In this episode, Phytoceutics® CEO and host Laura Johnston sits down with Dr Siobhan Dawson – a psychiatrist with an integrative approach to mental health – to look at what sits beneath anxiety and depression: the biology, the nervous system, and the stage of life a woman is actually in.

From the layered cake approach to diagnosis and the line between healthy distress and clinical illness, to life transitions, the five Rs of mental well-being, and her own experience coming off medication – Siobhan makes the case that psychiatry has to treat the whole person, not just the symptom list.

In this episode, Phytoceutics® CEO and host Laura Johnston sits down with Frieda Loubser – genetic counsellor specialising in cancer genetics, carrier screening, and inherited risk – for the kind of conversation that makes a complicated field suddenly make sense.

From BRCA genes and breast cancer risk to carrier screening, newborn testing, embryo testing, and the honest truth about direct-to-consumer genetic tests – Frieda brings the clinical precision this topic deserves.

In this episode, Phytoceutics® CEO and host Laura Johnston sits down with Lauren Marsh – psychotherapist and eating disorder specialist with a special interest in OCD, perfectionism, and disordered eating – for a conversation that goes far deeper than food.

From the genetics of eating disorders and the anxious brain to GLP-1, childhood food environments, burnout, and the therapy types that actually work – Lauren gives women the framework to understand what’s really driving their relationship with food, and what to do about it.

In this episode, Phytoceutics® CEO and host Laura Johnston sits down with Dr Julie Morrison – paediatrician, paediatric pulmonologist, and integrative health specialist – and gets the honest, practical guide to children's respiratory health that most parents wish they'd had sooner.

From crèche syndrome and the chronic cough that never quite goes away to the allergic march, inhaler technique, and the Breathe Thrive framework – this conversation gives parents a clear, evidence-based lens for understanding what's actually going on in their children's bodies.