For roughly two million years, human biology was assembled under conditions that no longer exist. Agriculture arrived about ten thousand years ago. Industrial food, around a hundred and fifty. Our physiology has not caught up.

That gap is where I work.

My training is in biological anthropology, so I don't start by asking what has gone wrong. I start by asking what the body was built for — and where modern life pulls against it. For people whose health problems haven't resolved with the usual approaches, that turns out to be the more useful question.

The organ I keep coming back to

The human brain is two per cent of body weight and takes a fifth of the energy. It is the most expensive thing we build, and we built it over a million and a half years of profound dietary change. It is also exquisitely sensitive to the conditions it runs under — sleep, light, movement, and above all what we eat.

An organ shaped over that timescale now meets an environment that changed in a single century. Most of my reading and research sits in that collision.

Two strands of work

Clinical practice. I work with individuals managing complex, long-standing health concerns — usually people who have been unwell for some time and have already sought help elsewhere. Programmes are built for one person, not adapted from a template, and are designed to sit alongside the care of your GP or specialist.
[Working with me]

Research. I am an independent researcher in evolutionary medicine, with work deposited as a preprint and a PhD programme in development. It is exploratory work, kept separate from clinical practice.
[My research]

BSc (Hons) Biological Anthropology · MSc Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine · Institute for Functional Medicine