Just What The Doctor Would Order

Conor Verbruggen & Shane Keogh

atest press release from young Shane at PhysioKlinic, issued on July 23rd, 2025…

Project Health is an innovative community health-focused 10-month pilot project designed and run by local physiotherapist Shane Keogh and nutritionist Conor Verbruggen.

The idea is to provide the prescription of diet and exercise change to delay or avoid medication for conditions like elevated cholesterol, high blood-pressure and insulin resistance.

As well as professional consultation and collaboration, Project Health offers metabolic testing (and explanation) to measure and track improvements. Basal Metabolic Rate (daily calorie needs), VO2max, Body Fat % and Blood Pressure can all be measured in-house. This allows for a truly individualised and actionable health plan designed to meet the client’s needs through education, behaviour change, and ongoing support.

As well as preventative health supports, Project Health offers performance insights for the growing body of athletes in the Wicklow community; VO2max, Blood Lactate Profiling and body composition data can all be collected and used to affirm and direct training efforts to train smarter, with less guesswork.

Key to the founders’ vision for Project Health is its role as a referral tool for GPs in East Wicklow. Through working in the HSE, speaking with doctors, and personal family experience, it became clear to Shane that there was a will but not a way for GPs to effectively ‘prescribe’ the diet and exercise changes that would benefit so many of their patients. Project Health aims to prove its efficacy over time by working collaboratively with GPs to ultimately better serve those experiencing lifestyle-affected ill-health.

Shane and Conor are keen to stress that Project health is not a gym, a personal-training service, or a company offering a silver bullet solution unavailable anywhere else. What they are proud to offer is a simple, evidence-based service that makes fundamental health science accessible to as many people as possible in a way that is effective.

Bookings and information will be available shortly on projecthealth.ie or by contacting [email protected].