Medical Advisors


Dr Damien Downing MB BS MSB - Yes to Life Chief Medical Advisor. Dr Downing oversees the medical information offered by Yes to Life.

Qualifying from Guy's Hospital in 1972, he has worked in nutritional and environmental medicine since 1980. He is the current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, and was for 20 years the editor of the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. His 1988 book Daylight Robbery was one of the first to highlight the health importance of sunlight and vitamin D. He was recently made a Clinical Fellow of Prince Charles's Foundation for Integrated Health.

Dr Downing practises Ecological Medicine; he explains that this considers environmental impacts on the individual through Allergy, Toxicology and Nutrition, how the Biochemical Individuality (particularly Genomics) of each of us affects our handling of these impacts, and how each of us, patient, practitioner and individual, in turn has an impact on and a responsibility for the environment we all share.
Dr Damien Downing


Professor George Lewith
Prof George Lewith MA DM FRCP MRCGP - attended Trinity College, Cambridge and Westminster Hospital Medical School. He has worked as a Senior House Officer and Registrar within the Westminster and University College Hospital Teaching Groups in London. After training as a GP, he practised medicine in Australia before returning to England. He continues to lecture at Southampton University's Department of Medicine. A member of many key organisations within the field of complementary medicine, Professor Lewith holds a Diploma in Acupuncture from Nanking in China, and has acted as a consultant on complementary medicine to the American National Institute of Health and Federal Drug Administration, as well as the World Health Organisation.


Patricia Peat
Patricia Peat RGN Dip Pall C Dip UTR - Yes to Life Clinical Advisor. After working in specialist cancer wards, and running oncology clinics, Patricia spent a period of time in palliative care. Upon returning to oncology, and finding the advances that have been made in integration of complementary treatments in other areas had not affected the care of patients in oncology clinics, she established Cancer Options, a cancer consultancy, with the aim of not only helping each individual client access the best possible treatment from all approaches, but also of bringing about widespread change, so that integrating the best elements from orthodox, and natural therapies becomes the normal practice in this country. Patricia writes a regular feature in ICON magazine.



Dr Maurice Orange - Dr Orange trained as a GP and in anthroposophic medicine in Holland, and he is currently pursuing an MSc in Clinical Oncology at Birmingham University. He joined Park Attwood, near Birmingham in 1987 and in 1995 became the Medical Director.  The clinic is a centre for integrative anthroposophic medical-therapeutic care, where spiritual, psychosocial and biological aspects are taken into account.  Dr Orange's work has focussed increasingly on integrated cancer care, and he contributes to postgraduate oncology training in Germany. His areas of interest and experience include: cancer; immunology; rheumatology; mistletoe therapy and hyperthermia; spirituality in medical care.Dr Maurice Orange


Dr Chris Etheridge
Dr Chris Etheridge PhD, BSc (Hons) Chem, BSc (Hons) HerbMed, MNIMH, MCPP, CChem, MRSC, ARCS, DIC - Yes to Life Medical Review Team - Dr. Christopher Etheridge trained at Imperial College London, and later at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, where he holds three patents in Gene Therapy. Christopher has also recently qualified as an accredited Practitioner of Herbal Medicine (Phytotherapy). 


Dr Robert Jacobs
Robert H. Jacobs N.M.D, PhD, H.M.D, D. Hom (Med) is the driving force behind the Society for Complementary Medicine in London and the Society for Human Development in Los Angeles. He is a qualified Naturopath and Homeopath, with over 30 years of experience in natural medicine. He is a member of the British Naturopathic Medical Association, the General Register of Naturopaths and the Homeopathic Medical Association in the UK and is a member of the American Naturopathic Medical Association. He specialises in Functional and Nutritional Medicine, promoting optimum function in the cells and systems of the body - immune, digestive, detoxification, energy creation, hormone balance, brain function, cardiovascular, and anti-ageing. Imbalances in the body's functional systems create symptoms and illness.


