Professor Luis Vitetta is currently Director of the Centre for Integrative Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Queensland, School of Medicine. He joins us on the couch, to talk about the importance of an integrative approach to medicine and healthcare. We also cover gut health.

What is integrative medicine? What are functional foods? Why is gut health so central to our immunity in particular, as well as mental and physical well-being in general?

Professor Vitetta discusses how little nutritional and environmental medicine is currently being taught in university medical education, and as an example, deals with some basic information when prescribing something as simple as antibiotics. Integrative medicine…..it’s not alternative medicine, its just GOOD medicine. Want to be healthy? Get your gut in order!!

About Professor Luis Vitetta

Luis Vitetta is an Honours Graduate from Monash University (1981) in the Department of Biochemistry - Faculty of Medicine, and a PhD Graduate from the University of Melbourne and Faculty of Medicine's Department of Surgery (1985) where he studied the epidemiological and aetiological factors of biliary disease. He has also studied medicine at the National University of La Plata Medical School in his native Argentina. Luis Vitetta is currently Director of the Centre for Integrative Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Queensland, School of Medicine.

He is the chief investigator and the recipient of a National Institute of Complementary Medicine grant for the NICM Collaborative Centre for Transitional/Preclinical and Clinical Research in Nutraceuticals and Herbal Medicines.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) website

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