2024 Speaker Slides - Saturday 8th June 2024

Simon Mills and Prof Kerry Bone, world leading phytotherapy experts more commonly known as Mills and Bone, will share their knowledge and teachings, highlighting the significant benefits of the nutrient powerhouses of herbs and spices, and provide tips of how you can use them to support metabolism in clinical practice.

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The core philosophy of the Circle of Soup is to foster an intuitive approach to cooking while emphasizing the importance of gut health: elucidating how the food we consume plays a pivotal role in our physical and mental well-being. The presenters will share the stories of how the programme, taken into General Practice, food-bank and other settings, empowers attendees.

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Dr Nasha Winters will provide a lively discussion on emerging research on strategies to enhance the quality and quantity of our precious time, including; focusing on metabolic and mitochondrial health, as well as aspects of metabolic psychiatry; By analysing individual data (labs, epigenetics, location, support, motivation) and to help one overcome the road blocks that might prevent optimal health. She will wade through the volumes of misinformation and hype, and help discern fact from fiction with regards to best supportive strategies.

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While the risk factors for metabolic syndrome are widely recognised (poor diet, imbalanced microbiome, physical inactivity, stress etc.), the reasons for these connections tend to remain hazy, even in scientific literature, making it hard to differentiate between root causes and downstream effects.  Dr Alex Wilber, will give a narrative explanation for the tangled web of connections surrounding metabolic syndrome to enable you to best personalise lifestyle/functional medicine interventions for your patients.

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Dr William Harris, PhD, FASN is the President of the Fatty Acid Research Institute and a lead researcher in the omega-3 fatty acid field, with more than 360 scientific papers - the vast majority on Omega-3.  He will highlight the latest research around omega-3;  which omega-3s are most important and why; why omega-3 testing is key to ensuring you are getting the right omega-3s from your diet.

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The mouth not only is the gateway to the rest of the body, but has been shown to have a direct impact on diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic kidney disease etc. During this talk Dr Sampson will discuss the approach she takes to optimising oral health using salivary biomarkers, the importance for clinicians to factor in the health of the mouth when treating patients, and top tips to balance the oral microbiome.

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Offering a hugely practical presentation, Ben Brown will explore the limitations of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) diagnosis and therapy; review overlooked and commonly neglected causes of IBS-like symptoms; evaluate clinical investigations that identify new IBS-subtypes and provide updates on human clinical interventions, including histamine intolerance, nickel sensitivity, industrial food additives, and food as medicine.

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After suffering from skin disease, Rosacea, and insulin resistance for more than five years and seeing multiple doctors without success, Dr Radka Toms resolved her own skin problems by developing a comprehensive approach rooted in functional medicine principles, addressing the underlying factors contributing to rosacea.  By restoring gut health, managing stress and sleep, optimizing nutrition, and adopting a self-love narrative and a skin-supportive routine, individuals can reduce inflammation and redness and in some cases, eventually achieve healing from rosacea.

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Darryl Edwards will deliver a TED-style presentation on the transformative power of movement as medicine, exploring multiple reasons why active play is among the most effective methods to enhance health.

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Doctors are often of the belief that heart health is the most important area for patients to concentrate on and that the liver was a minor player. Dr David Unwin explains how understanding the significance of Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which is now affecting 38% of the developed world, is the key to preventing both diabetes and a lot of cardiovascular illnesses.

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Dr Deanna Minich is an internationally recognised teacher, author, scientist, speaker, and artist. Her passion is bringing forth a colourful whole-self approach to nourishment and bridging the gaps between science, soul, and art in medicine, while adding colour and light to the often confusing and polarising topic of nutritional science.

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