This page on my website is where I have listed the characteristics of clients where i have had the most success with in terms of fit, and characteristics that I don’t find are a good fit to work with me as a practitioner. Please read through these, so you can arrive at a better grasp if I may be a good fit for you, and you a good fit for me. If you think we may be a good fit, or are not quite sure - please schedule a free discovery session - so we can talk live about what questions still remain to be answered.
Signs We Are a Good Fit In Our Work Together
1. If you choose to follow my recommendations, and report your responses to me over time.
2. You are honest about your diet, compliance to recommendations, other supplements or medications you are taking at the recommendation of other practitioners.
3. Ask or inquire about the appropriateness of supplements or medications you are thinking about taking at the recommendation of other practitioners.
4. Realize that complex illness – is just that – complex – and not every recommendation will produce noticeable benefit, noticeable changes in symptomology, and in fact you may have reactions to some of the recommendations.
5. Appreciate that my recommendations for you are based on data, and multiple layers of supportive information.
6. Realize that sometimes temporary “worsening” of symptoms may appear as certain deficiencies are resolved, and not every “symptom” is a sign something “isn’t working”.
7. Understand that complex illness is usually a marathon, not a race, and its not likely, you are just “that one supplement” away from healing all of the dysfunctions / symptoms you are experiencing.
8. You choose to watch the recording of our sessions, before sending me lengthy e-mails with many questions because you didn’t understand something we covered in the session.
9. That there can be multiple reasons for a particular symptom, or dysfunction, and that any particular supplement or herb, has multiple mechanisms of action.
10. You understand that I am trying to teach you how to work with your body moving forward – so you can support yourself successfully in the future – and this fundamental understanding can take time to build.
11. You understand that even negative responses to diet, supplements, etc can provide valuable information about the state your physiology.
12. You understand I use a significant amount of data across genetics, labs, history, and symptomology to develop an understanding of your current situation.
13. You have a genuine curiosity about your genetics/labs/symptoms, and come to our sessions with an open and curious mind.
Signs We are Not a Good Fit In Our Work Together
1. If you choose not to follow my recommendations, which is your right, this is a sign that we are not a good fit.
2. If you want to continually tell me about what your facebook / twitter / Instagram group says to do.
3. If you go on international trips for vacation but find it too difficult to order 6 supplements.
4. If you choose to forward me papers, videos, or other practitioners recommendations, but cannot follow my recommendations.
5. If you or your partner/spouse/caretaker want to debate and argue each of my recommendations.
6. If your interest is in primarily treating symptoms, rather than healing the root causes of physiological dysfunction.
7. If you are unwilling to modify your diet or take supplements 2-4 times a day.
8. If you want to take supplements or medications suggested or recommended by friends, other practitioners without consulting me first.
9. If you intend to send me emails several paragraphs long, and expect me to respond to them.
10. If you are unwilling to watch the recorded zoom sessions, before reaching out with questions related to supplements and dosing, we are not a good fit.
11. If you share your zoom recorded sessions on line, in a group setting, without speaking to me first.
12. If you intend to share what you learn while working with me, and share it with a facebook group or other group you lead without crediting me.
13. If giving up brownies for 4 weeks is just too much for you.
14. If your wife thinks you are a narcissist, and you have spent over 1 million dollars on your own recovery, and have kids who are autistic, currently live in mold, and think its best we make sure you are all better before doing anything for your kids
15. If you demand to meet weekly to discuss your symptoms, but wont follow my guidance.
16. If you want to send me emails multiple times a week detailing your current symptoms.
17. If you want to work with 6 different practitioners, and pick and choose what you do from each of the six, but not follow any of the six in whole.
18. If you ask for treatment guidance, test interpretations via email.
19. If you take 8 months to start my recommendations, and expect me to remember all the details of your case via email.
20. If you get covid, and send me an email, “Mike, real quick, I got covid, what should I do?”.
21. If you get lab results, and email them to me, and expect me to make recommendations via email.
22. If want tell me about the $180,000 or $300,000 or even $1,000,000 on your health journey; and then brag to me about all the famous practitioners you have worked with, the elaborate testing you have done, and the exotic treatments you paid for.
23. If you want to tell me you will recommend me to your 5 million Instagram followers if I treat you for free.
24. If you want to argue that the lab results are wrong, even though you have never heard of the lab markers, nor understand them.
25. If you are not willing to schedule appointments every 4-10 weeks.
26. If you cannot accept that treating complex illness is complex, and reactions will happen.
27. If you are un-willing to get basic testing done, within reason over time, including genetics. Examples: Stool Test, Micronutrient Panel, Organic Acids, Hair Mineral Tests, Porphyrins, Oxidative Stress Panel, and Toxin Panels.
28. It takes you a month to order and type up a spreadsheet you say you need to write out your daily regimen of 8 supplements.
29. You can fly to Europe for a vacation but organizing your supplement pill box is just too much.
30. You end me long detailed emails, and call me “mean” because i do not offer free treatment plans over emails to you.
31. You ask me for a treatment plan over email for a specific condition you believe you suffer from and when confronted with my policy of not offering free treatment plans over email - you write that I am unkind and unsympathetic.
32. Claim to be “a top researcher in me / cfs”, yet ask my “how do you know i have candida?” and cannot even interpret the most basic of markers on organic acids tests.
33. Claim to be “a top researcher in me / cfs”, have your research team contact me and pose to be a “patient” only to try and extract my analysis and then re-package it as your own, and then distribute the recorded session to the rest of your '“research team”.
Boundaries Around How I Work
1. You must be in the care of an M.D. and be willing to share my recommendations and suggestions with them.
2. I won’t argue, debate, or attempt to cajole you into following my recommendations or suggestions. If you don’t want to do so, or if your M.D. doesn’t advise you do so – I am not the right fit for you.
3. I wont answer emails beyond questions for dosing , brands, and timing.
4. Your emergency contact is your M.D.
5. If you want my opinion, evaluation, interpretation of labs, genetics, symptoms, schedule time on line. There are appointments available as short as 15 minutes.
6. I believe in the “No Asshole Rule”. If you don’t know what this means, read the book, “The No Asshole Rule”, By Robert Sutton.
7. I don’t play psychological games. If you do, I will refer you onto another practitioner. If you don’t know what this means, read the book, “Games People Play”, by Eric Berne.