I am Gerry Gajadharsingh DO, founder of The Health Equation, an integrated health clinic based in the Harley Street Medical District of London. I am delighted to share with you my knowledge, developed over 30 years in clinical practice and lecturing internationally, on how to adopt a more integrated/holistic approach to health. My late father is from Trinidad, where I was born, my mother is Irish. I’ve lived in the UK for over 50 years. I am married to the lovely Susie, have three amazing children, three dogs, several chickens and live in rural Wiltshire. I’ve had a central London practice for coming up to 34 years and live in London during the week. My passion is the sport of fencing where I represent Ireland internationally at Veterans level.

I developed my passion for teaching soon after graduating in Osteopathy from the prestigious British School of Osteopathy in 1987. After obtaining my City and Guilds teaching certificate, I developed a more student-focused way of teaching. I have lectured at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, to both lay audiences, and clinicians/healthcare professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds both in the UK and internationally. These lectures focus on the subjects of Osteopathic Manual Treatment, Diagnostics, Breathing Behaviour, Capnometry and Heart Rate Variability, Nutrition and Metabolism. The pandemic has put a pause on my international lecturing and indeed most of my UK lecturing. As a consequence, I thought it was an ideal opportunity to put some of my presentation content online, hence this initial series of lectures.

The common theme that I encounter both in practice seeing patients and in lecturing to other healthcare professionals is simply “you don’t know what you don’t know”. Many people have outdated beliefs systems – both patients and healthcare professionals. I’ve been lucky to have been exposed to amazing clinical colleagues and lecturing colleagues over the years in a wide variety of healthcare professions, coupled with my own extensive CPD (Continuous Post Graduate Development), this has underpinned my belief that health and healthcare really needs to have a much more holistic/integrated approach. Indeed business, the larger community, and politics, could do well with really understanding that everything is inter-related. We are purely the sum of many different parts, all needing to work together in harmony, otherwise we get into trouble!

One of the challenges of adopting an integrated approach is the time and detail necessary to become a master of your subject and more importantly how this is applied to individual patients. It can be time-consuming to accumulate the level of knowledge necessary to be a more complete diagnostician. I hope that this initial series of lectures will give you a taste, and perhaps, lead you onto exploring, via other channels, a much more in-depth understanding to help your patients or indeed your own health, at least in the areas that interest you.