In the third in her series of talks for the Dukes Club, Sarah Warley, founder of The Key Clinic was joined by Dr Miriam Mikicki, a medical doctor specialising in lifestyle and integrative medicine.
The two discussed a complementary approach to traditional treatments of hyperactivity and other mental and behavioural issues that look at underlying causal factors, focusing on the individual, as well as exploring diet, nutrition and gut health.
Is it all in the mind? Learning and behavioural issues tend to be approached in two ways – stemming from psychology and treatable with counselling or psychotherapy, or as genetically predetermined or beyond conscious control and treatable with medication. While both approaches are extremely valuable and not to be dismissed, Sarah and Dr Miriam take it one step further.
Sarah’s passion is to find out what predisposes individuals to certain learning and behavioural difficulties. Using the assertion that a healthy body equals a healthy mind, the pair focussed on biochemical predispositions and how abnormal levels of key nutrients can directly impact brain chemistry and mental health.
Sarah spoke about the different causes of depression, ADHD and other issues. With cases of these issues skyrocketing in recent years, the default treatment tends to be drugs. The pair want to encourage more testing to determine the root cause of imbalances before settling on a treatment. Where a biochemical imbalance is found, a nutrient therapy can work to correct the root cause epigenetically.
Sarah maintains that this approach, supplementing diet with vitamins and minerals can significantly help a person with a serious mental illness and has a 70-90% efficacy rate, although results can take longer.
The pair concluded with a deep dive into some startling case studies that support their work, sparking a host of questions from the Dukes Club audience.
Visit the The Key Clinic’s website for more information.