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Vitamin D and Covid 19 Action Points

Pete explains the "Key points" summary of our recent podcast discussing the power of Vitamin D to help with reducing the severity of outcomes with Covid-19.

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Vitamin D & Covid 19 | Practical Tips to Reduce Risk

In this episode, I'm chatting with Senior Nutritional Therapist, Sarah Sharpe from Nutri Advanced, about Vitamin D.

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Functional Medicine Associates - how we pivoted during the pandemic

How we pivoted during the pandemic, some thoughts on the last 12 months

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Immunity Health Hacks for 2021 (& beyond)

At Functional Medicine Associates, we help people suffering from chronic disease to get better and help to optimise the health of others.

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Functional Medicine Associates: Lessons we are learning from the COVID long haulers

COVID-19 was originally perceived as a relatively short illness which, although deadly for some, lasted less than a fortnight for the majority.

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COVID-19: A Whole-Body Disease

Autumn is a time of change, even more so in these uncertain times of COVID-19 – now known as a disease not just of the lungs but a disease that affects the whole body.

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Functional Medicine – Frequently Asked Questions

What Is Functional Medicine? What does a Functional Medicine Practitioner do? How is functional medicine different?

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Functional Medicine Associates on Sleep Deprivation

Twenty years teaches you lots about executives, their organisations and their workers. With board level executives there is the continued absence (of even the most well intended) to act on this most precious of commodities for achieving ultimate executive performance Sleep!

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What’s pain got to do with it?

Our resident pain expert Deirdre Nazareth shares her knowledge and insight on the subject of pain.

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A Marathon induced depression

This is the case of a formerly robust 32-year-old female investment banker, whose health declined after completing her fifth marathon.

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The Concise Guide to Executive Health in 2020

We recently produced a guide in two parts for executive health as we move into a new decade.

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The “Top 10” guide to Executive Health for 2020 – Part 2

At Functional Medicine Associates it is our job to stay at the forefront of science. We have had over 20 years of working with Executives and Organisations on corporate wellness programmes.

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The “Top 10” guide to Executive Health for 2020

As executives we exist in a high pressure, fast-paced, “executive world”; a world that we have created ourselves, a world in which we are being constantly overstimulated.

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Help with the Hangover

With the “Christmas drinks” season rapidly approaching, it’s a great time of year to wind down and re-connect with friends, family and the tribe at work.

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Functional Medicine Associates and Alzheimer’s Disease

Memory has infinite power. It defines who we are. It gives us our individuality and sense of self.

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Functional Medicine Associates on SIBO

SIBO is a condition that we, at Functional Medicine Associates are seeing and having to treat more and more.

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Functional Medicine Associates on Gut Flora

Science suggests that increasing microbial diversity may well be good for health. Why is this? I think of it like this – Imagine good microbial diversity as a rainforest which has a very diverse ecosystem.

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Functional Medicine Associates on Losing Weight and Gaining Toxicity

From a clinician’s perspective, the New Year presents an ideal opportunity for making the most out of working with patients who, at this time of year, are highly motivated to make behavioural changes.

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Functional Medicine Associates on Endocrine System Function

Hormones are molecules that work as messengers for our body. They tell our body how to respond to our environment. Whilst they are tiny molecules they are mighty in their ability to influence the human body.

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Functional Medicine Associates on How A Marathon Induced Depression

“Scientists are beginning to link our psychology to our physiology and so it is that depression has recently been connected with gastrointestinal dysfunction. Functional medicine practitioner Pete Williams shares his intriguing case of a depressed marathon runner, in which he eloquently demonstrates functional practice”