Testosterone Optimisation Programme Outcomes
Contrary to common understanding and media, male testosterone decline with age is neither inevitable or normal.
Within this focused programme, we will:
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Assess your total and free testosterone along with the upstream hormones that regulate your natural testosterone production
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Optimise your diet to emphasise foods that support natural testosterone production and limit or avoid those with negative impact it
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Consider supplements that you may also wish to take that have a science-base for effectiveness
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Identify lifestyle interventions that can enhance your natural testosterone production
Ultimately, we will co-create for you a fully personalised plan to optimise your natural testosterone. It will factor in your personal enablers and constraints, so that it is not just effective, but also achievable and sustainable.
Testosterone Optimisation Programme Features
Over 12 weeks, we will have:
1x 75 minute initial consultation
3 x 30 minute check-in sessions
1x 60 minute follow-up consultation
If you prefer weekly contact for close coaching support, this is readily available as a simple bolt-on option.
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WhatsApp contact for quick questions between sessions
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Discounted rate access to functional testing
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Discounted access to supplements
Programme Fee, £475
How it Works - What to Expect
This is the flow
1. Onboarding
After our Onboarding Call, free of charge, no commitment, I will ask you to complete a comprehensive health questionnaire and track your diet for a short period, both of which will provide essential inputs for our first consultation and initial plan. If you do not already have recent male hormone test results we will arrange a test (at trade discount prices)
2. Initial Consultation & Plan
Using all your personal inputs, we will co-create your personal interventions plan, agreeing on the changes you can make. We can do this virtually OR using my clinic room in Canary Wharf, London
3. Follow-Up Consultations & Plan
Each time we reconnect, we will be reviewing your progress and results, refreshing your priorities, and iterating your Testosterone Optimisation Plan to match. Again, these sessions can be virtual or in person at Canary Wharf, London.
4. Retesting
After you have had time to implement the agreed on dietary, lifestyle and supplementation changes, we will arrange a retest of your total and free testosterone. I have access to test services at lower cost than the direct-to-consumer providers, and with a nationwide network for the blood draw samples, making it easier for you.
5. Programme Wrap-Up and Next Steps
Based on your plan implementation and retesting results, we will refresh your plan and confirm options for next steps.
6. Payments
I offer options for one-off payment or payment-spreading during a programme
FAQ's
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What is a Discovery Call?Nutritional therapy works best as a strong, trusting client-practitioner partnership. We begin with a discovery call to determine whether we share confidence to go forward together. By the end of the call, you should feel comfortable and confident in the choice you will make to work with me and which package is the best fit for you. If anything you want or need is outside of my scope I will explain that up front, and help you connect with others if appropriate.
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What happens after a Discovery Call?You will have the option to select a programme and begin working with me. You will create an account on the secure health management platform I use, giving you access to all your records and resources. After you complete an essential health goals, issues and history questionnaire that enables me to learn and prepare, we will arrange our first consultation.
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Is Nutritional and lifestyle therapy right for me?Unless your diet and lifestyle are models of perfection, very probably. It can be very surprising to find how many positive changes can be enjoyed by making great use of the extensive research and clinical insights within nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Nutrition and lifestyle medicine does not claim to treat or cure any disease, and if I identify any health issues that I cannot help you with, I will tell you about them up front.
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How evidence-based / science-based is Nutritional Therapy?You can fully expect that everything that we include within your personalised health plan has an evidence base within the scientific literature. You also have the assurance of working with a BANT and CNHC registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, working in alignment with a code of conduct for professional practice and assurance of ongoing education.
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What is “lifestyle” medicine?Lifestyle medicine refers to many things, excluding diet and nutrition, that can influence our physical, mental and emotional health and disease risk. Well researched examples include exercise, activity, sleep, breathing, stress reduction, social contact and purpose.
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Will you recommend tests?If there are tests available that will help us to determine the root causes of your issues, or enable us to observe the impact of changes we make in order to iterate your health plan, I will explain their value and cost and make them available to you. Sometimes, functional testing offers an alternative to longer periods of experimentation, providing the benefit of identifying effective interventions more swiftly in exchange for their direct cost.
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Will you recommend supplements?Possibly yes. My approach is certainly “food first”, but if there are supplements for which there is strong evidence of positive impact for your issues or goals, I will recommend specific brands and products to you, and happily explain the rationale and evidence-base for their benefit.
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Why are your programmes a minimum of 8 weeks?It takes time to progress through the loop of making changes, observing the outcomes, and then adjusting your plan based on the results. I will seek to give you quick wins but also ensure your health plan is sustainable for you long-term.
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How do you collaborate with healthcare professionals?Wherever possible and helpful I will seek a dialogue with other professionals engaged in your care. This can include, for example, writing to ask your GP to consider testing that is available to you via their practice, or to request a medications review before we make a change with potential interactions.
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Do you accept Health Insurance for payment? e.g., BUPA?Your health insurer *may* include cover for Nutritional Therapy service within your policy. This varies by policy, and all of Aviva, Axa Health, BUPA, Simply Health, Vitality and WPA have at least some policies that include eligibility. If your policy includes cover, it will be in the form of reimbursing *you* part or all of the fees. To be sure, please do query directly with your policy provider, asking them about cover for nutritional therapy consultation or service.
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Do you offer in-person consults within a clinic?Renting clinical space in London involves significant fixed costs and time constraints which may well not be a good fit for you as a client. Avoiding these enables me not to need to inflate my fees for you. However where possible, if you have access to fully private office space in your place of work, and your office is within central London (Zone 1), City of London or Canary Wharf, I will very happily visit to make one or more of our consultations in-person.
