Lifestyle Medicine Consultation

The advice is free; the sorting is what you're paying for. Anyone can list 40 things that help, and the work is deciding which 3 are likely to do anything for you, given your history, your week and what you're already carrying. That decision is what takes 45 minutes and a clinician.

It's run as clinical work rather than as a wellness plan. Food, movement, sleep and the pressure you're under get looked at against your history and against what your results show, by someone who reads results as part of the job. Where the evidence is strong we will say so, and where it's thin we will say that too, and you decide what gets your time.

Only if you've asked us to help with it. Weight is not the aim of this appointment and it is not a plan on its own. A lot of what changes how a woman feels has nothing to do with the scales.

No. This can be booked on its own, or alongside a consultation and testing if you want your full history and your results in the room as well. If we think you'd get more from starting with the longer appointment, we will say so.

It has to be, or it's useless. Movement is built around the time you actually have and food around what you'll realistically eat, not an ideal week that lasts 9 days. If a plan assumes 3 spare hours a day, the plan is wrong.

It is, as long as we don't try to fix all 4 at once. We work out which one is costing you the most right now and start there, and the rest gets sequenced instead of dumped on you in one go. Small steps, built up.

Not for this appointment. Testing gets suggested where it would genuinely change what we do, and if you've had results done recently, bring them and we'll use them. Testing everything is not thoroughness, it just creates noise and worry.

No, and nothing here requires you to buy anything. If something has decent evidence behind it we will tell you what it is and what it's likely to do, and you decide from there. Where we earn anything from a product we recommend, we say so at the time. Some elements are delivered with third party partners, and you'll be told who they are beforehand.

A plan you can actually run, with the order of priority made clear, so you know what to do first instead of facing a list of 20 things. It's written down, and it's kept current at any later appointment as your circumstances change.

Then we will tell you, which may be the most useful thing that happens in the appointment. Lifestyle is not the soft option, and it is also not the answer to everything, and pretending otherwise wastes your time and your money. If it belongs with somebody else, we will tell you who can look at it and how you reach them. This is not a diagnosis and it does not replace your GP.

Yes. Everything here is online, so you can be anywhere in the UK. We do not currently see patients in person. The only person who ever comes to you is a phlebotomist, and only if you choose that option for a blood test.