Temple Vitality

Lifestyle Medicine offers something for everyone. If you are wondering how you can get more out of life - whether that is to become fitter, feel healthier or generally optimise your well-being. A useful starting point is to understand how by modifying your lifestyle you can take more control of your health - the Temple Vitality programme has a focus on education, enabling you to make appropriate changes in your life.

• Losing or gaining weight
• Improving your diet
• Improving your fitness level
• Improving your fertility
• Combatting fatigue
• Improving poor sleep
• Safer intake of alcohol
• Improving a negative mindset
• Understanding how to achieve a better work-life balance
• Helping you take some control over managing chronic illness such as diabetes
• Lowering your risk of developing serious illness including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer

There is increasing evidence that modifying lifestyle factors such as losing weight, becoming fitter and following a healthier diet can drastically reduce the impact of Covid - whether this is contracting the viral infection, becoming seriously unwell with Covid-19 or indeed developing Long Covid

You will be sent a comprehensive questionnaire to complete in advance of your consultation. Please fill it in with as much detail as possible and return this at least 48 hours before your scheduled appointment. You will also be sent a 5-day food diary to complete. Ideally, complete this over a period of time which includes a weekend since eating habits often change between weekdays and weekends. Take photos of everything you eat and drink - all the data provides a very helpful overview of your current lifestyle.

It is important that you come fasted for 2-4 hours (this means not having anything to eat or drink at all during this period). This is essential preparation for the body composition analysis (which is explained below).

The initial consultation costs £249 and is anticipated to last for an hour

Dr Sam will have reviewed your questionnaire and food diary ahead of your appointment. You will have a detailed body composition analysis undertaken which will be explained to you during the consultation. Dr Sam will discuss with you the areas of your lifestyle that you may wish to consider working on. She will recommend any further investigations and provide you with a detailed report summarising your discussions

Dr Sam qualified as a GP in 1997, having graduated as a doctor from Aberdeen University in 1991. She started practising aesthetic medicine in 2004. Temple Clinic has established itself as one of the leading private medical clinics in Aberdeen and has won many awards over the years which underlines the quality of the services provided. Dr Sam developed the services on offer at Temple Clinic, receiving extensive training in problem skin, Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement therapy and weight loss / weight management. She launched the Temple Vie weight loss and weight management programme in 2019. She qualified as a certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician in 2020 and launched Temple Vitality in 2021.

We have put together a brief webinar which explains more about the Temple Vitality Lifestyle Medicine programme.

In addition, Dr Sam is delighted to offer a complimentary zoom pre-assessment where she can explain the programme and answer any immediate questions that you may have.