Whole Body publishes educational content about human health. We are not a clinical practice. Nothing on this site is medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This page covers the limits of what we publish and the situations in which you should put down our articles and speak to a qualified clinician.
The short version
Whole Body is a publication, not a medical practice. Robert Steele, the publisher, is not a licensed medical practitioner. The articles, guides, and protocols on this site reflect personal experience and published research — they are not personalized medical recommendations and cannot substitute for diagnosis, treatment, or ongoing care from a qualified clinician who has examined you.
If a clinician's advice and an article on this site conflict, follow the clinician.
What this site is
An editorial publication. Long-form articles on specific conditions, the published research that explains them, and protocols the author has personally run on himself or close family. Where relevant, citations are provided so readers can verify claims independently.
The guides we sell — priced between $17 and $67 — are the implementation layer of protocols whose mechanism we explain in the free articles. They are written from the perspective of "here is what worked for me, here is the research that explains why, here are the specifications that matter if you decide to run this yourself." They are not prescriptions.
What this site is not
Whole Body is not:
- A diagnostic service. We cannot tell you what is wrong with you. We cannot interpret your symptoms over email, in comments, or through any other channel.
- A medical practice. We do not have clinicians on staff. We do not have a doctor-patient relationship with any reader.
- A licensed dispensary or pharmacy. We do not sell, prescribe, or recommend prescription medications.
- A replacement for your doctor. Some of our articles describe situations where mainstream medical advice has failed a specific person. Those are reports, not blanket statements that mainstream medicine is wrong. For most acute medical situations and most chronic ones, working with a clinician is the right path.
- A source of personalized recommendations. The protocols we describe were developed for specific people with specific lab findings. Your situation may differ in ways that make those protocols inappropriate or harmful for you.
FDA and regulatory statement
The statements made on this website have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The products, supplements, and protocols discussed are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Any product recommendations are based on the personal experience of the author and published research about the active ingredients — they are not medical claims about specific products.
When you should consult a clinician before acting on anything you read here
Some readers should not run protocols described on this site without first speaking to a qualified clinician. The list is broader than people expect:
- If you have a diagnosed medical condition. Especially: kidney disease, liver disease, heart disease, autoimmune conditions, diabetes (Type 1 or 2), thyroid disorders, blood clotting disorders, cancer, or any chronic condition under active treatment.
- If you are pregnant or nursing. Almost everything on this site is contraindicated or untested in pregnancy. Talk to your obstetrician before adding any supplement.
- If you are under 18. Some articles describe protocols Robert ran on his teenage son. Those reflect a specific situation a parent ran with their family's healthcare provider. They are not blanket recommendations for minors, who should be guided by their pediatrician or family doctor.
- If you take prescription medication. Supplements can interact with pharmaceuticals. The interactions are not always intuitive — for example, MSM can affect anticoagulant medication; oregano oil can affect blood pressure medication; baking soda can affect medications that require stomach acid for absorption. Run anything past your prescribing physician or pharmacist.
- If you have a history of eating disorders, mental health conditions, or substance use disorder. Some of what we publish addresses metabolic and nutritional patterns. Approach with care, and with the support of clinicians who know your history.
- If you are scheduled for surgery within the next 30 days. Several common supplements affect bleeding, anesthesia metabolism, or wound healing. Most surgeons want you off all supplements for 1-2 weeks before any procedure.
- If you are on a sodium-restricted diet. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate — about 1,200mg of sodium per teaspoon. The doses in our articles are small but not zero, and matter for some readers.
How to read our protocols safely
If you read an article or guide on this site and want to try a protocol, here is the safer path:
- Read the article in full — not just the protocol section. The context matters. We try to be explicit about what the protocol is and isn't, and what kind of person it's likely to help.
- Get baseline labs first. Many of our protocols address specific deficiencies or imbalances. Running them blind — without knowing whether you have the deficiency the protocol corrects — is at best a waste of money and at worst counterproductive.
