Weight Management Programme

The Clifford Clinic's weight management programme is a physician-led service that addresses weight as a medical rather than a purely lifestyle concern, offering structured assessment and a range of evidence-based interventions calibrated to the patient's metabolic profile, health history, and goals.

The programme begins with a comprehensive consultation in which the physician reviews the patient's weight history, previous attempts at weight loss, current medications, and any metabolic comorbidities such as insulin resistance, thyroid dysfunction, polycystic ovarian syndrome, or cardiovascular risk factors. Body composition analysis establishes the current ratio of fat mass to lean mass, providing a more precise baseline than weight alone and allowing…

Intervention options within the programme include semaglutide (GLP-1) prescription for patients meeting clinical criteria, continuous glucose monitoring to reveal post-meal blood sugar spikes that may be driving fat accumulation, gut microbiome screening where the physician suspects that the microbiome composition is impacting metabolic efficiency, and nutritional counselling incorporating the clinical findings. For patients with exercise capacity…