The Nutritank Podcast Ep 9: Putting art back into healthcare using lifestyle medicine
How can healthcare professionals embrace lifestyle medicine while working in modern health systems? Join Nutritank team member Luke Zollman Thomas as he speaks to Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews, NHS GP, author and founder of the Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre, about her experiences using lifestyle medicine to tackle the growing issues facing the modern NHS.
Highlights of this episode:
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- (13:00) How Laura began practising lifestyle medicine
- (20:51) The downsides of having tunnel vision for evidence-based medicine
- (30:17) Practising lifestyle medicine in time-constrained NHS environments
- (34:15) An excerpt from Laura’s book “What seems to be the problem?”
- (43:32) The Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre
- (51:44) One self-care tip for healthcare professionals
This episode’s Nutritank nugget
“Sometimes [in healthcare], it’s our arrogance that holds us back!”
Our episode guest
Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews is a GP in Brighton. She founded The Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre, one of the country’s first Integrated Practices, with a vibrant Arts Programme and complementary health team. The practice won Innovators of the Year in the 2014 National GP Awards and was a finalist in the Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards in 2016. She sits on the council of the Royal College of Medicine and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Created with the help of doctors, artists and complementary health practitioners, Dr Laura’s pioneering holistic approach was revelatory. From those whose lives were changed by ‘ineffective’ drugs, to those for whom alternative therapies, kindness and trust proved transformative, her patients began to flourish.
Further resources
- The Integrative and Personalised Medicine Congress– An annual event with speakers, workshops and exhibitions highlighting the value of integrative medicine
- The Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre– Now WellBN, this centre was founded by Dr Laura and operates as a hub for integrative and lifestyle medicine therapies
- What Seems To Be The Problem?– Written by Dr Laura, this book recounts the patients that led Dr Laura to embrace lifestyle medicine and alternative therapies in patient care
- Institute of Functional Medicine– A non-profit providing functional medicine education and certification programs for healthcare professionals worldwide
- The Joyful Dancing Doctor– Aka Dr Indika, a GP and lifestyle medicine enthusiast who runs dance sessions for patients
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