I've been an NHS doctor for over 20 years where I've worked with hundreds of people with complex health issues - particularly metabolic and mental health problems.

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With a more holistic approach, I've seen some incredible results - Type-2 diabetes remission, weight loss and mood improvements with reliance on fewer long term medications. This led me to learn more about nutrition, sleep, harmful substances, stress, isolation, inactivity, the role of light and nature in health and how we may have over-valued a pill-only approach to health.

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From 2019-22 I was Trustee and Learning Academy Director for the UK's largest educational charity dedicated to providing education to clinicians on Lifestyle Medicine (The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine). As vice-president of the BSLM I drove events and policy on food & mood, the microbiome and obesity. I wrote the first foundation course in Lifestyle Medicine which has been translated in many languages and used as a basis for global education. I've spent the last 10 years studying the science, speaking on, teaching about and refining how to support people to achieve, where possible, better health with fewer pills. I believe we now need to scale up this approach, work out systems that could be used in the NHS of the future - providing more effective and sustainable health improvements.