Questions Are Part
Of The Journey.
Choosing a more personalized approach to health naturally brings questions. Here you'll find answers to many of the topics patients ask before beginning care with Dr. Werde.
How The Process Works
The Werde Precision Method begins with understanding the person before making recommendations. These questions explain what happens before enrollment, after enrollment, and as your care plan develops.
How is Werde Precision Medicine different from a traditional medical practice?
Traditional medical care is often focused on diagnosing and treating disease. That approach is important, but many people seek care because they want to understand why they feel tired, inflamed, hormonally imbalanced, metabolically stuck, or not as well as they believe they should.
Werde Precision Medicine takes a deeper, whole-person approach. We look at symptoms, history, nutrition, lifestyle, laboratory data, digestion, hormones, metabolism, inflammation, recovery, and personal goals to help develop a more personalized physician-guided plan.
Where does the process begin?
The process begins with an assessment. This helps us understand your goals, symptoms, health history, lifestyle, nutrition, and the areas that may deserve deeper evaluation.
From there, we can identify which pathways may be most relevant and whether the Werde Precision Method appears to be the right fit for your needs.
Do I become a patient immediately after completing the assessment?
No. The assessment is the first step. It helps us understand your concerns and determine what next steps may be appropriate.
If the approach appears aligned with your goals, you may choose to enroll and continue into the more comprehensive intake, testing, evaluation, and personalized planning process.
What happens after enrollment?
After enrollment, patients complete a more comprehensive intake and submit any relevant prior laboratory results, medical records, imaging, or specialist reports.
Additional testing may be recommended when appropriate to better understand patterns involving nutrition, hormones, metabolism, inflammation, digestion, recovery, or other contributors to health.
What kind of plan will I receive?
Your plan is a personalized physician-guided roadmap based on your history, goals, symptoms, lifestyle, laboratory findings, and clinical priorities.
Recommendations may include nutrition, lifestyle, targeted supplementation, medications, peptides, advanced testing, regenerative options, or other interventions when clinically appropriate.
How long does the process take?
The timeline depends on how quickly intake forms are completed, prior records are submitted, and any recommended laboratory testing is performed and returned.
Once the necessary information is available, physician review and plan development can begin. Timing may vary depending on the complexity of the evaluation.
Why The Method Matters
The Werde Precision Method is built around the belief that meaningful health outcomes require more than access to treatments. They require understanding, thoughtful prioritization, and a physician-guided strategy designed specifically for the individual.
Why don't you begin with treatments?
Treatments should follow understanding. Rather than asking only what can be prescribed, we first seek to understand the biology, history, lifestyle, and goals that are shaping your health.
The objective is to build a coordinated plan in which nutrition, lifestyle, medications, hormones, peptides, supplementation, regenerative therapies, and recovery strategies work together intentionally rather than as isolated interventions.
Why do timing and sequencing matter?
Not every intervention belongs at the beginning of the journey. Some therapies become more effective after other priorities have been addressed first.
Timing helps determine what should be introduced now, what should wait, what should work together, and what may not yet be appropriate.
Why doesn't everyone receive the same protocol?
Every patient brings a different biology, history, lifestyle, goals, laboratory profile, and set of priorities.
While general frameworks can be helpful, physician-guided care should adapt to the individual rather than asking every patient to fit into the same protocol.
What do you mean by "contributors, not just symptoms"?
Symptoms are important, but they don't always explain why they exist. Fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, poor sleep, hormone concerns, and reduced performance often arise from multiple overlapping contributors.
Our evaluation looks beyond the symptom itself to identify the patterns that may be influencing it.
What does "optimal" actually mean?
Optimal does not necessarily mean perfect, nor does it simply mean falling within a broad laboratory reference range.
It reflects what appears most appropriate for the individual when considering symptoms, goals, age, performance, risk factors, and the broader clinical picture.
Is this preventative medicine, longevity medicine, optimization medicine, or something else?
The Werde Precision Method draws from prevention, optimization, longevity, performance medicine, nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and traditional clinical medicine.
Rather than fitting patients into a category, the focus is on understanding the individual and creating a personalized strategy that supports long-term health, resilience, vitality, and wellbeing.
Better Decisions Begin
With Better Understanding.
Testing is used thoughtfully to clarify patterns, identify opportunities, guide recommendations, and help build a more personalized plan.
Do I need laboratory testing?
Most patients benefit from laboratory testing because it provides objective information that helps guide clinical decision-making.
The specific testing recommended depends on your goals, history, symptoms, prior results, and areas being evaluated.
Can I use laboratory tests I have already completed?
Yes. Prior laboratory results, imaging studies, specialist reports, and previous evaluations can often be incorporated into the review process.
Additional testing may still be recommended if important information is missing, outdated, or incomplete.
Do you order standard or specialized testing?
Both may be used when appropriate. Standard laboratory testing often provides a foundation, while specialized testing may help clarify areas such as hormones, metabolism, inflammation, nutrient status, gut health, environmental factors, or cardiovascular risk.
The goal is not to order testing for its own sake. The goal is to gather information that may meaningfully shape your plan.
