Bloodwork, pain, performance and health optimisation specialist. I help active people over 40 work out why they feel older than they should, and get themselves back.
Lou Nicholettos, MSc MSc BSc (Hons) · Physiotherapist, MSc Pain Science · HCPC registered · 21 years in practice
I'm a physiotherapist with an MSc in pain science and 21 years in practice. I own Cornwall Physio, a multi-award-winning clinic recognised as one of the best in the UK. The work I love most is the complicated cases: people who'd been round the houses, collected opinions, and still had no answers.
The reason I do this work is that I was one of them. In my late twenties I collected six diagnoses in the space of a few years: endometriosis, chronic fatigue, a disc prolapse, depression, ankylosing spondylitis and coeliac disease. Each one came with the same message, which was medication or surgery and not much else. I was studying pain science at the time, and it slowly became obvious that no single label explained what was happening to me. I'm 44 now, and I'm the healthiest I've ever been.
So when someone tells me they're stiff, bloated, foggy and exhausted, and that they've started to think this is just what getting older feels like, I don't think that. I think there's usually a reason, and that it's findable.
I use bloodwork as the lens, because it shows me what's going on underneath the aches and the tiredness. Then we fix what's fixable, in the right order. Most people aren't trying to become superhuman. They want to feel like themselves again.
Everything I know from 21 years of clinical practice, two master's degrees and years of complex cases went into one thing: the Synergy Patterns® analysis. It's a bloodwork interpretation algorithm I wrote and developed myself. 184 patterns across over 80 markers, reading how the markers relate to each other and to the person they belong to. It's unique to Performance Health, and it sits behind every report I produce.
Most bloodwork gets read one marker at a time, against ranges that describe the people who get tested rather than what's actually healthy. My analysis reads three things at once.
Over 80 markers rather than a short list of individual results, so the whole picture is on the table before any conclusion is drawn.
Ratios, correlations and patterns across markers: the Synergy Patterns® analysis I wrote and developed myself over years of complex cases. Unique to Performance Health.
Your symptoms, goals, diet and lifestyle, captured in the Performance Health Blueprint. The same number can mean different things in different people.
Not one marker with a red flag next to it. Relationships moving in the wrong direction while every single number still looks fine. That's what I'm looking for, and it's what standard testing was never built to show.
The starting point for anyone who wants the most comprehensive functional bloodwork analysis available: over 80 markers, your Blueprint, a report with your score and three priorities, and a results call with me, so you really understand what's going on and where to start.
See the BenchmarkThe programme I recommend, and the one that gives you the best possible chance of success. Comprehensive bloodwork plus one advanced test chosen for you (genetics and epigenetics, DUTCH or GI Map), a full nutrition and supplement plan covering four months, adjusted as we go, fortnightly calls with me, and me guiding you through the whole process on WhatsApp. Investment shared on your strategy call.
Book a free strategy callI also work with clinicians and coaches across the UK who offer the Benchmark to their own clients, with the analysis and results call delivered by me and my team. Partner with us.
Start with the Benchmark, or book a free 30 minute health strategy call and we'll work out the right route together. No hard sell.