Metabolic Assessment

The Metabolic Assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of your metabolic health and its relationship to your mental health. It is designed for individuals interested in improving metabolic health, achieving healthy weight loss, or exploring metabolic treatments for mental health conditions, including medical ketogenic therapy.

Led by one of our nurse practitioners and complemented by assessments with a registered dietitian and health coach, the Metabolic Assessment evaluates your metabolic and mental health, nutrition, fitness, lifestyle, body composition, and biomarkers to develop personalized treatment recommendations.

What to Expect During Your Assessment

During your Metabolic Assessment, you will meet individually with a nurse practitioner, registered dietitian, and health coach. Together, they will evaluate your metabolic and mental health history, nutrition, medications, physical activity and fitness, lifestyle habits, sleep, treatment goals, and other factors that may influence your metabolic and mental health.

Your assessment also includes metabolic-focused laboratory testing and a DXA scan to evaluate metabolic health, body composition, and bone health.

Throughout the assessment, our clinical team works together to integrate findings across disciplines and develop an individualized treatment strategy. Depending on your needs and goals, this may include nutrition and lifestyle interventions, weight-management strategies, ketogenic therapy, or other approaches designed to improve metabolic health and support mental health.

Considering Ketogenic Therapy?

For individuals interested in ketogenic therapy for a mental health condition, the Metabolic Assessment serves as one possible starting point for care at MH².

Our team will evaluate whether ketogenic therapy is appropriate and safe for you, establish relevant baseline laboratory and body-composition measures, review medications and potential risks, assess your nutritional needs, and develop recommendations for implementing therapeutic ketosis when clinically appropriate.

Because ketogenic therapy used for mental health conditions is a medical intervention, our approach incorporates medical oversight, specialized nutritional guidance, laboratory monitoring, and coordination with your existing treatment when needed.

What’s Included

The Metabolic Assessment includes:

Comprehensive pre-visit questionnaires
Metabolic and mental health evaluation by a nurse practitioner (60 minutes)
Comprehensive nutrition assessment by a registered dietitian (60 minutes)
Fitness, physical activity, and lifestyle assessment with a health coach
Review of medications and their potential metabolic effects
Metabolic laboratory testing
DXA scan for body composition and bone health
Evaluation for ketogenic therapy, when desired or clinically appropriate
Multidisciplinary review of findings
Personalized metabolic health and treatment recommendations
Treatment planning meeting

Your Personalized Treatment Plan

After your assessment is complete, our multidisciplinary team meets to integrate findings from your medical evaluation, nutrition assessment, fitness and lifestyle assessment, laboratory testing, and DXA scan into a personalized treatment plan.

During your Treatment Recommendation Meeting, we’ll review your results, discuss factors affecting your metabolic and mental health, answer your questions, and provide clear short- and long-term recommendations.

Depending on your individual needs and goals, your plan may include ketogenic therapy, weight-management strategies, personalized nutrition, physical activity and fitness recommendations, sleep and lifestyle interventions, or other metabolic approaches to support your physical and mental health.