Frequently asked questions
989 questions, answered straight — including the ones with answers we would rather not give. Sorted into 23 topics so you can get to yours.
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Getting Started
How ACT 2 Health works, who it is for, what the assessment involves, and what to expect once you start.
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Pricing and Insurance
What ACT 2 Health charges, what each price includes, how billing works, and how insurance, HSA and FSA accounts fit.
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Safety and Side Effects
Contraindications, drug interactions, what compounded means, what gets monitored, and when to seek emergency care.
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Weight Loss and GLP-1 Medications
Semaglutide, tirzepatide and metformin — compounded versus branded, oral versus injectable, side effects, muscle, and what happens when you stop.
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Menopause and Hormone Therapy
Perimenopause, the symptom picture beyond hot flashes, and the risk questions — breast cancer, clots, the heart — answered in absolute terms rather than headlines.
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Testosterone & Men's Hormones
What testosterone does, how it is properly measured, replacement versus stimulating your own production — and why a lot of men who arrive certain they need it have something else going on.
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Peptide Therapy
What a peptide actually is, where the FDA rules genuinely stand, and what the evidence supports — answered one compound at a time.
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Lab testing and blood work
What a reference range actually is, why a number moves on its own, what each marker measures, and what blood work cannot tell you.
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Sexual Health
Desire and function are different systems with different causes — what changes in midlife for men and for women, and what each treatment can and cannot do.
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NAD+ and Longevity
What NAD+ is, how far the human evidence for it actually goes, and an honest account of the injectables sold alongside it.
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GLP-1 Side Effects
What GLP-1 medications commonly do to your gut, energy, hair and muscle — what helps, what settles, and what needs a clinician today.
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Menopause and Perimenopause
The transition itself — when it starts, how long it runs, the symptoms nobody warned you about, and which of them are not menopause at all.
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Hormone Therapy Safety and Risk
Breast cancer, clots, stroke and the endometrium — the risk questions about hormone therapy, answered in absolute terms, with estrogen alone and combined therapy kept apart.
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Testosterone Therapy and Fertility
Testosterone therapy suppresses sperm production, it is not contraception, and recovery is neither quick nor guaranteed — what that means, and where enclomiphene, hCG and a semen analysis fit.
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Specific Peptides
Sermorelin, BPC-157, TB-500, KPV, MOTS-c, epithalon and DSIP — what each one is, where its evidence stops, and where its regulatory status really stands.
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Lab Markers, Explained
One marker at a time: what it measures, what moves it, and what a high or low result does and does not mean.
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Specialty Tests and Panels
What the DUTCH test, gut and stool panels, methylation testing, Galleri and continuous glucose monitors can and cannot tell you.
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NAD+, B12 and Injectables
NAD+, NR and NMN, B12 shots and the differences between its forms, and an honest account of what injected glutathione can and cannot do.
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Sleep in Midlife
Why eight hours stops being enough after 45, what gets screened, and what needs a sleep study rather than a blood panel.
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Fatigue and Energy
What kind of tired this is, which causes are measurable, which medications are responsible, and the red flags that need in-person care.
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Hair and Skin
Shedding or thinning, the hormones actually involved, what ferritin does and does not tell you, and what finasteride, minoxidil and estrogen really do.
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Recovery and Training After 45
For people who used to train seriously: what an athletic past actually left behind, what it did not protect, and what is worth measuring now.
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Choosing Care
How to judge a telehealth provider, clinic or program: what a real evaluation involves, what to ask before you pay, and which warning signs are worth walking away from.
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