a lot of confusion in the public’s knowledge about foods they ‘should’ be eating and foods they ‘shouldn’t’ have ... Read more

At the beginning of a patient’s Functional Medicine journey, there’s a lot of testing and monitoring of the effects of changes in order to create a customised treatment plan that works towards the best possible outcomes for them as an individual. But it’s not just about the improvements we can make in the first few ... Read more

As Functional Medicine Doctors, we believe in the power of food. What we eat can be incredibly healing, nourishing and therapeutic, but can also be damaging and disruptive to our physical and mental wellbeing. There is a lot of confusion in the public’s knowledge about foods they ‘should’ be eating and foods they ‘shouldn’t’ have ... Read more

Chronic conditions are some of the most challenging we deal with as doctors and as patients. I know because I’m both. I’m a Functional Medicine doctor who lives with multiple autoimmune conditions, including arthritis and Hashimoto’s autoimmune thyroid disease.  The reason these cases are so challenging is that chronic conditions can become incredibly disruptive to ... Read more

How can Functional Medicine treatment work when nothing else has? The foundational principles of Functional Medicine are what sets it apart in terms of methodology and results. We have the principles that food is medicine and that patients are people, so taking an individualised and holistic approach is best. We also have the principle of ... Read more

Functional Medicine has a unique approach to weight loss, because instead of prescribing a treatment or regime on mass, it follows the philosophy of looking for underlying causes of weight gain or issues interfering with weight loss first. This means the prescribed regime is specific to the individual and is more likely to work because ... Read more