Thrive 55: Building age-friendly workplaces As some of you may know when I started the National Centre for Integrative Medicine as a not for profit community interest company, I was committed to the idea of four pillars – within the Education pillar we...
Let’s Dig Deeper! Functional Medicine and why it’s so important for personalised care Last night we had our free monthly webinar with Dr Hazel Walkin, a GP in Somerset and new functional medicine doctor for NCIM. She talked us through what functional medicine is,...
Changing the Prejudice Around Lifestyle Medicine I was fascinated to read about new research which came out last month, suggesting that the environment an individual lives in, is about 10 times more influential than genetics in determining why some people face a...
What is Integrative Medicine? It has to be one of the questions I am asked the most from those outside our field of work…. What does integrative medicine mean? Sometimes I think the biggest barrier to making integrative medicine more accessible is a lack of...
The Planetary Parade It’s been exciting in the month of February to be able to witness the planetary parade. Because of the lack of moon and the way the planets have aligned with the sun, very few of us were able to see all seven planets, but even to be able...
