Institute for Optimum Nutrition

And then realizing I needed to do more, and that's when I started doing further education, doing all different courses.

And then I actually signed up at the Institute of Optimal Nutrition and did a two-year graduate diploma in functional nutrition.

And once I did that, that opened my eyes completely to what we're missing, and, and the fact that you can see 57 different diseases in the mouth, and they're the first signs of them in the mouth before you can see them systemically.

And we can see what's going on.

I'm realizing I needed a little bit more work with that.

I started to study nutrition and now I'm a qualified nutritionist with Institute of Optimal Nutrition in Richmond and looking at actually how we can put food and nutrition into dentistry.

And for me, the best dentistry is no dentistry.

So how can I work with my patients to try and reverse gum disease, reverse tooth decay, but actually looking at the wider system.

So that was the whole health manual.

And then the whole concept of optimum nutrition formalized into establishing the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in 1984.

Linus Pauling was a patron of the institute.

The first patron was a lovely man, Professor Derek Bryce Smith, who helped to get lead out of petrol.

So he was a professor of chemistry.

ION now provides degree accredited courses.

Could you ever imagine it when you started it to grow this way?

Well, no, that was the absolute intention, because I remember having a very important meeting with Two seminal people.

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He was a founder of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition to train the first generation of nutritional therapists.

He now helps people transform their lives through health retreats and is a trustee to the Food for the Brain organization specializing in dementia.

Welcome, Patrick.