Our Experts

Dr Rosemary Leonard MBE is a part time GP in South London as well as resident GP to BBC Breakfast news, Woman and Home Magazine and The Daily Express. She is a regular contributor to “The Wright Stuff” on Channel 5, and Tesco Healthy Living Magazine. Her ability to put across complex medical matters clearly and understandably, without lapsing into medical jargon, has earned her the popularity of the British public.

She has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers including The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, Hello Magazine, ME Magazine, and numerous medical journals.

She makes frequent contributions as a medical expert to TV and Radio programmes including BBC News, LBC Radio, Radio Five Live and the news bulletins on Radio 1 and Radio 2.

Dr Rosemary also works at a high level on government advisory boards, working initially as GP on the Committee on Safety of Medicines, and now as GP on the Human Genetics Commission.

Dr Rosemary was awarded an MBE for Services to Healthcare in the New Years’ Honours List 2004. www.drrosemaryleonard.com

Dee Atkinson who is based in Edinburgh has been practising as a Medical Herbalist since 1988. In addition to being the managing director of Napiers The Herbalists limited, Dee is a council member of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy, a member of the EHPA (European Herbal Practitioners Association) and has worked on the Herbal Medicine Regulatory Working Group, a consultation group dealing with the regulation of herbal medicine, products and practitioners.

Dee writes regular articles and columns in various newspapers and magazines. Her regular TV and radio appearances include GMTV with Lorraine Kelly, and the Beechgrove Garden. In 2006 and 2007 she was voted into the UK’s top 250 private doctors by Tatler Magazine. www.napiers.net

Dr Sarah Brewer qualified as a doctor from Cambridge University. After working in general practice and sexual health, she now specialises in health communication. Although her first love is medicine, her major passion is writing. She writes regularly for a variety of newspapers and magazines, taking an holistic approach that includes complementary medicine and nutritional medicine. She is the author of 50 popular self-help books, including the Natural Health Guru series. Sarah was voted Health Journalist of the Year in 2002. Sarah is currently completing a masters degree in nutritional medicine. www.naturalhealthguru.co.uk

Michael van Straten is a practising osteopath, naturopath, acupuncturist and nutritional consultant, with a busy practice based at his home in the Loire Valley, France. An accomplished medical broadcaster and writer, he is a past governor of the British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy and has served as president of the British Naturopathic and Osteopathic Association. www.michaelvanstraten.com