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It is with great sadness that we write to inform you that Privategp.com will be closed with effect from the 30th of September 2023.
It has been our privilege to look after you, our PGP “extended family”, which includes over 30,000 patients during our 28-year history.
Our integrative work has been groundbreaking with some truly remarkable and humbling results for which, I believe, we became quite famous.
I would like to thank past and present patients and staff for your tremendous work as an extended team, together with our network of colleagues throughout the UK.
We have worked very hard to try and ensure a smooth transition for your healthcare.
We hope that the information below will be helpful to you.

Your future medical care

It is important that you have access to your NHS GP or other medical service in future should you need prescription-based medications. We are unable to recommend a medical practice but may be able to signpost you to appropriate support via drpiper@privategp.com
If you have special requirements as a past patient please email drpiper@privategp.com. Responses are not guaranteed and will be discretionary.

How we handle your data

We have a legal duty to inform you of the way we are managing your data. Over the past two or three years, our policy has been to send you copies of all your letters, blood results, and notes from your consultations. Therefore, you should have enough information to provide any new GMC-registered medical practitioner.
Past medical records are held securely. Please send any SARS requests to drpiper@privategp.com

PGP still retains the contact data of all patients with an email address. This is with a view to making future contact to advise of any services being provided by PGP going forward. All patients are offered the option of opting out of this and having their contact data removed if they so wish.

Yours in health and happiness.
The PGP Team

Eating Disorders

We all recognise the significant challenges of these conditions which can happen at any stage of life but particularly in adolescence. It is important to communicate early with medical personnel who can help to put the condition into context.

Here, we therefore refer early to specialists in eating disorders, involving a psychiatric assessment and psychological support.

Where these conditions have progressed to excessive body weight loss, hospital admission can be necessary.

We also look at underlying metabolic issues that may be affecting thought processes. These include deficiencies states and other features associated with optimising biological systems.

We have mentioned these systems many times before in other articles relating to health and wellness. But essentially they include the importance of optimal gut functioning, assessing the immune system, looking for underlying chronic infections, optimising detoxification of the body, assessing exposure to our toxic load with the exposome. You will remember that the exposome consists of toxicity that we are exposed to in our daily ecological environment. This will include infections, tick bites, EMF, more commonly known as electro-smog, exposure to damp and mould, chemicals which are all around us in abundance, metals and so on. Occasionally, some of the altered perceptions that are involved with eating disorders, not only relate to corrections that can be made to thought processes, but also optimising our biochemistry.

With eating disorders, because of the nature of the underlying disorder, which is often an obsession about control, we do not look into biological systems early on. Instead we usually prefer to do some simple basic medical and nutritional tests, followed by long-term support with psychological tools, from top experts in psychology or psychiatry, followed later by more in-depth analysis if necessary.

Remember, that with biological systems medicine, we are not only trying to turn around complex illness but we also want to keep the body well through our lives. So knowledge and attention given to biological systems management, is invaluable in this regard.

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