Your First Consult at Rewind: What to Expect, What to Bring

Why This Walkthrough Exists

Most patients booking their first visit with a longevity practice have no clear sense of what they’re walking into. The marketing across this field is uneven — some clinics oversell, some undersell, and most leave patients guessing about what the actual experience will be like.

This is a practical walkthrough. What happens, what to bring, what gets discussed, what follow-up looks like, and what it costs. We want you to walk into your first visit feeling informed rather than uncertain, so the time we have together can be spent on what matters — your situation, your goals, and how we might be able to help.

If you’re still trying to decide whether our concierge approach is the right fit for you, the linked post covers more of the philosophy. This post is the operational version: what the first visit actually looks like.

Booking and the Pre-Visit Questionnaire

New patients book through the contact form on the site or by calling the clinic during business hours. Once booked, you’ll receive a brief intake questionnaire by email — usually a day or two before your appointment.

The questionnaire covers:

• Basic medical history, including any chronic conditions or significant past surgeries.
• Current medications and supplements, with doses if you can remember them.
• Your primary symptoms or what you’re trying to achieve. We want a few sentences in your words, not a checklist of categories.
• Any recent lab work you’d like us to review.
• Practical logistics — preferred follow-up channel, any scheduling constraints, and whether you’ll be traveling for visits.

The purpose is to use your appointment time efficiently. The 30 minutes most clinics spend on intake during the visit, we want to skip. Your appointment slot should be spent on the substantive conversation about what’s actually going on, not on data entry.

Not all questions need to be answered in detail. If you don’t have your prior lab results handy, no problem — bring them when you have them. If you’re not sure what to write for goals, write the truth: “I don’t feel like myself, I want to understand why.” That’s a valid starting point.

What to Bring

A short list of things that meaningfully improve your first visit:

Recent lab work. If you’ve had blood work in the last 6 to 12 months — from your primary care, from another wellness clinic, from any other source — bring it. We can build on existing data rather than running duplicate panels. If your prior labs were limited, we’ll fill in the gaps; if they covered everything we need, we may not need to draw anything.

Current medication and supplement list. Names and doses if you remember. Photos of bottles are fine. We need this to think clearly about interactions and to design protocols that account for what you’re already taking.

A brief written summary of what you’re trying to achieve. A paragraph in your own words. Most patients write this for the intake questionnaire; if you want to expand or update it for the visit, even better. Clarity here makes the conversation more productive.

Comfortable clothes. The body composition scan works best if you can change into athletic-style clothing. We have private space to change at the clinic.

Specific questions. Patients who come in with concrete questions get more from the visit than patients who come in passively. Write them down ahead of time if it helps.

Things you do not need to bring: an exhaustive medical history going back to childhood, every wellness book or article you’ve read, or a list of every supplement you’ve ever taken. The relevant subset is enough.

What Happens During the 90 Minutes

The consult itself is structured around what produces the most value, not a fixed template. That said, most first visits cover similar ground.

Opening Conversation (~20 min)

We start with you. What brought you in. What’s been going on. What you’ve already tried. What you understand about your own biology and where the gaps are. We want to hear the actual story, not a recitation of symptoms from a checklist.

This part of the visit often surfaces things the intake questionnaire didn’t capture — patterns the patient hadn’t fully connected, lifestyle factors that matter, prior care experiences that shape what they want this time. Patients sometimes describe this section as the first time a medical conversation felt like an actual conversation. That’s not coincidence; it’s the design.

Medical History and Current State Review (~20 min)

We walk through the intake material in depth. Current medications and how they’re working. Significant medical history. Family history where relevant. Lifestyle baseline — sleep, training, nutrition, stress, alcohol. Past wellness or optimization attempts and what came of them.

If you brought prior lab work, we review it together. We’ll often flag things that previous providers may have called normal but that we read differently in the context of your goals.

Body Composition Scan and Physical Assessment (~10 min)

We perform a body composition scan that gives us muscle mass, body fat percentage, visceral fat, segmental breakdown, and a few related metrics. This is more informative than a scale-and-BMI snapshot, and it establishes a baseline we can compare future scans against.

Depending on your situation, this may also include blood pressure, basic physical observation, or other in-person assessments. We are not running a comprehensive physical — your primary care doctor’s annual physical serves that purpose — but we capture what we need to inform protocol decisions.

Diagnostic Planning (~20 min)

This is where we decide what additional data we need. If you brought comprehensive recent labs, we may not need much. If your prior labs were limited or missing the markers that matter for your situation, we design a diagnostic panel that fills in the gaps.

Our standard starting point for most new patients is something close to our executive lab panel — comprehensive hormones, full thyroid, metabolic markers including fasting insulin, inflammation markers, lipid panel, vitamin D and B12, IGF-1 as a growth hormone proxy. For patients pursuing more advanced longevity work, we layer in cardiovascular risk markers, advanced cardiometabolic panels, or other specialized testing.

We walk through what we’re recommending and why, what each panel does and doesn’t tell us, and what the cost looks like. You decide on the spot what you want to run; the panel is built around your priorities, not a fixed protocol.

Closing and Next Steps (~20 min)

We answer your questions. We talk about realistic timelines — what intervention looks like, how long it takes to see results, what follow-up cadence to expect. We discuss honest cost expectations for what comes after the consult, so you can plan.

