Ninety minutes on your minerals, with someone who goes beyond the labs.
Most mineral work begins and ends with your lab tests. Mine begins with your life. The Root Cause Protocol turns on how your body moves, stores and recycles iron, and that story lives inside of you. The hair tells me what stress has been doing to you, and your blood test reveals what is happening in the moment. Read alone, they are meaningless. We all have unique lives, and every details matters. I will help you uncover the ones you might have missed.
One session. Your full panel and your hair analysis, gone through marker by marker, and a version of the protocol built around your actual life rather than someone else’s.
$350
90 minutes, recorded, with written notes
Ninety minutes
One unhurried session, not a sales call
Blood and hair
Full Monty and HTMA reviewed together
Recorded
Plus written notes you keep
Customized
The protocol shaped to your life
What the Root Cause Protocol actually says
The Root Cause Protocol was developed by Morley Robbins. Its central claim is that a great deal of what gets labelled deficiency is really dysregulation. You are often not short of iron. The iron you have is sitting in the wrong places, and the machinery that should be moving it, bioavailable copper and retinol and magnesium among other things, is not doing its job. Treat the traffic problem rather than adding more traffic.
I work inside that framework and I am not a purist about it. Where the protocol and the evidence part company I follow the evidence, and I will tell you out loud when that happens. I read hair analysis differently from most practitioners as well, mostly through the electrolytes and what they say about your stress, and I do not treat any of it as a diagnosis.
What you get in ninety minutes is not a script. It is your own data explained clearly enough that you could argue with me about it.
What we look at
- Ceruloplasmin and serum copper read together, never apart
- Iron, TIBC and transferrin, and how they are moving
- Magnesium RBC rather than serum magnesium
- Retinol and stored vitamin D
- Uric acid in the context of cellular energy, not just a gout marker
- Hair electrolytes and what they say about your stress
What I will not do
- Read your serum ferritin as a measure of iron stores
- Put you on a copper detox
- Hand you a protocol I have not explained
- Give you a stock plan with your name typed at the top
Inside the ninety minutes
This is the full consultation, not an intake call that leads to another paid call.
Your blood panel, marker by marker
Every value on the Full Monty, what it means on its own, and more importantly what it means next to the others. Ratios matter more than any single number.
Your hair analysis
Read through the electrolytes for what stress has been costing you, with its limits stated plainly rather than glossed over.
The protocol, customized
Which pieces of the RCP apply to you, in what order, and which pieces you can leave alone for now. Sequence matters as much as content.
A recording
The session is recorded and sent to you. Ninety minutes is a lot to absorb and nobody remembers it all. Go back to it as often as you need.
Written notes and recommendations
A written summary of what we covered and what to do about it, so you are not working from memory or from your own scribbles.
Support afterwards
Questions come up once you start. Reasonable follow up questions by email are part of the consultation, not a separate charge.
What it costs
Laboratory fees are separate and go directly to the labs. I do not mark them up and I do not take a cut of your supplements.
INITIAL CONSULTATION
$350
Ninety minutes. Where everyone starts.
- Ninety minute video consultation
- Full Monty blood panel reviewed in full
- HTMA read alongside it
- Recording of the session
- Written notes and recommendations
- The RCP customized to your situation
- Follow up questions by email
FOLLOW UP CALL
$150
Sixty minutes, once you are underway.
- Sixty minute video call
- Review of any retesting you have done
- Adjustments to your protocol
- Troubleshooting what is not working
- Recording and notes as before
For existing clients. Most people come back after three to four months, usually with fresh labs.
ONGOING SUPPORT
By arrangement
For people who want someone alongside them.
- Regular calls at whatever interval suits you
- Email access between sessions
- Help reading new labs as they come in
- Longer arrangements for complicated situations
I do not sell a package with a fixed number of months in it. Tell me what you actually need and we will price it honestly.
Two sets of numbers
There is no point booking ninety minutes to look at nothing. Order both of these about four weeks before you want to talk, which leaves time for the labs to run and for me to go through them before we sit down.
