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My Secret to Good Digestion – Fennel
As ever we are always looking for sustainable change with things we can incorporate easily and enjoy, so hail to my next herb tea Fennel! It’s a wonderful digestif, calms the bowels and helps with digestion – plus it’s delicious.
Using Fasting as Preventative Medicine
At the heart of Integrative Medicine lies the potential for preventative medicine so that we can stay well longer into later life. This might sound an obvious thing to aim for but we all need a wake up call to making changes in our life because we’re hardwired as humans to enjoy being comfortable.
The Spiritual Dimension of Fasting
Fasting can strengthen one’s connection to the divine and with other traditions like Ayurveda the body is also seen as divine and ancient traditions of fasting and cleansing are being researched and shared within the Integrative Medicine model.
Detoxing with Nettle Tea
Detoxing with nettle tea plus the benefits of fasting at home and supervised fasting at a special retreat
Learning to Love My Liver
Learning to love my liver – as part of my journey with fasting, to help reduce my visceral fat, I am learning how to look after the health of my liver.
The Highs and Lows of the Fasting Mimicking Diet
Days four and five of Prolon’s Fasting Mimicking Diet: the highs and lows and some tips for fasting.
Day Two and Three of the ProLon® Fasting Mimicking Diet
Day Two and Day Three of Dr Elizabeth Thompson’s five day Fasting Mimicking Diet with ProLon®.
The First Day of ProLon’s® Fasting Mimicking Diet
The everyday practicalities of undergoing the fasting mimicking diet by ProLon® and some of the science behind it.
Inflammation and Fasting
Top tips on reducing inflammation based on Michael Mosley’s radio programme. Includes fasting and how this can help reduce inflammation.
Sowing the seeds for a career in Integrative Medicine
As a medical student, I was formally introduced to integrative medicine (IM) through a ‘Student Choice Placement’ during the beginning of my second year at the University of Bristol. Out of 60 different projects I chose the one titled “Integrative Medicine for Optimum Health in Later Life”, supervised by Dr Elizabeth Thompson, founder of the National Centre for Integrative Medicine (NCIM). At this point I had been practicing mindfulness meditation for two years, and had felt first-hand the profound impact the practice could have on one’s health. I was curious to explore other aspects of the field of IM, so the project seemed like an obvious choice.
One size does not fit all!
Over the last few weeks I’ve really felt the momentum building around Integrative Healthcare, both here in the UK and overseas where I’ve been meeting with colleagues and speaking at conferences about a variety of topics including Integrative Oncology, Nutrition for Wellbeing and Social Prescribing.It’s so exciting because our community is growing as more and more healthcare professionals and patients are seeking a new model of healthcare that is both compassionate and tailored to the individual. One that at its heart focuses on being, or becoming, well on a mental, emotional and physical level rather than simply fixing a symptom.
The Silent Epidemic – Men’s (ill)Health
On average, men are sicker during their lives than women and at the same time the life expectancy of men is reducing. What can we learn, and more importantly what can we do to support our own health? The WHO is researching different health determinants of men and women and has a particular interest in why there is a gap in gender survival rates. Statistics show that men who become ill are not surviving as long as women. The three biggest health concerns when it comes to men are: heart health, cancer and depression, with disease rates higher than in women.