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Most intake forms were designed for primary care, not functional medicine.

They capture the presenting complaint. They don't capture the inflection point from five years back — the move, the job loss, the round of antibiotics that started everything.

For practitioners doing root-cause work, the intake form is the clinical foundation. What you ask before session 1 determines what you find — and what you miss.

5 places most intake forms leave gaps:

→ The timeline: the root cause has a timestamp — and clients won't volunteer it
→ The GI layer that shapes your whole protocol: stool frequency, bloating timing, food-to-symptom windows, antibiotic history
→ The variables clients don't think to mention: water source, the remodel two years ago, the job near solvents
→ Supplement history — not just current, but everything trialed, abandoned, or that caused a reaction
→ Lifestyle capacity: stress load, household support, actual cooking time, budget

The answers shape your entire protocol before you've ordered a single lab.

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