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Parakletus Living Wellness

🧑🏾‍⚕️Lifestyle and functional medicine GP
💕Wife and mum to two lovely boys
😋Unapologetic foodie

I qualified from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York in 2005 and achieved membership into the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2015. I hold a Diploma in Lifestyle Medicine from the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine (2020) and am a member of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. I also have some additional training in Functional Medicine principles from the Institute of Functional Medicine. I work as an NHS GP in Ipswich and also served for four years on our local Clinical Commissioning Group, with particular emphasis on self-care and prevention; children, young people, and families; and mental health and wellbeing. I am interested in helping people understand their health, to look closely at the root causes of illness that must be addressed in order to improve present health and prevent/reduce the risk of future ill-health. It is important that we realise that we are not powerless in the battle against chronic illness - the choices we make now with regards to our food, physical activity, sleep, relaxation are the building blocks in the house of health we will inhabit in the future. As an NHS GP partner, I fully recognise the pressures NHS primary care is under, especially with regards to the scarcity of human and financial resources; there's particular challenge in achieving continuity of care with a GP for getting to the bottom of chronic symptoms. This is why I started Parakletus Living Wellness where our commitment is to give you: plenty of TIME to discuss the things that matter to you; CONTINUITY with an experienced GP qualified to assess and make detailed recommendations, resulting in an INDIVIDUALISED plan for improving your health and quality of life.

05/11/2026

Why do you need a doctor coach when AI can write you a plan in 30 secs? 👆🏾 😏

03/10/2026

I came home from Uyo with a small vial of mustard seeds.

Still on my desk. Still intact.

At the Global Knowledge Festival, Coach Mfon Ekpo gave us this:

Have faith like a mustard seed, and the courage of a lion.

The mustard seed is the small beginning.

The lion is the courage to start anyway, even when you are uncertain, afraid, or doubted.

Sometimes we keep things small because small feels safe.

But things have to get messy before they can grow.

We honour God by breaking the bottle.

My vial is still intact.

I am still growing my courage.

But I know what the seeds are for.

23/09/2026

I used to think community was lovely, but not really medicine.

I’ve changed my mind.

Sometimes a room full of people who understand can do something that a one-to-one consultation simply cannot.

You don’t have to do health alone.

16/09/2026

There was a bell when I was growing up. It told me when to move.

At 47, there is no bell.

So perhaps the question isn’t “Why can’t I be more disciplined?”

Maybe it’s: What kind of movement belongs in my life now?

Start there.

08/09/2026

Sometimes we tell our GP the easiest part of the story and leave out the part that matters most.

Before your next appointment, write down:
• What’s happening and how long
• What it’s stopping you from doing
• What you want from the appointment

You’re not making a fuss. You’re giving the full picture.

01/09/2026

September always makes us want to start again.

A few years ago, I bought the planner, the new trainers and the meal plan. By the nineteenth, it had all gone. ;)

I assumed it meant I was someone who couldn't follow through.

It took me a few more Septembers to realise the problem wasn't me.

The plan had six moving parts and nothing underneath them.

So this September, don't start again.

Resume.

Pick up the smallest version of what you were already doing. Let it become boring. Let it become easy.

Because boring is often the point at which a habit becomes sustainable.

You are not starting from zero. You're starting with everything you learned last time.

That still counts. 🤍

28/08/2026

Five days at youth camp became two months of waiting for life to calm down before I reset.

The lapse wasn't the problem. The delay was.

Swipe through for what I do differently now, and why the return matters more than the lapse ever did.

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19/08/2026

A quick update on our Cookalong 💚

Our Salads That Mean Business Live Cookalong, originally planned for 21 August, is being postponed.

Sometimes plans need to change, and we want to make sure we can bring you this experience at the right time and in the way we intended.

If you’ve already signed up, thank you for your interest and patience. We’ll share a new date and further details as soon as they’re confirmed.

In the meantime, you can still enjoy the Salads That Mean Business guide and keep exploring simple, colourful ways to nourish your body in midlife.

Thank you for understanding. 💚

Health in your body, peace in your soul, purpose in your step.

Lolu x

17/08/2026

Friends, I'm doing something on Friday evening and you are all invited, whether or not you have ever paid the slightest attention to anything I've said about vegetables. 😄

Friday 21 August, 6:30pm, live on Zoom, one hour. I'm making Cowboy Caviar from my own kitchen. There is no cooking involved at all, so there is nothing to burn and nothing to time. Chop, shake the dressing in a jar, eat.

Dinner is done by 7:30 and your Friday evening is still yours.

Come and cook along, come and watch with a glass of something, or send your teenager in to do the chopping while you put your feet up. Come on your own and you'll be in the majority. It's free and everybody is welcome.

Sign up here and the recipe book plus your joining link come in the same
email 👉 https://go.flourishwithDrLolu.com/salad

11/08/2026

The brain you'll live in at 80 is being built at this week's dinner table.

A pot of efo riro with mackerel through it does more for it than most things sold in a wellness aisle.

The MIND diet, the eating pattern most strongly linked to slower cognitive decline, calls for daily leafy greens, beans, nuts, oily fish and whole grains. Look at that list and then look at a Nigerian kitchen. The greens, the beans, the groundnuts, the fish: already there. In dishes nobody thought to call a protocol.

In one study of nearly a thousand older adults, those eating a serving of leafy greens daily declined at a rate equivalent to being eleven years younger than those who rarely ate any.

Eleven years. From one daily habit.

So the change I'd make first isn't a supplement or an overhaul. It's greens on the plate every single day. Fresh, frozen, wilted into stew: it counts.

Keep cooking what you know. Just make sure the greens are in it.

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Ipswich

Opening Hours

Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm

Website

http://www.parakletuslife.co.uk/

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