health and wellness coaching.
Cash-based, you set your rates.
Path A, which is what works for a lot of people, is health and wellness coaching.
So you work with clients, not patients, and that can still be a very powerful relationship.
Cash-based, you set your rates, work across state lines in most cases.
Like I said, referral and affiliate programs are legal.
Labs, supplements, and protocols are available.
I see misinformation about this all the time.
No, that's not true.
You can get labs direct to consumer right now.
Getting your hands on labs is not complicated.
What you have to understand is just because you can get your hands on labs does not mean all of a sudden you diagnose medically and treat medically.
And that's where you have to understand the difference.
So direct-to-consumer care, So patients being able to order their own labs is here to stay.
And for example, like Functional Medicine Academy's certification, people without a medical license can then have access to great labs, great supplements and things like that.
But that doesn't change how they use them.
So just to know, it's like a wonderful thing to have access to.
You can work with your clients in that way, have much more informed nutrition protocols, right? But it doesn't mean just because you've earned a certification that gives you these privileges that all of a sudden you can diagnose and treat.
So there's no diagnosing or treating here.
You're not a covered entity.
I mean, you still want to protect people's data, but you're not a covered entity.
And you can work with, you can hire health coaches.
You can have staff to grow with you, even if you're a health coach, right? All right, here's a path B.
health and wellness coaching.
Cash-based, you set your rates.
Path A, which is what works for a lot of people, is health and wellness coaching.
So you work with clients, not patients, and that can still be a very powerful relationship.
Cash-based, you set your rates, work across state lines in most cases.
Like I said, referral and affiliate programs are legal.
Labs, supplements, and protocols are available.
I see misinformation about this all the time.
No, that's not true.
You can get labs direct to consumer right now.
Getting your hands on labs is not complicated.
What you have to understand is just because you can get your hands on labs does not mean all of a sudden you diagnose medically and treat medically.
And that's where you have to understand the difference.
So direct-to-consumer care, So patients being able to order their own labs is here to stay.
And for example, like Functional Medicine Academy's certification, people without a medical license can then have access to great labs, great supplements and things like that.
But that doesn't change how they use them.
So just to know, it's like a wonderful thing to have access to.
You can work with your clients in that way, have much more informed nutrition protocols, right? But it doesn't mean just because you've earned a certification that gives you these privileges that all of a sudden you can diagnose and treat.
So there's no diagnosing or treating here.
You're not a covered entity.
I mean, you still want to protect people's data, but you're not a covered entity.
And you can work with, you can hire health coaches.
You can have staff to grow with you, even if you're a health coach, right? All right, here's a path B.
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