You're still performing.
It's costing you more
than it used to.
One practitioner, thirteen years deep, putting real numbers on what's quietly costing you.
Your performance
has its own biology.
Every system you run is measured.Except one.
Run on feel.
- ✕Energy and recovery can only be managed by how the day went.
- ✕Standard tests that read normal while the output slips.
- ✕Drift slow enough to absorb, until it becomes your normal.
- ✕This year's decline becomes next year's starting point.
Run on data.
- ✓Every system read on numbers, not feel.
- ✓111 markers mapped to what actually sets output.
- ✓Retests timed to the pace each system keeps.
- ✓Every change measured against a test before and a test after.
A pile of tests, on its own, is just paperwork.
The work is the reading.
Blood chemistry, cortisol rhythm, microbiome, biological age, continuous glucose and wearable recovery data, running in one clinical record.
111 markers mapped at baseline. 68 in blood, 43 in hormone metabolites.
Advanced Blood Chemistry
Markers across metabolic, cardiovascular, thyroid, hormonal, inflammatory and nutritional systems. Re-run at month six, and in full at month twelve.
What it reveals
Adrenal & Hormone Profiling
Adrenal output and the cortisol awakening response mapped across a complete day, alongside the sex hormones and how your body metabolises them.
What it reveals
Gut Microbiome Sequencing
Full DNA sequencing of the gut ecosystem. Which organisms are there, down to the strain, and what they are able to produce.
What it reveals
Epigenetic Biological Age
Biological age read from methylation across more than 800,000 DNA sites. How old the body is running, how fast it is ageing, and a separate age for each of eleven organ systems.
What it reveals
Continuous Glucose Monitoring
A two-week monitor at baseline, reading glucose every few minutes across ordinary working days.
What it reveals
Wearable Integration
The Oura Ring is the recommendation, purchased separately and kept by you. If you already wear an Apple Watch or something similar, it works fine. HRV, deep sleep and resting heart rate route into the record.
What it reveals
What changes, and how you know it's real.
The program is new. The pattern behind it is not: across thirteen years of clinical practice, change tends to arrive in an order, the fast systems first and the slow stress system last.
What follows is that pattern. Yours is measured, not predicted.
Month 0 · Base Line
Feel
Sharp on paper. Flat by three. Awake at three. The symptoms you run through, but likely keep to yourself.
How you know
Sixty-eight blood markers, your cortisol curve, your gut mapped strain by strain, your biological age, your wearable data. Every test, one picture.
Weeks 2–6 · First movement
Feel
The fast systems typically answer first. Sleep deepens, and for many people the waking is rested rather than braced. The background hum of anxiety begins to ease.
How you know
Deep sleep and recovery are the two to watch, on the wearable already on your wrist, week over week, not at some distant retest.
Months 2–3 · The body settles
Feel
The gut usually comes next. Digestion eases, the bloat and the afternoon heaviness start to lift, and for many people the spikes and crashes in energy begin to flatten.
How you know
The baseline stool and blood work told us where to aim. Steady digestion that holds, week after week, is how you know.
Month 6 · The retest
Feel
By month six the change is typically something you can point to, not just something you sense.
How you know
The fast markers retest against your own baseline: lipids, ApoB, inflammation, HbA1c, insulin, thyroid, hormones, vitamin D. You see, in numbers, what moved and what didn't.
Month 9+ · The slow turn
Feel
Stress tolerance rebuilds last, and the pace here is personal rather than predictable.
How you know
The Adrenal & Hormone retest at month nine shows your stress system and your sex hormones answering the protocol. We read the curve; it's not subjective.
Month 12 + Cadence · Held
Feel
The state you reached typically holds, rather than sliding back the moment the protocol ends.
How you know
A full sixty-eight blood-marker retest at year-end, and a fresh biological-age reading opening each Cadence year. What you rebuilt stays rebuilt, and the yearly retest proves it.
The first set of numbers is not the product.
The second set is.
Core.
Calibrate.
Cadence.
A new program. Thirteen years of clinical practice behind it.
Those are clinical-practice figures. None of them are Elemental Protocol clients, because the program is new.
Elemental Protocol is built and delivered by Rohan Smith, BHSc in Nutritional Medicine. For thirteen years his clinical work has focused on the biology underneath how people function day to day: energy, sleep, mood, recovery and focus, the systems that tend to slip first under sustained load.
The program is new. The work behind it is not. One practitioner reads your results, builds your protocol, and stays with you the whole way, so the understanding only deepens. Every conversation builds on the last.
Data-led, and personally invested: the reading is rigorous, and the support through the change is real.
"By doing comprehensive testing at the start, Rohan was able to prioritise what needed treating, what didn't, and the weight to give each part.
"Running my own company while raising a young family was taking its toll on my energy and stress levels, but I've seen better energy and better quality of sleep quite fast, which my Oura Ring data confirmed.
"My focus at work is sharper now, and I've got more energy outside of work for my family. I'd recommend the program to anyone wanting a methodical approach that gets to the root cause rather than a quick fix."
Nick Kefalianos
Director, Airport Consult
Priced in plain view.
Year one is $10,750, and Cadence continues from year two, renewed by choice.
Supplements run $200 to $300 a month outside the fee, and you supply the wearable.
One fee, testing included
$7,250
Book a discovery callMonths 0-6. Full baseline, six deep consultations, comprehensive reporting, month-six fast-marker retest.
Follows Core · one fee, testing included
$3,500
Book a discovery callMonths 7-12. Three deep consultations, Adrenal & Hormone retest, full blood panel at month twelve.
Follows Calibrate · per year, testing included
$5,500
Book a discovery callYear two onward. Quarterly reviews, annual biological-age open, full-panel close.
What the fee covers. 111 markers across blood and hormone metabolites, a full sequence of your gut microbiome, biological age across eleven organ systems, and six and a half hours of consultation with the reading behind them.
If you need to stop. Testing already ordered is committed and cannot be refunded. Clinical fees are prorated against the consultations and time you have not used.
If I am unavailable. Beyond five business days your program clock pauses and extends by the same period, so nothing you have paid for is lost to the gap.
The things worth asking.
The medium.
Field notes on measurement, recovery and the biology of sustained performance.
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Begin with a call.
Then decide in clear view.
- ◎30 minutes, with the structure of the program laid out in full.
- ◎No generic intake. The call is about your current state, your constraints, and the right testing arc.
- ◎If the fit is wrong, it's wrong. The call ends with a straight answer, either way.
One conversation before any commitment. Thirty minutes to lay out your current state, test the fit honestly, and decide whether the program should move forward.
Book a discovery call