Dr Suresh Khirwadkar
Lifestyle Medicine | Weight Loss | Skin Cancer | General Practice | Concierge Medicine | Psychology
Common Conditions
What can lifestyle medicine help with?
Fatigue and Tiredness
Extremely common, and usually a consequence of our lifestyle, either poor nutrition and deficiencies, or chronic stress and poor sleep. Dr Suresh can help you get to the route of the problem and fix it! By asking for the right investigations, many of which will not be requested by your usual doctor, we can find what may be causing your issues and start the road to fixing them.
Weight Gain
Do you know why you are putting on weight? Are you dieting and controlling your calories even down to very low levels yet still can't lose weight? Or worse - gaining weight! Have you managed to lose weight only to ping right back to where you were? Dr Suresh can help you work out what is going wrong and how to fix it! Usually without calorie counting!
Low Immune System
Have you been to a doctor complaining of a low immune system, or feeling tired and sluggish, only to be told your blood tests are fine and go away? You feel fobbed off, or worse they make you feel you are making it up! You aren't! They just maybe haven't done the right tests. Did you know a chronically low zinc level or a chronically raised cortisol can cause a low immune system?
Poor Sleep
A particular problem that many of us face, and one we can almost never seem to find proper help with other than 'here have a sleeping tablet'. There's a better approach. By taking time to explore your sleep issues, Dr Suresh can help you work out what the root cause of your sleeping difficulty is and fix it without addictive or dangerous medications.
Stress and Mental Health
Dr Suresh has extra training in helping patients with mental health problems, and in particular how they can affect our physical health. Did you know that often metabolic disorders are often misdiagnosed as mental health problems and patients may be given completely the wrong treatment? Taking time to explore the issues can prevent this.
Heart Disease
Did you know that Statins have almost no proven benefit for heart disease? Yet most patients are simply told 'your cholesterol is high, have a statin'. There's a better way! By looking properly at your diet and exercise regime, Dr Suresh can help you to not just lower your CV risk, but actively reverse it, often without medications. Accurate tests can indicate your risk.
Diabetes
Did you know Type 2 Diabetes is curable? Probably not - almost nobody knows this. It is curable with the right interventions - and not just medications. Proper lifestyle, including techniques such as intermittent fasting, low carb diets, and Keto diets can be incredibly successful at reversing type 2 diabetes and curing it. Dr Suresh has extra training and offers this service.
Worried About Your Risks
If you are worried about your underlying risks, or just want to know where you stand underneath the surface, Dr Suresh can help. He is not afraid to check the appropriate blood tests and investigations like Apolipoproteins and vitamin checks, and CT Calcium Score tests to accurately assess your risks, sometimes decades before they may be an issue, so you have plenty of time to deal with them.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
"The application of enrivonmental, behavioural, medical and motivastional principles to the management of lifestyle related health problems". Simply put, Lifestyle Medicine provides a whole-system approach to the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases through the improvement of your lifestyle - diet, nutrition, physical activity, social relationships, sleep, and mental health.
In practical terms, this means spending lots of time with patients, fully exploring their health in a holistic manner, and spending time educating and helping them to improve their diet and nutrition, well beyond the standard advice (of don't eat badly), giving detailed physical activity prescriptions, advice and help with sleep and in particular correcting poor sleep, improving social relationships and proving expert mental health support through psychological interventions.
Can anyone do lifestyle medicine? Yes - but extra training is definitely recommended. Dr Suresh has done extensive extra work and training in this field and is currently working towards his Board Certification, and is also working towards Fellowship of the Australasian College of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM).
Why should I see Dr Suresh? Many of the patients I see feel fobbed off by their usual doctor, or they simply don't spend long enough with them to really explore their issues and help them to tackle their problems without just resorting to medications. It is often said that Doctors are too quick to reach for medications - well this is actually true. Dr Suresh tries to help his patients through long appointments, holistic care, and proper lifestyle interventions and mental health support, not just reaching for medications.
What can Lifestyle Medicine help with? Lots of conditions - but particularly those caused primarily through poor lifestyle. For example, Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Weight gain and Obesity, High Blood Pressure, Arthritis, Rashes and Dermatitis, Acne, etc. The list goes on! Lifestyle Medicine principles can be applied to any disease or illness though - we don't have to reach for medications straight away!
