PHC’s flagship medical programme
The Metabolic Reset Intensive
Twelve weeks. One clinical team. A complete rebuild of the system that quietly sets the stage for all of your health.
Why this is different
Nobody else is doing it quite like this
Conventional medicine is very good at finding disease. It is considerably less good at explaining why you feel worse every year while every result comes back normal.
The Intensive was built for that gap. It is the fullest expression of The PHC Method®, and there is very little like it in practice today.
One team, one plan
Physicians, nutritionists and clinical support working from the same page. No conflicting advice. No retelling your story to five people.
Led by your data
Advanced functional testing and real time wearable data build your plan, then keep rebuilding it as you move through the weeks.
Sequenced, not simultaneous
Each phase sets up the next. The order is the reason twelve weeks is enough.
Sound familiar?
It is rarely just one thing
The ten pounds that turned up uninvited and will not leave. Brain fog in meetings you used to run with ease. Sleep that no longer counts as rest. A shorter fuse than you would like to admit. A libido that left without a forwarding address.
Most people arrive here having been told everything looks normal. Many are told that their symptoms are simply part of age. Some have been offered hormone therapy. Some are already on it and still waiting to feel like themselves.
Common is not the same as normal.
And normal should be full of energy, free from worsening biomarkers and determined based on your unique health potential.
The starting point
What does metabolic health actually mean... and how is it impacted in midlife?
Metabolism is not how fast you burn a biscuit. It is how well every cell does its daily work, from making energy to clearing out what it no longer needs.
That work happens inside an environment, and the environment changes over time. Sleep shifts. Blood sugar wobbles. Digestion turns temperamental. Inflammation creeps up. Hormones start moving on ground that is already moving.
Most of what you are noticing sits downstream of that.
So that is where we start.
Where it shows up
Metabolic health is upstream. These are the places it surfaces.
Poor metabolic function rarely announces itself. It arrives dressed as something else, usually in one of a handful of familiar places. Midlife is simply when most people notice, because that is when the accumulated load starts to show.
Weight and body composition
Body composition is a metabolic output, not a willpower problem. When the system underneath is struggling, the same effort stops producing the same result.
Blood sugar and insulin
Fasting glucose, HbA1c and insulin sensitivity tend to move gradually, well before anyone calls them a problem. Worth watching properly rather than annually.
Cardiovascular and blood pressure
Blood pressure, lipids and vascular health sit close to metabolic function. Small drifts are worth understanding early rather than simply monitoring.
Hormonal health
For women, perimenopause and menopause. For men, testosterone and everything that travels with it. Hormones act on cells, so the metabolic environment matters to both.
Energy and cognition
Fatigue that sleep does not fix. Brain fog, flat mood, motivation that has gone quiet. Energy is produced at cellular level, which is exactly where we look.
Gut health and inflammation
Digestive symptoms, food reactions and chronic low grade inflammation all sit close to metabolic function, and are assessed as part of the same picture.
Different presentations. One underlying system. Foundations first.
Twelve weeks, three stages
How the Intensive is sequenced
Every stage is shaped by advanced diagnostics, wearable data and your own clinical picture.
Weeks 1 to 6
Gut health and detox
Restoring digestive integrity and easing the systemic load, so the hormonal and metabolic work that follows has somewhere solid to land.
Weeks 7 to 10
Endocrine restabilisation
Functional medicine testing maps the full hormonal picture, including oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone, insulin, HbA1c and vitamin D. Targeted intervention follows, including bioidentical hormone therapy where clinically appropriate.
Weeks 11 to 12
Personalised precision
With the foundation in place, attention turns to your individual risk factors and whatever you arrived with. This is where the plan gets specific.
Take it as a standalone programme, or carry on into Personalised Metabolic Mastery for the rest of the year.
The long game
What you feel now is not the whole picture
Metabolic health also sits at the centre of healthy ageing. Which is why the work you do now matters well beyond how you feel this year.
That is a conversation your clinician will have with you directly, against your own history and your own results.
Is this for you?
Humans.
Cellular and metabolic health is the foundational gateway to optimised health and preventative health in all of us. Nobody is exempt.
That said, the people who tend to see change quickly on the Intensive include:
Clinical leadership
Led by Dr. Mayoni Gooneratne
Functional Medicine Medical Director (MBBS, BSc, MRCS, AFMCP) and Vice President of the British College of Functional Medicine. Recognised as Best Menopause Doctor and Best Longevity and Functional Medicine Clinic by Menopause in Practice, and featured in Tatler, Cosmopolitan, Top Santé, Women’s Health and the BMJ.
PHC is regulated by the Care Quality Commission.
Your next step
Start with a conversation
Twenty minutes with our clinical team. What has been going on, where your metabolic health currently sits, and whether the Intensive is the right place to begin.