I graduated from Strathclyde University with my BSc ( honours) Pharmacy degree in 1992 and have worked in hospital and community pharmacies in France, Australia, and the UK, culminating in running my own pharmacies for two decades in the UK.
I gained my prescribing diploma in 2012 and have since specialised in CFS, ME, hypothyroidism, and other auto-immune diseases which are typically difficult to treat in ‘mainstream medicine.
After researching the work on Long COVID in recent months, and its treatment with LDN, I have produced a protocol that I hope may help in the treatment of this debilitating condition.
I believe in an integrative, holistic approach to wellbeing and health, and aim to treat ‘dis-ease’ by combining conventional medicine with therapies such as nutrition, supplementation, mind therapy such as meditation and mindfulness, as well as exercise therapy. My prescribing is done on a case-by-case basis, and this has led me to undertake a Masters Diploma in Integrative Medicine from NCIM, Bristol, UK.
My work with LDN has introduced me to many auto-immune patients who have been ‘round the houses' with conventional pharmaceutical medicines, without any success in improving symptoms. At last, by introducing LDN to their regime, as well as looking at nutrition and blood levels of vitamins and thyroxine hormones, we can see an improvement in symptoms in the majority of my patients.