National Centre for Integrative Medicine

National Centre for Integrative Medicine Offering Integrative Health Consultations + Education & Accredited Training in Integrative Healthcare
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© The National Centre for Integrative Medicine is a community interest company (CIC) registered in England (no. 08529099) and a registered business (no. 229945). OUR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

(X) Offer an Integrative Medicine (IM) approach to healthcare that seeks to deliver the best complementary care and lifestyle approaches

(X) Aim to maximise individual choice and care to improve health, wellbeing

and quality of life

(X) Support a whole person care approach through a working collaboration between people and practitioners to improve health and well-being

(X) Work to raise awareness about IM and increasing the availability of quality IM services for service users and their referring clinicians

(X) Support ‘Self Care Strategies’ by promoting and supporting self-care and self-management of health and well-being by using healthy living solutions

(X) Offer a centre for academic excellence for IM education and training, research and evaluation

11/08/2026

Has modern medicine become a victim of its own success?

In this clip from Integrative Medicine Matters podcast with Dr. Elizabeth Thompson, guest Dr Sally Bramley makes an observation that stops you in your tracks. We have built one of the most sophisticated healthcare systems in human history. And yet chronic illness, burnout, anxiety and disconnection are rising faster than ever. Because somewhere along the way, we forgot the other parts. The relational. The intuitive. The whole person.

Sally sees Integrative Medicine as the space where something vital is being reclaimed. A more feminine, intuitive approach to health that does not replace the science but weaves alongside it, asking not just what is wrong but what does this person actually need?

This is the future of medicine.

🎙️Full episode out now via the link in bio
▶️Watch the episode now on YouTube
🎧 Or listen on spotify or apple podcast 'Integrative Medicine Matters'

07/08/2026

What if instead of naming your illness and medicating it, we actually found out why it was there in the first place?

This is the question that drew Dr Sally Bramley to functional medicine. And as our guest in this clip from our podast 'Integrative Medicine Matters', she explains it beautifully.

As a conventionally trained doctor, Sally was already fluent in the language of modern science, mitochondria, microbiome, biochemistry. But functional medicine gave her something her training never quite had. A way of seeing the whole person. Not isolated organs. Not separate symptoms. But a living, breathing, interconnected system where everything influences everything else.

No more name it and tame it. No more managing symptoms with a prescription and moving on. Instead, a genuine curiosity about root causes and what the body is really trying to say.

This is medicine the way it was always meant to be. 💫

🎙️Full episode out now via the link in bio
▶️Watch the episode now on YouTube
🎧 Or listen on spotify or apple podcast 'Integrative Medicine Matters'

06/08/2026

Speaker Highlights for NCIM October Conference:
Oncology Symptom Support: Advancing Care Across the Cancer Journey

Kirsten Chick is a nutritional therapist, author and educator with 20 years of experience. At least half her work is with people living with or recovering from cancer.

She is Nutrition Lead for cancer charity Yes to Life, a council member of the British Society for Integrative Oncology, and her MSc research on mushrooms, gut microbiota and cancer has just been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Kirsten has recently joined NCIM as our Nutritional Therapist Cancer Specialist.

In October she joins us to speak on "Nutrition and Dietetics: Creating the Bridge in Integrative Oncology".

Whether you’re an oncologist, specialist nurse, allied health professional, or anyone working in cancer care, join us to explore how science, prevention, and compassionate approaches can improve patient experiences from diagnosis through survivorship.

📅 Friday 9 October 2026, 10am-5pm
📍 Bristol + Online
🎟️ Early-bird tickets until 31 August: https://ncim.org.uk/event/oncology-symptom-support-2

05/08/2026

Did you know that the biggest source of fat in your body is probably not the fat on your plate?

In this eye opening clip from Integrative Medicine Matters, Dr Ian Lake, GP, biochemist and Type 1 diabetic, explains one of the most important and least understood facts in metabolic health.

When we eat a high carbohydrate meal, the glucose has to go somewhere. First it heads to the muscles and liver as glycogen. But here is the thing. Those stores are almost always full. So the liver does the only thing it can. It converts that excess glucose into fat. Sugar becomes fat. Under the influence of insulin.

