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Medical Advisors



(In alphabetical order)



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. He was previously medical Director at The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health and is now Chair of the College of Medicine.


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


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.



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). 


Nicola Hembry
Dr Nicola Hembry  BSc  MB BS MSB is the Medical Director of Integrated Health Screening Ltd and co-director of RGCC-UK Ltd . She is a registered medical doctor, with additional qualifications in psychology, clinical oncology and nutritional medicine. She is also a committee member of the British Society of Ecological Medicine, with over 10 years experience in this field . Her main interest is in complementary and supportive approaches to cancer, and she is known for her work with RGCC (Research Genetic Cancer Centre) in Greece, offering chemosensitivity testing for both orthodox and complementary cancer treatments, and specialised diagnostics including MammoVision breast thermal imaging and screening tests for circulating tumour cells. She has been based in Bristol at Litfield House Medical Centre since 2003.


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.


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.


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 Maurice Orange MSc Clin Oncol - trained as a GP and in anthroposophical medicine in Holland. He was Medical Director of Park Attwood Clinic: a centre for integrative anthroposophical medical-therapeutic care, where spiritual, psychosocial and biological aspects were taken into account in treatment. Dr Orange's work has focussed on integrate cancer care and lectures and publishes regularly.  His focus of interest and experience include: cancer care; immunology; mistletoe therapy and whole body hyperthermia; spirituality in medical care. He currently holds a senior position in developing integrated oncology at the Ita Wegman Clinic (near Basel, Switzerland).
Dr Maurice Orange


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.



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


Xandria Williams
Xandria Williams M.Sc., D.I.C., A.R.C.S., N.D., D.B.M., M.R.N qualified with degrees (B.Sc., A.R.C.S., M.Sc. and D.I.C.) in chemistry from Imperial College, London, and Otago University, New Zealand, and with Diplomas in Naturopathy (N.D.) and Botanic Medicine (D.B.M.) from Sydney, Australia. Her post graduate training included psychotherapy, NLP, EFT and related techniques.  She has worked as a Nutritional Biochemist and Naturopath, in private practice, for over thirty years, written over 400 articles and 20 books and given several thousand hours of lectures and seminars, in several countries, to undergraduates, postgraduates and general interest groups. She is a member of the British Naturopathic Association and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and an associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine. For the past ten years she has had a particular interest in researching cancer as a process, and the ways in which nutritional, plant, and other natural substances can be used to help restore health.


Andre Young
Dr Young-Snell qualified in conventional medicine from Guy's Hospital Medical School in London in 1988. After much deliberation, he decided to set up his own clinic so he could specialise in Metabolic Protocols in 2002. Though specialising in Parkinson's Disease whilst working in the NHS he has covered many fields in his medical career at some of the UK's top hospitals. The list includes Addenbrooke's, Whipps Cross, Barts, Brighton and Guys, all of which contain world-class surgeons and doctors.
Dr Young-Snell has had a thorough grounding in all aspects of medicine, including tumour care, general medicine and surgery. Throughout his career as a 'conventional' doctor he has headed top hospital emergency teams, taught and provided guidance to junior doctors, run clinics, deciphered and coordinated patient management. Dr Young-Snell's unique personality and patient rapport, alongside his medical experience and knowledge, make his clinic one of the most open and honest in the country. He strongly believes that the patient's mind set is of utmost importance in their recovery alongside a strong sense of goal setting, gratitude, relaxation and laughter all combined with more traditional complementary metabolic protocols.
He writes the regular "Ask Dr. Andre" feature in ICON magazine.

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