We explicitly do not pressure-sell during the consult. Some patients leave the first visit and decide to start a protocol the same week. Others decide to think it over, talk to a spouse, get a second opinion, or wait until life circumstances change. All of those responses are legitimate. We’d rather have engaged patients who chose to start than reluctant patients who felt pushed into it.

What Lab Work Looks Like

If we’re running labs, the draw can happen the same day as your consult or at a follow-up appointment, depending on timing and fasting requirements. Most of the panels we run require fasting; if your consult happens after lunch, we’ll typically schedule the lab draw separately.

For patients who prefer to use a lab closer to home, we can write orders for nearly any major lab system in the country. Results route back to us electronically. Most patients within Miami simply have the draw at our clinic for convenience.

Results typically come back within a week, sometimes faster. Once we have them, we schedule the results-review visit. We do not deliver substantive lab results by email or phone — the conversation about what your numbers mean and what your options are is too important to handle without seeing each other.

The Results-Review Visit

This is the second visit, typically 60 minutes, scheduled after labs return.

We walk through your numbers in detail. Not a summary — the actual values, where they sit relative to the optimal range for your goals, what trends they suggest, and how they connect to what you described in the first visit. Most patients leave this visit understanding their own biology in a way they didn’t before.

From there, we present the protocol options. Some patients have a clear-cut picture — labs and symptoms align, the protocol is straightforward. Other patients have a more complex picture that benefits from a stepwise approach — addressing one thing first, seeing how it responds, then layering in additional interventions. We make our recommendations explicit, including alternatives and trade-offs.

The protocol comes with specific cost information. You leave the visit knowing:

• What we recommend and why.
• What it costs.
• What the timeline is.
• What follow-up looks like.
• What decision points you have.

From there, you decide whether to start. If yes, we schedule the next steps — protocol initiation, medication or peptide ordering, first follow-up cadence. If you want time to think, you take it.

What Follow-Up Care Looks Like

The cadence depends on what you’re doing.

Patients on hormone optimization typically have a 6-to-8-week follow-up after starting, where we re-draw labs and check subjective response. A second follow-up at 3 months. Then quarterly check-ins through the first year, settling into a semi-annual rhythm once the protocol is stable.

Patients on peptide protocols have similar early follow-up cadence and then less frequent visits as the protocol stabilizes.

Patients on medical weight loss protocols typically have monthly check-ins through the active loss phase, then less frequent visits in maintenance.

Across all of these, you can reach us between visits when something comes up. Concierge means the relationship is continuous, not that you have to wait for the next slot to ask a question.

For a sense of what we’re actually looking at in those follow-up labs, our overview of what your blood panel tells you is a useful primer.

Honest Cost Framing

This is the part most prospective patients want to know up front.

The initial consult plus comprehensive lab panel together typically run in the high-three-figure to low-four-figure range. Some patients with extensive recent labs spend less because we don’t need to re-run as much; some patients pursuing more advanced testing spend more.

Ongoing treatment cost varies widely depending on what you’re doing. Patients on basic hormone optimization budget differently than patients running comprehensive protocols that include hormones, peptides, IV therapy, and aesthetic interventions. The cost range is meaningful — concierge longevity care is investment-level — and we are transparent about it throughout.

Insurance does not apply. We don’t bill insurance, we don’t accept assignment, and we don’t structure care around what insurance might cover. The work we do is outside what insurance reimbursement frameworks are built for, and trying to fit care into those frameworks would compromise the depth that makes this work valuable. Patients who use HSA or FSA accounts can apply those funds to qualifying expenses; we provide receipts that support that.

We do not run promotional pricing, package discounts, or treatment-of-the-month offers. We are not playing a transactional game.

Patients Who Get the Most From Their First Visit

A few patterns recur in patients who walk out of the first consult having had a high-leverage visit.

They came in with some clarity about what they were trying to achieve. Not necessarily a specific protocol in mind — “I want testosterone” is often not the right framing — but a clear sense of what’s wrong or what they’re trying to optimize.

They brought relevant data when they had it. Recent lab work, current medication lists, a written summary of symptoms. The visit moved faster and went deeper because we weren’t reconstructing baseline information during the appointment.

They asked questions. Specific questions, follow-up questions, devil’s-advocate questions. We get more useful information back to engaged patients than we do to passive ones, because the conversation surfaces what’s actually on their mind.

They were honest about lifestyle. Sleep, training, nutrition, stress, alcohol — the stuff people often want to glide past. The protocol we build depends on knowing the actual baseline, and patients who undersell the rough parts of their lifestyle get less-effective protocols designed around inaccurate assumptions.

They came in willing to take the time. Patients who treat the consult as a transaction — get me to a prescription, fast — typically get less out of it than patients who treat it as the start of a relationship.

Ready to Book

If you’ve read this far and it sounds like a fit, the next step is a consultation. You can book directly through our contact form, and we’ll be in touch to confirm scheduling and send the intake questionnaire.

If you want more context first, our overview of how Rewind does concierge anti-aging covers the philosophy, and our anti-aging in your 40s overview covers the underlying clinical framework most of our work draws on.

We look forward to meeting you.

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• How Rewind Does Concierge Anti-Aging in Miami
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