- Talk to a clinician familiar with the territory. Conventional family doctors often have limited training in functional/nutritional medicine. A naturopath, functional medicine practitioner, or integrative MD is more likely to understand the labs we describe and the protocols we publish. If they push back on something we wrote, take that seriously — they can examine you, and we cannot.
- Start at the lowest dose. Every protocol we publish has a ramp-up schedule for a reason. Starting at full dose risks detoxification reactions, GI distress, or simply revealing an intolerance that a gentler ramp would have surfaced earlier.
- Watch for adverse reactions. If anything you take from one of our protocols produces a new symptom — rash, headache, GI symptoms, mood change, anything you didn't have before — stop the protocol and contact a clinician. Mild detoxification symptoms during the first few days are common; severe or persistent symptoms are not.
Supplements and product recommendations
Some of our articles and guides recommend specific supplement brands. Those recommendations reflect what Robert personally uses and what the published research supports for the active ingredient. They are not endorsements of specific products beyond that scope.
The supplement industry is poorly regulated. Quality varies dramatically between brands, even at the same dose on the label. We try to recommend brands with third-party testing and transparent sourcing, but we cannot guarantee any specific product's quality or your individual response to it.
If you experience an adverse reaction to a supplement we have recommended, stop taking it, contact your clinician, and let us know — we read those emails and will update articles if there's a pattern.
Lab tests we reference
Our articles reference functional medicine labs including MicroGenDx PCR panels, Mosaic Diagnostics OAT panels, BioCheck Pro tissue mineral analysis, and SNP Nutrigenomics genetic panels. Lab references are educational — they describe what these tests reveal, not a recommendation that you order one without clinical supervision.
Most of these labs require a clinician to order on your behalf, and all of them produce results that require clinical context to interpret meaningfully. We do not interpret lab results for readers. Take your results to a clinician trained in functional medicine for interpretation.
Reader stories and testimonials
Some articles include reader experiences or excerpts from reader feedback. Where this occurs, the reader has given explicit written permission for their experience to be shared. Reader testimonials are not promises — they reflect individual experience and should not be read as predictions of what will happen to you.
Results vary. Many readers have reported that protocols on this site helped them. Some have reported no change. A small number have reported adverse reactions and stopped. We try to publish all three patterns honestly.
Affiliate and financial disclosure
This site earns revenue through ebook sales and affiliate commissions on supplement products we recommend. Affiliate revenue does not change the price you pay, and we do not recommend products we do not personally use. The full disclosure is on our Editorial Standards page.
The fact that we earn affiliate commissions on supplements we recommend is something you should weigh as you read. We try hard not to let it bias our recommendations, but you are entitled to know it exists and to factor it in when deciding whether to trust a specific brand recommendation.
Jurisdictional notes
Whole Body is published from the United States, and our recommendations reflect U.S. product availability, regulatory framework, and clinical conventions. Readers outside the U.S. may find that specific products mentioned are unavailable, labeled differently, or subject to different regulations in their country. The underlying mechanisms described in our articles apply universally, but the specific brand and sourcing recommendations may not.
Health and supplement regulations vary by jurisdiction. We make no warranty that anything we publish complies with regulations outside the United States.
Limitation of liability
By reading this site or purchasing our guides, you acknowledge that you understand the educational nature of the content and the limits of what we provide. Whole Body, TrafficWorx LLC, and Robert Steele are not liable for any adverse outcome, medical or otherwise, that results from acting on information published on this site. You are responsible for your own healthcare decisions and for involving qualified clinicians as appropriate.
If anything on this site causes you to delay seeking medical care for a serious condition, you have misread our purpose. We publish so that readers can ask better questions of their doctors — not so they can avoid seeing doctors.
Last updated: May 2026. Whole Body is published by TrafficWorx LLC, a California limited liability company, Rancho Santa Fe, California.