Deepak Ravindran and Neil Bindemann share, in conversation, their common interest in emotional health and the link between trauma and how this can imbalance the communication between the nervous and immune system. They also focus on the thinking that is feeding the cutting edge scientific research that is transforming the lives of people in chronic pain and many other illness, such as fibromyalgia and Functional Neurological Disorders.

Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in helping people overcome their pain – in the NHS and private practice. He is one of the few consultants in the UK who possesses triple certification in lifestyle medicine, musculoskeletal medicine and pain medicine. He has been a consultant in pain medicine since 2010 in one of the biggest district general medical hospitals, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. He is currently the clinical lead for the specialist pain services for all of West Berkshire since 2015.

Neil Bindemann is Exec Director of the Person-Centred Neurosciences Society. Neil had a life-impacting experience back in 2015, when he received news of a brain tumour diagnosis. That moment was the moment his perspective on life (which he had been seen through neuroimmunologist PhD trained eyes), began a transformation into life that his now experiencing by looking through the eyes of a psychosocial immunologist. That moment also pointed him to see why and how “Quality of Being” is what sustains a person’s quality of living.