How a Baseline protocol is built
Intake, independent physician review, and a structured plan with monthly check-ins. What happens at each stage.
Key takeaways
- Intake comes before recommendations, so the plan is built against your history rather than a template.
- A licensed physician in our partnered network reviews every case independently before anything is dispensed.
- Every protocol has a defined length, a check-in cadence, and written criteria for adjusting or stopping.
- If a program is not a reasonable fit, saying so is part of the process.
Every program starts with intake: goals, history, current medications, and where you are today.
That intake is reviewed independently by a licensed physician in our partnered network. Nothing is dispensed without that review.
From there, the plan is written with a defined length, a check-in cadence, and clear criteria for adjusting.
Stage one: intake
Intake collects goals, medical history, current medications and supplements, training and sleep patterns, and any recent labs you already have. It takes longer than a typical wellness questionnaire because it is doing more work.
The point is to find the constraints before proposing anything. Someone sleeping five hours with low protein intake and someone sleeping eight with a solid training base do not get the same plan, even with identical goals.
- Goals, stated specifically enough to be measurable later.
- History, current medications, and known interactions.
- Sleep, nutrition, training load, and stress inputs.
- Existing labs, and which additional markers are worth drawing.
Stage two: independent physician review
Your intake is reviewed by a licensed physician in our partnered network. That review is independent, which means the clinician can decide that a different approach is appropriate, that more information is needed first, or that a program is not indicated at all.
Nothing is prescribed or dispensed without that review. This is also the stage where interactions with existing medications get caught, which is a common reason a plan changes shape between intake and final protocol.
Stage three: the written protocol
The plan is written with a start date, an end date, and a review point. Anything with an indefinite timeline is not a protocol, it is a habit, and habits are much harder to evaluate.
- What the independent prescribing physician has specified, including dose and timing, and why each item is there.
- How long the course runs before it is reassessed.
- Which markers or outcomes are being watched.
- What would cause us to adjust, pause, or stop.
Stage four: check-ins and reassessment
Monthly check-ins are scheduled at the start, not added when something feels off. Adjustments are designed to come out of these conversations rather than to require new lab work, because how you are actually responding is information that labs alone do not carry.
At the review point the outcome is one of three things: continue, adjust, or stop. Stopping is a legitimate result. A protocol that did not do much is worth knowing about before it becomes a standing expense.
What we do not do
- We do not build a protocol from a quiz result alone.
- We do not put someone on an open ended plan with no scheduled review.
- We do not treat a supplement list as a substitute for fixing sleep, protein, or training load.
What this means for you
If you are comparing programs, the useful questions are who reviews your case, how long the plan runs, and what specifically would cause it to change. A program that cannot answer those three is not structured, it is just a purchase.