Food on Prescription Programme - Sat 8th June 2024

Welcome from the Conference Chairs

Speakers

Catherine Zollman, GP and Medical Lead, Penny Brohn UK & Clinical Lead for Personalised Care and Support, SWAG NHS Cancer Alliance

Chintal Patel, NHS GP with a passion for nutrition & lifestyle medicine and Author of 'Dr Chintal's Kitchen'

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.

Speakers

Simon Mills, Self Care Lead College of Medicine & Herbal Strategist, Pukka Herbs

Kerry Bone, World Leading Herbal Medicine Expert, Industry Leader and Innovation Driver, Directing the Research Programme at MediHerb, Australia

In the last five years, we have seen the shift towards lifestyle medicine and nutrition as methods of reversing and preventing disease rightfully become mainstream, where holistic and root cause approaches to health create wholeness in both the patient and practitioner.  This panel will address the important question - have we looked far enough upstream?

We bring to you a panel of experienced farmers and food producers to explore the critical role food production has in human, community and planetary health. We will explore whether all farming is the same and give real-life examples of how food production can heal the land, our communities and our bodies, offering you and your communities the opportunity to connect with a network of pioneering farming and food producers.

Chair & Panellists include: Patrick Holden, Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust; Ben Raskin, Chair of Community Supported Agriculture; Sarah Langford, Barrister turned writer and regenerative farmer in Suffolk & author of ‘Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution, UK; Dr Sally Bell, GP & Health Coordinator at Farmers footprint.

Chairperson

Sally Bell, Health Coordinator at Farmers footprint ( & GP)

Speakers

Patrick Holden CBE, Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, previous director of the Soil Association, Founding chairman of British Organic Farmers and Patron of the UK Biodynamic Association, United Kingdom

Ben Raskin, Head of Horticulture and Agroforestry for the Soil Association and chair of the Community Supported Agroforestry Network UK

Sarah Langford, Criminal and family barrister turned writer and regenerative farmer in Suffolk & author of ‘Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution, United Kingdom

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.

Speakers

Nasha Winters, A naturopath, global healthcare authority in integrative cancer research, internationally sought after speaker and co-author of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer, USA

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.

Speakers

Alex Wilber, Functional Medicine Practitioner

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.

Speakers

William Harris, President, Fatty Acid Research Institute (FARI) & Founder, OmegaQuant Analytics, USA

Sophie Trew will demonstrate some simple vagus nerve activation exercises to help calm the nervous system which in turn will improve digestion.

Speakers

Sophie Trew, Co-Founder of Trew Fields Festival and Trew Health Community, Breathwork Practitioner, Mind- Body Coach & Meditation Guide, UK

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.

Speakers

Radka Toms, medical doctor

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.

Speakers

Darryl Edwards, Founder of the Primal Play Method

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.

Speakers

David Unwin, GP from Southport, UK who has been transforming the lives of his patients through a low carb diet, United Kingdom

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.

Speakers

Deanna Minich, Dr Deanna Minich, Nutrition scientist, international lecturer, educator, and author, currently serving as Chief Science Officer at Symphony Natural Health, USA