And when we are eating three meals a day plus snacks, all loaded with carbohydrates, the liver simply cannot keep up. The result? Weight gain. High blood pressure. And fatty liver disease, a condition now affecting millions of people who have never touched a drop of alcohol in their lives.

This is not about eating fat. This is about understanding what carbohydrates are actually doing inside your body.

🎙️Full episode out now via the link in bio
▶️Watch the full episode now on YouTube
🎧 Or listen on spotify or apple podcast 'Integrative Medicine Matters'

Eat Well. Live Well. Age Well. 🌿What if the small choices you make every day could transform your energy, your wellbeing...
03/08/2026

Eat Well. Live Well. Age Well. 🌿

What if the small choices you make every day could transform your energy, your wellbeing and how you age?

Join us in Bristol for a practical, hands-on workshop where science meets real life (and lunch is part of the curriculum!🍽️)

In just 4 hours, led by a doctor and nutritional therapist, you'll discover:
✨ What metabolic health really means and why it matters
⚡ Why it's the key to lasting energy and healthy ageing
🥗 Simple nutrition and lifestyle strategies you can start today
🔄 How small daily habits create big, lasting change

You'll prepare and share a delicious nourishing lunch together, because good food is always better enjoyed in good company.

This is a relaxed, welcoming session designed for real people who want to feel better in their everyday lives. No prior knowledge needed. Just curiosity and an appetite (literally).

📍 Bristol, BS10 0HH
🗓️ Friday 18 September 2026
⏰ 09.30-13.30
🎟️ £65. Limited spaces: link in bio to book yours

31/07/2026

25% off NCIM Short Course - Functional Medicine: Tools, Frameworks & Next Steps for Your Health

Have you ever wondered why some patients just aren't getting better despite doing "everything right"? This course gives you the framework to find out. In just a few sessions, you'll learn to:

✅ Apply systems-based, root-cause thinking to chronic health complaints
✅ Identify key drivers behind chronic symptoms: gut health, inflammation, mitochondrial function and nervous system regulation
✅ Use the Five R gut healing framework (Remove, Replace, Repair, Repopulate, Rebalance) in real-world cases
✅ Integrate simple, sustainable lifestyle and nervous system tools that support the body's own capacity to heal

This is perfect CPD for practitioners looking to expand their toolkit with research-backed integrative approaches and invest in the skills your patients are already asking for.

🎉 This August only: get 25% off with code SALLY25
👉 Link in bio to enrol

30/07/2026

Speaker Highlights for NCIM October Conference:
Oncology Symptom Support: Advancing Care Across the Cancer Journey

Rhiannon Lewis is a former nurse and clinical aromatherapist with 36 years of experience, Rhiannon is one of the leading voices in oncology and palliative aromatherapy care globally. She has trained across the UK, USA and France, served as editor of the International Journal of Clinical Aromatherapy, and since 2002 has run a specialist annual programme at the Royal Marsden Hospital training practitioners in cancer and palliative care.

She founded the International Clinical Aromatherapy Network (ICAN) and organises two international conference series connecting practitioners and health professionals worldwide.

In October she'll be sharing her expertise on aromatherapy in oncology care with her talk "Aromatic Tools for Symptom Support in Oncology Care".

📅 Friday 9 October 2026, 10am-5pm
📍 Bristol + Online
🎟️ Early-bird tickets until 31 August: https://ncim.org.uk/event/oncology-symptom-support-2

28/07/2026

Everything you thought you knew about carbs is about to change. 🧬

In this fascinating clip from Integrative Medicine Matters, Dr Ian Lake, GP, biochemist and Type 1 diabetic, shares something that genuinely stops people in their tracks.

You do not need to eat carbohydrates to have enough glucose in your body. The liver is capable of producing up to 60 grams of glucose a day through a process called gluconeogenesis, converting other nutrients into exactly the fuel your body needs. The tissues that absolutely must have glucose, certain brain cells and red blood cells, are taken care of automatically. The body simply will not leave that to chance.

This changes everything about how we think about low carbohydrate eating, fasting and metabolic health. The body is not fragile. It is extraordinarily intelligent. And when we understand that, we start to make very different choices.

🎙️Full episode out now via the link in bio
▶️Watch the full episode now on YouTube
🎧 Or listen on spotify or apple podcast 'Integrative Medicine Matters'

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