About uS
The Gut Wellness Programme has been created by a small group of Herbalists and Naturopaths. Gut health has been core to herbal practice for centuries. It is only more recently that the role of gut health is being recognised in other forms of medicine and what we as herbalists and naturopaths have been working with for decades is now being accepted in the mainstream. As gut health is so central to our practice, Lloyd Gee came up with the initial idea of this Gut Wellness Programme and approached several colleagues. Together we have developed this into a complete package.
Herbal Medicine
Herbs have been used as medicine for thousands of years; many herb ingredients have been used to create modern drugs. A typical herbal medicine prescription would aim to improve symptoms and strengthen or stimulate the body’s normal function in order to help the body to heal itself. Natural plant medicines have several active ingredients, which are effective to enhance health in various ways.
Western Herbal Medicine, like other traditional medicine, uses plants (root, leaf, stem, flower, fruit, seed or whole plant) to treat disease and enhance health and wellbeing. Herbal medicines can be in the form of capsules, teas, powders, tinctures, glycerites, pessaries, suppositories and syrups and are prescribed specific to the patient, taking into account their medical history, blood tests, presenting symptoms, nutritional status and lifestyle.
Naturopathy
Naturopathy uses the power of nature to
promote your body’s self-healing mechanisms. Our bodies have intuitive and intelligent mechanisms that repair, restore and maintain balance and health. We aim to treat the cause not just the symptoms and treat the whole person. A naturopathic approach includes looking at physical, emotional, social, familial and occupational factors. The practitioner helps to empower the patient to understand and improve self-care thereby taking more responsibility for their own health.
Treatment may focus on restoration of health where there is illness, optimisation where overall health is reasonable and prevention of ill health or slowing down of health deterioration.
Treatment may incorporate natural medicines, supplements, exercise, lifestyle modifications and possibly other natural modalities.
Nutrition
What you eat is one of the most important factors for good health. Nutrients and other food components are essential to most functions of the body and therefore deficiencies or excesses of any nutrients will positively or negatively affect health. Healthy nutrients protect against disease, restore health, and levels of these nutrients often determine people’s response to any health challenges.
Each person will have slightly different dietary needs so there is no one size fits all. However a healthy diet does not need to be over complicated or difficult to achieve. Based on our knowledge of nutritional requirements, your nutritional status, dietary intervention can be used to prevent, mitigate or sometimes resolve chronic disease.
We are here to help you make better choices about what you eat or what supplements may help.
YOUR GUT WELLNESS PRACTITIONERS
All of our Gut Wellness practitioners are fully qualified and experienced herbalists having undertaken 4 years of training to qualify and have attended numerous training courses since. They are also fully insured and have membership with professional bodies.
VASANTI LIMBANI
Vasanti Limbani is an accomplished Medical Herbal Practitioner and a Senior Sarcoma Data Researcher at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Her background in science and experience in a wide range of clinical and laboratory research, sterile techniques and phlebotomy, enhances her Herbal practice by bringing together traditional medicine practises with scientifically backed application and understanding.
Having grown up using herbs as medicine, Vasanti has always been inspired by how diverse, effective and widely applicable plant remedies are. She enjoys working with people and being able to personalise herbal treatment. Vasanti is driven by communities coming together and increasing general public awareness of natural wellness. In her free time, she enjoys walking and hiking, yoga, meditation, socialising and loves being in natural surroundings.
Based in North-West London
LLOYD GEE
Lloyd has been practising since 2003 after qualifying as a medical herbalist and naturopath at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London. He is passionate about the power of herbs together with a person’s own healing powers to support health.
His approach is to look at imbalances in the whole body as well as targeting any specific illness or symptoms. With herbs, he uses aspects of Chinese herbalism (TCM) as well as Western herbal practice, enabling him to combine the evidence-based and traditional Western approaches with the more energetic Eastern approaches – giving the best of both worlds. He is vice president of the herbal professional body – URHP
Based in North and Central London
What OUR Clients Say About US
We are getting great results for our patients who join the programme. and receive lots of positive feedback.