Welcome to our Durbanville offices

Welcome to our Durbanville offices

Our Oakmed practice has moved to exciting new premises...
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See & feel the difference

See & feel the difference

I went to a school reunion yesterday. 39 years since I have seen some people. I can’t imagine how I would have felt had I seen them nine, six or even three months ago....
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Reflections

Reflections

A poem and tribute by Michele Vorster... Sometimes, you look in the mirror and feel you are looking at a stranger...
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Ode to the Ubiquitous majority

Ode to the Ubiquitous majority

A poem by Dr Grant Fourie... My patients are depressed and fat! Today, the whole day, most of them just sat! Their pressures are high and their tolerance low, their energy is lacking and they only sleep so-so...
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Prevent memory loss

Prevent memory loss

The beauty of following a nutrition plan devised for you, is that it helps treat and prevent all chronic degenerative diseases, from the common ones like heart disease, diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer’s, to the ones you have never heard of...
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Alzheimer’s and sugar

Alzheimer’s and sugar

In 2013, 5.2 million Americans were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, a severe form of dementia, and diagnoses are projected to triple by 2050...
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Foods for healthy eyes

Foods for healthy eyes

More than 70 percent of survey respondents from a National Eye Health Education Program (NEHEP) survey, revealed that the loss of their eyesight would have the greatest impact on their day-to-day activities...
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Vitamin D and fertility

Vitamin D and fertility

Did you know that in northern countries, which have dark, cold winters, couples are less likely to conceive during the winter, whereas conception rates peak...
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Mental wellness summit

Mental wellness summit

The Mental Wellness Summit is an educational and empowering experience that explores better ways to approach and treat mental health from a root cause perspective - it’s designed with everyone in mind...
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Healthy heart summit

Healthy heart summit

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for men and women. Yet, it is often addressed with stents and bypass surgeries that only treat the symptoms, not the causes. It’s time to dispel the myths and misinformation about the causes of heart disease...
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Calm and mindfulness

Calm and mindfulness

Seriously stressed out at work right now? You’re not alone. In fact, one survey found that as many as 80 percent of Americans are too!...
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Abundant energy summit

Abundant energy summit

The 30 sessions at The Abundant Energy Summit will benefit anyone with chronic fatigue syndrome or ME and related illnesses, including fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivity, as well as those with burnout...
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Stressed and exhausted?

Stressed and exhausted?

Of all the health issues my patients come to me with, fatigue is by far the most common. I witness the epidemic of extreme exhaustion...
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Functional assessment

Functional assessment

A question we get on a regular basis is, “What would my functional medicine programme look like?” It’s a great question. To answer it, we need to first understand the bigger picture of functional medicine...
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Anxiety and depression

Anxiety and depression

Recently, I spoke with a new patient of mine who was struggling with debilitating anxiety, depression, brain fog and fatigue. She’s in her mid-30's and can’t even get out of bed some days, because her life is so wrecked by health problems...
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Energising pregnenolone

Energising pregnenolone

Some of the earliest investigations of pregnenolone’s many benefits showed it to be an energising, anti-stress biochemical...
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Fertile awakening

Fertile awakening

Fertile awakening is not like nothing I have ever created before, nor have I seen anyone else host anything like this...
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Functional orchestra

Functional orchestra

My patients often ask why I recommend that they have a functional medicine assessment and, of course, what functional medicine is… the answer to these questions is both complex and simple...
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Bynier-uitputting

Bynier-uitputting

"Siekte" van die 21ste eeu? Moeg, gedaan, klaar op? Wie vandag is nié? Bynier-uitputting versamel ’n klomp uiteenlopende simptome onder een sambreel. Dalk herken jy jouself...
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