Your first visit

What to expect at your New Member Visit.

Your first visit is a deep, unhurried assessment of where your health stands today. It becomes the baseline everything at HYBRD Health builds on. Here's exactly what happens, in order, and how to get the most out of it.

Before you arrive

Complete your forms in the LACTIC app

Please finish your health questionnaire and sign your new member forms in the app before your appointment. Your answers shape the whole visit. The more complete they are, the more of your visit goes toward you instead of paperwork.

Come fasting if you can

We prefer you arrive fasting for the InBody and DEXA scans. Food and drink shift your body water and weight enough to blur the measurements, and consistent conditions make every future scan comparable to this one. Plain water is fine (and encouraged).

DEXA prep: what to wear and what to skip

  • Wear comfortable clothing without metal. Athletic wear is perfect. Avoid zippers, snaps, metal buttons, belts, underwire bras, and jewelry; metal shows up on the scan and distorts the numbers.
  • Skip calcium supplements for 24 hours before the visit, including multivitamins that contain calcium. Undissolved calcium tablets can read as bone and skew the results.
  • Tell us about recent imaging. If you've had a barium study or a CT or nuclear medicine scan with contrast in the past week, let us know; the residual contrast interferes with DEXA and we'll simply sequence things differently.

The visit, step by step

1

Getting to know you

We start with a real conversation about your health history, your goals, and any concerns you want addressed. Everything we measure afterward gets interpreted in the context of what matters to you, so this is the foundation of the visit. Your health questionnaire in the LACTIC app is the starting point for this conversation, which is why completing it beforehand matters.

2

InBody scan

A bioelectrical impedance scan. You stand on the device holding two handles while it sends a tiny, harmless electrical signal through your body. In about a minute it measures skeletal muscle mass, body fat percentage, visceral fat, and body water. It's quick, painless, and becomes the baseline we track your body composition against month to month.

3

DEXA scan

Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, the gold standard for body composition and bone density. You lie still on an open table for about ten minutes while a very low dose X-ray arm passes over you (a fraction of the radiation of a chest X-ray). It maps exactly where your fat and lean mass live, region by region, and measures your bone density. Those numbers guide your training, your nutrition, and long term fracture prevention.

4

Physical exam

A comprehensive head to toe physical exam, including a full body skin cancer screening and a screening hearing exam. These are the kinds of checks that catch things early, when they're easiest to act on.

5

Strength testing

Grip strength, dead hang, and key movement tests to establish your strength baselines. Strength is one of the most studied predictors of healthy aging, and these numbers feed directly into the LACTIC app, where you can see how you rank for your age and sex and watch yourself climb.

6

VO₂ max test

A graded exercise test wearing a mask that measures your oxygen use as the effort ramps up. VO₂ max is the single best measure of cardiorespiratory fitness and one of the strongest known predictors of longevity. You'll leave knowing your number, and your training program will be built to move it.

Lab work on your schedule

Blood work isn't tied to your visit. You can order labs anytime through the LACTIC app (Labs → Order Labs) and get drawn at a lab near you. Some members like to do labs before the first visit so the results are ready to review together; others prefer to discuss which panels make sense with the physician at the visit first. Either way works.

When your results come back, they flow straight into the app automatically, color coded against optimal ranges and tracked over time, so you can always see where you stand and how you're trending.

Questions before your visit? Message us in the LACTIC app.