Assessment of glucose metabolism, insulin resistance and other metabolic risk factors
Insulin resistance often develops quietly, showing up as weight that’s hard to shift, energy crashes, sugar cravings, or a family history of type 2 diabetes, long before it appears on a standard blood test. Left unaddressed, it carries real long-term cardiovascular and metabolic risk.
Our Insulin Resistance & Metabolic Risk Clinic looks specifically at your glucose metabolism, insulin levels, lipid profile and other cardiovascular risk factors, then builds an individualised prevention and treatment strategy around what we find, before it progresses further.
Catching this early gives you real options — it doesn’t have to progress to type 2 diabetes.
We assess your glucose metabolism and insulin levels, alongside your full lipid profile and other cardiovascular risk factors, to build an accurate picture of your metabolic health, not just a single fasting glucose reading. From there, we build an individualised prevention or treatment strategy, which may combine lifestyle and nutritional changes with medical treatment where clinically appropriate, aimed at reducing your long-term risk, not just managing a number.
The goal of this clinic is genuinely preventive — identifying risk early enough that lifestyle change, and where appropriate medical treatment, can meaningfully change your trajectory, rather than waiting until a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease is already made.
or a full weight-management plan alongside your metabolic risk assessment
for a wider hormonal assessment alongside metabolic testing
It’s when your body’s cells respond less effectively to insulin, meaning your pancreas has to produce more to keep blood sugar normal — over time, this can contribute to weight gain, and eventually type 2 diabetes, if not addressed.
In many cases, yes, particularly when it’s identified early — lifestyle changes and, where appropriate, medical treatment can meaningfully improve insulin sensitivity.
They’re closely related — insulin resistance often precedes prediabetes, which is why assessing it early, before glucose levels themselves become abnormal, matters.
Often, yes — PCOS is commonly associated with insulin resistance, which is why we assess this specifically for women with PCOS as part of a fuller metabolic picture.
This depends on your individual risk factors and results, but we’ll give you a clear, personal monitoring schedule rather than a generic recommendation.
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