Functional Medicine

Mid-life changes herald a unique set of challenges for women.  From around the mid-40s to the mid-50s, many women experience evolutions in work and home life, alongside substantial physical changes. If this transition is not well supported, many experience significant loss of both physical and mental well-being, which can have serious impacts on the workplace ... Read more

Cardiometabolic health is essential for longevity and both physical and mental well-being. It is the name given to the way that we assess the body’s fitness and risk of developing cardio-metabolic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke and dementia. This is an aspect of health we consider in all of our patients when ... 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

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