Psychiatry has remained in the Dark Ages while the rest of medicine has moved forward in leaps and bounds. Holding back Psychiatry is the belief that the brain and mood are somehow separate entities as if the brain is not interconnected to the rest of the body. This has been shown to be totally false and something even lay people know. The gut microbiome affects the brain in many ways and inflammation can powerfully alter brain function and neurochemistry. These are the targets for Functional Medicine.

There is more to treating cancer than just targeting cancer cells. There is no guarantee that recurrence will not occur. Not looking after the cellular terrain that the cancer cells are in is missing a big part of the puzzle and a critical factor in not only preventing cancer forming in the first place but to decrease the risk of spread and recurrence.

Functional Medicine is all about maintaining health from as early in life as possible and to increase our health-span. This type of medicine aims to find and correct nutritional and lifestyle factors through Precision Nutrition investigative tools and to intervene before progressive damage and disease manifests.

Gut microbiome diversity is shaping up to be a critical factor in health. Until now it seemed acceptable to encourage to use any fibre even as monotherapy when we now know that one fibre (prebiotic) type will stimulate a small group of organisms to thrive at the expense of others thus distorting microbiome composition. A formulation with multiple fibre types that include gums, mucilage, soluble and insoluble fibres and a range of micronutrient and phytochemicals can be highly protective of the bowel and gut lining helping to promote damage and dampen inflammation through robust generation of all the Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs)

One meal makes little difference to your healthspan or lifespan. It is the cumulative damage cased by meal-after-meal that damages cells, tissues and organ systems making them age rapidly and become dysfunctional.

Prostate cancer is common in men but a raised PSA should not be seen just as a marker but as part of the process of cancer spread. Watchful waiting is easier said than done but research on natural and safe components have shown great promise when used in a big-picture sense with diet and lifestyle modification.

Blockages occur in the heart arteries and other arteries due to metabolic factors that are intricately related to your diet. These are thus avoidable to a very large extent. After stenting, the job isn't done, the journey just begins.

Endometriosis is a painful condition that affects young women in their childbearing years. It is where the lining of the uterus spreads in the pelvic area and further. It can be managed by both dietary (nutraceutical) management and medical and surgical interventions.

Damage from solar radiation is a daily occurrence unless you protect the skin surface and from within your body. The Oral Nicotinamide to Reduce Actinic Cancer [ONTRAC] study showed conclusively that there was a marked reduction in non-melanoma skin cancer (BCCs, SCCs) due to Nicotinamide. Carotenoids have also been shown to be skin protective in many ways including by acting as ultraviolet filters in the skin itself.

Ketogenic diets can be extremely beneficial for not only weight loss but heart and brain health and to improve insulin sensitivity in prediabetic or diabetic states. It needs to be done correctly though as any diet can become unsafe if not executed correctly to ensure nutrient sufficiency.