Coherence Medicine
A reference page for researchers, clinicians, and inquisitive clients​
​​​​What We Mean by Medicine
Medicine, in its most fundamental sense, is the science and practice of sustaining the conditions under which a living person can heal, adapt, and flourish. That is a much broader idea than the one most of us encounter in clinical settings, where "medicine" has come to mean the classification and treatment of named diseases primarily, most often with regulated pharmaceutical agents.​
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Medicine and Biomedicine Are Not the Same Thing.
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Prescription Drugs: Tools with Cost.
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Healthcare is not the same as Medicines
Health Is More Than the Absence of Disease​
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Individuals Are Not Averages
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What Makes This Medicine
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Things Coherence Medicine Does Differently
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Ground-up assessment before intervention, not protocol first, person second.
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​Cross-disciplinary and root cause analysis across systems that conventional specialties treat separately
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Salutogenic orientation alongside clinical reasoning builds health capacity, not only reducing risk.
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For Researchers and Clinicians
Coherence Medicine Research Network: an invitation to collaborate
We are developing the Coherence Medicine Research Network in collaboration with clinicians, scientists, and methodologists across fields, including metabolic medicine, systems biology, nutrigenomics, psychoneuroimmunology, rehabilitation sciences, and person-centred care. Current research directions include:
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N-of-1 and small-N designs for studying individual metabolic–neuro–immune response to targeted nutritional and lifestyle interventions
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Integration of multi-omics profiling (genomic, metabolomic, proteomic) with functional and patient-reported outcomes in complex, multi-system presentations
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Operationalising Sense of Coherence as a clinical outcome measure alongside standard biomedical endpoints
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Cross-disciplinary root cause analysis methodology for chronic, unexplained, and multi-diagnostic presentations
Interest in Person-centred Health Research?
Let us know.
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For details about our assessment services, see Care for Health Seekers and Assessment-Led Protocol. For our nutrigenomics services, see Nutritional Genomics. For our position on health advisory versus medical practice.