Prepare a few ingredients. Leave dinner flexible.
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Nutritional & Functional Medicine
Health, examined
more closely.
I'm Jonathan Chew, a nutritional and functional medicine practitioner in Kuala Lumpur. I write about nutrition, chronic health conditions and how to weigh the evidence.
A few places to begin.
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What Nutritional and Functional Medicine Actually Is
The thinking behind the practice, its intellectual background and where it sits alongside other approaches to care.
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A few minutes, something useful.
A sesame-lime dressing for the vegetables you have.
Give a jar of tahini a useful job with lime, ginger and vegetables you enjoy.
A chickpea breakfast with tomatoes and lime.
A warm, mostly plant-based breakfast using cooked chickpeas, tomatoes and a little lime.
Make room for a short walk.
Choose a starting point that fits an ordinary day.
A practitioner.
A reader. A writer.
Founder & CEO, RENN Asia Wellness
My work brings together nutritional and functional medicine. Here, I make room for the questions that need a longer conversation: what the evidence says, what it leaves uncertain, and what that means for a person making a decision.
Read my backgroundFor client enquiries, contact RENN Asia Wellness.
Where should I begin?
Start with the introduction to nutritional and functional medicine, or choose an essay about a question you already have. Reading times are shown beside each essay.
Can I receive the monthly letter?
The monthly letter is planned. Newsletter setup is being considered separately; delivery setup will be completed separately.
Once a month, when an essay is ready, I write to the people who want to be told. No noise, no selling — only the work.
Newsletter delivery is still being set up.