Hello. I’m Philippa D’Arcy, a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and a Certified Functional Health Coach. Although my available time is now spent mainly with clients, I remain keen to teach and share the secrets of long term health and vitality, a state that is so much more accessible to us via lifestyle interventions than most people seem to realise. Despite what your doctors continually tell you, you are not inexorably driven down a pathway towards chronic disease just because you are getting older - that is a fallacy. And your genes may be helpful or unhelpful but I am afraid you cannot lay the blame at their door, for, on the whole they are only responsible for a predisposition; although they might load the gun, it is your lifestyle and environment which pulls the trigger. Would you like to learn more? Are you beginning to wonder whether it makes sense to just accept another prescription for yet another drug that for all you know has negative but unseen side effects?

However you may be confused by the vast quantity of conflicting information on the internet and social media about health. You may find it difficult to know where to turn for information you can trust. What about the naturopathic health sector, comprised of brilliant specialists but also thousands of self-proclaimed experts all espousing their own non-evidence-based points of view?

I can help in that what I write for this website IS evidence-based and the result of 4.5 years of pretty intense study (including hundreds of papers from medical literature), together with a growing body of experience from my own clinical practice. I come at every single case with a beginner’s mind, with curiosity and open-mindedness, knowing that every person is uniquely different and their symptoms will be driven by quite different physiology to the next person. I continue to study virtually every day; in addition to my course I have, so far, attended over 70 webinars hosted by leading experts around the world. I will never stop studying and never stop learning. I will share with you what I know, and be clear about what I don’t.

I am driven by a very real passion to understand how the systems of the human body connect up and what is really happening bio-chemically when one tiny element is knocked out or off balance. I continue to be astounded by ability of the body to heal itself given the right inputs and the right environment. I am blown away by the power of nutrition and the effect on the body and mind of a nutrient dense, toxin-free diet. Stress is more of a killer than I could every have imagined, and sleep is the most lowly-valued, highest-impact pillar of health.

The aim of this site is:

• To write easily comprehensible but content-rich articles to help you to learn and take positive steps towards enhancing your own health and vitality

• To provide you with expert resources from which you can develop health strategies that are right for you 

• To introduce you to Functional Medicine so that you can avail yourselves of these services if you should need them

I hope you find this site informative and useful.  

In health and happiness,

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