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What Is Unique About
Health Insight?
The services offered by Health Insight are quite different from that offered by most healthcare professionals, due to the unique background and approach of Prof Nola Dippenaar. Her post-graduate qualifications in physiology, biochemistry and chemical pathology were strengthened with years of teaching medical students at universities and in keeping abreast with the latest scientific research.
This unique scientific insight is combined with the interpretation of a patient’s medical history, results of blood and other tests, lifestyle factors and health manifestations to determine the true nature of the patient’s health problems. She is then able to explain in layman’s terms to the patient the nature of the medical condition, leading to insight and understanding.
Understanding leads to motivation to take control of one’s health, and she then guides patients on the way to the improvement of their health. Historically each and every patient that followed her guidelines had experienced vast improvements in their health.
Background – Prof Nola Dippenaar
- Completed a BSc and BSc Hons at the University of Stellenbosch, majoring in Chemistry and Physiology, followed by an MSc in Physiology.
- She earned a second Masters degree, this time in Biochemistry, from Cambridge University in the UK.
- On her return from the UK she commenced with her lecturing career at Medunsa, where she completed her PhD working in the field of essential fatty acids and cancer. She was appointed as Professor during this period.
- In 1999 she moved across to the medical school at the university of Pretoria (UP), where she was responsible for the integration of Physiology and Biochemistry in the undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses
- She has been voted lecturer of the year by the UP medical and dental students on two occasions, and she has delivered many local and overseas papers at various conferences.
- She is presently the Chair of the SA National Pugwash Group – a division of the International Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. She has regularly delivered papers at their Annual International Congress.
- Her present main area of research and interest lies in the fields of fatty liver, insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome.
- She has a particular interest in carnitine metabolism in children and adults and regularly gives talks to various societies, schools and parent groups on low muscle tone (hypotonia) in children and how to handle this condition.
- She consults privately to companies and individuals on the physiology and biochemistry of the human body; including health aspects, all of which empowers individuals to take responsibility for their health. To this end she has established a company called “Health Insight” in April 2006, and up to 2013 was an extraordinary Professor with the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, at the University of Pretoria. Presently, besides being Professor Emeritus (UP), she has Physiology practices in Pretoria, Cape Town, and Betty’s Bay.”
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