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  • A 15 min Discovery call is suggested to see whether Functional Medicine is a suitable approach for you. On booking a Discovery Consultation we ask for a £50 deposit which will be deducted from your first appointment with Dr Mo. If you do not go on to book an appointment this deposit is non-refundable and covers the cost of time taken for the phone consultation. If you are not available when Dr Mo calls you for this consultation the deposit is non-refundable unless you cancel or postpone the call within 24 hours. PLEASE NOTE: IN THE MAJORITY OF CASES FOLLOWING DISCOVERY CALL IT IS USUAL TO HAVE A GAP OF 6 WEEKS BEFORE AN INITIAL JOINT APPOINTMENT WITH BOTH DR MO & LYNDA MALLINSON. THIS ALLOWS TIME FOR ANY TEST TO BE SENT TO THE PATIENT, TIME FOR THE PATIENT TO COMPLETE THE TEST, RETURN THE TEST TO LAB AND FOR THE RESULTS AVAILABLE IN TIME FOR THE INITIAL JOINT APPOINTMENT. FOR EXAMPLE: A GI EFFECTS STOOL TEST TAKES UP TO 4 WEEKS FROM RECEIPT AT THE LAB FOR RESULTS TO BE AVAILABLE. SOME PATIENTS WILL HAVE TO STOP SOME SUPPLEMENTS/MEDICATION IN ADVANCE OF THE TEST ( EG PROBIOTICS ARE TO BE STOPPED 14 DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE TEST) . THIS STOOL TEST IS ALSO TAKEN OVER THE COURSE OF 3 DAYS.


    Daniela
    Daniela Mo
    My background Since I was a child, growing up in northern Italy, I wanted to be a doctor, to help people heal and be happy. Whilst I was training for years in the science of the body, and becoming proficient in the treatment of its ailments, I realised I was always more interested in the people who were inhabiting that body. My instinctive belief was that everything in the body and mind is connected. Why does disease occur? Why does the body stop functioning normally? Although I was being trained to focus on symptoms and organ damage in isolation, I suspected that the key to healing was to look at the body’s systems as a connected whole. Why I chose General Practice This is why I chose General Practice as my speciality. How better to see a person in their entirety than to be a generalist? And yet, after 17 happy years working in NHS General Practice I have realised that even this type of generalism doesn’t go far enough for me. We are still following a conventional medical model, putting temporary patches on seemingly isolated and diverse conditions, but rarely actually getting to the bottom of them. Add the constraints of a system that doesn’t allow for more than a few minutes at a time with a patient, and you have a recipe for unsatisfactory management of chronic disease. And so patients carry on living with the daily drudgery of pain, fatigue, physical and emotional limitations, taking medication upon medication, with no sense of if and when they may improve. My introduction to Functional Medicine My “a-ha!” moment came when I was introduced to Functional Medicine. This evidence-based, tried-and-tested medical approach speaks to my need for a better model of care, one that delivers results. Functional Medicine moves away from a symptom-oriented approach and strives to find out the root cause of those symptoms, to identify and fix the underlying mechanisms of malfunction in the body. In doing so, symptoms frequently resolve and the body is restored
  • Initial consultations are your first visit with your practitioner, it is a great opportunity to help them understand your health objectives, your medical history to date, the health concerns and your priorities which you would like your health practitioner to take into account.


    Lynda
    Lynda Mallinson
  • Initial consultations are your first visit with your practitioner, it is a great opportunity to help them understand your health objectives, your medical history to date, the health concerns and your priorities which you would like your health practitioner to take into account.


    Emma
    Emma Little
  • Initial consultations are your first visit with your practitioner, it is a great opportunity to help them understand your health objectives, your medical history to date, the health concerns and your priorities which you would like your health practitioner to take into account.


    Lynda
    Lynda Mallinson
  • Initial consultations are your first visit with your practitioner, it is a great opportunity to help them understand your health objectives, your medical history to date, the health concerns and your priorities which you would like your health practitioner to take into account.


    Emma
    Emma Little