Your first protocol, plainly.

Take it to a doctor who knows you before you begin. That is the first thing, and it is not a formality. Bring the protocol; it prints as a clean document and it says what each compound is, how often it is taken, and what it is for. A doctor who knows your history can see in a minute whether anything on it conflicts with something you take.

The quiz has already removed compounds for the answers that require it: pregnancy, a thyroid cancer history, active cancer, pancreatitis. If you answered those honestly, the protocol in your hands is already the safer one. If you skipped past them, go back.

At home you need three things: a fridge, a clean flat surface, and somewhere to put used syringes that is not the bin. A small sealed container with a lid does. The vials arrive cold and go into the fridge door on the day they arrive. The storage guide covers the rest. The supplies checklist is that list, printable, and the bloodwork log is where the baseline numbers go.

Day one is the first injection of the core compound, at the time of day it wants, at the lowest step on the sheet. It takes longer to read the instructions than to do it. Then nothing happens, and that is correct. The first week of almost every protocol here feels like nothing.

The two things to do in week one are to write down the baseline and to notice how the injection itself feels. The baseline is the one number for your goal: weight and waist on the same morning, a sleep tracker's deep-sleep minutes, a pain score, a photograph in fixed light, or a one-to-five for the afternoon. Write it where you will find it in twelve weeks.

If the core is a fat-loss compound, the one thing to start on day one is a protein floor, because appetite falls before the scale moves and protein falls with it unless you decide otherwise. The protocol names the floor. The Planner lays the week out day by day, the Tracker checks each dose off with its site, and the reconstitution calculator shows the line on the syringe.

It is an insulin syringe: a needle thinner than a sewing pin and about the length of a grain of rice, going into the soft fat of the stomach or thigh, not into muscle and nowhere near a vein. People with diabetes use the same one several times a day. Most people describe it as less than a blood test and are surprised by how little it is.

The injection guide walks the first one through in five lines, with where, the angle, and what to do if you bleed a drop. The results sheet links two short videos. If it is still the one thing holding you back, say so on the message thread before you order and we will go through the first one with you on a call. Nobody should buy a vial they will not use. If the sheet says micrograms and the syringe says units, the unit converter turns one into the other. Any word you do not know is in the glossary, and every tool is at one address.

Sleep and focus compounds show in days; you will know within the first week. Fat-loss compounds change appetite in the first two weeks and the scale from week four. Energy settles between weeks three and eight. Skin changes texture in about three weeks and photographs at eight to twelve. Tissue repair keeps pace with the injury. The timing answer has the arc for each goal.

What to notice on the day: the injection site (a small bruise is normal; heat, spreading redness or swelling is not), nausea on a fat-loss compound (it means the dose rose too fast, not that the compound is wrong), flushing on the energy compound (the push was too quick), grogginess on the sleep compound (the dose is too high). Each of those is on the sheet next to the compound, with what to do.

Before you order, if the needle is the problem. On day one, if the instructions are not clear. In week one, if the injection site does anything other than bruise. Any week, if you feel something the sheet did not describe. At week eight, with the number. At day 90, to decide.

You will not be sold to on the thread. The protocol says what to buy first and what to leave until week five, and the person answering is the person who filled the order. The only thing we ask is that you bring the number.