Everything is connected

All body systems are connected.

The symptoms you’re experiencing are usually the downstream effect of an underlying issue that hasn’t been identified yet. Your body is signalling through those symptoms that something isn’t right.

Chasing each symptom on its own tends to go in circles, because they’re often all coming from the same place.

Why I look for the root cause

By going through your symptoms, understanding how your genes are expressing, and using functional testing where it’s warranted, I can work out what’s actually driving the problem and focus on that.

It’s a slower way to start and a faster way to finish. Working on the cause tends to settle several symptoms at once, rather than managing each one separately and indefinitely.

Disease is a verb, not a noun

A disease label, like ‘Parkinson’s disease’, is a way of grouping symptoms and processes that are happening in the body. It’s useful shorthand, but it isn’t an explanation of what’s going on or why.

So the label isn’t my focal point. What matters is what’s happening underneath it — the processes producing those symptoms in you specifically. Two people with the same diagnosis can arrive there by different routes, and they need different things as a result.

There is no such thing as a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ marker

When people get test results back, it’s common to feel alarmed by a page of red markings, highs and lows. I read them differently.

A marker outside the reference range isn’t a fault. It’s the body doing what it’s supposed to do in the circumstances it’s in. The question isn’t whether a number is good or bad, it’s why the body is responding that way.

Understanding that, and correcting it, is what gets results.