Richard Pile

Richard Pile

Ricahrd Pile is a GP with over twenty years of medical experience.  Raised in Manchester, he went to medical school in Nottingham and completed his GP training in Oxfordshire.  He specialises in cardiology and lifestyle medicine.  He is involved in training, appraising and supporting other doctors and commissions health services.  He is married with four children, the oldest of whom has a learning disability and severe epilepsy.


As a result of his professional and personal life experience, Richard is a passionate advocate of lifestyle medicine.  He believes that our conventional medical model is disease-based and broken.  He advocates a health-based model which offers us the chance to take control of and improve our lives.  A blogger and podcaster, he has also been published in the British Medical Journal and national media.  He also presents at conferences on the subject of wellbeing and lifestyle medicine. He is the clinical GP lead for Thrive Tribe, an award-winning national healthy lifestyle service provider and is co-founder of Living Life Better, an organisation that helps people overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions.


Outside of work, Richard enjoys running, biking, dog walking, reading, listening to music, practising mindfulness, drinking proper beer and spending time with his friends and family.

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Fit for Purpose
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Fit for Purpose
  • By: Richard Pile
  • Narrator: Richard Pile
  • Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
  • Publisher: Harper Inspire
  • Publish date: April 13, 2021
  • Language: English
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As a society we have never had so much advantage and yet been so disadvantaged by this very same society which we have built for ourselves, by ignoring our basic needs when it comes to sleep, nutrition, movement, relaxation, relationships and... Read more

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