Resources
Please feel explore the resources below, and to be in touch with any questions you may have. More on my philosophy and how I work can be found on my blog, and detail on recent projects can be found here.
Health cannot be restored with band-aids. Not on the body. Not in our communities. Not on a struggling planet. That approach has run its course—and it no longer serves us.
Every collaboration begins with a conversation -to understand your work, context, and goals. I co-create the right process, pace, and package to reconnect your health mission to the systems that sustain life.
These resources offer a small taste of the functional medicine approach - highlighting how we address root causes and support the body’s natural healing processes.
Each guide touches on a different aspect of health, and in consultation, we’ll tailor many more tools and strategies to your unique needs.
What to Expect from Functional Medicine
This brief guide outlines what it’s like to work with a functional medicine practitioner—an approach that looks beyond symptoms to uncover root causes. You’ll explore personalised strategies to support long-term healing and overall wellbeing.
Gut Health & the 5Rs
Many chronic conditions—from skin issues to autoimmune disease—can trace their roots back to the gut. This resource introduces the functional medicine 5R approach (Remove, Replace, Reinoculate, Repair, Rebalance), that we use as the roadmap to restoring digestive health and supporting whole-body healing.
A Simple Start to Meditation
Meditation can feel daunting, but it’s like learning a few key phrases before a trip—you don’t need much to feel connected. Just a minute of stillness each day can calm your nervous system, reduce stress, and support healing. Pausing, breathing, and gently returning to the present is all it takes. The benefits often appear as more calm and clarity when you need it most. Try the guide
Bare Basics of Functional Nutrition
There’s no one-size-fits-all diet—a balanced way of eating should support your unique health needs, lifestyle, and preferences. Functional nutrition focuses on personalised food choices to support healing, resilience, and long-term wellbeing. Use these tips as a starting point.
Understanding Chronic Stress
Chronic stress is like a frog in slowly heating water—you don’t notice the danger until it’s too late. This brief guide helps you recognise the signs, understand the health impacts, and begin exploring practical steps to reduce stress and build long-term resilience.
Supporting Thyroid Health
Fatigue, weight gain, and low mood are common signs of thyroid imbalance—often overlooked in women. This one-page guide highlights key factors that support or disrupt thyroid function, and how a functional medicine approach can help restore balance and energy.
Recent Films
Medicines for Malaria
Injectable Artesunate demonstration of frontline health workers
A demonstration film for frontline health workers on a new artesunate preparation. Beyond routine training, the film highlights the burden of severe malaria, especially in under-resourced settings, while showcasing the dedication and empathy of nurses in real-world conditions. Previous films
Medicines for Malaria
The Continuum of Care for Children with Severe Malaria
A short engaging film that captures both the findings and lived realities on the ground of the 5CC framework for improving the continuum of care for remote rural families with young children suffering from signs and symptoms of severe malaria.
Critical Conversations
The Population Conversation - landmark symposium
A film that captures the transformation that happened during the Population Conversation symposium held in Kilifi that led to the establishment of the Critical Conversations Association.
The resources below reflect the Wellsense approach to planetary and population health -
Integrated, ecological, and focused on root causes. They highlight the links between environmental change, rising disease, and the need for systemic solutions.
Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
This landmark resource offers a clear and sobering explanation: global health gains have come at the cost of environmental degradation, risking the wellbeing of future generations. As we overexploit nature to fuel economic and development goals, we are undermining the very systems that sustain human health.
A New Approach to Healing the Anthropocene
This important review by Susan Prescott—a leading voice in planetary health—sets the stage for understanding the deep interconnections between environmental disruption, microbial and biodiversity loss, and the rise in non-communicable diseases. It frames planetary health as both a scientific field and a social movement, calling for urgent structural and cultural shifts to restore balance and support the flourishing of all life.
Planetary Health and Biophilosophy
This invaluable paper by Prescott and Logan explores the “Anthropocene syndrome”—a web of crises including climate change, biodiversity loss, and non-communicable diseases, rooted in political, economic, and social systems. It calls for urgent, integrated health promotion that blurs the lines between personal, public, and planetary health.
Indigenous Knowledge & Adapting to Climate Change
This resource explores the vital role of Indigenous and local knowledge systems in understanding and responding to climate change. Long undervalued in scientific discourse, these deeply rooted ways of knowing offer accurate, context-specific insights and solutions that are increasingly recognised for their relevance and reliability.
The Biodiversity Hypothesis & Allergic Disease
Biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activity are linked to rising inflammatory and allergic diseases through disruptions in the human microbiota and immune function. This paper is a valuable resource for those working at the intersection of population and planetary health, especially in light of increasing such conditions in East Africa.
Immune & Metabolic effects; African Heritage Diets
As traditional diets in East Africa are rapidly replaced by Western-style eating, the health effects remain unclear. This first-of-its-kind trial in Kilimanjaro shows that even brief dietary shifts can disrupt immune and metabolic balance, highlighting the protective role of heritage diets.
Interested in working together?
Whether you are an individual experiencing chronic illness, and unexplained symptoms that traditional medicine has either ignored, or been unable to heal, or an organisation working at the intersection of population and planetary health, you’re in the right place!
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