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A verdict is not a diagnosis
Draft body, not yet adapted
Dr. Halvorsen says a version of this in nearly every first visit and it took us three years to write it down properly. Metabolic health is a clinical condition with measurable drivers. Somewhere along the way it became the one diagnosis a person is expected to apologize for, and that costs people years before they walk into any office at all.
Call to action. If you have been putting off the call, this is your reminder that nobody here is keeping score.