This week on the podcast we welcome Dr Elizabeth Thompson, qualified doctor in palliative medicine, CEO of the National Centre for Integrative Medicine and and specialises in women’s health and supporting the health and wellbeing of cancer patients. Dr Thompson is passionate about how bringing conventional, holistic and lifestyle approaches together could transform modern healthcare into a wellbeing model and create diversity and choice for patients and practitioners.

Join us as we discuss the in’s and outs of setting up a centre for integrative medicine, how to have a more holistic approach to medicine and making holistic medicine accessible for the masses. Ally and Dr Thompson also discuss the pioneering ‘Food for Mood’ course run at both NCIM and Bristol University, models of stress and how they interact with our eating patterns and the role of spices and herbs in our health and wellbeing.

Relevant to COVID times, Dr Thompson gives us some fantastic tips about how to connect with nature despite not having a garden and ways that you can engage in self-care activation. We guarantee you will feel a greater sense of calm after listening to this episode!

To hear more from Dr Thompson, visit our website where you can watch the talk that she gave at our most recent conference at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Podcast show notes:

National Centre for Integrative Medicine: https://ncim.org.uk/

NCIM email: [email protected]

ECIM: http://www.ecim-congress.org/

Garden tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm-_XiVL7XI

Nutritank: https://nutritank.com/

Nutritank Instagram: @nutritank_official