Networking Business Breakfast

Prof Nola Dippenaar provides insight into how to take effective control of your health and an intriguing exploration to understanding the factors affecting one’s health.  Your business needs you and your staff to be healthy!

She has developed a unique approach to explaining in layman’s terms the integrative nature of health.  What happens inside the body, what chemical processes take place, for instance when you stress, laugh, or sleep?  How do your genes affect your health?  What do blood tests reveal of your state of health?

Nola currently 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.  She established a company called “Health Insight” with offices in Pretoria and Cape Town and is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Pretoria.

Previously a lecturer and Professor at Medunsa, where she completed her PhD in the field of essential fatty acids and cancer, she moved to the University of Pretoria, 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 has delivered many local and overseas papers at conferences. Her present main area of research and interest lies in the field of insulin resistance and Metabolic Syndrome.  She has a particular interest in carnitine metabolism in children and adults…..low muscle tone (hypotonia) and how to handle this condition.