by Grant Ross | Jun 2, 2025 | Integrative Medicine
What is POTS? Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS, is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system, the nervous system that helps control blood flow and heart rate. Sufferers describe feeling lightheaded, dizzy and with a racing heart rate when they stand...
by Grant Ross | Jun 2, 2025 | Integrative Medicine
Introduction In the last few years, focus has turned to regenerative therapies. This just means therapies that promote the healing and optimal function of your own cells in your body. These have been used in cosmetics to make nice smooth skin and collagen, in...
by Grant Ross | Jun 2, 2025 | Integrative Medicine
Introduction Cells need to create energy. Cells can do this a few key ways. They can combine oxygen and glucose (a key sugar for fuel), they can use ketone bodies or they can burn fats. ‘Burning’ glucose is the most common way; whilst this is a very abundant form of...
by Grant Ross | Jun 2, 2025 | Integrative Medicine
Introduction The health benefits of the Mediterranean diet are well known. They include lower rates of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and other illnesses including Alzheimer’s, joint conditions and cancer. One of the main constituents in this diet,...
by Grant Ross | Jun 2, 2025 | Integrative Medicine
What is Nutritional and Environmental Medicine? Evolution has imprinted in the human body a living and dynamic relationship with its environment, born out in biochemical pathways that involve our genes, hormones, organs and cells in turn. This makes sense; after all,...