Iron Direct Primary Care

11/20/2025

All females should test their hormones early and often starting in their teenage years and throughout young adulthood and especially perimenopause. The reason is because there is an estrogen dominance and low progesterone epidemic. The risk of living with this imbalance for years untreated is female related cancers of the breast, uterus, and ovarian at the very least.
Every time I see a pink ribbon or a “march for breast cancer” I think of all the women who are denied hormone testing by their doctors.
Every patient needs to understand that hormones are the foundation of all health. You cannot practice medicine without assessing an optimizing all hormones. A lab test without assessing hormone balance is as useless as donating to breast cancer research in the Walmart checkout line.

11/19/2025

Allopathic medicine is very good at treating infections and erring on the side of overdiagnosing. The patient must understand that the system is set up with the assumption that you are NOT an Iron DPC patient and while and urgent care or ER will always say “follow up with your PCP” they know you won’t be able to get in to see your primary care and much less text your primary care like patients enjoy at Iron DPC. Once you understand this then the healthcare system and societal pressure to overtreat with antibiotics is understandable.
The patient wandering among the conventional medical system must know that we are very good at destroying the microbiome and over-sterilizing our foods for the sake of health. In this industrialized medico-agricultural process we have a huge health crisis. The mainstream “expert” will say pasteurization is the greatest invention and that antibiotics save lives. While some of this may be true in certain situations we suspect these interventions have contributed to the great health crisis in America.

11/17/2025

In primary care I have seen how even one oral antibiotic use can trigger gut problems which lead to multiple food sensitivities and autoimmune conditions in susceptible individuals.
I’ve learned ways to heal this, but it is very difficult to treat.
It’s much easier to prescribe a course of Augmentin at an urgent care and never see the patient again. When you reestablish the long term family practice relationship between a provider and the patient you’re much more hesitant to prescribe an antibiotic because you know you’ll have to see that patient and the consequences of it for years to come.
When I worked in urgent care, I prescribed antibiotics when it was indicated, but I prescribe them even less now at Iron DPC than I did in urgent cares much preferring the watch and wait method even if it leaves the patient uncomfortable for a week or two.
It’s amazing how many patients will spontaneously resolve a so-called “bronchitis” or “otitis media” just with watching and waiting.

Just another reason why the Iron DPC method is a better option compared to using the conventional system.

11/16/2025

One of the most life changing reasons to be a member of Iron DPC is our antibiotic stewardship. Best practice at Iron DPC is the watch and wait method and alternative remedies for common cold illnesses. This is not possible at other practices with fee per service because insurance won’t pay for close communication or repeat visits. Urgent cares use the “treat & street” method to increase throughput and to provide a medical form of Burger King “Have it Your Way” as patients expect an antibiotic when they pay $2,000/month premium and then a $70 copay at the urgent care. Emergency departments may be prone to overtreatment as they know that patients will be lost to follow up and can’t/won’t follow up with their primary care.
If you do need to take an antibiotic, then a gut rehabilitation protocol would be best to follow. At the minimum a biocidin cleanse. If budget allows, a complete Megaspore gut rehabilitation program should follow. I would also try to eat fermented and unpasteurized traditional foods of course. Fiber and complex carbohydrates provide a source of food for the microbes in your gut.

11/14/2025

Regardless of why, we will prepare Iron DPC patients as we always do. Protocol to keep on hand:
1. Ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine/methylene blue
2. Hydrocortisone oral tablets
3. 20% Acetylcysteine solution for nebulization and budesonide +working nebulizer
4. Thymosin Alpha 1 or thymogen
5. Biocidin throat spray
6. Intranasal iodine

Besides that you must optimize all hormones, vitamins. Ensure you get sunlight, strength train, eat real food.
We cannot lockdown, mask or vaccinate our way out of these. These same health and early treatment principles are what I studied and applied to thousands of patients within a few weeks of the first wave of COVID that came to the US. These protocols and optimization is what all Iron DPC members have access to. We’re always ready and are innovative enough to adapt to any bioweapon novelty.

Mixmyrx helps us get this protocols together for our patients

11/12/2025

Gut retesting reveals surprising results. Doctors discuss why parasites vanish, the role of inflammation, and the potential of SPECT scans for gut health insights. A deeper look into the body's hidden ecosystem.

11/12/2025

At Iron DPC we are proud to be ahead of the curve and on the right side of medical history once again. It has taken the FDA over 70 years to remove the black box warning labels for estrogen replacement in women. This week it finally happened and it is all over the mainstream media. All female members of Iron DPC, of course, have been benefiting from years of bioidentical estradiol replacement therapy when their levels have been found to decline.
FDA chief suggests estradiol should be primary prevention for osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and even divorces! This is a seismic shift for the medical system. Conventional medical training has zero education on BHRT and it is not considered primary prevention in primary care. In fact, Iron DPC is a pioneer in making anti-aging medicine a routine part of primary care. Typically you have to go to specialized HRT clinics for that or have to pay an additional charge for a “higher level of care” at a DPC clinic.
All providers at Iron DPC; Jason, Lauren and Stefan apply hormone optimization for all their patients as easily as other providers might prescribe a blood pressure drug. We test hormones as routinely as a CBC because hormones are the foundation of health. We start testing early, ideally in teenage years, so that the patient has a personalized lifetime reference range. This is also a concept pioneered at Iron DPC. The old thinking is to only test if there are symptoms. How antiquated!
Human Performance and Optimization is about tracking your lab data over time. What better time to test all the important makers when you feel invincible at age 18!
If you are a clinician shocked by this FDA change and worried about having to go back to school or taking time off to study then scroll no further. DM me for a link to the Learn Functional Medicine course where I can teach hormones to you in under 10 hours.

11/11/2025

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11/07/2025

I managed to get Pierre to sit still for 3 minutes for the podcast. He’s an anti aging wizard and has incredible energy for his age swimming in the ocean daily, motorcycling and still studying functional medicine hours a day just for the sake of intellectuality. His schedule is packed full of retirement activities and i can’t convince him to work at the Iron DPC office 🤣.

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11/07/2025

The Iron DPC methodology is designed to establish a one on one long term relationship with the patient and their provider. We are not a concierge practice and not like any other Direct Primary Care or conventional insurance practice where the provider you see is interchangeable. This method creates a bond with the patient that is more valuable than the expertise of any renown functional medicine consultant one can see. It is an experience that the provider develops with the patient where they become essentially a part of their family.
Where when a patient makes a visit with their provider we understand what is going on with the patient without even saying a word.
When a patient texts us with a symptom we understand the patient so well that we don’t even need to bring them into the office to know what treatment to provide.

Whichever provider you choose at the practice will develop into a long lasting relationship. This is the sacred pact of the old family medicine practice. It has been lost from society and may seem foreign to the patient who has become accustomed to a cold healthcare system that sees providers as replaceable revenue generators or interchangeable parts in the machine. It is a the sad state of the medical system that we have changed with the creation of Iron DPC.