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WELCOME TO
AUTOIMMUNE CLINIC LONDON
We offer a functional medicine approach to manage autoimmune disease and unexplained chronic symptoms. We identify and address underlying issues contributing to your condition to restore health.
WHY CHOOSE US
We are one of the top UK functional medicine clinics in the field of autoimmunity and complex conditions.
We have been through the healthcare medical system ourselves and believe that the support offered is not good enough.
Are you sick of feeling tired, in pain, helpless, worried about what the future holds?
Are you ready to take control of your health?
Nobody should struggle through life barely able to function, watching their body deteriorate and planning for the worst.
That is no way to live.
FACT: Autoimmunity cannot be cured.
However it is absolutely possible to slow its progression, and even put it in remission.
Our Mission
We are here to help people with an autoimmune disease manage their condition better than what the medical health care system has to offer. Our mission is to help you feel and function the best that you can, wherever you are in your journey, whilst making your life as easy as possible.
There is a lot of information out there about ways to manage autoimmunity, lots of different diets and approaches, some scientifically proven, others less so. We help you determine where to start and what applies to you and your unique situation.
Trying different therapies, different diets, different supplements... take a lot of trial and error, time and money.
Wouldn't your life be easier if we could break all that information down for you and gave you a clear treatment plan tailored to your needs and personalised for you?
What we do
Living and managing autoimmunity and chronic disease can be a full time job for many. We are here to help you enjoy your life without letting your condition being your main focus or limitation.
Regardless of where you are at in your journey, whether you are struggling with unexplained symptoms and suspect you may have autoimmunity, have just been given a diagnosis or been living with it for a while, know that there is something that you can do to feel better, be more in control, and change the trajectory of your health.
At our clinic, we take a functional approach to support you.
We take the time to know you, your symptoms, your history, your environment, in order to develop your personalised treatment plan to get you back to better health.
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GET TO THE ROOT CAUSE. We figure out why you developed autoimmunity in the first place and we address those imbalances
ADDRESS ONGOING SYMPTOMS that you are experiencing that may or may not be directly connected with your diagnosed condition. Is there more to your autoimmunity that you do not know about?
WE AIM TO PUT YOUR CONDITION IN REMISSION.
WE HELP YOU MANAGE FLARE UPS, which are for most inevitable with autoimmune disease.
With our help, you can change the trajectory of your health.
Conditions we support
You may call it an epidemic.
There are between 80 to 100 autoimmune diseases that we know about, and the number keeps increasing. The incidence and prevalence of autoimmune diseases has increased dramatically during the last 50 years. For example the rates of multiple sclerosis have doubled, if not trippled in different countries of Northern Europe.
Did you know that 75 to 80 percent of people diagnosed with an autoimmune condition are women? Hormones and particularly signicant hormonal changes in a woman's life play an important role. It is not unusual for a woman to develop an autoimmune disease after a pregnancy, or during perimenopause or the menopause.
Chances are you know at least one person, or more, who struggle with some kind of autoimmune condition as it is estimated that about 10% of the world's population is affected. They may not even know that they have autoimmunity. The average person wth autoimmune disease sees six different doctors over the course of many years before receving the correct diagnosis. Read more...
Unexplained chronic symptoms
Autoimmune disease does not develop overnight for most people. It is a slow burn. It can take years, if not decades for someone with autoimmunity to go from developing mild symptoms to losing enough function to be formally diagnosed. During this time, these people struggle with unexplained chronic symptoms, or symptoms that come and go without a clear explanation.
Autoimmune Diseases
See the most common conditions we see in our clinic include here.
Conditions with an autoimmune component
Read more about these conditions here.
Unexplained Symptoms
Read more about what we mean by unexplained symptoms here.
45% of autoimmune sufferers are labeled as hypochondriacs by their doctors in the early stages of their disease.
In our clinic, we not only help people with a diagnosed autoimmune disease manage their symptoms and improve their condition, but we also assist people who struggle with ongoing symptoms and who need answers that they are not getting from their doctors. Read more...
More often than not, if someone struggles with unexplained chronic symptoms, they likely have undiagnosed autoimmunity.
Meet the clinical director
Muriel Wallace-Scott
Registered Nutritionist mBANT & Functional Medicine Practitioner
Muriel Wallace-Scott is the owner and founder of Autoimmune Clinic London. Functional Medicine has changed her health for the better and we hope we can help you do the same.
Muriel's own tricky health journey has led her to become an expert in her field. She has helped many people with autoimmunity and complex chronic conditions in the UK and worldwide turn their health around using a functional medicine approach.
Our approach
WE LISTEN
We take the time to know you, your symptoms, your environment, your history, your lifestyle, what you eat, how stressed you are, how well your sleep...
A standard 10 minute appointment just doesn't cut it to understand all contributing factors to the development of autoimmune disease.
YOU ARE UNIQUE
There is no one size fits all approach in Functional Medicine and certainly standard protocol for a said condition in our clinic. Two people with rheumatoid arthritis will unlikely share the same triggers, so treatment should not be the same. You receive a bespoke support plan once we understand your health picture and needs.
SCIENCE BASED
We use scientific research and cutting edge laboratory testing (when appropriate) to gain a deeper understanding of your health picture and triggers.
We do not always recommend testing, but testing can sometimes save us time and provide the answers we need to support you more efficiently.
TEAMWORK
We advise and guide you, rather than tell you what to do.
We want you to be successful and often times this means small but achievable changes rather than an overnight revamp of your diet and lifestyle.
We take the time to educate you so you understand your body and your condition better.
MONITORING
We monitor you closely as you start making some changes, and tweak your treatment plan accordingly to how you respond to those changes. We support you when an expected flare sets you back
You work with the same practitioner, allowing you to build a relationship and for them to continue learning about you.
Does this mean that we are "anti" conventional medicine?
No. Both have their place. Conventional medicine saves lives and is great in emergency cases. You break a leg, have an asthma attack, need surgery, don't come to us!
Many clients come to us already taking immunosupressing medications to manage their condition and we support them alongside. You do not have to choose between one approach or the other.
If you are taking a drug to manage your autoimmune condition and comes a time when it may be beneficial to review your medication, we will encourage you to discuss options with your prescribing doctor.
We do want to get your doctor and your specialist(s) involved in your care and on board whenever possible so they can play an active role in your support team.
We also often refer our clients to different specialists if we think that they would benefit from receiving specific investigations (i.e. endoscopy, colonoscopy etc...).
But the sad truth is that our medical system is not equipped to deal with chronic disease such as autoimmunity.
There is not enough of an understanding of how the body works as a whole. Rather conventional medicine sees the body in compartments, referring you to different specialists depending on which part of your body you are complaining about. And worse, specialists rarely talk to one another.
Conventional medicine does not quite acknolwedge or fully understand that autoimmune disease is a disease of the immune system, in which case you would be referred to an immunologist.
It may be hard to get our head around the fact that what is causing chronic diarrhoea (with gastrointestinal autoimmunity) is basically the same thing as what is causing an under active thyroid (with Hashimoto's) or an angry red skin outbreak (with psoriasis).
Have you ever been under the care of multiple specialists and each treating a specific symptom relating to their area of expertise without considering the rest of your symptoms? This approach simply does not work for autoimmune disease.
Some of the main areas we may consider to understand your autoimmune picture and symptoms include the following (in no particular order):
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DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS?
Book a 20 minute no obligation discovery call to discuss your concerns and answer your questions.
We offer both in person appointments at our Central London clinic and virtual appointments via Zoom or telephone so we can work with you wherever you are. We work with people all over the UK, Europe and North America so do not let distance get in the way of better health.
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