Learn How You Can Check Your Body Health
Staying healthy is essential for ageing well and maintaining an active life. While staying active and eating well are important, comprehensive insights into your current health and potential risks, like heart disease and stroke, are crucial.
This article explores options for checking your body health, what a full-body check involves, and where to get one.
What is a full body health check?
A full body health check can provide you with valuable insights into your general health. It gives you key health metrics, like your cholesterol level, blood pressure, and weight, helps identify a range of common health issues, such as diabetes, and provides insights into your risk of certain conditions like heart disease.
Knowing more about your overall health is a powerful tool if you are keen to take a proactive approach to staying well and active for longer. That’s because many health conditions can go unnoticed until you start to get symptoms, and often at this point, it is too late to take preventative measures. Instead, you may need to start taking medications or measures to manage the condition.
With a full body health check you can identify any health concerns earlier, often before symptoms present, enabling you to take prompt interventions and proactive health management plans to be put in place. In some cases, this can help prevent or delay the onset of the condition and improve your overall diagnosis.
The full range of tests included in a full body health check varies, but will generally include:
- An assessment of your existing lifestyle, medical and family history to ensure a comprehensive picture of overall health is built
- Analysis of the health of your key organs, like your lungs, kidney, liver, and heart
- Blood tests for common, often preventable health conditions, such as high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure
- Insights into essential vitamin and mineral levels
- Comprehensive risk scores for common health conditions, like heart disease and stroke risk
Why should I check my body health?
A comprehensive body health check is designed to provide key metrics about your health and help you identify potential health issues before they escalate. This empowers you to make any necessary diet or lifestyle changes or seek timely treatment to help reduce and manage your risk of more serious health issues.
You may want to check your body health because you:
- Have concerns about your risk of certain conditions due to your family history
- Want to learn more about your overall health
- You are keen to take a proactive approach to managing your health
- Want to monitor the progress of an existing condition
- Have specific concerns about your health
- Are feeling more tired than normal
- Want peace of mind when it comes to your health
- Have a milestone birthday coming up that has prompted you to assess your health and wellbeing
What does a full body health check involve?
A full body health check involves having a series of tests that provide vital insights into your general health. The exact tests you get will depend on your chosen health check provider but a full body check will generally include:
- Cholesterol and diabetes test
- Body composition scan
- Blood pressure check
- Lung function check
- Blood health markers
- Kidney function test
- Essential proteins and iron levels
- Bone health, energy, and muscle tests
- Heart rhythm (ECG test)
- Heart disease and stroke risk
The results from these tests are reviewed alongside the information you provide about your history and lifestyle to give you personalised insights into your health and your risk of developing certain health conditions.
Where can I get my body health checked?
The NHS offers free [NHS Health Checks}(https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nhs-health-check/) through your GP surgery to provide comprehensive insights into your general health. However, they are only available for those aged 40-74 with no existing health conditions, and you are only eligible for a check-up every five years.
If you want to take a more proactive approach to monitoring your health or want the convenience of booking a health check at a time and location that suits you, you can book a private full-body health check with a provider like Bluecrest Wellness.
Our private health MOTs are available throughout the UK, making it easy for you to find a location and time that is convenient for you. Plus, you can be sure we will deliver fast, efficient and accurate results as we have established links with leading UK laboratories and are fully accredited for a wide range of tests. In addition, alongside a comprehensive Results Report, you get free 24/7 access to a GP helpline for a year following your tests to provide reassurance as you make changes to improve your health.
How can Bluecrest Wellness help?
At Bluecrest Wellness, our comprehensive full-body health MOTs are designed with you in mind. From general health MOTs to specialist cancer risk tests and vitamin and mineral levels, whatever your health concerns, we've got you covered. So, if you want to learn more about your health and take a proactive approach to managing it, book a full health MOT today.