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The Full Monty blood panel
Ordered directly from Request A Test and drawn at Quest or Labcorp. You pay them, not me. This is the panel the protocol is actually built on, and it is the one I will not work without.
- Ceruloplasmin (serum)
- Copper (serum)
- Ferritin
- Hemoglobin
- Iron and TIBC
- Magnesium RBC
- Transferrin
- Uric acid
- Vitamin A (retinol)
- Vitamin D (storage)
- Zinc (plasma)
02
Your HTMA
Hair tissue mineral analysis through Trace Elements, ordered on this site. I read it mainly through the electrolytes, which tell me a great deal about how you have been handling stress and very little about anything else.
The blood tells me what your body is doing with iron. The hair tells me what it has cost you. I want both in front of me.
Already tested elsewhere? Recent labs from another practitioner are fine as long as they cover the same markers. Send them over and I will tell you what is missing before you book. Outside the United States, get in touch and I will help you source the equivalent panels locally.
More detail on both panels lives on the lab testing page.
How it works
01
Order your labs
Full Monty from Request A Test, HTMA from this site. Roughly four weeks ahead of when you want to talk.
02
Send them to me
Email me the PDFs as they arrive. I go through both before we meet, so the session is spent talking rather than reading.
03
Ninety minutes together
A video call. We go through everything and you ask whatever you want. There is no part of it I will not explain.
04
Recording and notes
The recording, written notes and your recommendations follow within a few days. Then you go and live with it for a while.
This is probably for you if
- You are following the RCP and have stalled
- Your bloodwork keeps coming back normal and you do not feel normal
- Someone handed you a copper toxicity protocol and it did not sit right
- You are taking a shelf of supplements and could not say why for half of them
- You have been under sustained stress and want to see what it cost
- You want the reasoning, not just the list
This is not for you if
- You want a diagnosis, which I cannot and will not give
- You want a supplement list and none of the thinking behind it
- You are not willing to run the labs
- You need someone to manage a medical condition or replace your doctor
- You want the traditional HTMA reading, which I do not practice
- You want to be told you were right
Before you book
Do I really need both tests?
No, but they are helpful. If you can only afford to do one, do the blood. It holds key insights that the HTMA cannot reveal. If you cannot get the blood tests, but can get the HTMA, that is fine too. We will fill in the gaps through a detailed health history.
How current do my labs need to be?
Within about three months, and ideally within six weeks. Older than that and we are discussing history rather than your present state.
Can I use labs from another practitioner?
Usually. Send them to me before booking and I will tell you what is covered and what is missing. It is common to need one or two extra markers added.
Do you sell supplements?
No. Recommendations are yours to fill wherever you like, and I would rather you shop on price and quality than on my convenience. That said, I can set up clients on FullScript with a decent discount, and some supplements I recommend are available there (not all of them).
What if I am working with a doctor?
Good. Keep working with them. Nothing here replaces medical care, and if I see something that belongs in front of a physician I will say so directly.
Is this medical advice?
No. This is nutritional and educational consulting. I am not a physician, I do not diagnose, and I do not treat disease.
How soon should I book a follow up?
Three to four months is the usual interval, and most people retest before they come back. Sooner if something has clearly gone sideways, in which case email me first, since often that is enough.
Can we work together if I am outside the United States?
Yes. The consultation is a video call, so location makes no difference. Sourcing the labs takes a bit more work and I will help you find the equivalent panels where you are.
What if I have already done a consultation with someone else?
That is fine and quite common. Bring their notes if you have them. I am more interested in what you tried and what happened than in relitigating their reasoning.
Bring me your numbers and I will tell you what they mean.
Ninety minutes, $350, and you leave with the recording, the notes and a protocol that was built for your life rather than for the average of everybody else’s.
Not sure it is the right fit? Send me a note first.
Consultations are nutritional and educational. Nothing on this page, and nothing said in a consultation or written in a report, is medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and none of it replaces the care of your physician. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Talk to your healthcare provider before changing your diet, your supplements or your medication. Some links on this page are affiliate links.
