Resources

Trusted UK organisations

The bodies I'm registered with, and the professional societies that shape my practice.

• BANT — British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine — my nutritional therapy body.
• British Society of Ecological Medicine (BSEM) — the leading UK society for environmental and integrative medicine.
• Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) — the UK regulator I am accredited by.
• Frequency Specific Seminars — Dr Carolyn McMakin's site — where practitioners like me are trained and certified in FSM.
• Royal Society of Medicine — professional membership society.

Books I recommend

What I turn to, and what I send patients to. Grouped by field, alphabetical by author.

Herbal medicine and ethnobotany

• Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide — Rosemary Gladstar. Approachable introduction from one of the great American herbalists.
• Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine — David Hoffmann. The clinical standard.
• Henriette's Herbal (online library) — Henriette Kress. A vast, respected free library of traditional and clinical herbal writing.
• The Complete Woman's Herbal — Anne McIntyre. Warm, thorough and clinically grounded — a favourite for women's health.
• Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy — Simon Mills & Kerry Bone. The practitioner's clinical reference for evidence-based herbal medicine.

Nutrition and real-food cookery — the traditional-diet tradition

• The Doctor's Kitchen — Dr Rupy Aujla. UK GP's food-first medicine cookbooks — evidence-led and practical.
• Feel Better in 5 · The 4 Pillar Plan — Dr Rangan Chatterjee. UK GP — accessible lifestyle medicine.
• Nourishing Traditions — Sally Fallon Morell. The Weston Price Foundation cookbook — the anchor text for real-food cooking.
• Real Healing · Good + Simple — Melissa & Jasmine Hemsley. UK cookery grounded in whole foods and gentle nourishment.
• Nose to Tail Eating — Fergus Henderson. British nose-to-tail cooking — the modern classic.
• The Modern Cook's Year — Anna Jones. Seasonal, vegetable-led whole-food cooking.
• Broth and Stock — Jennifer McGruther. Her companion volume — the foundations of traditional bone-broth cooking.
• The Nourished Kitchen — Jennifer McGruther. Beautifully written, deeply seasonal — the traditional-diet tradition in modern kitchens.
• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration — Weston A. Price. The foundational text of the traditional-food movement.
• Sacred Cow — Diana Rodgers & Robb Wolf. The evidence-led case for regenerative meat.

Integrative medicine — mould, Lyme, fatigue, hormones

• Getting Healthy in Toxic Times — Dr Jenny Goodman. Her follow-up: an ecological doctor's prescription for healing your body and the planet, addressing the toxic exposures modern medicine rarely asks about.
• Staying Alive in Toxic Times — Dr Jenny Goodman. A seasonal guide to lifelong health from a UK ecological doctor and nutritionist — 20+ years of clinical experience distilled into a season-by-season programme.
• Mold and Mycotoxins: Current Evaluation and Treatment — Dr Neil Nathan (with Dr Joseph Brewer). The clinician-facing reference on mould and mycotoxin illness — practical, evidence-focused and updated for 2022.
• Toxic — Dr Neil Nathan. The best single book on the complex mould / Lyme / MCAS picture.
• The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution — Dr Aviva Romm. Practical, integrative approach to burnout, thyroid and adrenals.
• Mold Warriors: Fighting America's Hidden Health Threat — Dr Ritchie Shoemaker. Shoemaker's account of the mould-illness fight — patient stories, the science, and the diagnostic path.
• Surviving Mold — Dr Ritchie Shoemaker. The originator of the CIRS concept — the foundational reading on mould-related illness.
• The Wahls Protocol — Dr Terry Wahls. A neurologist's food-and-lifestyle programme for autoimmunity and MS.

Water, light and environmental health

• Coherent Health: The Power of Light and Water — Dr Damien Downing. Downing's more recent synthesis — extending his life's work on light to include water as well.
• Day Light Robbery: The Importance of Sunlight to Health — Dr Damien Downing. The 1988 classic that pioneered our understanding of sunlight and vitamin D — by the current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine (BSEM).
• Health and Light — Dr John Ott. The pioneering — if dated — text on full-spectrum lighting.
• The Circadian Code — Dr Satchidananda Panda. Salk Institute — the current evidence-based standard on circadian biology.
• The Fourth Phase of Water — Gerald Pollack. University of Washington bioengineer's book on water's structural properties.
• The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy — Ari Whitten. Careful, well-referenced overview of photobiomodulation.
• Dr Alexander Wunsch — a leading contemporary photobiologist; interviews on YouTube and the Energy Blueprint podcast.

Podcasts worth your time

What I listen to, and recommend — alphabetical, ignoring the initial "The".

• The Doctor's Kitchen — Dr Rupy Aujla — UK GP; food-first medicine.
• The Energy Blueprint — Ari Whitten — mitochondrial biology, light and fatigue.
• Feel Better Live More — Dr Rangan Chatterjee — UK GP; integrative lifestyle medicine.
• FoundMyFitness — Dr Rhonda Patrick — highly evidence-led biomedical research.
• Huberman Lab — Dr Andrew Huberman — Stanford neuroscientist; superb on light, sleep and hormones.
• The Nourished Kitchen — Jennifer McGruther — companion podcast to her cookbook; traditional-diet conversations.
• Wise Traditions — the Weston A. Price Foundation podcast — traditional-diet nutrition and food-as-medicine.

