#166 Thyroid health and a Personalised medicine approach with Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Root cause medicine. It’s a term that gets banded around a lot, but on today’s episode you’re going to learn about exactly what it means. Complicated conditions like PCOS or autoimmune thyroid disease, actually have multiple causes and getting to the root of what is driving that process is essentially the aim of integrative medicine.
At the personalised medicine conference this year I got a chance to sit down for an hour and chat with Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel, an Integrative Medicine doctor, scientist and educator with degrees in Medicine and Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, as well as an ongoing MSc in Precision Cancer Medicine at the University of Oxford.
She’s also the co-chair of BSIO (British Society for Integrative Oncology) with over a decade’s experience in integrative health, Nina also holds multiple qualifications in nutrition, functional medicine health, herbal medicine, yoga, mindfulness and other therapeutic approaches.
She is the founder and Director of Synthesis Clinic, in Hampshire, specialising in women’s health and integrative cancer care for which she won a prestigious Innovation Leader of the Year award at UKBIA 2022 for her inspirational vision for healthcare.
Today’s show is going to be a fantastic overview of personalised medicine, her format for clinical consultations, how Nina uses therapeutic tools for metabolic and hormone disturbance, the use of food as medicine, black cumin and selenium and her personal experience of integrative cancer care.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.0 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr. Skitsch. |
| 0:46.4 | Recipes, Health, Lifestyle |
| 0:49.2 | Actually, it is not normal to have a 50 year old with 20 medications. It is not normal to be |
| 0:54.4 | crippled by chronic pain every day. It is not normal for women to have crazy painful periods, |
| 0:59.6 | got told it's part of a woman's job. No, absolutely not. So we need to I think cut through that and say |
| 1:06.8 | what we're aiming for is whenever possible, optimal wellbeing is going to look very different from |
| 1:12.5 | one person to another, but this is why we personalise our care, right? |
| 1:18.3 | Welcome to the Dr. Skitsch.com podcast. |
| 1:20.4 | To show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in |
| 1:36.4 | the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the |
| 1:45.2 | multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:54.6 | Root cause medicine. It is a term that gets banded around a lot, but on today's episode you're |
| 1:59.6 | going to learn about exactly what it means. Complicated conditions like PCOS or autoimmune |
| 2:05.9 | thyroid disease actually have multiple causes and getting to the root of what is driving that |
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