This is Part 2 of my episode with Dr Leo Pruimboom, a pioneer in cPNI. I was incredibly lucky to speak with him or our 2nd episode at the Integrative and Personalised Medicine Congress 2025 who kindly hosted us. Our conversation offered me a new understanding into how much health we can have access to if we know how to truly sense what our bodies are telling us, and how to manage the consequences of modern inventions. His personal story of transformation, and healing anecdotes from his clients will allow you to imagine a life full of possibility and ‘miracles’ that we are not typically taught to believe in.

Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology (CPNI) challenges the reductionist, symptom-focused model of modern medicine. Instead, CPNI is a science of wholeness: it studies how the neurological, endocrine, immune, and metabolic systems are interconnected and shaped by our emotions, history, and environment. CPNI puts the individual at the center of healthcare, seeking root causes, promoting healthy habits, and empowering patients to actively participate in their own wellbeing.

In this episode we cover:

How CPNI (clinical psychoneuroimmunology) reveals that everything is connected—mind, body, brain, immune system, and environment.

How we’ve been taught to see systems as separate and why that reductionism isn’t serving us.

The impact of emotions on physical health, inflammation, and immunity.

Do toxic emotions exist?

How to sense what out bodies need and why modern life makes this hard

Comfortable habits vs challenges that make us healthy.

Why variety, spontaneity, and movement breaks protect our health.

What our cravings mean, hunger and micronutrient sensing.

Why intermittent fasting, ketosis, and diets must be understood in context, not as dogma.

How our environment shapes our microbiome.

The role of energy, frequency, and electrical signaling in health.

The difference between appropriate and inappropriate emotions.

Why monotony is dangerous for our health and variety is medicine.

His seemingly miraculous healing stories, and how processing a childhood trauma cured his lifelong condition in hours.

The role of sensing, intuition, and embodied intelligence.

Why the blueprint of life isn’t in our genes—it’s in our behavior, context, and choices.

How our inventions (from chairs to supermarkets) carry unintended health consequences—and how to deal with them.

How we are more in charge of our health than we think.

Why the doctor’s role is shifting.

(The information provided in this podcast is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The views expressed by guests are their own. We strongly advise that you contact a registered and experienced healthcare professional if you have any health concerns. No part of this episode should be taken as a claim to prevent, treat, or cure cancer.)

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Welcome to the first of three special podcasts in collaboration with the Integrative and Personalized Medical Congress (IPM), who kindly hosted us at their event, bringing together cutting edge doctors, experts and healers from all areas of health and medicine.

The first of the series is with Nutritionist Julie Gough, who shares her insight from guiding herself, and her clients, through menopause.

Julie is a BANT-registered Nutritionist (College of Naturopathic Medicine) and completed a Health Coaching course (Health Coaching Academy).

Her specialism is female health and hormones; working with women of all ages struggling with hormonal issues such as infertility, stubborn weight gain, Peri-menopause and Menopause, PMS, low energy and anxiety.

Her aim is to motivate women to take control of their own health, inspiring them to believe that they can feel and look better, make the necessary changes, be free of pain and have an abundance of energy, regaining their health, vitality and wellbeing.

She combines education and coaching to allow you to make sustainable and achievable changes proving that nourishing the body can be both simple and enjoyable.

In this episode, we cover:

• The symptoms of menopause.
• How you can improve your experience during this phase in your life.
• Tools to navigate this period.
• A holistic approach to menopause - taking care of mind, body and spirit.
• The impact of nutrition and sleep.
• What these hormonal changes are.
• The emotional changes and mood fluctuation.
• How to manage its effect on relationships (romantic, familial and friendship).
• How it can be an opportunity for re-alignment in your life.
• How men go through a similar hormonal change called Andropause.
• How you can best support someone you love who is going through menopause.
• How it affects all areas of your life, and how to manage that.

(The information provided in this podcast is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The views expressed by guests are their own. We strongly advise that you contact a registered and experienced healthcare professional if you have any health concerns.)

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In the pursuit of wholeness in our wellbeing, I spoke with Vanessa Gillespie, Jungian Psychoanalyst, about our emotional, mental and spiritual health through a Jungian lens.

What became abundantly clear is just how much our subconscious runs the show, and how Jungian Analysis provides frameworks for living a free and fulfilled life.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• What the psyche is, and why your unconscious matters
• How the shadow self quietly runs your life (until you face it)
• The ways we project our inner world onto others
• What causes psychological complexes and how they show up in behavior
• How to spot unconscious patterns in yourself and the people around you
• What individuation means
• How Jungian dream analysis reveals about your inner and outer world
• A real client dream, and Vanessa’s step-by-step interpretation
• What archetypes are, and how they shape your identity and desires
• The role of the collective unconscious
• Key figures in depth psychology and how their ideas shape therapy today
• What Carl Jung discovered about the human psyche
• How Vanessa’s own Jungian Analysis changed her life, and led her to become an analyst

(The information provided in this podcast is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The views expressed by guests are their own. We strongly advise that you contact a registered and experienced healthcare professional if you have any health concerns.)

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In this episode, Mr James Kinross reframes my understanding of "gut health".

He takes me into the evolving world of microbiome science, explains our ‘internal climate crisis’ and how we can heal ourselves with surprising lifestyle shifts.

Mr James Kinross is an expert in the microbiome, a researcher into probiotic and prebiotic therapies for colonic health, and is a Colorectal Surgeon at OneWellbeck Digestive Health. He is also a senior lecturer at Imperial College London and has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers.

