What sets Parakletus Living Functional and Lifestyle Medicine Services Apart
I initially wanted to do a post titled: “What is lifestyle medicine?” But there are so many, many definitions on the internet that would answer that question, so I thought rather than rehashing, I'd cut to the chase and answer the question that is really burning in most people's minds should they navigate to this page: What can you do to help me?
The first and most important thing I do is to give you TIME
Time to tell your whole story, to describe the path that has led to our meeting. I want you to have an opportunity to be really heard. I will spend a major part of your first appointment just listening to your story, clarifying what’s happened at different points using information from our comprehensive intake questionnaire so that at the end of the visit, we have a fuller picture of your health up to this point, and an idea of where you’d like to get to.
You may have a chronic health condition such as diabetes, high blood pressure, IBS, chronic pain, and depression.
Perhaps you are not satisfied to have an ever-growing medication list with increasing side effects and long-term complications. You may be wanting to explore what else you can do to get on top of their health condition.
Or perhaps you have not been diagnosed with any chronic illness yet but you recognise that you are not living your optimal life now and you would like to invest the time now to prevent ill health from developing later in life. Perhaps you who struggle with being overweight; getting inadequate sleep; poor concentration.
Maybe you’ve seen your parents or grandparents end up on a long list of pills, or get diagnosed with colon cancer, or have a stroke at an early age and you realise that, unless you make some changes, you will end up going down the same path.
Our approach at Parakletus Living
Whichever category you fall into, I want to work with you to get to the root of the issue.We want to get to the underlying cause of why you feel the way you do - why you've developed diabetes for instance, and address that, rather than just treating the "diagnosis". Using lifestyle and functional medicine principles, we would take an in-depth look at how you currently live, what habits you have around nutrition, sleep, stress management, activity, and community.
We would then look at what changes you could make in these areas to make lasting improvements to your health and wellbeing. Sometimes we may need to do some blood or stool testing and may recommend some supplements.
Our ultimate goal at Parakletus Living is to walk you along the journey to better health and an improved quality of life.
So if you want to find out more and see if our approach would work for you, schedule an Explore call today via https://www.parakletuslife.co.uk/book-an-appointment.
Dr. Omololu (Lolu) Ogunniyi, MD MRCGP Dip BSLM/IBLM
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