What to Expect
Functional Medicine Deep-dive into your Health
This initial appointment is a comprehensive deep dive into your personal health story and medical history. We will spend time exploring your full health timeline — beginning with your mother’s pregnancy, through early childhood, and across each decade of your life. This helps us understand the health, lifestyle, and emotional factors that have combined over time to shape your current health.
The more information we have, the clearer the picture becomes. If possible, you may also find it helpful to speak with your mother or parents beforehand, to uncover any details from your early life that you may not know or remember.
During your first consultation, I will assess your nails, skin, hair, and tongue because they each tell a story about what’s happening beneath the surface. Combined with your full health history, this allows us to trace back events, triggers, and imbalances that led you here. Think of your health like a waterfall: most people spend their energy mopping up what happens at the bottom. Functional medicine helps us go upstream because to truly understand the present, we must first look at the past.
I provide personalised nutritional advice, I may guide you on targeted supplements, and I use functional testing such as microbiome and stool analysis, blood chemistry, breath tests for SIBO, autoimmune panels, virology panels, food reactivity, and more.
To ensure a collaborative approach to your care, I work in collaboration with other healthcare professionals such as your GP, health coaches, and any other healthcare you may be including for best and safe practice. I believe that a multidisciplinary approach is vital to whole person care. It is very important that drug-nutrient interactions are checked between the supplements and medications that you are taking.
