Dr Denise Furness

Dr Denise Furness

Founder of Your Genes & Nutrition, Advisor to Pure Encapsulations

Geneticist and Nutritionist, PhD BSc(Hons), RNutr AusREP

Dr Denise Furness, PhD is a functional geneticist, registered nutritionist, and registered exercise professional. She is a pioneer in the field of nutrigenomics and epigenetics.

She began her career as a research scientist focusing on fertility and pregnancy health. She has published her work in peer-reviewed journals and has won national and international awards for her research and conference presentations. In 2012 she founded Your Genes and Nutrition and began applying her knowledge in private practice. Denise has a special interest in thyroid health, after suffering from an autoimmune thyroid condition herself and being told that it was lifelong.

Using her knowledge in nutritional and lifestyle medicine Denise now helps those with thyroid, autoimmune and hormonal conditions take charge of their health and wellbeing.

Dr Denise Furness is a retained advisor to Pure Encapsulations.

“I’m an award-winning medical researcher, international speaker and author. I’m a CSIRO trained Molecular Geneticist, but I like to think of myself as a Holistic Geneticist. I have a particular interest in helping women who have hit burnout regain their health, so they can be at their best and achieve all they want in their lives.”

   –  Denise Furness

Unique Attributes

Personalised Health Specialist
Dr Denise Furness specialises in nutritional genomics and epigenetics and believes there is no one size fits all when it comes to diet and lifestyle. 
Thyroid Health Educator
Dr Denise Furness has a strong background in Thyroid Health and has spoken at a number of events on this topic. 
Keynote Speaker
In collaboration with Pure Encapsulations, FxMed has been fortunate to host Dr Denise Furness for some captivating live webinars over the past few years. 

Nutrigenomics

Dr Furness shares her passion and insights on the effects of food and food constituents on gene expression, and how genetic variations affect the nutritional environment.

Significance of Food and Mood

Dr Furness presented this introduction to nutritional genetics at a Seminar on Food, Mood and Mental Wellbeing in 2015.

Importance of Detoxification

Dr Furness gives an overview of how toxin/chemical overload is caused and how this impacts detox capacity and causes oxidative stress, DNA, cell and organ damage.

Dr Denise Furness has been delivering lectures for the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) at our Annual Conferences and our various Education Modules for 6 years.  Her presentations have routinely been outstanding and have always attracted the highest praise from delegates/students which include a wide range of health practitioners and researchers. Her engaging presentation style is always exceptionally well supported by a forensic approach to the published research. The College has always appreciated her expertise, time, energy and enthusiasm which she shares so generously.

– Dr Ron Ehrlich BDS. FACNEM. FASLM

President, Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM)

Professionally I have found that Dr Denise Furness’s ability to integrate and communicate her genetic and nutritional knowledge enables her to be a powerful and practical force in optimising both patient health education and clinical care.

  – Dr Braham Rabinov. MBBS. FACNEM

It is rare to run into someone that both understands the complexities of genetics, but who can also simplify genetics to make it understandable for everyone.  Dr Denise has that unique ability, and is one of the best educators in this field that I have encountered. I have already learned so much from her wide knowledge base, and she is my go-to resource when I need to get a concept cleared up for my own understanding.

  – Dr Nathan Morris, MD

Courses by Denise Furness


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