About This Course

Hello and Welcome to your Healthy Medicine course!

What is unique about this teaching course?

This may be the only course worldwide that has its focus on the philosophy and principles of Integrative and Functional Medicine. Most teachers of this approach tend to focus on the ‘science’ of Integrative and Functional medicine, especially the latter approach. Here is my definition of Medicine:

Medicine will always be an art that uses science to measure what can be measured, but most of what makes up a human being cannot be measured, and therefore medicine can never be an absolute science.

Emotions, thoughts, feeling, inspiration, soul, spirit, love, intuition, inspiration, compassion and even the exact way the body’s systems work cannot be measured. 

This course will help you negotiate through this complexity by understanding the philosophy and principles of an integrative approach and develop a management protocol that is simple and user friendly. 

There is a massive amount of information that covers the systems that are science-based. While this is not ignored in this course, we look at the whole view of what can go wrong. By recognising the limitations of all this information, the practitioner can approach the client in a more humble and compassionate way. The course touches on these limits of understanding complexity, and shows a way through the complexity towards a simple yet effective way of developing protocols for any condition, even when one does not know the diagnosis.

The course is divided into a number of parts:

Part One – The Philosophy

This covers the basic philosophy of Integrative Medicine and the following topics:

  • Why I gave up medicine for 6 years and how I eventually returned to become a non-drug doctor
  • The limits of medical science
  • How quantum science changed everything
  • The art and science of medicine
  • The nature of complexity
  • Systems medicine
  • Comparing Newtonian reductionistic medicine to a holistic systems-based medicine
  • The placebo response and what it taught me.
  • Traditional Chinese medicine and how Yin and Yang opened a way to understand opposites like sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, inflammation and anti-inflammation processes, and so on.
  • The doctor-patient relationship
  • The greater anatomy of human beings, that is body-emotions-mind-spirit-consciousness and matter-energy-information-quantum potential.

Part Two – The Principles

This section deals mainly with the process of becoming ill and how causes lead over time to dysfunction, which leads over time to the disease. The following topics are covered here:

  • Biochemical individuality
  • Biorhythms
  • What is homeostasis
  • Symptomatic treatment vs supporting health
  • The placebo response
  • Moving the focus from the disease to the patient who is ill.


Part 3 – Lifestyle management

  • The 3 phases of ill health: causes-dysfunction- disease
  • Causes-phase One
  • Life Style management: Food choices and how to decide on what diet to follow, exercise & importance to health, Stress management
  • Weight reduction and the problem with obesity
  • Diabetes type 2 & Diabesity
  • Pollution control
  • Nutritional deficiencies
  • The psychospiritual journey


Part 4 – The Second Phase, Dysfunction

This section covers 25 different underlying dysfunctions behind all diseases Including some of the following:

  • Excess free radicals
  • Insufficient nutrients to maintain function
  • Toxic overload
  • Insulin dysregulation and resistance
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disturbances (adrenal fatigue)
  • Hormonal imbalance
  • Drugs interfering with function
  • Acid-base imbalance
  • Immune dysfunction
  • Adverse reactions to food
  • Energy stresses
  • Detoxification problems
  • Leaky gut syndrome
  • Sleep problems
  • Gut flora disturbances
  • SIBO
  • Inflammation
  • Enzyme blockages
  • Low stomach acid
  • Mitochondrial dysfunction
  • Neurotransmitter problems in the brain.
  • Methylation cycle
  • The inflamed brain and leaky blood-brain barrier
  • Ageing


Part 5 - Management

This section covers some of the following issues:

  • Brom’s Rules around management
  • Problem areas
  • Considerations around the dysfunctions which complicate management
  • Making the diagnosis
  • How to respond to patients questions.
  • First consultation and its goals-what to give the patient
  • Principles in removing drugs
  • What can you change immediately
  • What is the most important healing technique
  • Blood tests
  • Second consultation
  • Developing a management protocol: The pyramid (level 1, 2, 3 and 4)
  • Looking for blocks to healing – problem areas
  • Using nutrients
  • Case studies


Part 6 - Mind Maps

These mind maps help both the doctor and patient negotiate ‘internal space’ and start a dialogue that makes sense of thinking, emotions, feeling, ego, soul, awareness etc.

The diagrams/maps are visual and allow the client to have a deeper understanding of how they make decisions and how this can eventually impinge on the body’s functions. The maps also help people who are interested in the spiritual journey negotiate the subjective side of their experience and explain what it means to ‘go deeper’ within.


Part 7 - Useful Products & Protocols

This section is not recorded but is available to download. It includes the following:

  • A booklet covering 39 useful products.
  • Another booklet covering protocols that I have used successfully in my practice. Keep in mind that each protocol does not mention lifestyle changes, which I regard as primary. 

We hope that you will enjoy the course. For any content related queries, please email your instructor, Dr Bernard Brom, at [email protected].

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Please note:

This course is for professionals who are registered as doctors of medicine with their different councils in various countries. Anyone else doing this course either for interest or to enlarge their scope of understanding can do so but please keep in mind that they cannot practice under the guise of an Integrative doctor and charge a consultation fee. This would be regarded as illegal in South Africa and other countries.

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