Dr Malcolm Mackay – General medical practice and lifestyle medicine
Dr Malcolm Mackay is a General Practitioner with 30 years of experience in medical practice.
He has a broad range of skills across the full spectrum of general practice. His practice is based at Clinicare, Fitzroy, Melbourne. He also provides Skype consultations for patients from other regions of Australia.
Dr Mackay has a special interest in preventing and managing chronic disease with whole foods plant-based nutrition. He is co-author of a website providing information and resources for those interested in this approach and is active in social media. Malcolm and his nutritionist
partner Jenny host seminars and webinars and often speak at public and private events.
Expertise
Dr Mackay is experienced in all areas of
general practice including expertise in:
- Nutrition
- Diabetes management
- Weight management
- Travel medicine
- Sports injuries
- Skin conditions
- Implanon
Qualifications & Training
Education
- BMBS – Flinders University (1984)
- Graduate Diploma in Human Nutrition – Deakin University (1993)
Additional training
- Certificate of Sports Medicine
- Hyperbaric Medicine Certificate
- Certificate of Family Planning
Affiliations / Memberships
- Australian Medical Association
- Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine
- GP Affiliate, Monash University
Recent conferences attended
- Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine Conference Melbourne, November 2016
- International Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference USA, September 2016
- Dr McDougall Advanced Study Weekend USA, September 2016
Recent presentations and interviews
- Is a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet The Answer to Chronic Disease? 2017 Documentary – interview with four plant-based doctors, including Dr Malcolm Mackay, July 2017
- Dr Malcolm Mackay on practicing lifestyle medicine, fitness and supervising me! interview with Andrew ‘Spud Fit’ Taylor, May 2017
- Big Impact podcast interview with Anna Chisholm, April 2017
- Empower Total Health Video Interview April 2017
- Q & A medical panel at premiere of What the Health documentary, Melbourne March 2017
- Premiere of Eating You Alive documentary at Nova Cinema, Melbourne November 2016 (our event)
For more information about whole foods plant based nutrition, visit my other website and associated Facebook page:
We are enjoying a series of four lectures by T Colin Campbell. We have read his books (The China Study, Whole), completed his eCornell course (Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition) and heard him speak on many occasions but these are new lectures with new material that he has not presented before. It’s fascinating that way back around 1800, there were scientists advocating a more wholistic (‘constitutional’) paradigm of disease versus a reductionist (‘local’) paradigm, and even some making the link between animal products and cancer. Dr Campbell has been delivering these lectures with great passion.
His third lecture, ‘Wholism Re-emerging’ included these profound “Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) Facts of Nature”:
- Ideal nutrition is provided only by WFPB dietary lifestyle without added fat and refined carbohydrate
- WFPB nutrition prevents future disease, but most immediate effect treats disease
- WFPB nutrition is aggregate effect of countless nutrients: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- WFPB nutrition is wholistic, not reductionist function
- WFPB nutritional response is exceptionally broad in scope
- WFPB nutrition creates rapid response: days to weeks
- WFPB nutrition leads to adaption of new taste preferences
- WFPB food nutrients effective but supplemental nutrients not effective
- Nutrients function not by one but by multiple mechanisms
- WFPB nutrition up-regulates good genes and down-regulates bad genes
- WFPB nutrition is much less confusing, i.e., don’t sweat the details
- WFPB nutrition minimises noxious effects of toxic agents
- WFPB nutrition minimises environmental problems
- WFPB nutrition promotes social welfare for all sentient beings
- WFPB nutrition minimises health care costs
- WFPB nutrition must be the future, as it was during past millennia
We are looking forward to the fourth lecture this weekend, before the Holistic Holiday at Sea cruise ship returns to Miami, Florida.