Dr Nabeelah Rylands
Medical Practitioner
Clinical consultations
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Dr. Odyssey
Clinical care, held to its own standard.
Coaching and medicine are different disciplines, so clinical care at Odyssey has its own practitioners, its own protocols and its own handling of your health information. It sits alongside the rest of your care, in one record.
Meet the practitionersWhat clinical care covers.
These are areas of care, not a catalogue. What is appropriate for you — if anything — is decided in consultation, and anything prescription-only is prescribed by your practitioner and dispensed by a licensed partner pharmacy.
Recovery & repair
Support for tissue recovery and return-to-training, guided by your history and your practitioner's assessment.
Metabolic health
Weight, blood glucose and energy metabolism, managed clinically where results show coaching alone is not enough.
Cellular health & longevity
Practitioner-led protocols aimed at how you age, grounded in bloodwork rather than trends.
Immune support
Clinical options for immune function, considered against your full picture and prescribed only where indicated.
How it works
Four steps, and the pharmacy does the dispensing.
01
Book
Choose your practitioner and request a consultation.
02
Consult
Your practitioner takes your history and, where useful, orders bloodwork.
03
Plan
You get a treatment plan. Where a medicine is indicated, a script is issued.
04
Dispensed
The licensed partner pharmacy compounds, dispenses and delivers. Your account shows order status only.
Registered practitioners
Every practitioner in clinical care is registered with the HPCSA and works within their own scope of practice. Your practitioner is named to you before any consultation.
Prescription-only medicines
Where a medicine is indicated it is prescribed by your practitioner and dispensed by a licensed pharmacy partner. Nothing scheduled is sold through this website.
Your information
Health data is special personal information under POPIA. It is processed for your care, held under an operator agreement with our clinical partners, and never used for marketing.
The clinical team
The practitioners behind the referral.
Dr Roland Kroukamp
Family Physician
Frontline and emergency care
Dr Roland Kroukamp practises as a family physician at Mitchells Plain Community Health Centre, where the work is frontline and unscheduled: whoever comes through the door, in whatever state they arrive. He has twice been recognised in the Western Cape Government's Service Excellence Awards, once for frontline service delivery and once as a public service innovator, the latter for a paediatric emergency resuscitation system built to make the first minutes of a child's emergency faster and more reliable. That is the discipline he brings to Odyssey: decisions made under real constraints, and care measured by what actually happens to the patient.
- Family physician at Mitchells Plain Community Health Centre
- Western Cape Government Service Excellence Award for frontline service delivery
- Recognised as a public service innovator for a paediatric emergency resuscitation system
Dr Lenise Swanson
Medical Doctor
Special interest in heart disease and cardiovascular health
Dr Lenise Swanson is a medical doctor on the Odyssey clinical team, with a particular interest in heart disease and cardiovascular health. Cardiovascular risk is the clearest example of what Odyssey is built around: it develops quietly, over years, and is measurable long before it becomes an event. Her work is with the people who want that picture early, and who want a plan they can actually follow once they have it.
- Medical doctor on the Odyssey clinical team
- Special interest in heart disease and cardiovascular health
- Consultation-led care, with treatment decided in the room
Dr Chanell Marthinussen
Medical Practitioner
General practice and women's health
Dr Chanell Marthinussen qualified MBChB at Stellenbosch University in 2018, interned at Paarl Hospital and completed community service at Mowbray Maternity Hospital. She practises as a general practitioner and has built her work around women's and reproductive health, founding The F-Word to open up conversations most consulting rooms still avoid. She also leads virtual care at MyPocketHealth, and appears regularly on national television as a health voice. Her position is that a patient who understands their own health is the one who keeps it.
- MBChB, Stellenbosch University
- Women's and reproductive health advocacy, founder of The F-Word
- Virtual care lead, and a recurring health voice on national television
Portrait to follow
Dr Nazlee Samodien
Clinical Microbiologist
Infection prevention and precision diagnostics
Dr Nazlee Samodien is a clinical microbiologist specialising in infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship and precision diagnostics. She brings a systems-based approach to patient outcomes: supporting clinicians with evidence-driven decision-making and ensuring the safest, most effective care across the Odyssey clinical team.
- Clinical microbiology: infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship
- Precision diagnostics in support of clinical decision-making
- Systems-based safety across the clinical team
Book
Start with a consultation.
Choose your practitioner, or the first available practitioner. The practice confirms a time by email — nothing clinical happens until you are in the room.
Referrals come from your results.
Most members never need clinical care. When your results indicate that you do, your practitioner is the one who tells you, and the referral happens inside the same record so nothing gets repeated or lost.
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