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16/04/2025

What is HbA1c?

HbA1c or “haemoglobin A1c” is a type of haemoglobin (the iron-containing pigment in red blood cells that carries oxygen and that makes your blood red). HbA1c is special: it holds a record of how often your blood cells were subjected to glucose spikes during their lifetimes, by having a sugar molecule attached to it. Hence it is called “glycated haemoglobin”.
If your blood is being increasingly affected by sugar spikes (both in frequency and intensity), your blood’s average sugar exposure increases. And your HbA1c level reflects this by increasing. (In case you were wondering, this is what we know as midday “crashes”, severe hunger pangs, feeling “hangry”, and not feeling sated after a meal.)
So HbA1c is a way of estimating your average blood glucose concentration. It is an estimate because HbA1c doesn’t measure your blood glucose directly but infers it from the amount of glycated haemoglobin in your blood.

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21/08/2023

My approach to preventative healthcare and lifestyle medicine

Like most doctors, my goal is to work in partnership with my patients, to help them make the right lifestyle choices in order to prevent disease and increase healthspan. Lifestyle choices include what you eat and drink, your daily routine, habits, living conditions, activity levels and mindset. Some of these we are able to change for the better; others are outside our control, and to adapt and manage these, we need to build up our physical and mental resources.
There is no time like now to start making these changes in ourselves.....

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21/07/2023

What does an independent doctor do?

As an independent doctor and GP, I consult on and help to manage long term “nagging” health concerns. These may be similar to what you may have seen your your NHS GP about many times in the past, and want to get to the bottom of.
However, being independent (of the NHS) means I am able to spend more time with my patients, to understand a timeline of their health, and look with a fresh pair of eyes at chronic issues.......

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03/07/2023

Does lifestyle medicine mean no medication at all?

Lifestyle medicine is an evidence based medical discipline used to treat, prevent and reverse chronic conditions.
I apply the lifestyle medicine approach in combination with traditional medical practice. I start with a thorough consultation exploring medical and lifestyle factors......

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17/05/2023

What does lifestyle medicine mean?

Lifestyle medicine is a branch of medicine dealing with research, prevention, treatment and reversal of diseases caused by lifestyle factors such as nutrition, physical inactivity, and chronic stress. (source: Wikipedia)
Lifestyle medicine is NOT the same as alternative medicine, functional medicine or complementary therapies. It is an evidence-based system like conventional western medicine. But rather than being disease-focused, it considers the whole person, in the context of their environment and lifestyle. Environment is both internal (your immune status, your gut bacteria or microbiome) and external (air pollutions, exposure to chemicals in various products).
Your lifestyle includes your living circumstances, occupation, habits, personality traits and more.
Our risk of injury, infection, illness are all determined by either our genes, our environment or lifestyle.
From this perspective, I find that lifestyle medicine is closest to traditional medicine or traditional family practice. By traditional, I mean the process of clinical diagnosis and management, before we were restricted by targets, social care burdens and the 15 minute appointment.

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26/04/2023

Is it safe to see an independent doctor for diagnosis and treatment?

In order to treat patients and prescribe, all doctors in the UK (NHS or independent) need to maintain their registration with the General Medical Council. This requires annual appraisal and period revaluation, in order for the doctor to maintain their license to practice.
Services that include diagnosis and treatment of disease, including prescription services, are called “regulated activities”. Providers of these services are regulated by the Healthcare regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). These activities (prescribing, diagnosis and treatment) should be performed only by those qualified to do so, and in a manner that ensures the safety and dignity of the patient – which is what the CQC monitors.
So, when you do your research about any form of private medical treatment, these are the criteria you look for.

20/01/2023

Doctor & GP for Weight Management, Hormones and Lifestyle

Dr Aarti Narayan-Denning is experienced in the whole-person assessment for medical diagnosis, the traditional “family doctor” approach, while incorporating current evidence from lifestyle and nutritional medicine concepts. Her interests include hormonal health, nutritional balance and prescription weight reduction to prevent metabolic diseases like Type 2 Diabetes.