What An Executive Health Check Really Tells You (That Google Can’t)
If you run a business with at least 10 employees that you have to manage yourself or via proxy, while chasing deals and making business moves, there’s a high chance that you have very little time for your health. You will have to be very deliberate about staying healthy if you want to keep doing business for the long run.
This is where an Executive Health Check comes in.
The ‘executive’ in ‘Executive Health Check’ isn’t a random insertion. It denotes full physical and mental health assessments specifically for busy professionals.
Ask any busy person you know about the last time they had any kind of medical examination. There’s a high chance that their response will leave your mouth hanging open.
This blog breaks down this health and wellbeing endeavour, created and curated by clinics like Longevity Clinics, and targeted at people who hardly have time off.
Also referred to as an ‘executive physical’ or ‘executive health assessments’, this type of medical examination is far beyond a routine exam.
A checkup of this nature sees tens to hundreds of medical checks that could take days, weeks or even a year to complete, compressed into a single day. This is so that the busy professional taking this test can have their full health profile assessed in a single day and move on with their lives.
Also, by its nature, it is a preventative health evaluation. People who take this test not only do so to know what’s wrong at the moment, but also what could go wrong in the near future.
One healthcare provider notes that they check up to 300 health risks during their executive health assessments. This is way more than you would get with a normal medical exam.
The steps in the methodology applied for these tests are as follows:
A physician will review your already-existing personal and family medical history to see what you could be prone to, or what you’ve dealt with in the past. Then, they will conduct a full head-to-toe exam to check as many risk factors as possible.
The physician will draw your blood for extensive lab panels. These panels will check your blood sugar, cholesterol, kidney and liver function, hormone levels, and much more.
You will also be subject to cardiovascular tests like VO2max tests, cancer screenings, chest X-rays, and many others, as long as the clinic has the capacity to check them.
The clinician will check your overall fitness levels using various exercise tests. They will also carry out a comprehensive body composition assessment (DEXA Scans or similar) to analyse your muscle strength, density, formation and so on, as well as your body fat and bone density.
After the clinician is done with the tests, you will meet a dietitian or a health coach. This meeting will help you understand your current diet and what’s wrong with it, your sleep patterns and what’s wrong with them, and your stress management methods and how to make them better. The health coach will also study your medication interactions to find ways to optimise how your body responds to medication.
Once the tests have revealed everything that should be revealed, the clinic will come up with personalised strategies that will fit well with your busy routine to help keep you healthier for longer.
An Executive Health Check, executive medicals, and all things related to executive medicine exist to do one thing: find problems-in-waiting in your body. Early detection has become modern medicine’s foundation, and no procedure represents this more than these types of health checks.
It’s about spotting a lumbar problem that could affect posture or lead to spine problems in that busy executive who sits for hours on video calls with customers and clients all over the world. It’s about discovering how much the coffee that CEO consumes is actually affecting their sleep patterns.
If you’re a busy person, you have definitely postponed healthcare a few times to chase goals. Executive medicine exists to help you get it in as short a time as possible, so you can continue pursuing your goals. The clinic or hospital’s Medical Director oversees these checks personally, which ensures that you are getting the most experienced of doctors to look you over.
At a typical executive exam, several issues are looked into, but the ones that are paid the most attention to are:
Depending on the results of the test, the clinicians, under the direction of the Medical Director of the facility where the tests were run, will design bespoke health management programs to improve your health. The tests can also lead to full medical interventions like a hospital admission or mandatory bed rest.
The most important part of these executive health assessments, however, is what they tell you that Google cannot. As a subject, you will be leaving the clinic with:
At the end of one 2 to 4 hour session, you will have identified treatable high-risk conditions like hypertension (which many executives tend to deal with), and metabolism issues. Most importantly, you get to go back to work knowing that the best doctor you can find is on your case.
Longevity Clinics executive health patients have reported improved metabolic health and energy levels, reduced cardiovascular risk, better focus, fewer sick days, and at least one meaningful shift in their daily routine towards better health, thanks to follow-up health management programs.
Book a discovery call today to learn about the different executive health packages on offer and their follow-up pathways that always yield good results.
