Foundational Care
Six practices we return to between consults — the quiet, measurable ones that keep your nervous system, hormones, and metabolism in conversation with each other. Each is optional, each is specific, and each earns its place by what it actually changes.
The everyday rhythms that hold your system steady.
No. 01Foundational care · 01 / 06
Heat protocol · Passive · Physiological
Regular sauna access.
A standing weekly rhythm, no appointment, no agenda. Used to support detox pathways, circulation, recovery, and nervous-system down-regulation. Consistent physiology without needing active effort.
What it doesCirculation, heat-shock, parasympathetic drop.
How it fitsIncluded in membership. Walk in, no booking.
When to lean inPost-training, pre-sleep, mid-flare.
How It Heals · Foundational care
01 / 06 — Sauna
Library · 01Warm · recovery
Library · 07Clinical · calm
No. 02Foundational care · 02 / 06
Nervous-system care · Hands-on
Periodic Ta-VNS sessions.
Practitioner-supported vagal stimulation to reduce stress load and support regulation, particularly during demanding phases of treatment, when the body has been asked to do a lot at once.
Session30 minutes, seated.
CadenceWeekly, or as-needed.
SignalsHRV, sleep, recovery, stress tolerance.
How It Heals · Foundational care
02 / 06 — Ta-VNS
No. 03Foundational care · 03 / 06
Diagnostic signal · Measurable
Bioelectrical impedance analysis.
InBody scans used to watch trends across longer phases of care. An objective reference point the two of us share, not a number you're meant to obsess over.
How It Heals · Foundational care
03 / 06 — BIA · InBody
No. 04Foundational care · 04 / 06
Testing & supplements · Continuity
Reduced pricing, kept steady.
15% off functional testing and practitioner-grade supplements. The mechanism that stabilises cost through the slow middle of care, where most plans quietly get abandoned.
Member rate15% off, every order.
Applies toDUTCH, HTMA, Endomap, microbiome, cortisol.
WhyLong plans fail on friction, not belief.
How It Heals · Foundational care
04 / 06 — Testing & supplements
Library · 08Amber · drop
Library · 05Precise · small
No. 05Foundational care · 05 / 06
Review sessions · Maintenance
Twenty minutes. Adjust, don't restart.
Short maintenance appointments used to tune an existing protocol, without the time or cost of a full consult. For the small corrections that keep everything else working.
Length20 min · telehealth.
ForDose shifts, swaps, tolerability, new flags.
Not forTest reads or plan rebuilds, full consults.
How It Heals · Foundational care
05 / 06 — Review sessions
No. 06Foundational care · 06 / 06
Priority access · Clinically appropriate
Seen sooner, when it matters.
Faster review appointments when a flare, transition, or unexpected reaction genuinely calls for one. Not a VIP lane, a clinical lane, reserved for moments when waiting a fortnight is the wrong answer.
How It Heals · Foundational care
06 / 06 — Priority access
Next step
Not sure which of these you need first?
Foundational Care is chosen in context, after consults, testing, and a sense of where your system is actually asking for support. Start with a consult, or the quiz.