Will my insurance cover laboratory testing?
Coverage varies by insurance plan, test type, diagnosis codes, and individual circumstances.
Some testing may be ordered through traditional laboratories when appropriate. Other specialized testing may be cash-pay and not covered by insurance.
How do you decide which tests are necessary?
Testing is selected based on your assessment, intake, medical history, symptoms, goals, previous results, and areas of focus.
The objective is to obtain information that can meaningfully influence prioritization, recommendations, and treatment strategy.
What happens after the results are available?
Results are reviewed in the context of your history, symptoms, goals, nutrition, lifestyle, and overall clinical picture.
Findings help shape your personalized plan, including priorities, recommendations, timing, and next steps.
Do you only treat abnormal laboratory values?
No. Conventional reference ranges are important, but they do not always tell the full story.
A value can fall within a broad reference range while still being less than ideal for a specific person's symptoms, goals, health history, or optimization objectives.
Recommendations Are
Personalized.
Every recommendation is developed from your assessment, history, laboratory findings, goals, and physician evaluation—not from a standard treatment menu.
What types of treatments may be recommended?
Recommendations may include nutrition, lifestyle optimization, exercise, sleep and recovery strategies, medications, hormone optimization, GLP-1 therapy, peptides, physician-designed nutraceuticals, IV nutrient therapies, regenerative options, or other physician-guided interventions when appropriate.
The objective is to develop a coordinated strategy in which therapies complement one another rather than functioning as isolated interventions.
Do you prescribe GLP-1 medications?
Yes. GLP-1 therapy may be appropriate for some patients as part of a broader metabolic health and weight management strategy.
When used, it is integrated alongside nutrition, lifestyle, exercise, and long-term metabolic health rather than viewed as a stand-alone solution.
Do you offer hormone optimization?
Yes. Hormone optimization may be considered when symptoms, goals, laboratory findings, and the broader clinical picture support it.
The goal is not simply to improve laboratory numbers, but to determine whether hormonal factors may be contributing to health, energy, cognition, body composition, recovery, or wellbeing.
Do you use peptides?
Yes. Peptides may play an important role in recovery, performance, body composition, longevity, cognitive support, and regenerative strategies when clinically appropriate.
Recommendations are individualized and selected within the context of your overall plan, including timing, sequencing, goals, and physician evaluation.
When peptides are utilized, we prioritize licensed human-use compounding pharmacies rather than research-use products.
Do you offer regenerative or advanced therapies?
Yes. Advanced therapies—including regenerative procedures, IV nutrient therapies, NAD pathway support, Therapeutic Plasma Exchange, and other longevity-focused options—may be considered when clinically appropriate and legally permissible.
Certain in-office procedures may be coordinated through the Werde–Schreiber practice in Surfside following physician evaluation.
Are regenerative therapies legal in Florida?
Some regenerative therapies are subject to federal and Florida regulatory requirements.
When appropriate, recommendations are made only within applicable legal and regulatory guidelines and may require additional eligibility review and informed consent.
Understanding Enrollment
Enrollment begins after the initial assessment review, once the most relevant pathways and next steps have been identified.
When does enrollment occur?
Enrollment occurs after your assessment has been reviewed and the most relevant areas of focus have been identified.
At that point, you can decide whether you wish to continue into the more comprehensive intake, testing, evaluation, and personalized care planning process.
What does the initial optimization intake include?
The initial optimization intake includes comprehensive review, physician evaluation, prior lab and record review when available, recommendations for additional testing when appropriate, and development of your personalized care plan.
How much does the initial process cost?
The initial optimization intake is $1,500. This includes the first two physician visits and the initial personalized plan development process.
Laboratory testing, medications, peptides, prescribed nutraceuticals, advanced therapies, and other treatments are not included unless specifically stated.
Is there an ongoing membership?
After the initial intake process, ongoing support is available through a monthly membership of $195.
This supports continued physician-guided refinement, follow-up, monitoring, and strategy adjustment over time.
Are treatments included in the monthly membership?
No. Medications, GLP-1 therapy, peptides, prescribed nutraceuticals, laboratory testing, advanced therapies, in-office procedures, and other treatment costs are separate unless specifically stated.
Is Werde Precision Medicine right for everyone?
No. Werde Precision Medicine is best suited for people who want a deeper, physician-guided evaluation and a more personalized approach to health, nourishment, healing, vitality, and long-term wellness.
It may not be the right fit for someone seeking a quick prescription, a single isolated treatment, or a generic protocol without deeper evaluation.
Your Health Deserves
More Than Guesswork.
Werde Precision Medicine is designed to help identify opportunities to improve health, performance, resilience, recovery, body composition, cognition, and long-term wellness through a more comprehensive and individualized approach.
The process begins with a simple assessment that helps us understand your goals, concerns, priorities, and the areas that may deserve further evaluation. From there, we identify the most relevant pathways and determine the next steps together.
Start Your AssessmentAssessment review helps identify the most relevant areas of focus and pathways for further evaluation. Enrollment, testing recommendations, and treatment strategies are individualized and developed through your physician-guided personalized care plan.