Deanna Tennancour RN BSN LAc MAc - Yes to Life Senior Clinical Advisor - worked as a nurse on the west coast of America from 1982 in the areas of public health, cancer and hospice care. During that time she interspersed clinical care with directing a home hospice programme, and lectured on pain and symptom management for a community volunteer training programme.  With many years background in meditation, yoga, and conscious awareness development, she participated in early work that supported combining holistic care with the best that the conventional system had to offer. In the mid-1990's she developed an acupuncture programme for patients and their carers who were facing end-stage cancer, and went on to obtain her masters degree in Classical Five Element acupuncture. Having moved to the UK in 2004, she has worked as senior clinical nurse for the NHS, lectured for the Guy's and St.Thomas Charity and Kings College Hospital, and has now started a private acupuncture practice.Deanna Tennancour


Dr Rosy Daniel
Dr Rosy Daniel BSc MBBCh is Founder and Medical Director of Health Creation, and she also works as an Integrated Medicine Consultant at the Apthorp Centre in Bath providing consultations for those with cancer who are seeking advice on how to integrate alternative, complementary and self-help approaches to fighting and healing cancer alongside orthodox medical treatment. Dr Daniel was former Medical Director of Bristol Cancer Help Centre (1993 to 1999), and worked from 1999 to 2005 at the Harley Street Oncology Centre. She addresses conferences and seminars nationally and internationally, and is a regular broadcaster. She is author of 5 books and creator of the interactive Cancer Lifeline Kit and supportive health coaching programme of Health Creation mentors.


Chris Dawkins
Dr Chris Dawkins BM MRCGP LMCC - Yes to Life Medical Review Team - A GP since 1990, Chris graduated in medicine in 1986, trained in acupuncture in Canada in 1992, homeopathy at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital 2000 to 2003 and nutrition with the British Society for Ecological Medicine 2001 to 2003. He left general practice in June 2003 to pursue an integrated approach to health care, working at the Dove Clinic for Integrated Medicine until March 2004, with a primary focus on the integrated treatment of cancers. Dr Dawkins is a committee member of the British Society for Ecological Medicine was previously a GP Tutor at Oxford University Medical School. He now works privately at The Breakspeare Clinic. 


Dr Michael Dixon
Dr Michael Dixon OBE has been a Devon GP for 21 years. Since 1998 he has been Chair of NHS Alliance representing Primary Care Trusts, GP practices and primary care professionals and managers. He is Senior Associate at the King's Fund, Honorary Senior Fellow in Public Policy at HSMC Birmingham University and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Integrated Healthcare at the Peninsula Medical School. Medical Director at The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health.


Dr John Moran
Dr John D Moran RD MBBS LDS RCS DPsSC DFFP MSc NUTR MED - Yes to Life Medical Advisor - Dr. Moran is the Medical Director of HMC Holistic Medical Clinic. He qualified in medicine and  dentistry from St. George's  and  Guy's  dental   hospital  in  London . He  is  a Diplomate of the faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care  and holds post graduate diplomas in psychosexual counselling, menopause, sexual dysfunction as well as a post graduate MSc in  nutritional medicine.

Dr Moran has been extensively trained by Professor Pfeifer himself at his clinic in Switzerland and is therefore able to treat and advise on prostate and breast cancer following Professor Pfeifer's protocol.


Dr Tom Gilhooly
Dr Tom Gilhooly graduated from Glasgow University Medical School in 1983 and entered General Practice in Glasgow's East End 1989.

Dr Gilhooly has had a career long interest in the importance of nutrition in health. He founded The Centre for Nutritional Studies in 2003 and is currently a director of Glasgow Health Solutions Ltd.  In 2007 he founded The Essential Health Clinic in Glasgow which specialises in nutritional medicine and is an Omega Centre of Excellence. He is one of the medical advisors to the LDN research Trust a registered charity dedicated to raising money for research into the drug Low Dose Naltrexone.  His particular interests are the nutritional management of Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Diabetic Neuropathy, Cancer, Seasonal Affective Disorder and Depression.


Rebecca Edwards, Naturopath
Rebecca Edwards BA ND Adv Dip App Sci (Naturopathy) Dip Nut Dip Herb Dip Hom - Rebecca is a Naturopath practising in Marylebone and Sevenoaks who works to restore wellbeing to her clients using a combination of Nutritional Therapy, Herbal Medicine and Homeopathy.


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