We uncover:

• What ‘the microbiome’ actually is
• Why it’s unlocked a new understanding of medical science
• How we are just at the start of our understanding of how the microbiome can help us heal and what it affects
• How the paradigm of medicine and the scientific process is changing - we need to think differently
• How to have a healthy microbiome in modern day life
• The different approaches to helping people’s gut health
• What we don’t know yet (and that people are pretending to know)
• Insight into antibiotics
• That we are in an “infodemic”
• What James means by an “internal climate crisis” when it comes to our microbial ecosystem
• How being in nature, having fun, and connecting with people (including kissing people) willl benefit your health.

Mr James Kinross is a lover of adventure and explorer of the world and of science. He is a curious respecter of different ideas when it comes to healing from the inside - out.

I am very lucky to be able to have these conversations with him, and I’m very excited for you to learn from him too.

John

(The information provided in this podcast is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The views expressed by guests are their own. We strongly advise that you contact a registered and experienced healthcare professional if you have any health concerns.)

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Welcome to my first John Vincent Quickie.

Quick, digestible and applicable ideas to equip you for a more fulfilled, whole, life.

Today, I am with Philip Dodson at Plaw Hatch Farm in Sussex, and we talk about the idea conceived by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington in their book 'The 12 Week Year', and how it has helped me re-frame my goals.

Phillip introduced me to this approach and it enabled me to mentally take on my water fast that Ash Kapoor guided me through (listen to Episode 1 for more on this), as well as other goals.

In our conversation, we explore how this method:

• Helps you sharpen your focus.
• Fosters a more achievable, momentum-driven mindset by narrowing the time frame for progress.
• Encourages you to prioritise.
• Enables you to effectively live four focused “years” within a single calendar year.
• Reduces perfectionism and fear of missing out.
• Asks you to plan goals differently
• Is especially helpful for people like me, who thrive with structure but dislike rigidity.

This is something that can be applied to health, business, career, and personal development goals.

Do let me know what you think.

John

This episode references ideas from “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. Moran. All credit for the original framework goes to the author — we’re simply sharing how we’ve personally applied and benefited from it.

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Dr Ellie Rashid is a Consultant Dermatologist at OneWelbeck Skin Health, and Allergy and Clinical Lead for the complex Hidradenitis Suppurativa service at St John’s Institute of Dermatology. She specializes in a wide range of dermatology conditions, including paediatric dermatology, hidradenitis suppurativa, acne, eczema, psoriasis, and pigmentation disorders. Ellie is also joint training program director for specialist dermatology training in London and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. She earned her medical degree from Bart’s and the London Medical School in 2006 and completed her specialist training at St John’s. Ellie holds a PhD in Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine and has received multiple awards for her clinical work and research, publishing extensively and presenting internationally.

In this episode, we cover:

• How to best look after our skin including everyday care and sun care
• How the health of your skin is linked to your overall health
• Inflammation in your body and your skin
• The role of gut health in skin health
• The pros and cons of dermatological and aesthetic interventions at different points in your life, and how to safely consider your options
• How skin health trends online can mislead, and conversely how some online discussions force doctors to listen
• How it works being a dermatologist in the NHS and privately in the UK. How being a Dermatologist in the UK is different to other countries.
• A tour of her mole mapping machine and how it works
• Some common misconceptions in skincare
• What is on the horizon of Dermatology
• Women in Medicine

We are very lucky to be able to learn from Dr Rashid’s many years of expertise and experience, and I am very grateful to have spoken to her.

What she offers is a practical, reassuring and uplifting approach to our skin health that looks at the whole - something totally in line with our mission towards wholeness on The John Vincent Podcast.

Let me know what you think.

John

(The information provided in this podcast is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The views expressed by guests are their own. We strongly advise that you contact a registered and experienced healthcare professional if you have any health concerns.)

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So far on The John Vincent Podcast, I’ve come to realise the perhaps surprising importance of our emotional and spiritual health on our physical health. Acupuncture is a treatment that pays attention to all of these areas, and is a tool that can allow us to live a more whole, fulfilling life.

On this episode, I talk with David Leeds, a 5 Element acupuncturist that practices in Brooklyn, NYC. Having come from success in the corporate world to now practicing acupuncture with a broad range of New Yorkers, David has a unique perspective on how our modern lives could be lived with more purpose and emotional freedom.

We cover:

• David Leeds on his journey from corporate life to 5 Element acupuncture
• How acupuncture works and how it can help you physically, emotionally, and spiritually
• How his treatments may differ from other practitioners, and the insight that’s afforded him
• Surprising shifts he's seen in clients through treatment
• The ancient roots and modern power of 5 Element acupuncture
• Emotional blocks, energy flow, and how healing one part affects the whole
• Why language reveals more about your health than you think
• Insights from working with, and observing New Yorkers through life’s phases transformations
• Fun, helping people, and the challenge of staying committed to both
• How acupuncture complements modern medicine and opens deeper awareness
• Stories from clients that reveal our shared need for growth and freedom in our modern world

I hope that this opens your mind to the possibilities that we have every day to have more purposeful, joyful and healthy experience lives together.

Do let me know what you think.

John

(The information provided in this podcast is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The views expressed by guests are their own. We strongly advise that you contact a registered and experienced healthcare professional if you have any health concerns.)

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