Functional Medicine Bitesized Pete Williams

In this episode I chat with my long time friend and colleague Gary Stebbing. Like myself, Gary is an exercise scientist, with a particular focus on strength and conditioning as well as sports performance psychology. Myself and Gary always wanted to do a podcast together around the subject of exercise and general health. This is the first part of a series of conversations we will be having on this topic. Gary is as passionate as I am about movement and exercise and during...

In this episode I chat with Reed Davis. Reed is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner (BCHH) and Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT). He is the founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and has decades of experience working in the field of holistic health and functional medicine. Reed and I discuss the importance of addressing the whole person, rather than just treating individual parts or symptoms, in order to achieve optimal health, emphasizing the limitations of traditional med...

In this episode I welcome back Dr Ghazala Aziz-Scott, Clinical Director at the Marion Gluck Clinic. We continue our conversation around perimenopause, menopause and HRT and also expand the conversation into women's brain health. Dr Aziz-Scott helps clarify the information around the risks and benefits of HRT, what hormones apart from oestrogen and progesterone might be needed and the different methods of delivery available. Ghazala does an excellent job of explaining the differences in how HR...

Peri-menopause and menopause are significant stages in a woman's life. In this first of two episodes on this subject, I speak with Dr Ghazala Aziz-Scott, Clinical Director of the Marion Gluck Clinic. As an expert in a Functional Medicine approach to HRT and Bio-Identical HRT she expertly outlines what is currently available and possible for women during this time. If you are confused about HRT then this is an accurate and up to date explanation on the subject. Links mentioned in this epi...

In this episode we talk to Alex Kirchin who eloquently discusses the concept of Hormesis. Alex is a Nutritionist who is also a product formulator for the supplement company NORDIQ Nutrition. He has a particular expertise in phytochemistry and the concept of Hormesis. As a consequence of this expertise he has produced supplement formulations which stimulate a hormetic response.In simple terms, Hormesis is the concept of how low level stressors whether from exercise, stressful situations a...

In this episode I had the pleasure of speaking with an old pal of mine Robyn Puglia who is a recognised Functional Medicine expert in Autoimmunity. Robyn does an incredible job of simplifying the subject of autoimmunity so that we can better understand it. What is most valuable with Robyn's advice is that as a practicing clinician, she not only has a vast knowledge of autoimmunity, she has had many years of applying this knowledge with her patients. Autoimmunity is more prevalent am...