Voices in Health and Wellness

Send us Fan Mail Regenerative medicine is one of the most used phrases in aesthetics right now, but the meaning often gets lost somewhere between marketing, social media and genuine clinical science. We sit down with Dr Philippe Hamida-Pisal, Medical Director at PHP Health First and PHP Aesthetic in London, to separate what’s real from what’s wishful thinking and to talk about how longevity medici...

Send us Fan Mail Most cosmetic and plastic surgery clinics can tell you they’re “specialist”. The harder question is: how do you prove it in a way patients can feel from the first enquiry to the final follow-up? We talk with Alon Ben Harry, Director of CREO Clinic in London, about what it takes to build a high-trust private healthcare business in one of the most competitive markets in the UK.  We...

Send us Fan Mail GLP-1 injections are everywhere, bariatric surgery numbers are shifting, and patients are arriving more informed than ever. We sit down with Dr Seun Sowemimo, a board-certified bariatric and gastrointestinal surgeon and founder of Prime Surgic Care, to make sense of what actually works for sustainable weight loss and better metabolic health when real life, real budgets, and real h...

Send us Fan Mail A food allergy can turn ordinary moments into high-stakes calculations, and the hard part is not always the ingredient. We sit down with Dr Amanda Whitehouse, a licensed psychologist and founder of The Food Allergy Psychologist, to unpack the psychological impact of food allergies on children, parents, and adults who are trying to live safely without shrinking their lives.  We tal...

Send us Fan Mail Most mental health care is built for speed, not understanding and patients feel it. When appointments are short and the plan is mostly symptom management, even smart, motivated people can end up “stable” but nowhere near well. We sit down with psychiatrist and healthcare innovator Dr Sonia Diaz, founder and medical director of Wellmivia Medical, to talk about what changes when you...

Send us Fan Mail Anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, confidence that never quite arrives: what if the real issue is not the symptom you can name, but the experience you never processed? I’m joined by Lynne Douglas, founder of Healthy Minds for You, to unpack how trauma can sit underneath everyday struggles and why EMDR therapy can help people move past “coping” towards genuine change. We start with...

Send us Fan Mail Drill and fill is not the only story dentistry can tell anymore. We sit down with Dr Roumiana Tzvetkova, a dentist and practice owner with a prevention-first philosophy, to talk about what it looks like to preserve natural teeth in the real world, especially when patients arrive carrying years of delay, anxiety, and limited dental benefits. If you’ve ever wondered whether modern d...

Send us Fan Mail Perimenopause is hard for most women, but for many neurodivergent women it can feel like someone turned the volume up on everything: emotions, sensory load, anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, sleep problems, and the everyday friction of ADHD or autistic traits. We sit down with Dr Sarah Secor-Jones, an integrative and functional medicine physician and founder of Left Lifestyle, to unpac...

Send us Fan Mail Feeling “just tired” should not be the reason a heart problem gets missed. We sit down with Dr Hwaida Hannoush, a specialist in metabolic cardiology and functional medicine and the founder of Pressi Med Clinic, to unpack why women’s heart disease is still under-recognised and under-treated, even when the stakes are life-changing. We talk about the real-world ways women present dif...

Send us Fan Mail “Everything looks normal” can be one of the most discouraging lines a patient hears, especially when the fatigue, brain fog, gut symptoms, or weight loss resistance are very real. Dr Megha Mohey joins me to unpack why that mismatch happens and how integrative and functional medicine aims to close the gap by looking for root causes and patterns, not just isolated lab values. Dr Moh...

Send us Fan Mail A decade of chronic pain and chronic fatigue with “normal” results is not just a medical problem, it is a systems problem. I’m joined by Dr Dacon Knight, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia, to unpack why hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and related connective tissue disorders still slip through the cracks, even when the signs have been there for...

Send us Fan Mail Dementia is one of the biggest fears people carry quietly, and the hardest part is not knowing what to do with that fear. We sit down with Dr Ashanthi Gajaweera, a neurologist with more than two decades in traditional practice, to unpack why she stepped outside the insurance-based model and founded HealthSpan Neurology, a preventative neurology clinic built around cognitive longev...

Send us Fan Mail When depression does not lift with medication, people often assume the next step is simply “try another tablet” and wait. That waiting can cost years of energy, work, relationships, and self-belief. I sit down with Dr Scott West, Chief Medical Officer at Nashville Neurocare Therapy and a board-certified psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience, to talk plainly about what opti...

