How to read your protocol: the results version, the full clinical document and the physician copy

Three documents, three readers

When a coach releases your protocol, three PDFs land in your account. They say the same thing at three depths, for three different readers: you on the move, you at the kitchen table, and your doctor. Nothing in the short one contradicts the long one; the short one simply leaves out what you do not need in your pocket.

The results version

Two or three pages, written for a phone. It states the goal in your own words from the intake, what the plan does in plain language, what you can expect to notice and roughly when, the dates of your check-ins and the handful of rules that end the protocol early. It contains no doses — no milligrams, no clicks — on purpose. It is the document you show a partner or a training friend, and the one you reread at week 3 when nothing seems to be happening yet.

The full clinical protocol

This is the working document. It contains the compound layer with every dose in milligrams and clicks, the week-by-week schedule, the lab plan (baseline, week 6, end), the training, nutrition and sleep levers, the stop rules, the maintenance plan and — crucially — the rationale: why this compound and not that one, why this dose, what in your intake or labs decided it. The last page is the fridge page: one sheet with the schedule, the pens the arithmetic assumes, clicks per dose, clicks per cycle and pen count, to be stuck where you will see it. The pen-clicks guide shows how to check those numbers.

The physician copy

The same substance as the full document, written for a doctor: the compounds by name and class, the doses, the exclusions we screened for, the interactions we considered, the labs we asked for and their thresholds, and a short statement of what Longevity Bros is and is not. It is designed to be read in ten minutes by someone who has never heard of us. Take it to your own physician before anything starts; their word is final, ours is advisory.

The five things that decide it

Every protocol is a set of decisions, and every decision in yours traces back to one of five inputs. The rationale section of the full document names which one, each time.

1. The goal, as you wrote it. Fat loss and recomposition look alike on the intake and get different compound layers; the goal pages explain the fork.
2. The safety gate. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, under 18, active or recent cancer and the compound-specific exclusions end the process before it starts. A protocol that was written at all has already passed this.
3. Your labs. They choose the lead compound, set the thresholds for the mid-cycle decision and remove options. The baseline-labs guide lists the panel.
4. Your calendar and training. Nightly pens need a fasted window; weekly pens are placed where side effects fall on a quiet day; a competition in week 8 moves the taper.
5. Budget. We write the fewest pens that can honestly move the goal first and offer the upgrade at a check-in — the combo-versus-separate guide explains why that sequence.

How the check-ins use the documents

The check-ins are on WhatsApp with the coach who signed off the protocol, and they are included in the €399. Between them, the rule is simple: anything that feels wrong is a message the same day, and anything acute goes to your physician or emergency care first and the coach second.

What "Adjust" means

Several places in the full document carry the word Adjust next to a dose or a week. It marks a decision point, not an instruction to improvise. It means: at this point, the coach looks at a named input — the week-6 cystatin C, your tolerance log, the training block — and picks from the options written underneath it. The options are already reviewed; the coach chooses, you do not guess. If you reach an Adjust point without a check-in booked, book one. If you reach it and the input it needs is missing (labs not drawn, log not kept), the default is always the conservative branch: hold, do not step.

Versions and what a new one means

Every document carries a version number and a date on its first page. Version 1 is what the reviewer released. A new version appears when something changed the plan: labs uploaded after release, a mid-cycle decision that moved a dose, an exclusion you told us about later, a training block that moved. The new version is a full set — all three documents are re-issued together, so the physician copy never lags behind what you are actually doing.

• A new version replaces the old one entirely. Do not run from an old fridge page.
• The first page of each new version lists what changed and which of the five inputs changed it.
• Your coach walks you through every new version on WhatsApp; nothing is re-issued silently.
• Revision from new labs is included in the €399. There is no charge for a version.

How to read it the first time

Read the results version first, in one sitting. Then the full document's rationale section before its schedule — knowing why the plan is shaped the way it is makes the schedule obvious. Check the fridge-page arithmetic against the pen-clicks guide and the compound's own page in the research library — the retatrutide page, say, carries the same ramp your document does. Then send the physician copy to your doctor, and bring your questions to the coach call. The cycle guide describes what the weeks look like once you start. Anything about how a dose is physically taken — technique, site, equipment — is for your coach and your physician, never a document.