I began my career as a Master in Applied Finance, working in investment banking and the corporate world — a life built on data and high-stakes decisions. But the analytical mind that thrived on spreadsheets kept asking a question finance couldn't answer: why do we feel the way we feel, and what actually lets us change it? The same rigour that reads a balance sheet, I now bring to reading a lab panel — alongside the intuition and deep listening I spent years developing. Functional medicine gave a framework to what I'd seen for two decades: energy, weight, blood sugar, blood pressure, liver, gut and hormones are not separate problems, but one connected system.