Our Five-Step Methodology

Step 2

Set your goal and measure your biology

What's your terrain?

Before he measures anything, Dr. Nields asks what you want your life to look like. Then advanced testing covers biological aging, cellular and mitochondrial function, metabolic and vascular health, hormones, genetic and epigenetic markers, and the load from everything you have been exposed to.

Dr. Nields starts by asking what you want out of this life. We believe each individual has a unique talent set and experience that should guide us into the best life. Using those talents is where you find your flow and enjoy the most success. Once we define that, we can align our life efforts to achieve the most important goals.

It is a strange question for a doctor to open with. Two people with the same results rarely want the same decade, and the plan is built toward what you said you wanted.

We are all unique and there is no one-size-fits-all plan for optimal health. The ways to understand what is particular to you include genetics, epigenetics (how your genes are expressed), the microbiome, the exposome, cellular function and advanced biomarkers. We leave no stone unturned.

A standard annual panel looks for disease. It answers whether something is wrong today, and it does that well. What it cannot tell you is which direction you are heading, and that is the question most people arrive with. Dr. Nields chooses the baseline for you, reads your hormones as a pattern over time, and where the picture calls for it extends the testing to quantitative EEG and brain mapping.

Step 3

Build your plan

How can we optimize these facets of your physiology to achieve all of your goals?

Dr. Nields tells you which two or three things would change your trajectory the most, writes your plan from your own results and the latest research, and is plain about what the evidence supports and what it does not.

What works in your life? Together we design creative personalized action plans that will move you to your goals.

A full panel produces more findings than any person can act on. Handing a patient forty numbers and a list of everything that could be optimized is how a plan dies in a drawer. So what you leave with is short: two or three things, in order, and a straight answer about what can wait.

Dr. Nields goes over what the testing found, what he thinks is driving it and the first things to do about it. Hormone and thyroid optimization, circadian rhythm optimization, stress management and nutrition built from your own results all start here.

This field moves quickly, and a good deal of what it sells is ahead of its evidence. Following the research closely is as much about knowing what it does not support yet as what it does, and that includes telling you when something you have read about is not worth your money yet.

Step 4

Put your plan into practice

Which daily habits and treatments will move your results?

Nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, toxin burden and targeted supplementation account for most of the result. Advanced treatments like IV therapy and peptides build on that foundation.

Most of what decides the next decade is unglamorous and already known: what you eat, how you move, how you sleep, what weight you are under, what you are exposed to. No protocol outruns those.

Once the foundation is in place, the advanced work has something to act on. That is where IV nutrition, bioregulator peptides, and NAD and mitochondrial support belong, alongside nutrition and exercise built from your own results. The regenerative side of the practice sits here too: hyperbaric treatment, inhaled hydrogen, PRP and stem cell therapies, and infrared light therapy. Your testing decides which of these you need and in what order.

Step 5

Retest and optimize

Did your numbers move?

Dr. Nields retests your numbers to see what moved, helps lower the load on your body from what you eat, breathe and are exposed to, and rebuilds the plan around what actually changed.

Your testing shows what has built up and where it came from. This step reduces it: toxin avoidance guidance, environmental exposure reduction, gut health and microbiome balance, and detoxification support where your results call for it, including sauna therapy.

Then he measures again to find out whether it worked, which is the part an annual physical does not do. A baseline you never go back to is only a snapshot. The point of taking one is to have something to measure against later, and what the retest shows is what the plan moves with.