Chronic Disease
MHCP, Care plans and NDIS paperwork in a timely manner for all eligible patients
Men's Health
Overweight? Tired? Get your heart, head, prostate and balls checked without delay
Risk Screening
Pre-emptive screening and risk management to keep you in peak health and fitness
Ketogenic Diet
A fantastic way to lose weight and treat diabetes, hypertension and heart disease
Weight Loss
Proven techniques for rapid AND sustained weight loss - come see Dr Suresh if you are struggling
Value
Dr Suresh won't bring you back for unnecessary appointments. If he calls you back, it's for a good reason
Telehealth
Phone, Video call, Email, SMS. Telehealth is available now for all patients (medicare restrictions apply)
Minor Procedures
Skin Cancer and other Minor Procedures done in the clinic with care and attention, and minimal delay
Weight Loss
Proven techniques for rapid AND sustained weight loss. Speak to Dr Suresh today about losing fat
Specialist Care
Dr Suresh holds FRACGP, MRCGP, MBChB, and BSc and is working towards Board Certification in Lifestyle Medicine
Long Skin Checks
Every single mark and mole is checked. No rushing and no 'shirt pulling' to check you
Skin Cancer Biopsies
To provide accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Punch, shave, excision. Whatever is required
Surgical Procedures
Biopsies, curettage, excisions, including advanced repairs e.g skin grafts and flaps and minor cosmetics
Quick Results
Procedures and providers that provide rapid turnaround of results so you aren't kept waiting
Value
Gap fees are below AMA and ASGP recommended fee schedules, with only necessary follow ups
On your terms
No set days/times for skin cancer work or surgery - book when you need it or want it, with minimal delay
Minimal wait time
Same / next day appointments available. Procedures typically can be booked in for surgery within 2-3 days
Intermittent Fasting
Lower your insulin resistance, lose fat, build muscle, induce Autophagy and work towards longeivity
Low carb diet
For treating Type 2 Diabetes, obesity, hypertension and much more. Speak to Dr Suresh today
Women's Health
HRT, contraception, cervical screening, breast checks, heavy periods, painful periods, PCOS, endo
Poor Sleep
Help with difficulty getting to or staying asleep. Sleep hygiene and how to wake up feeling refreshed
Mental Health
Psychology and counselling available for all new and existing patients. Telehealth sessions available
Heart Health
Healthy heart checks for all ages. Blood pressure, cholesterol, Apo A1/B, lipid subfraction, etc.
Weight Set Point
Can't lose weight? Dr Suresh has proven techniques to help but quickly and sustainably
Prolonged Fasting
Sounds scary but it isn't! 1/3/5/7 day fasts with metabolic monitoring - lose weight fast
Full Medical Team
Full nursing and admin support available for all aspects of care including nurse phone calls
Vaccines
Childhood and other routine vaccinations, as well as optional extras like travel vaccines
Minor Procedures
Implanon insertions, toe nail excisions, cyst removals, lipomas etc. Minor cosmetics available
Chronic Disease
MHCP, Care plans and NDIS paperwork in a timely manner for all eligible patients
Men's Health
Overweight? Tired? Get your heart, head, prostate and balls checked without delay
Risk Screening
Pre-emptive screening and risk management to keep you in peak health and fitness
Ketogenic Diet
A fantastic way to lose weight and treat diabetes, hypertension and heart disease
Weight Loss
Proven techniques for rapid AND sustained weight loss - come see Dr Suresh if you are struggling
Value
Dr Suresh won't bring you back for unnecessary appointments. If he calls you back, it's for a good reason
Telehealth
Phone, Video call, Email, SMS. Telehealth is available now for all patients (medicare restrictions apply)
Minor Procedures
Skin Cancer and other Minor Procedures done in the clinic with care and attention, and minimal delay
Zinc
Zinc deficiency is very common, and can cause a multitude of issues. Many of those issues you just put up with could be due to Zinc deficiency, including hormonal problems and commonly a low immune system. If you just seem to always be unwell, or 'get hit hard' when you get unwell, you may have a zinc deficiency.
Copper
Copper deficiency is not especially common, but it certainly happens a lot more than you might think. Copper deficiency can cause palpitations, sweats, fatigue and tiredness, nausea and vomiting and nerve problems. Fixing it is usually a simple process of proper dietary sources. Speak to Dr Suresh if you want this checked.
Selenium
Did you know that for certain types of breast cancer, a normal selenium level has been shown to be as protective as prophylactic mastectomy? Particularly in those with BRCA2 mutations! But how would you know what your levels are if they aren't checked? Low selenium levels are also implicated in almost all cancers!
Insulin Resistance
Extremely common - almost every single patient I test has high levels of Insulin Resistance. But what can it cause? Almost everything! ALl those things that you just put down to 'getting older', weight gain, tiredness, lethargy, fatigue, aches and pains - they may all be high insulin resistance. Fixing it is easy - just speak to Dr Suresh.
Cortisol
Do you know what your cortisol levels are? Why does it matter? Well a chronically elevated Cortisol level can lead to fatigue, weight gain, lethargy, low immune system and dramatically increases your risk of heart disease, cancer and dementia. Even 'normal' results may not be - you need to know what levels to look for - Dr Suresh can help.
Vitamin D
Despite the huge amount of sunshine we get in Australia, Vitamin D deficiency is ridiculously common. Most patietns I check have a low vitamin D level, but it's rarely checked by most doctors - they assume because we have sunshine that you won't be deficient. It can cause fatigue, tiredness, can lead to osteoporosis and other problems.