I'm a detective so I ask a lot of questions. You get a lot of homework from me before you even see me. You answer a lot of questionnaires - there's a stress assessment, there's a dietary assessment and there's your medical history and family history. From an emotional perspective, the stress assessment gives me some indication of how your body's reacting, but I'll sometimes go even deeper with that.

Naturopathy is a lifestyle and it's understanding that nature and your body has an innate ability to heal itself, you just have to give it the right ingredients.

I think that gets taught throughout the medical industry and it's super pharmaceutical-based. And, obviously, pharmaceuticals and the medical industry go hand in hand. I think a lot of what was regarded as pseudoscience previously or quackery - I mean, I remember 18 years ago when I would have patients that had been to the doctor, been put on antibiotics and were now struggling with dysbiosis, repeated vaginal infections or candida and they weren't prescribed any probiotics.

The placebo effect is phenomenal because our brains are wired - it's the caring. "I care enough to give you this pill or supplement or tonic or juice or whatever it is," and it's that "I believe that I'm being cared for." The art of healing almost comes into that. 

Non-communicable diseases, which are basically lifestyle diseases. I think that's the biggest concern for the world population. That and the fact that nutrition isn't taken seriously in the medical profession. It's not taken as seriously as it should be taken, from a foundational biochemistry approach. And understanding that all these co-morbidities, especially now during COVID they are talking about co-morbidities a lot , at least 90% of them are self-inflicted noncommunicable diseases that people have actually caused in themselves, unknowingly.

Nutrition, for me, is the foundation. If you can grow your own, that's even better because then you know what you're eating. And it doesn't have to be huge - you can just have a pot of basil and a couple of spring onions, a few coarse lettuces and some spinach. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Balance, we've got to find a balance. And your unique balance. You need to actually make time for yourself, for contemplation, for pondering - how else are you going to get a creative thought, if you are so busy that you actually don't even have time to drink water or do some exercise?

Your poop tells you a lot about what's going on. It's a clue to your health, from colour, form, smell, explosiveness, type. Look at the Bristol stool scale! Even the University of Bristol stool scale gives us some typing. 

Resilience is really the ability to bounce back from adverse experiences and things. There's more than just individual resilience, there's a community resilience thing as well, but it starts with the individual.

We are individuals, we are unique. I mean, my fingerprint is different to yours so how much more are you unique within your own body? Your genetics are completely different to me. Your experiences are different. We might have overlap, there's the Venn diagram where there's overlap with a lot of things, and we've got commonalities but we are still unique, separating out of those commonalities. We want to have some kind of support based on our uniqueness.