Send us Fan Mail Most chronic pain care breaks down at the exact moment it needs to get more precise. When someone has failed back surgery, persistent post-op pain, nerve symptoms that do not match the scan, or years of “nothing worked”, the usual five-minute consultation cannot hold the complexity. We sit down with Dr David Glick, a pain physician with decades of experience, to unpack what change...

Send us Fan Mail Primary care is supposed to prevent illness, not just react to it, yet the way healthcare is paid for often pushes doctors into an impossible pace. I’m joined by Dr Frank Okuson Jr, a board-certified internal medicine physician and medical director in Texas, to talk candidly about what it’s like managing thousands of patients with complex chronic disease while trying to do the rig...

Send us Fan Mail Patient experience isn’t a slogan, it’s a system, and most clinics are trying to run a Ferrari on square wheels. We sit down with Karen Farah, CEO and founder of The Melting Pot Studio, to unpack what top medical practices do differently when they want patients to feel safe, supported, and genuinely cared for.  We get practical about healthcare workflow design and digital transfor...

Send us Fan Mail Your labs can look “fine” while your body feels like it’s falling apart, and it’s not because you’re weak or lazy. We sit down with Dr Negin Rajaipour, board-certified family medicine physician and founder of Vita Rican Medical, to talk about what happens when chronic stress and trauma shape the nervous system so deeply that symptoms become a default setting. We dig into her E3 Me...

Send us Fan Mail Most people assume rehabilitation ends when the hospital says you’re ready to go home. The truth can be harsher: many families walk into a gap where therapy stops, confidence collapses, and a loved one becomes afraid to move in the very place they’re meant to recover.  We sit down with Susan Pattison, founder of SP Therapy Services in Greater Manchester, to talk about community re...

Send us Fan Mail “How much is PRP?” is often the wrong first question. I’m joined by Dr Tammy Penhollow, an osteopathic physician and founder of Precision Med PRP, to talk about why regenerative medicine outcomes hinge on what happens before treatment not just the injection itself. If you’re dealing with spine pain, disc problems, knee pain or shoulder injuries and trying to avoid surgery, her mes...

Send us Fan Mail Surviving a stroke or traumatic brain injury is only the beginning. The real question is what happens next when someone needs to walk, think, speak, swallow, dress, toilet, work, and live safely again. We sit down with Dr Tanya Harris, a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) physician and medical director of a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital, to pull back the cu...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever wondered why TMJ pain, headaches, poor sleep, and stubborn neck tension so often travel together, this conversation makes the case that the jaw is rarely acting alone. We sit down with Dr Curtis Westersund, a dentist with 46 years in practice and 25 years focused on functional, systems-based dentistry, to challenge a familiar clinical reflex: treating pain as the ma...

Send us Fan Mail Most women are told to accept postpartum leakage, bowel changes, reduced sensation, or discomfort as “normal”. We don’t buy that, and neither does Dr Troy Hailparn, a board-certified gynaecologist and pioneer in functional and cosmetic gynaecology. She explains how her work began as a response to patients whose concerns were brushed off, and why a better standard starts with one s...

Send us Fan Mail Surgery is rarely a single moment in theatre. The real make-or-break work happens in the quieter weeks beforehand, when patients are anxious, deconditioned, undernourished, or simply unsure what to do next. We sit down with Dr Scott Russo, founder of Recover Health and a long-time spine surgeon, to talk about surgical optimisation and why “getting ready” is not a nice-to-have but...

Send us Fan Mail A patient can spend years chasing an explanation for arm pain, numbness, tingling, or a shoulder that simply stops working under load, only to be told nothing shows up on tests. That gap between lived symptoms and clinical certainty is where thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) so often falls apart, especially the neurogenic form involving the brachial plexus. I’m joined by Dr Scott Wer...

Send us Fan Mail Neuropsych testing looks clinical from the outside, but from the inside it is a high-stakes mix of patient anxiety, complex logistics, and constant financial pressure. We sit down with Tiffany Miller-Bolerjak, Office Manager and Administrator at Dallas Neuro Rehab Centre and the CEO behind a credentialing and consulting firm, to show what it really takes to run a specialist neuror...