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The Secret Superheroes of Gut Health
What if the key to better gut health was hidden in the colourful fruits and vegetables we eat every day? Here is where polyphenols are the star of the show. Polyphenols, are a type of phytonutrients – naturally occurring bioactive chemicals found in plants including those we eat.
How to Thrive in 2025!
From AI-driven wellness solutions to personalised nutrition powered by wearable health technology, here is how we thrive in 2025!
Light in the Dark: Harnessing Winter’s Stillness
As nature slows, it mirrors a chance for us to pause and assess how we nurture our bodies. During the colder months, our circadian rhythm changes and we tend to sleep more in winter as energy levels lower. Traditionally humans would have used the quietness of winter to also slow the pace of life as we are naturally inclined to draw inward for shelter and warmth.
The Gift of Calm this Christmas
It’s the lead up to Christmas and whilst lots of us may enjoy the festive season, for many this can also be a time of stress and overwhelm. Here are my top 3 ways to practice calm this Christmas.
Beyond the Tears: Understanding and Coping with Grief
Beyond the Tears: Understand and Coping with Grief "Whenever we think about loss, we need to think about love" Julia Samuel As a palliative care doctor who has worked in cancer care for over thirty years, I have experienced my fair share of death both personally and...
Focus on Men’s Health
As we near the end of November, which is men’s health month, we focused our monthly free webinar last night on raising awareness of men’s health with a special spotlight on the prostate. Led by Dr Asim Vine of our Integrative Doctors and also a GP, we learnt first of all why it’s important that we talk about men’s health and also how an integrative approach can be helpful.
The Importance of Connection During Self Care Week
The Importance of Connection During Self-Care Week It's self-care week, so as we approach Christmas, which can become an overwhelming time of year for many, I wanted to offer some advice on what self-care means and how it can be realistically incorporated into our...
Prescribing Wellness: Lifestyle Medicine by GP’s
Social prescribing link workers and health coaches are key to helping drive sustainable lifestyle medicine within busy GP surgeries, with educational workshops on healthy habits to empower patients to take more proactive roles in their health. Just think, with these additions, GPs could not only more effectively treat conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity but actually prevent them.
Intermittent Fasting: The Ultimate Hack to Longevity
Intermittent fasting is a method I often recommend to patients for a variety of reasons – often from the perspective of disease prevention but it has also been shown to help reverse some chronic diseases.
Integrative Approaches to Chronic Pain
Between one third and one half of the UK population are affected by chronic pain. This weeks blog is a breakdown of our most recent integrative health forum on integrative approaches to chronic pain featuring expert speakers on chronic pain, Dr Deepak Ravindran, Dr Sarah Monz, Dr Nikki Chatfield, Izabella Natrins and Bobby Sira.
Powering Change: How the Third Sector is Shaping a Better Future
The “third sector” of medicine represents a crucial component of our healthcare system here in the UK. But what exactly is the third sector and why is it so vital to the NHS?
The True Cost of Ultra-Processed Foods
The True Cost of Ultra-Processed Foods There has been even more in the press recently about ultra-processed foods (UPF’s), with people in healthcare having conflicting opinions on how harmful they are for us. Given my love of food and nutrition and of course...