The Metabolism Clinic: a new approach to health.

Reverse diabetes, fatty liver, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, insulin resistance, PCOS using a proven, safe and evidence based approach.

How will you feel once your weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar issues are fixed?

The Metabolic Clinic (in conjunction with Evergreen Doctors) is specifically for helping patients just like you!

We provide personalised care aimed at optimisation, rather than symptom management. We aim to cease medication and supplements over time, by reversing insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and obesity.

Our multidisciplinary team are experienced in helping patients get results, and maintaining them for the long run.

Our approach works without starving yourself, having to eat fake bars and shakes, calorie counting, taking more and more medication, using surgery or even having to exercise (though obviously we still encourage that for general wellbeing).

We help the majority of people reverse their diabetes and finally lose and keep the weight off, in a safe, sustainable way.

Introduction to Jeanette

Introduction to Lisa

Introduction to Maeve

Introduction to Tracey

  • Dr Chris Chappel, MBBS, FRACGP, IFMCP, FAAMM, ABAARM

    Co-Founder of Evergreen Doctors.

    Chris completed Medical School in Tasmania then spent several years working in the hospitals and GP settings in Queensland. After achieving Fellowship through the RACGP (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners) as a Specialist GP, he embarked on further training with ACNEM (Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine), and completed fellowships with IFM (Institute for Functional Medicine) and A4M (American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine) and MMI (Metabolic Medical Institute) because he wanted to find out the deepest reasons why patients were sick, and wanted to do far more than just treat their symptoms with medications.

    Since then, he has also undertaken further in-depth training in mental health, diet, IBS reversal, weight loss and diabetes reversal (Noakes Foundation and SCOPE). He is trained in the BioBalance Pfiffer-Walsh approach for mental health, Wahls Protocol for autoimmune diseases, and the Bredesen ReCODE protocol for cognitive decline.

  • Maeve Beary, AdvDip in Nutritional Medicine, B.Sc.(Mgmt), M.A.

    Maeve is a qualified clinical nutritionist who has spent many years studying and experimenting with food and diet to fully utilise the connection between good nutrition and optimal well-being. Maeve enjoys working with other health professionals using the functional medicine model to help patients regain their health. She has been a part of the Evergreen Doctors team for some time assisting patients with a wide range of health challenges to improve their health.

    Maeve is passionate about the role of nutrition in building and maintaining optimum health for the whole family. She uses practical and customised nutrition plans based on her client’s individual needs. Maeve’s practical approach helps her clients to feel less overwhelmed whenever they need to make dietary changes. Over the years she has been rewarded by witnessing remarkable improvements and reversal in chronic health conditions from dietary intervention.

    Maeve is an outdoor person who loves ocean swimming, hiking, running, team sports, camping and anything that keeps her outside enjoying nature’s treats.

    Good nutrition is where health starts.

  • Jeanette Padilla, Speaker, Educator, Nutritionist, and Health Coach

    Jeanette has a passion for helping people heal naturally and live life optimally.

    Whether healing your gut, overcoming or managing a chronic health condition, reducing inflammation or achieving your ideal weight, Jeanette will support you with making the dietary transition simple and clear, giving you the guidance, support, skills and knowledge you need to facilitate lasting change.

    As a Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Health Coach, and with her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, Jeanette combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind-body medicine because your challenges are not just in your gut, they are in your beliefs, habits and subsequent behaviours. Once new habits are created then the rest is easy.

    She has helped people of all ages achieve great results.

    After struggling with her own health challenges, Jeanette discovered that true health is about getting to the root cause of the problem and being consistent in small changes.

    Her comprehensive approach gives you the tools and support needed to help you implement your personalised wellness plan. Together you can optimise your health, for the long term.

  • Lisa Rice-Rickman RN, OHN Dip, BSc (Hons), CCH & Psych Dip, CNLP, Reiki Cert 1&2

    Lisa helps make behaviour change easy and fast.

    She is a Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, Licensed Practitioner of NLP trained with the co-creator, Dr Richard Bandler, and trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy with Marisa Peer.

    She is a Registered Nurse, has a Science degree in Health Psychology and brings a wealth of clinical experience from hospitals, clinics, corporate health and the civil service in the UK, NZ and Australia.

    She focuses on the incredibly powerful subconscious mind, which makes up about 95% of our total brain power and activity. This is where all our lifelong past programmes, habits, addictions, emotions, memories and beliefs are stored. Some of our subconscious programmes are limiting to us and are made up of positive and negative connections that give rise to our habits and behaviours. This impacts our thoughts and emotions, which drive our actions and choices. For example, emotional eating.

    Lifestyle changes can be difficult to achieve if the subconscious programmes are limiting and don’t support the “new you”, such as changes to diet and motivation to exercise. By changing these automatic patterns, sustainable change becomes far easier.

    Lisa incorporates the science of Clinical Hypnosis, NLP, Visualisation, Meditation, Breathwork, Energy Medicine and Education to bring awareness and to help people gain the right mindset for change which will automatically lead to better lifestyle choices.

  • Tracey Kimberley

    Over the years Tracey has been sharing her experiences with the world, being invited to speak at several ‘Low Carb’ conferences around the world, including 2018 guest speaker at ‘Low Carb Down Under’ at the Gold Coast, Queensland, and 2019 guest speaker at ‘Low Carb Denver’ in Denver, Colorado. In 2019, Tracey also went on to co-found ‘Low Carb Canberra’.

    In 2019 Tracey completed her certificate in Health Coaching, with a particular interest in Metabolic issues using Keto, low carb, and carnivore lifestyle approaches. This year she is learning the practicalities of Functional Medicine Coaching, and has started a Bachelor Degree of Health Science in Behavioural Studies.

    While Tracey’s list of qualifications continues to grow, her real knowledge began on ground level in 2016 when her eldest daughter Ashlee was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.

    Simultaneously, Tracey’s father began his own journey into a low carb lifestyle, managing to completely overhaul is overall health and wellness. Not one to believe in coincidences, Tracey embraced what life had thrown her way, and delved straight into learning the importance of good nutrition, the benefits of a low carbohydrate lifestyle, and how to optimally fuel the body. Which has truly become her passion.

    When Tracey is not helping people to live the healthiest, and fullest life possible, she’s out running around with and for her family, and challenging herself and her body (45km charity walks anyone?), or she’s in the kitchen creating magic!

Get started today.

  • Initial Consult

  • Medication Review

  • Personalised Plan

  • Coaching keeps you on track towards your goal