General Health
Blood Test

An ideal test to see how some of your major organs are performing, and if there are any lifestyle changes you could make to reduce the risk of developing certain diseases and conditions later on in life.

General Health Blood Test

Blood tests can be a useful tool when embarking on lifestyle changes such as weight loss/gain, reducing alcohol consumption, general fitness or improving well being. Not only do they give you a starting benchmark they may empower you to continue on your healthy lifestyle changes.

If wishing to embark on a lifestyle change plan whether it’s to lose weight, put weight on, stop drinking alcohol, exercise, eat a more balanced diet, reduce stress or generally improve your well being it can be a challenging ordeal.

Sometimes to try and change everything at once will lead to failure. But if you try small changes it may have an affect on the other changes. For example, eating healthier may be a motivator to exercise and so on.

One good area of empowerment is to look at some routine blood work. For example if wanting to address improving your fitness by exercising to lose weight, reduce anxiety, improve low mood or depression a well man/well woman blood test will look at how well your kidney, liver, thyroid, gout risk, blood count and cholesterol levels are looking. Then repeat the test after three months of the positive changes you’ve made and review your results. Not only should the bathroom scales in weight loss be a measuring tool so should blood work!

The same may be said for reducing alcohol intake, it’s not uncommon for most people to enjoy a drink but when that one drink leads into many more on a regular basis your health could be at risk. Our kidney, liver, diabetes and cholesterol blood test would be a good measurement of general health improvement especially when repeated three months after stopping drinking.