In this episode, I am lucky to have spoken to two doctors and pioneers in preventative medicine.

Claire Merifield and Alasdair Scott were doctors in the NHS for years. But after being disillusioned by the medical system, they realised what their patients really needed was preventative, personalised healthcare. So they set up Selph, using their respective expertise to create a system with which they help people get to know their health profiles, risk factors, lifestyle and prevention opportunities through diagnostic testing and health coaching.

Claire Merifield is a microbiome PhD, a London GP and a Breathworks Mindfulness instructor.

Alasdair Scott is a microbiome scientist, former cancer surgeon in the NHS and a researcher with Imperial College.

They cover:

• Why pivoting to prevention is urgent.
• Positive proactivity your future health - some of the diseases we think are ‘inevitable’ are actually preventable.
• Is the study of “medicine” the same thing as the study of “health”?
• Medicine 3.0: what it is, Lifespan vs health span and personalised medicine
• How to create achievable goals, avoid unattainable trends, and create environments in which you can access the health you have a right to.
• The current state of health advice: influencers and scaremongering
• Evidence-based vs evidence-informed approaches (there’s an important difference)
• Understanding testing and diagnostics
• What counts as ‘safe’ treatments
• The role of emotional and spiritual health, mindfulness, and the gut in physical wellbeing

I’m so grateful to Claire and Alasdair who made a brave leap to do the right thing for us, even if it takes a lot of hard work and re-wiring of how we, as a population, are taught to think about our health.

Learn more about Selph here:

https://www.selph.co.uk

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In this third episode recorded at the Integrative and Personalised Medical Congress 2025, I spoke with Holistic Facialist, Elizabeth King.

Elizabeth is Weleda UK's Esthetician Education Lead and has specialised in the anthroposophic-based holistic approach to caring for the skin for over 24 years. An experienced trainer, Elizabeth has created Weleda’s Ofqual regulated, CFI Level 4 Certificate course for Holistic Estheticians, focused on the life of touch. Elizabeth ran a private skincare practice in London and was featured in Vogue as one of the top five facialists. She has looked after many high-profile clients and celebrities over the years and has a particular interest in rosacea, teenage acne, and irritated, hypersensitive skin conditions.

In today’s episode, Elizabeth explores:

- what are the rhythms in nature that affect our skin and beauty?

- How can you work with them to optimise your skincare and self care?

- What are the three body types that Elizabeth works with?

- Which body type are you?

- How will that inform what you put on your skin and how to apply it?

- How can your skincare help you find out more about your whole self?

- What is a skin barrier?

- What is a lymphatic pathway?

- What are the surprising effects of the value of touch?

- Why nature’s ingredients holds the wisdom our skin is asking for.

Elizabeth reminds us to listen to our bodies and planet in a world that makes it easy not to, by honouring nature and individuality in our skincare and self care.

Elizabeth’s credentials include:

3 year diploma in Health & Beauty Technology

Further qualifications: Reflexology, Aromatherapy and energy work

Principal of Dr. Hauschka UK training (1999-2011)

Anthroposophic study through 4 year part-time Eurythmy intensive (2017-2021)

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This is the final part of my episode with Dr Leo Pruimboom, a pioneer in cPNI. I was incredibly lucky to speak with him at the 2025 Integrative and Personalised Medicine Congress. Our conversation offered me a new understanding into how much health we can have access to if we know how to truly sense what our bodies are telling us, and how to manage the consequences of modern inventions. His personal story of transformation, and healing anecdotes from his clients will allow you to imagine a life full of possibility and ‘miracles’ that we are not typically taught to believe in.

Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology (CPNI) challenges the reductionist, symptom-focused model of modern medicine. Instead, CPNI is a science of wholeness: it studies how the neurological, endocrine, immune, and metabolic systems are interconnected and shaped by our emotions, history, and environment. CPNI puts the individual at the center of healthcare, seeking root causes, promoting healthy habits, and empowering patients to actively participate in their own wellbeing.

In this episode we cover:

How CPNI (clinical psychoneuroimmunology) reveals that everything is connected—mind, body, brain, immune system, and environment.

How we’ve been taught to see systems as separate and why that reductionism isn’t serving us.

The impact of emotions on physical health, inflammation, and immunity.

Do toxic emotions exist?

How to sense what out bodies need and why modern life makes this hard

Comfortable habits vs challenges that make us healthy.

Why variety, spontaneity, and movement breaks protect our health.

What our cravings mean, hunger and micronutrient sensing.

Why intermittent fasting, ketosis, and diets must be understood in context, not as dogma.

How our environment shapes our microbiome.

The role of energy, frequency, and electrical signaling in health.

The difference between appropriate and inappropriate emotions.

Why monotony is dangerous for our health and variety is medicine.

His seemingly miraculous healing stories, and how processing a childhood trauma cured his lifelong condition in hours.

The role of sensing, intuition, and embodied intelligence.

Why the blueprint of life isn’t in our genes—it’s in our behavior, context, and choices.

How our inventions (from chairs to supermarkets) carry unintended health consequences—and how to deal with them.

How we are more in charge of our health than we think.

Why the doctor’s role is shifting.

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