The Viavi:be Blog

When to eat organic … or not? I recently met with a Michelin-starred chef who was bemused that I recommended organic foods. “I have never been able to taste the difference” he mentioned. “Possibly true but, unless you like having lethal chemicals inside your body, I highly recommend going organic”, I replied. The one study [...]

How type 2 diabetes can be managed and reversed through lifestyle medicine. This week is national diabetes week, and we’re thrilled to see people coming together to discuss diabetes and raise awareness of how it can be recognised. In this article I’d like to address one of the most common misunderstandings surrounding diabetes that [...]

Health Supplements: the facts. In a world where our soil is between 55% and 85% less dense in nutrients than it was 60 years ago, to be well nourished is sadly becoming a real challenge. At the Viavi centre in Harley Street, London, the team of clinicians has extensive experience of undertaking sophisticated evaluations [...]

How to fit exercise around a busy lifestyle. When trying to find the time to exercise whilst juggling all your other professional and personal responsibilities, it’s easy to resign yourself to the fact that you just don’t have the time to fit an exercise plan into your week. However, it’s when we’re at our [...]

Managing Ageing. Through many years working with clients in our Harley Street Clinic, we have acquired a huge amount of information that helps us to understand the ageing process. Ageing is an inevitability that we cannot avoid but how we age is mostly in our own hands. We are not referring [...]

Clinical Nutrition. Most of us believe we have a fairly good understanding of what a healthy diet consists of. Five fruit and vegetables a day. Stay away from fat. Eat three balanced meals a day. Follow the guidelines of the food pyramid. This is the generic advice that we have been told for years [...]

The Infrared Sauna. In setting up the Viavi:be Health-Gym, we looked at a lot of equipment from around the world. Whether for exercise, measurement or other health benefit, we sought to satisfy two key criteria: Is it effective? And is it efficient? We sourced the infra-red saunas from Germany as they provide a more [...]

Viavi-be Health-Talks. On Wednesday 1st November, Viavi:be held its first health talk on Anti-Ageing, one of the four foundations of health. This was the first in a planned series of health talks to provide clear guidance to help you navigate through the contradictory health messages that bombard us every day. Oliver [...]

5 tips for healthy, sustainable weight loss. At Viavi:be we believe in a holistic approach to weight loss where health is the ultimate priority. Here are 5 core pieces of advice from the Viavi:be clinical team to help you lose weight in a healthy, sustainable fashion. 1) Strive for fat loss rather [...]