We will be gathering data across many functional aspects of your health, from an extensive questionnaire, to an in depth consultation and via specific laboratory tests to gain a 360 understanding of your mental and physical health.

To allow us to make the best use of our consultation time together, we ask that you complete a comprehensive health questionnaire prior to the appointment.

✓ Cardiovascular✓ Metabolic✓ Hormonal✓ Biochemistry✓ Digestion/Diet✓ Immune status✓ Lifestyle/Environment✓ Auditory functioning

We will then recommend specific lab tests. Once we have all the lab results back, we will analyse the results and will provide you with a comprehensive report, explaining your health, and pinpointing the underlying causes of symptoms so that you gain, perhaps for the first time, a complete picture.

We will go through this with you in a consultation.

The entire process takes 5 hours of a practitioner’s time, 1 hour of a supervising doctor’s time, and 2 hours of Admin time. All are required to make things accurate and enlightening for you.

Once you have completed the health decoding process, and have started a programme, the transformation begins. The first step is the 'kick-off' consultation where we will explain to you your particular health predispositions and imbalances.

Most importantly, we will also outline a six-month or twelve-month (decided by you) transformation plan to show you how we aim to get you feeling fantastic once again.

Your pathway from here will be broken into monthly cycles, with goals set and reviewed every 4 weeks at your follow-up consultations.

We will also check in with you fortnightly by phone over the first 3 months, to give you the support you need to make lasting habit changes.

Once we have arrived at the results we need, your consultations will then be every 3 months, to make sure you are staying on track and to deal with any new issues which may have arisen.

It is the ultimate health journey, proactively keeping you well, rather than only kicking in once you are sick.

We can help to support happy, healthy brain functioning by targeting the specific underlying biochemical imbalances which can predispose someone to mental illness. The Walsh Institute identified 5 distinct biochemical imbalances in those with depression and we specialise in testing for these specific imbalances and then targeting them using ‘Nutrient Therapy’ to optimise good health.

There exist many biological underlying causes of anxiety. Some are driven by biochemical imbalances (for example, pyrrole disorder or excessive levels of free copper). Others are caused by hypersensitive hearing and/or retained 'primitive reflexes', such as the Moro reflex. We will ascertain the likely contributing cause of your anxiety and then recommend the most effective therapeutic approach for you.

During the Biomedical Assessment, the practitioner will generally suggest between 1 and 4 tests - but it depends on symptoms and severity.

Sometimes more are required to get to the root cause of long-term chronic health conditions. The practitioner will be mindful of any financial restraints, and prioritise accordingly.

Approximately £300-500 - with all trade discounts passed directly on to you (The Key Clinic does not profit in any way from any of the lab tests being recommended or the supplements being prescribed).

The supplements are an additional cost but we have negotiated trade discounts with suppliers of 20-25% which we pass directly on to you. The supplements vary in cost from £20 to £150 depending on the supplement and requirements. As a guideline, you can expect to pay initially £200 and then approximately £50 per month. The Key Clinic does not take any money for testing, phlebotomists, or supplements. (NB This is different from most Nutritionist practices, where supplement companies pay a ‘cut’ of what is being charged to the nutritionists. We do not follow this model, out of principle.)

This depends on digestive capacity, blood type and compliance. We will assess at the 10-week mark if we are starting to see a shift, and if not may consider re-testing to work out if there is a problem with absorption which is compromising progress. Some imbalances take longer to shift, and you should not be disappointed if you don't see immediate results - re-stabilising nutrient levels takes time, particularly when genetic factors are at play. Remember, what we are aiming for is long-term, sustainable change, rather than short-term relief from symptoms.

This depends on the test findings, gut capacity and absorption as well as a variety of lifestyle factors. As a guide, methylation imbalances can take 4-6 months, Walsh nutrient imbalances can take 10-12 weeks, pyrolles can take 10-12 weeks. Following the intensive stage of nutrient therapy, a 'maintenance dose' will be suggested, to ensure optimum levels reached throughout the programme are sustained. However, response time varies from person to person, depending on a number of factors.

Once we have the results, an analysis of these will be written for you by your Practitioner into an Intelligent Health Decoding report. You will then have a consultation to go through the findings. These results will be of great value to you, even if you decide not to go ahead with a health programme for the time being.

Typically, however, our clients want to tackle the issues they have by starting straight away. We also frequently see clients who have tried many other approaches, without success.

Our health programmes include a personalised treatment plan based on genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors and to create lasting change we will need to monitor, revise dosing and work through the imbalances identified systematically. We are here to help you embed positive habits using functional medicine and nutrition, Walsh Nutrient Therapy, exercise and relaxation, to ensure long-term physical and mental health resilience.

We want to ensure you get the results you are looking for, so to ensure compliance, continued motivation, and success we have found the programme structure to be vital to progress.

We are not specialised in treating Anorexia and recommend you see an expert in that field.

However, we may be able to help with some of the symptoms surrounding eating disorders, such as anxiety, but we require that the individual have been free from acute symptoms for a specified period before seeing us (please see Ts and Cs)

Unfortunately, we are unable to work with Bi-Polar patients.

Yes we specialise in addressing the biochemical imbalances commonly seen in those with ADHD. Walsh Nutrient Therapy is a great way to optimise functioning and support those with ADHD

This depends on what tests you have had done - turnaround time for the laboratories that we work with varies. As a rough guide, urine tests and many of the blood tests take two weeks, other tests (such as stool tests and methylation analysis) can take up to four weeks. Once the results have been received your practitioner will take time to review these and write a results report.

You will be notified when this has been uploaded to your portal and is ready for you to view.

You will need to pay the labs for the recommended test kits and the admin team will send you all the relevant information you need. You will also have a testing support call with your practitioner to further guide you through this process. You will be given details of an independent phlebotomist clinic near you or a mobile phlebotomist who can come to your home to administer the blood draw. You will need to book and pay for this draw directly with the phlebotomist. You may also be given tests (such as stool or urine) to carry out at home. You will need to return these tests in the packaging provided once tests have been carried out.

You will need to carry out the Intelligent Health Decoding step first. Once the result report has been written this can be sent to your insurance company with a letter from our Medical Director, Dr Alexandra Davidson. We cannot offer any guarantees that your programme at The Key Clinic will be covered - it depends on your insurer.

No, we use several different independent Laboratories in the UK, USA and in Europe for our functional testing, and will analyse the results and provide you with a detailed results report of the findings and their significance.