This approach shares many principles with functional medicine — including a focus on root-cause investigation, researched supplementation, and personalised care. With a foundation in medical training, it applies the same level of clinical reasoning and diagnostic precision expected within functional medicine.

However, it goes further. What distinguishes this method is its integration of underutilised yet powerful disciplines: traditional herbal medicine, energetic therapies, and global healing systems that predate modern medicine. It also incorporates ongoing research, including emerging insights not yet mainstreamed into conventional or functional models.

In essence, while it includes everything functional medicine offers, it is broader in scope and deeper in philosophy — bridging the clinical with the traditional, the measurable with the intuitive, and the scientific with the energetic.

This approach aligns closely with the principles of integrative medicine — which seeks to combine the best of conventional and complementary therapies to support the whole person. It shares integrative medicine’s commitment to personalisation, prevention, and collaboration across disciplines.

However, it goes beyond. While integrative medicine draws from established modalities, this method incorporates ongoing research and real-world insights drawn from clinical case reports and practitioner experience globally — including emerging findings not yet integrated into formal integrative frameworks.

It’s a more dynamic model — one that evolves with the evidence, honours the value of practice-informed clinical insight, and remains open to pioneering therapeutic strategies rooted in both science and traditional systems

While I hold formal medical training and licencing, and understand the appropriate use of pharmaceutical interventions, my approach does not involve prescribing medication.

Instead, I focus on comprehensive assessment, root-cause investigation, and natural therapeutic strategies — including nutritional, botanical, lifestyle, and energetic interventions — that are designed to support the body’s healing processes.

That said, the role of medication is at times necessary and I work with an understanding of how pharmaceuticals interact with the body and with natural therapies. Clients on prescribed medication are supported safely and holistically within that context.

To have a clearer understanding of the boundaries between this approach and my conventional medical obligations, you can read more in the Terms & Conditions.

While I am medically trained and fully able to interpret diagnostic test results, I do not provide formal medical diagnoses within the scope of this service. My role is to offer a structured, root-cause health analysis that draws on clinical reasoning, functional interpretation, and evidence-based insight.

Clients are encouraged to share any relevant test results as part of the investigative process, and where necessary, I may suggest speaking with a primary care physician or specialist to explore a formal diagnosis. This approach is intended to complement, not replace, standard medical care — offering a broader context and more personalised strategy for those seeking clarity beyond the diagnostic label.