Women's health · Online across the UK
You have been told your results are normal. You are still not feeling well. Both of those can be true at the same time, and finding out why is where we start.
Restoration, not transformation.
We are not here to change you. We are here to give you back what has quietly been spent.
The Restora Clinic positionWhat we help with
Most women who come here have already been told everything is normal, and still do not feel like themselves. This is what women actually arrive with. If yours is not on the list, ask anyway.
This is not for you if you feel unwell and it cannot wait, in which case contact your GP or NHS 111 today rather than us. Nor if you want medication arranged off the back of an online form, or the biggest panel available with no conversation about it. And if what you need is a specialist in fertility, surgery or mental health, we will say so plainly and point you to the right route rather than keeping you here.
What we look at
Your result can sit comfortably inside the range and still be nowhere near where you personally feel well. So we look at the whole picture, and we watch how it moves over time rather than judging you on one snapshot.
Which of these are worth measuring depends on your history, your symptoms and where you are in life. We decide that together, and never from a standard list.
Patient stories
Most women arrive here having been told there is nothing wrong, holding a list of things that are quietly not right. These are the patterns we see most often.
Story one
Sarah, 44
Tired for 2 years in a way that sleeping did not touch. Bloods done twice, normal twice. By the time she stopped mentioning it, she had half decided she was making it up.
What nobody had joined up
Her iron stores had been near the bottom of the range for years. Every result was reported as normal, because every one of them was. Nobody had put the 3 side by side.
Normal, three times, in a straight line downwards.
Story two
Claire, 41
Periods still arriving on time, so nobody had said the word perimenopause to her. Falling asleep fine and waking at 3am. Anxiety that felt genuinely new, and worst in the week before her period.
What nobody had joined up
Six separate complaints, each with a reasonable explanation of its own. Taken together, in a woman in her early 40s, they were not six problems. They were one pattern.
Regular periods do not rule it out. They just delay the conversation.
Story three
Nicola, 48
The same food and the same walking, and suddenly a different result. Weight settling round the middle, and a 4pm crash she had started planning her afternoons around. She had been told her sugars were fine.
What nobody had joined up
They were fine, and had been for years, which is exactly what you would expect at that stage. Nobody had looked at how hard her body was working to keep them there.
The test measured the outcome. It never measured the effort.
Services
Most women start with a blood test, because it gives us something real to work from rather than guesswork.
Start here. A kit you use at home, or a phlebotomist who comes to you. Then we go through what it all means.
Start with testing →
An unhurried hour where we take your whole history and read your results against it. Then shorter follow ups.
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Food, movement, sleep and stress, treated as clinical work and built around the life you actually have.
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The Restored Programme, for when the plan exists and the real work is keeping it going.
View aftercare →What you walk away with
This is what you are actually paying for, written out so you can decide whether it is worth it before you spend anything.
If at any point we think we are not the right clinic for you, we will tell you, and we will point you towards someone better placed to look at it.
How it works
A kit posted to your door, or a phlebotomist who comes to you. Either way, you do not travel.
A long appointment where your results are read against your history, your symptoms and what runs in your family.
Written down so you can see it, question it, and take it away with you.
We adjust as you change. Your record stays with us, so you never have to start again from nothing.
The clinic
One woman, one record, read by more than one discipline. It means whoever looks at your thyroid result also knows what your iron has been doing, and what the last 3 months have actually been like for you.
Assessment, medicines review and prescribing decisions. Every prescription is checked by a qualified prescriber before it is issued.
Laboratory testing, read against your history and your symptoms rather than a reference range on its own.
Evidence based work on food, movement, sleep and stress, built around the week you actually have.
Questions
Symptoms, testing, treatment and how we work. If yours is not here, ask us and we will answer it properly.
Symptoms, and whether this is for you
Usually some combination of the same things. Tiredness that sleep does not fix. Sleep that breaks at 3am. Brain fog, low mood, or anxiety that feels new. Periods that have changed. Weight that has settled around the middle. Hair thinning, joint aches, feeling the cold. Or simply a sense that something has been off for long enough that you have stopped mentioning it. On its own each one has an obvious explanation, which is exactly why they get waved away. Together they are usually a pattern, and the pattern is the useful part.
A reference range describes a population, not you. It tells us whether your result is unusual compared with thousands of other people, not whether it is right for you. We read your numbers alongside your history and your symptoms, and we look at how they move over time rather than judging one snapshot.
Our services are for adults aged 18 and over, and everything we do is built around female reproductive and hormonal physiology, from the panels we choose to the way we read a result. That is a limit on what we are set up to interpret safely rather than a judgement about anybody. The full wording is on the blood test page, and if what you need sits outside it we will say so early and guide you towards someone better placed.
Evidence based, and sometimes that means telling you something popular does not hold up. We will say when a test is unlikely to change what we do next, rather than selling it to you, and we will not offer a supplement to fix something a supplement cannot fix. Where the evidence is genuinely thin, we say that too instead of dressing it up.
Testing and treatment
No, though most women do, because it gives us something real to work from rather than guesswork. If testing would not change what we do next, we will tell you so rather than sell it to you.
The kit uses a small device that sits on your upper arm. It punctures the skin to collect a few drops, so it is not needle free, but there is nothing going into the crook of your elbow and nothing you have to watch. Some markers can only be measured properly from a venous sample. If yours are among them we will tell you honestly, and arrange for a phlebotomist to come to you instead.
It depends on what is found, and we will not pretend otherwise. Broadly, that means correcting things that are genuinely low, targeted work on food, movement, sleep and stress, medication where it is the right tool rather than the first one reached for, and a plan that is reviewed as you change rather than handed over once. Where something sits outside what we can do, we tell you who can look at it and how to reach them.
Hormone therapy is one of the things that may be discussed, and whether it suits you is a clinical decision reached with you rather than something any clinic should promise on a website. We do not write prescriptions ourselves. Where a prescription is appropriate, it is written by a qualified prescriber after their own assessment. It is also worth saying plainly that hormone therapy is not the answer to everything, and quite often the more useful conversation is about what else is happening at the same time.
That depends on what is found and what is causing it, so anybody offering you a number on a website is guessing. Some things move in weeks and some take months. What we will do is tell you honestly which one you are looking at, rather than letting you assume the quick version and lose heart when it is not.
How this fits with the rest of your care
No, and we would not want it to be. We work alongside NHS care. Where something needs a service we cannot provide, we tell you who can look at it and how to reach them, and we write it down for you. Please also know that your GP is not obliged to act on a result from a private test, and some will not. If that happens, tell us and we will tell you what the alternatives are and what they cost.
A small team rather than one person. Prescribing and clinical review, laboratory testing and interpretation, and nutrition and lifestyle medicine. The same record is seen by more than one discipline, so your care is looked at from more than one angle.
No. Everything here is online, so you can be seen from wherever you are in the UK, and blood tests happen at home too. We do not currently see patients in person. The only person who ever comes to you is a phlebotomist, and only if you choose that option for your blood test.
Then we will say so, early, and guide you towards the clinic or the service that can. We would rather lose the appointment than take money for something that is not going to help.
Where to start
A blood test is the most straightforward way to find out what is actually going on. And if we look at your results and think we are not the right clinic for you, we will say so and guide you towards the one that might help.
Start with a blood test