Functional Medicine Plus

Functional, Integrative & Metabolic Medicine 

With Dr Jess Braid & Her Team

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Transform Your Health
Enhance Your Quality of Life


We are the leading functional, integrative and metabolic medicine health clinic in the UK, passionate about restoring health and improving quality of life for all our patients. We use the latest innovations in diagnostic testing to uncover underlying root causes, metabolic imbalances and personal susceptibilities, including (epi)genetics. This allows us to uncover often overlooked factors that have a dramatic impact on your health.

Once we gather your objective health data, we create a personalised functional medicine programme designed just for you. This includes bespoke diets and condition-specific natural supplements, all tailored to suit your individual physiology.

Overcoming Chronic
Illness & Symptoms Naturally


Using the latest science and research, functional medicine offers a whole new way to understand and look at chronic illnesses and symptoms like diabetes, heart disease, perimenopause, depression, hypertension, anxiety, allergies and autoimmune disease. The fundamental concept is that symptoms and diseases are created by imbalances in the key physiological systems in your body. When inflammation, blood sugar imbalances, insulin resistance, oxidative stress, hormonal problems, and systemic upset occur the body spirals into poor metabolic health and disease develops.

These factors combined with emotional stress, poor diet or lifestyle, lack of essential nutrients, environmental toxins, lack of exercise, and other issues create an environment where chronic diseases can flourish.

Functional, natural and integrative medicine focus on a whole body approach incorporating the latest science of well-proven connections like the gut-brain and gut-immune axis alongside tried and tested natural and traditional therapies used successfully for hundreds of years. We work to re-balance and restore the body’s powerful innate healing forces to resolve your symptoms and conditions. Our aim is to do this as naturally as possible without the need for pharmaceutical medications or invasive surgeries.

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Functional Medicine Plus vs
Conventional Medicine

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Empowering, Transformative, Personalised


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We offer a unique approach to understanding, addressing and preventing the many chronic diseases that 3 in 4 of us will suffer from by the age of 60 in the UK. By dealing with your underlying health dysfunctions and root causes rather than treating the individual symptoms we aim to restore health bring long lasting improvement and relief.  

Our team of qualified, registered medical doctors, functional medicine practitioners, herbalists, traditional Chinese practitioners, homeopaths, health coaches and more offer our patients (in-person or by Telehealth) the best of evidence-based and traditional, natural approaches. We commonly see markers like inflammation, blood sugar, triglycerides and cholesterol, immune function and hormonal balance improve in our patients. Stubborn weight is lost and muscle mass optimised, symptoms like brain fog, poor sleep, low energy and aches and pains resolve when health is supported in the right way, naturally and safely.