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A Beginners Guide to Functional Medicine

TL;DR: Functional medicine looks for the root cause of chronic health issues instead of just treating symptoms, using evidence-based testing...

Adult Acne – Warning Sign of Underlying Health Issues

TL;DR: Adult acne in women is often a sign of insulin resistance and high androgens, not just a cosmetic issue....

DOCTOR WITH A MISSION – DR Sly Nedic

Dr Sly Nedic shares her journey from paediatrics to Functional and Aesthetic Medicine in South Africa, her philosophy on treating...

Infertility and how hormonal turmoil is driving 21 sanctuary sterility

TL;DR: Infertility affects roughly 1 in 8 couples and rises sharply with age, driven largely by hormonal imbalances such as...

How do weight issue & insulin resistance affects our skin health?

TL;DR: Skin issues are often visible signs of underlying insulin resistance, not just cosmetic problems. Insulin resistance can progress to...

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Why Modern Society Needs Functional Medicine

When you’re not well & nothing seems to help TL;DR: Conventional medicine treats symptoms one at a time, while functional...

Aesthetic Concerns Could Be Signs Of Underlying Medical Conditions?

TL;DR: Many aesthetic concerns (saddlebags, cellulite, puffy eyes, stubborn belly fat, saggy arms, skin changes) can be signs of an...

The Symphony of Women’s Hormones

TL;DR: Hormones work as an interconnected system, so imbalance in one, whether from stress, toxins, alcohol, sugar or poor sleep,...

Weight loss: When willpower isn’t enough

TL;DR: Struggling to lose weight often isn't a willpower problem, it's driven by measurable, treatable causes: gut bacteria, insulin...

Can we lessen the risk of severe Covid-19?

TL;DR: COVID-19 severity depends heavily on a person's underlying immune health and inflammatory comorbidities like obesity, diabetes and hypertension, not...

Fillers and the millennial patient

FILLERS AND THE MILLENNIAL PATIENT Because the number of younger patients requesting fillers is increasing every year, aesthetic practitioners need...

Perimenopausal Symptoms – Should You Worry?

TL;DR: Perimenopause can start as early as your 30s and last from two to ten years, often triggering hot flashes,...

Robotic Hair Restoration

TL;DR: ARTAS Robotic Hair Restoration is an FDA-approved, robot-assisted alternative to manual hair transplant techniques for androgenetic alopecia (male and...

Can We Reverse Ageing?

TL;DR: New research suggests biological ageing can potentially be slowed or reversed, from a small human trial combining growth hormone,...

Is your Belly Fat Creating too much of the Wrong Hormones?

TL;DR: Visceral belly fat isn't just cosmetic, it's metabolically active tissue that drives insulin resistance and disrupts sex hormones differently...

The Skin-Gut Connection

TL;DR: Gut health and skin health are closely linked, with imbalances like SIBO, leaky gut and poor nutrient absorption driving...

PMS – Taming the Raging Monster

TL;DR: PMS affects most menstruating women and often signals an underlying hormonal imbalance, particularly low progesterone and estrogen dominance, driven...

SKIN HRT – topical bioidentical hormones for aging skin

TL;DR: As estrogen drops sharply during menopause, skin loses collagen, hydration and radiance, changes that aesthetic procedures can only partially...

Hair loss – Micrografting

TL;DR: Androgenic alopecia (pattern hair loss) is a largely hereditary, DHT-driven condition affecting most men and a significant proportion of...

Balancing Methylation for healthy aging

TL;DR: Methylation is a cellular process that adds methyl groups to DNA, hormones and neurotransmitters, and it underpins ageing, detoxification,...

Beauty Divine by Dr. Nedic

TL;DR: MD™ Codes is an advanced dermal filler technique, developed by Dr. Mauricio de Maio, using predefined injection sites based...