I initially became interested in food after leaving school, and undertook a three-year Diploma in Hotel Management & Catering. The years that followed took me all over Europe cooking for chalet holiday skiing groups.
Fifteen years later, following a successful career in the travel industry, I decided to combine my love for food with a growing interest in its healing properties and retrain as a nutritional therapist. Commencing my training in Sydney, I then returned to the UK and completed a three-year Diploma in Nutritional Therapy with the College of Naturopathic Medicine, London.
This left me hungry for delving far deeper into the biochemistry of nutrition, and so I took my studies further to train with the innovative Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM), whose approach to health truly resonated with me.
Functional medicine seeks to address the root causes of health problems rather than seeking to offer a ‘quick fix’, as can often be the case when using conventional medicine alone.
Your body is made up of cells which form tissue and organs and are then formed into systems, such as cardiovascular, digestive, immune and neuroendocrine. The body is totally dynamic and inter-connected; we can’t departmentalise it. However, modern medicine has, in many ways, tried to do just that. If you have a persistent ‘digestive’ complaint such as chronic constipation and bloating, you will invariably receive a referral to see a gastroenterologist. There is no place to consider that the bloating, distention and constipation you are feeling may actually all be symptoms of a poorly functioning thyroid, for example.
All our systems operate via complex biochemical pathways. If these become functionally slow or halted, there is an effect at a cellular level and if left unchecked whole systems move away from their natural, optimal balance – homeostasis – resulting in a domino effect of system dysfunction. Disease can be, and often is a long way off or may never materialise, but the balance of homeostasis may have been tipped enough to result in a sub-optimal dysfunction or, put simply, “ill health”.
Most of the clients I see do not have a full blown “disease”, but they certainly have enough symptoms to indicate that a number of systems have moved away from their optimal level. Functional medicine is about removing the causes of system dysfunction, recalibrating bodily systems and restoring optimal function. In other words, excellent health!
Now, as a fully certified IFM practitioner I bring passion and dedication to each client, empowering them to obtain their optimal health potential. •
Tanya has a specialist focus on Hashimotos & Thyroid solutions & Digestion & Gut health , and in 2018 co-wrote the revolutionary book The Clever Guts Diet with the world’s health guru Dr Michael Mosley.
In addition to her one-to-one work in clinical practice, she runs day retreats on specific areas of health – the next on her specialist topic is The Gut! She has completed additional advanced training with the Hashimoto’s Institute & Dr Datis Kharrazian’s Mastering The Thyroid for Clinicians in the USA. Tanya regularly lectures for several organisations and training Institutions and runs a busy functional medicine practice in Lewes, Sussex.
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