Cathryn Henstock-Zapf, MD

Specialty:
Family Physician

Medical School:
University College London, England

Residency Program:
Scottish Highlands

Additional Education / Degrees:
MBA MRCGP CCPF

Board Certified?
Yes

Current Location:
Canmore, Alberta, Canada

My story:
I am originally from the UK and now live in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. My family practice is in Canmore and I do Functional Medicine at the Flourish Clinic in Cochrane. I crossed the Atlantic in 2016.

My mentor when it comes to my education in human evolution is the former head of Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London Prof Peter Andrews. I had always taken a paleolithic perspective to my practice but the details of evolutionary history were not clear. Andrews was able to teach in me in a lot of detail about the various Hominini, how astronomical cycles affected climate and impacted on our survival. He was a student of Leaky who came up with the ‘Out of Africa’ theory. I joined Andrews and his Berkeley trained wife Sylvia for their course on Human Evolution at the Blandford Town Museum in Dorset where I was lucky enough to have my last military post.

I will complete me certification with the Institute of Functional Medicine this year.

With sixteen years of military work I have done a lot of high performance and sports medicine. I have been using ketogenic diets for the best part of twenty years to help soldiers, sailors, airmen and women part company with metabolic syndrome and DM2. I found the link to Cleave through Atkins having to order ‘The saccharine disease’ at that time through the British Library as it was so rare a book. The 1990s were a very lonely and professionally risky time for me as I worked against the grain.

Favorite ancestral health resources to recommend to others?
The work of Prof Marcel Otte at the University of Liege. He is an anthropologist of the late paleolithic and specialises in the spiritual beliefs of early Europeans. There is a whole francophone science around the paleolithic that is staggering and seems to be under the radar for most Anglophones. This truly is a whole new academic World. Mind blowing.

Additional information:
Every Tuesday morning as a junior surgeon in Dundee in Scotland I would assist my orthopaedic boss amputating leg after leg. I would be left holding the limb and taking the weight of it as he cut the final bit of skin. I carried it to the sluice dropping it onto a slab. All were diabetic patients. It was 1993 and I knew something was very, very wrong.

Visit Cathryn’s website: fatiguetoflourish.com

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