What a first visit involves
4 minute read. General education, not medical advice
A first consultation here is a long conversation and nothing more dramatic than that. No examination takes place, no samples are taken, and no test is ordered. The aim is to build an accurate picture of an ordinary week in your life before anything at all is suggested.
What gets asked
Most of the time goes on specifics rather than generalities: not “do you eat well” but what you actually ate on Tuesday, who cooked it, how long it took and what happened at nine in the evening. The same detail applies to sleep timing, movement across the week, work demands and the parts of your routine that are genuinely fixed.
You will also be asked what medical care you are already receiving, so that nothing suggested here cuts across it. If your doctor has set a restriction, that restriction stands.
What does not get asked
You are not asked to complete a long health questionnaire before arriving, and detailed medical histories are never collected through this website. Anything sensitive is discussed in the consultation itself, where there is context for it, and only where it is relevant to the habit work at hand.
What you leave with
A written summary follows the visit. It contains a small number of changes, usually two or three, each with the reasoning attached and a note on how confident that reasoning is. Some suggestions rest on broad, consistent evidence about everyday habits. Others are reasonable experiments, and are labelled as such rather than dressed up.
The summary is written to be shown to someone else. If your GP or specialist disagrees with part of it, that is a useful conversation, not an awkward one.
What it will not include
No diagnosis, no interpretation of test results, no supplement protocol, no medication advice and no promise about how you will feel in six weeks. If your situation calls for any of those, the honest answer is a referral rather than a plan.
This note is general education, not individual medical advice. The scope and safety page sets out when to see a medical clinician instead.