Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner. Lecturer. Medical Scientist. Naturopath.

“Since early childhood, I have possessed a love of the sciences, the human body and the desire to never cease learning.”

Annalies Corse MLMed (Distinction), BMedSc, BHSc, FASLM I am a Medical Scientist who became a Naturopath. Lifestyle Medicine was not a formal discipline at the time. Before I ever sat with a client, I spent almost a decade in laboratories. Oncology research at Charles Sturt University. Genetics at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Sports science at the Australian Institute of Sport. Haematology, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology in both public and private hospitals. I managed department disciplines, analysed results, and talked to doctors about their patients. I loved it. But I kept seeing the same gap; what was happening upstream. The first principles. The mechanistic chemistry and biology that precede the diagnosis. I returned to university. Not for medicine, and not for dietetics, but for naturopathy. In 2003, it was the closest thing to preventive medicine that existed. The scientist in me was ever-present. I questioned everything, discarded what didn't hold up, and kept what biochemistry, physiology and lifestyle interventions  supported. I've never asked my medical peers to trust naturopathy. I've simply invited them to look at the science underneath.