Who is Dr. Paul Kasenene? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Mrs. Kasenene, Makerere University, Joel Fuhrman, author of ‘Eat Your Way to Wellness’, and the early life and education of the founder and CEO of Dr. Paul Kasenene Wellness Centre.
Dr. Paul Kasenene is a Ugandan Nutrition Expert, Medical Doctor, and Keynote Speaker on Public Health.
He is the founder and CEO of Dr. Paul Kasenene Wellness Centre, where he also works as a senior physician.
He is also enthusiastic about using food and lifestyle as medication to keep people healthy and disease-free.
Early Life and Education
Dr. Paul Kasenene grew up in a family of four children. He was the only one of the four that developed asthma.
He asserts that he did not eat as properly as he should have as a child. He was little as a child and battled with his appetite, so his parents let him eat everything he wanted.
Meatballs, chapatti, and bread with peanut butter and margarine were among his favourite foods.
Dr. Paul Kasenene was raised in Swaziland, commonly known as Eswatini, a small country in Southern Africa where he lived from the age of two to fourteen years.
They returned from Swaziland in 1994, and he resumed with senior three at Kings College Budo in 1995. He completed both his O and A levels here.
He then enrolled at Makerere University Medical School, where he earned a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree.
Dr. Kasenene travelled to Cambridge University for three months as one of his electives in his fourth year at Makerere to have some understanding of how their people view and interpret health.
Following his degree, Dr. Kasenene took a nutrition studies course with Joel Fuhrman, his first mentor who taught him that “food is not nutrients.”
He also completed a three-year Functional Medicine course via the Institute of Functional Medicine. He thus included this into his practice.
He has completed numerous nutrition and nutritarianism courses over time.
Dr. Kasenene has been married for fifteen years to Mrs. Kasenene and together they have three children; 2 girls and one son.
Career and Professional Work Experience
After finishing medical school, Dr. Kasenene persuaded a panel to hire him at an HIV research facility in 2005. He subsequently began working as a Research Physician for the Makerere University Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration.
Later, he quit his job and opened a wellness clinic in Bugolobi in 2010. He admitted that convincing people about the procedure and adoption of nutrition and good feeding was so difficult that he almost gave up.
However, ten years later, Dr. Kasenene established a reputation as a wellness and integrative health expert who is active on social media platforms such as Twitter.
Through proper nutrition, he has assisted many of his customers in reversing chronic conditions, losing weight, and restoring their health.
His clients have also shown success in reversing type 2 diabetes, improving fertility, and addressing long-standing autoimmune, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular health issues.
Dr. Kasenene devoted his profession to assisting his customers in obtaining genuine well-being, maintaining a healthy weight, preventing chronic disease, and healing themselves from illness through the use of simple but effective nutritional and natural methods for the past 12 years.
He has successfully worked with hundreds of clients from all over the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Kenya, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Uganda.
Achievements and Awards
Dr. Kasenene’s own health turnaround in 2009, in which he overcame a longstanding struggle with asthma, allergies, and later high cholesterol and weight issues, focused his interest in wellness and revolutionised his perspective on food, disease, and weight.
He founded the Dr. Kasenene Wellness Clinic in Bugolobi, Kampala, where his patients benefit from a unique combination of natural, alternative, and conventional medical treatments.
He is also the author of ‘Eat Your Way to Wellness,’ which offers practical advice for anyone wishing to improve their health and weight via good eating.
Dr. Kasenene also belongs to a number of professional organisations and agencies, including the International Association of Wellness Professionals, the Institute of Functional Medicine, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
