Functional Medicine Doctor Sharief Ibrahim introduces his new book and shares the insights gained from his personal story of recovery.

As an NHS Consultant, much Dr Ibrahim’s work was focused on the care of the elderly, a large proportion of whom were suffering from one, or several chronic conditions. A personal health crisis that could have been fatal awoke Dr Ibrahim to the fact that he was suffering in exactly the same manner as his patients. Since he knew from experience that conventional treatment added up to symptom management rather than resolution, and that inevitably his patients continued on a downward health trajectory despite medication, he resolved to look into the underlying causes behind the population-level decline in health and the dramatic rise in chronic disease. His researches led him to the understanding that a single malfunction in our cellular energy production is the root of around 1200 medical problems, and to the resolution of his own health issues.

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