Water — research and filters

Where mainstream physiology thins, Gerald Pollack's work on the "fourth phase" of water begins. Read carefully — and read broadly. I've written more about this in Water — the medicine we underestimate.

Further reading and research

• Analemma Water — a water-structuring device drawing on ideas from the structured-water field.
• Emoto — Office Masaru Emoto — the official archive of Dr Masaru Emoto's water-crystal research and photographs, continued since his death in 2014.
• The Fourth Phase of Water (Gerald Pollack) — book — see the Books section above.
• The Hidden Messages in Water (Dr Masaru Emoto) — Emoto's best-known book — the water-crystal photography and the ideas around water and intention that made his work internationally known.
• Pollack Laboratory, University of Washington — Gerald Pollack's academic laboratory and papers.
• The True Power of Water (Dr Masaru Emoto) — Emoto's companion volume — further crystal studies and reflections.

Water filters available in the UK

I don't sell water filters and none of these are affiliate links — this is what I've come across that patients report using. Choose to your water supply, budget and household size.

• Berkey — a well-known gravity filter, sold in the UK but not currently certified under the UK/EU scheme.
• British Berkefeld — the original British-made gravity-fed ceramic filter (Fairey Ceramics in Staffordshire — the same UK company behind Doulton).
• Culligan Technology — international water-treatment company with a UK arm — whole-house filtration, softeners, reverse osmosis.
• Doulton — British-made ceramic filters — well-established, tap-fitting and countertop.
• Osmio — UK-based water filter specialist.

Light, sunlight and circadian health

Sunlight, the timing of light, and the balance of wavelengths in our indoor environments have real effects on sleep, mood, mitochondria and hormones. Dr Damien Downing and Dr John Ott opened this conversation decades ago; the science has moved on since.

• Coherent Health: The Power of Light and Water — Dr Damien Downing. Downing's more recent synthesis — extending his life's work on light to include water as well.
• Day Light Robbery: The Importance of Sunlight to Health — Dr Damien Downing. The 1988 classic — by the current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine (BSEM).
• Huberman Lab podcast — Andrew Huberman — superb episodes on light and circadian rhythm.
• Health and Light — Dr John Ott. The foundational text.
• The Circadian Code — Dr Satchidananda Panda. Salk Institute — the current evidence-based standard.
• The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy — Ari Whitten. Careful overview of photobiomodulation.
• Dr Alexander Wunsch — a leading contemporary photobiologist; long-form interviews on YouTube and the Energy Blueprint podcast.

Laboratories I work with

The private laboratories I order tests through, depending on what you need. The right lab depends on the test. See the Laboratory Testing page for how this works in practice.

• Armin Labs — specialist Lyme and tick-borne infection testing.
• Diagnostic Solutions — GI-MAP comprehensive stool analysis.
• Forth — UK private blood-testing service — iron, hormones, thyroid, general health.
• Genova Diagnostics — DUTCH hormones, stool testing, food sensitivities.
• Goldman Laboratories — UK-based specialist testing — hair mineral analysis and heavy-metal panels.
• Invivo Healthcare — gut and urinary microbiome testing.
• Lifecode Gx — UK-based nutrigenomic and pharmacogenomic SNP panels.
• Mosaic Diagnostics — Organic Acids Test, mycotoxin testing, hormone panels.
• MTHFR Genetics — UK-based nutrigenomic panels focused on methylation and MTHFR-related pathways.
• Nordic Laboratories — hormone and DUTCH testing.
• The Parasite Clinic — specialist UK clinic for parasite testing and treatment.
• PCI Parasite Testing Europe — specialist parasite microscopy and culture.
• Randox Health — private blood panels — UK.
• Regenerus Labs — broad functional testing panels — UK.
• Viva Health Labs — UK-based specialist testing laboratory.

Suppliers and dispensaries

Practitioner-only ranges and trusted natural-product suppliers.

• Content Beauty and Wellbeing — for natural beauty and cosmetic products I trust.
• Coyne Healthcare — UK practitioner-only supplement brand — premium nutraceuticals.
• Designs for Health — leading practitioner-only nutraceutical brand — clinical-grade, UK-available.
• Natural Dispensary — practitioner-only supplements and nutraceuticals — my main dispensary.
• Seeking Health (SHEI) — clinical methylation and nutrigenomics education, plus their supplement range.
• Thorne Research — clinical-grade nutraceuticals used widely in research.
• Viridian Nutrition — UK-made, ethical, high-quality nutraceuticals.

Genetic and nutrigenomic testing

The panels and platforms I draw on for personalised DNA-informed care. More on the Nutrigenomics & DNA Testing page.

• Lifecode Gx — the UK-based lab I use for clinical nutrigenomic panels.
• MTHFR Genetics — UK-based methylation and MTHFR SNP panels.
• Nutragenetics — practitioner reference.
• UC Davis Nutrigenomics — one of the leading academic centres.
• 23andMe — consumer ancestry testing — useful for a raw DNA download; not a substitute for a Functional Genomics Variant Report.

Journal

Longer pieces, notes and observations from the clinic — a working journal rather than a blog.

• Water — the medicine we underestimate — why water matters more than most of us realise, and what to do about it.

Read the Journal