According to general global recommendations, healthy adults should go for full checkups yearly, but doctors can advise differently depending on the adult’s age and their risk factors (family history, habits, obesity, etc.). Also, certain screenings are age-specific, such as:
Busy people miss these checks often, hence the creation of executive health evaluations that ensure that they do their longevity health checks all in one visit to the hospital/clinic.
As a product, these health checks were originally marketed and packaged for busy executives: the board chairmen, the political leaders, the business owners who spend their days in meetings and on flights, taking calls and signing off on deals and orders.
In truth, these programs actually cater to anybody who is too busy for the hospital. This is why the blog started off by referencing the small business owner with 10 employees who has to deal with customer problems, scaling their business, paying wages/salaries, and government regulations and regulators.
You do not need to be on the Forbes’ list or on the front pages of the newspapers to actually get one done on you.
You could be a simple 9 to 5er with a brutal schedule that gives you only time for work and a few other activities whose scheduled happenings could derail a big part of your life. Booking an Executive Health Check with clinics like Longevity Clinics, which offer different packages to cater to your level, can help you stay ahead of illness instead of waiting for it to strike.
Even the fitness community is getting in on the action. Many gym bros and girls book these longevity health checks to see everything that’s wrong with their bodies and get training plans as part of their follow-up packages.
It is one of the best preventative actions you can get for yourself and your loved ones. If preserving your health means sustaining your career, these checks are worth considering.
Now this is a question that is worth the hassle.
These checks are great. You do blood tests, check if you’re prone to a long-term illness or are at family risk, discuss with public health experts, and so much more, all in one visit.
But you also have the option of doing these blood tests at your leisure. You can also book an appointment with your GP through and use a telehealth service to discuss symptoms and treatments. You could do exercises that reduce health risks for you and make your body stronger. You could follow our nutrition guide on Longevity Clinics to eat better and stay healthier.
So, why wait and bundle everything into one visit?
The truth is that nobody is asking you to wait. What is being acknowledged is the time you spend doing all these tests, especially if you’re a busy person. This is also true for someone who values their career and is always barking up the tree of opportunity, such that they cannot afford a moment spent elsewhere.
Prevention is better and smarter than a cure. If having to take breaks from your career often to go for different checkups – as you ideally should, by the way, because your real wealth is your health – presents a dilemma, then an Executive Health Check is worth thinking about.
It is also worth considering if you feel symptoms of something unfamiliar, and want to eliminate every possible issue that could have caused it. ‘Dr Google’ can be misleading sometimes and cause you to panic as a result. This check will help settle your mind, and even open your eyes to other risk factors you didn’t know you were dealing with.
In the end, it is an investment in your longevity. It is always better to know than not to know.
We’re not going to beat around the bush here: An Executive Health Check costs a pretty penny.
In Australia, basic packages typically start at around $1,000 and can go up to $3,000 in some parts of the country. Premium packages can go up to $8,000 in certain regions. For context, the average weekly income of Australians before tax, per the Australian Bureau of Statistics, is $2,010.
These figures are not in the ballpark of the average earner, and a standard health insurance premium cannot cover them. That’s right – people who opt for it typically pay out of pocket for these tests.
This is a concierge service, in essence. But if you can pay for and enjoy a vacation with those figures, you can take care of your health and wellbeing so that you can look forward to even more vacations.
The appeal of these checks is how thorough they are, because of the people it was originally packed for. As a result, many early onset illnesses are spotted via the series of tests in an average executive medicine appointment. Paying thousands of dollars for this can save you thousands more in hospital bills.
Luckily for many people, companies subsidise the cost of these checks and include them in their operational costs for their owners and executives. Some employees also get this as a benefit, because healthy employees mean fewer sick days/medical leaves and better business.
If you’re an individual business owner or an employee at a venture that doesn’t offer you these subsidies, think of the payment as an investment in preventative health. When you know all your risk factors and your relevant health metrics, you can make the right lifestyle choices that will align with your vision for your financial future.
An Executive Health Check will tell you many things about your body, lifestyle and overall health that multiple visits to the doctor won’t tell you. It is a premium service, but everybody deserves a premium service in their lifetime. It is also an expense that can lead to thousands of dollars in savings in the future, which can be reinvested in your business to take it from small to large. Reach out, and Longevity Clinics will guide you through the right package as you consider your options.
We’ve developed a comprehensive six-step process that acts as your personal health roadmap, to follow towards your health goals.
