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The Mighty Adrenals: A Clinical Perspective on Supporting the Stress Response System

As healthcare professionals, we are acutely aware of the critical role the endocrine system plays in systemic regulation. Yet, the adrenal glands—despite their relatively small size—are often underappreciated for their expansive physiological influence. Perched on top of each kidney, these glands are central to the body’s response to stress, metabolic regulation, immune modulation, and neuroendocrine communication. In clinical practice, recognising patterns of adrenal dysregulation and understanding...

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The UK's Chronic Illness Challenge: The Rise of Functional Medicine in a Strained NHS System

In the United Kingdom, an increasing number of people seeking relief from chronic illnesses find themselves at the threshold of a healthcare system grappling with its own ailments. The National Health Service (NHS), once the beacon of public healthcare, is now perceived as beleaguered and dysfunctional, especially when it comes to managing long-term health conditions[1]. This gap in the healthcare system is gradually being bridged by private healthcare practitioners, notably those trained in the...

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Lifestyle factors for the prevention and care of people with inflammatory bowel disease

Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) typically featuring chronic diarrhoea (with or without bleeding), abdominal pain, and weight loss. These affect an estimated 3.1 million adults in the USA and another 1.3 million in Europe[1],[2]. Globally, the incidence of IBD is increasing, particularly in newly industrialised countries[3]. These diseases are characterised by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. However, other symptoms...

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Have you been ‘Gish Galloped?’

This is when you are in discussion with someone, or some people, whose debating method or simply their pursuit of verbal dominance is known among philosophers and rhetoricians as the ‘Gish Gallop’. The aim is simple: to defeat their opponent by burying them in a torrent of incorrect, irrelevant, or idiotic arguments. Named after one of the most vocal ‘creationists,’ Duane Gish, who notoriously used a rapid-fire approach during a debate, presenting arguments and changing topics very quickly and in...

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‘Here’s the thing’

In clinical practice, where lifestyle intervention is the primary strategy, it can be a real challenge to firstly motivate for change and then facilitate ongoing adoption of changed behaviours to create an evolved and enhanced health status. This can be so problematic that many primary healthcare professionals more familiar with pharmaceutical allocation find the prospect of an adaptive approach too off-putting. On the other side, there are many who pivot from pharmaceutical approaches to nutraceutical...

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Celebrating 20 Years as the Global Leader in Functional Medicine Education

2011 marks the 20th anniversary of The Institute for Functional Medicine. Antony Haynes and Leonie Ash attended the 20th International Symposium in Seattle with Mike Ash, who presented for the second time at an IFM Symposium. He gave two superb presentations to the 600+ audience of doctors and health practitioners from over 20 countries. The Symposium subject this year was: The Challenge of Emerging Infections in the 21st Century: Terrain, Tolerance, and Susceptibility. On the night of the...

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Forthcoming Functional Medicine Text

A New and comprehensive text written by some of the UK's leading practitioners including the managing director of Nutri-Link, Michael Ash and edited by Lorraine Nicolle and Ann Woodriff Beirne is to be published this coming April The forward is by David S. Jones M.D. President and Chief Medical Officer of the Institute for Functional Medicine in the USA. Called Biochemical Imbalances in Disease A Practitioners Handbook and designed to bring up to date information. The book examines a range of...

The Mighty Adrenals: A Clinical Perspective on Supporting the Stress Response System

The UK's Chronic Illness Challenge: The Rise of Functional Medicine in a Strained NHS System

Lifestyle factors for the prevention and care of people with inflammatory bowel disease

Have you been ‘Gish Galloped?’

‘Here’s the thing’

Celebrating 20 Years as the Global Leader in Functional Medicine Education

Forthcoming Functional Medicine Text

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