For practitioners · The TDG programme
This is how the Test, Don’t Guess programme runs in practice, step by step. It shows the structure, with a link at each step to the page that explains it. If you have read the manual, this is the system it describes, running.
Six forms (the Case File) for a first consultation, or thirteen (the Full Investigation) for a full programme. Lines of enquiry are added only when a specific test is planned: HTMA, methylation, SIBO, environmental exposure, DUTCH collection day.
Domain scores from the questionnaires, ranked working hypotheses, blood results read against evidence-graded bands, a GP list, and a test priority order. At this stage there are no supplement doses.
Only the tests whose result would change what happens next. Sometimes that is five; often it is two or three; sometimes it is none.
Each result is explained when it arrives, in its own session, rather than in one rushed call at the end. Anything that belongs with the GP goes there first.
Findings across all the tests and the history: which agree, which to set aside, and what the priority order is.
Four parts: food (the Metabolic Nature plate), lifestyle (sleep, stress, daily routine), movement, and supplements. Each supplement has a reason, a duration, an evidence grade and a point at which it stops.
Progress reviewed, the protocol adjusted, and messages answered in between.
Retest the markers that matter, and judge any change against the normal day-to-day variation for that test before calling it real.
Eight steps. The retest loops back to test choice when the picture has changed.
Step by step
The Case File is six forms: health story, symptom burden, lifestyle, medicines and supplements, Metabolic Nature, and measurements. The Full Investigation adds seven more (psychosocial health, allostatic load, physical activity, posture and movement, a three-day food log, a blood sugar screen and breathing). Every submission is read by a person.
The report is a set of hypotheses, not a diagnosis. The scores come from questionnaires, and a missing answer stays missing rather than being guessed.
Blood chemistry, GI-MAP, DUTCH Plus, Metabolomix+ and the HealthBeings IgG food panel (286 foods), plus specialist tests when a line of enquiry calls for one. The coverage table shows what each test measures directly, where it only gives a clue, and where it doesn’t look at all.
Each test has its own interpretation guide.
Patterns are read across tests, not one marker at a time.
Food, lifestyle, movement and supplements, in that order.
Past and current clients use one page to reorder, ask a question or book a call.
A change is only real if it is bigger than that test’s normal day-to-day variation.
The structure
The tools
Founding practitioners
The Case File, the Health Status Report and the clinical summary tools, used under licence with your own clients. There are five founding places, with no setup fee. The practitioner page is still being written, so for now write to me directly and we’ll arrange a call.
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