Work with Dr. Karl Goldkamp
Stop guessing at your health. Read your own data.
Your annual physical checks about twenty markers against a reference range built from a sick population. I run four panels, several hundred data points, and read them as patterns instead of as a list. You come out knowing what is actually happening in your body, what to change first, and what to reasonably expect when you do.
No cost, no obligation. I show you what the analysis actually looks like and answer your questions.
A free 20-minute walk-through call
Before you spend anything, I would rather show you the work than describe it.
On the call I walk you through what a full interpretation actually looks like, which panels answer which questions, and roughly what your situation would involve. You ask whatever you want. At the end you will know whether this is worth your money, and I will know whether I can genuinely help you. If the answer is no, I will tell you.
What the call is
- A look at how I read a panel, on screen
- Straight answers about cost, timing and what is involved
- An honest read on whether your situation fits this work
What the call is not
- An interpretation of your labs (that is the paid work)
- A pitch. If it is not a fit I will say so on the call
- Medical advice or treatment for an acute problem
The email opens with three short questions already in it, including your time zone and a couple of windows that work. Answer those and I can usually confirm a time in one reply.
Why your last lab report told you nothing
Normal is not the same as optimal
If you are reading your CRP in isolation and feeling reassured, you are being reassured by an incomplete picture. CRP without ferritin, fibrinogen and homocysteine is a single data point. The reassurance is false.
This is not because your doctor is careless. Most physicians are doing what they can inside a ten-minute insurance visit that pays for a diagnosis code, not for analysis. There is no billing code for sitting with 300 values and looking for what moves together. So the reading is value-versus-reference-range, and that is the whole assessment. The cost of that gap gets paid by you, usually about a decade later.
Look at the pairs. Look at what changes together. That is where the signal lives.
That is the part nobody is paid to do, and it is the part I have spent twelve years doing. Nearly 9,000 scatter plots, plotting markers against each other across every client who has come through the practice, because a single value tells you where you are and a pair tells you where you are going.
From my own client data
This is what the analysis actually looks like
There is an old saying that if you find a turtle sitting on a fence post, you know it did not get there by itself.
Lab markers work the same way. When a value lands somewhere it has no business being, something put it there. One marker out of place is a question worth asking. Three of them pointing the same direction is a finding you can act on.
One turtle is a question. Three pointing the same way is a finding.
That is why I plot markers against each other instead of reading them down a list.
Two plots out of roughly 9,000. Client data, de-identified. The red line marked “You” is where a single person lands on a curve built from everyone who came before them.
Watch what happens as insulin climbs left to right. Triglycerides go up, HDL comes down, glucose holds steady for a long while and then gives way. Your doctor sees three separate values inside their reference ranges. What matters is which direction you are travelling along this curve, and nothing on a standard report tells you that.
Two sets of curves: solid for people who are not insulin resistant, dashed for those who are. Same nutrient, same age, different expectation. A B12 of 783 is reassuring on one curve and a problem on the other. This is why “within normal limits” is not an answer.
The four domains
What I actually measure
Four panels, each answering a question the others cannot.
Longevity–Vitality Blood Panel
Deep cardiovascular, metabolic and inflammation markers. Not the standard lipid panel. The markers that show trajectory years before a diagnosis does, including the fatty acid work below. Your annual physical runs about twenty of these. This panel runs 35 line items, several of which are full panels in their own right.
See every test in the panel
- ABO Grouping and Rho(D) Typing
- Apolipoprotein B
- Beta-Hydroxybutyrate
- Carnitine, Total and Free
- Complete Blood Count (CBC) with Differential
- Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP-14)
- C-Reactive Protein (CRP), High Sensitivity
- Ferritin + Iron + Total Iron-binding Capacity (TIBC)
- Folate, RBC
- Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase (GGT)
- Glucagon, Plasma
- Glutathione, Total
- Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)
- Homocysteine
- Insulin
- Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) with Z score
- Iodine, Serum or Plasma
- Lactate Dehydrogenase (LD) Isoenzymes
- Lipid Panel + VLDL + TC/HDL + LDL/HDL + CHD Risk
- Lipoprotein(a)
- Magnesium, RBC
- Methylmalonic Acid (MMA)
- Omega 3 and 6 Fatty Acids
- Phosphorus
- Reverse T3
- Sedimentation Rate, Modified Westergren (ESR)
- Thyroid Antibodies (Thyroglobulin + TPO)
- Thyroid-stimulating Hormone (TSH)
- Thyroxine (T4), Free, Direct
- Triiodothyronine (T3), Free
- Uric Acid
- Vitamin A (Retinol)
- Vitamin B1 (Thiamine), Whole Blood
- Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
- Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy
The omega panel from a real report. Your omega-6 to omega-3 ratio is the one most people have never measured and most people are losing. This client is at 3.4 to 1. The American average runs closer to 25 to 1, and that is dry kindling.
SpectraCell Intracellular Micronutrients
What is actually inside your cells, not what is floating in your serum. A normal serum level with a depleted cell is a common and expensive misread.
Energy production on the left, methylation and detoxification on the right, with every cofactor colour-coded from the client’s own cells. Green is fine, yellow is borderline, red is deficient. You can see exactly where the machinery is short of what it needs to run.
DUTCH Hormone Panel
Complete hormone mapping, including the metabolites, from a dried urine kit you do at home and mail back.
Cortisol and cortisone across a single day, plotted against where they should be. This person’s curve peaks an hour late, overshoots, then falls off a cliff by mid-day. A single morning cortisol draw would have called that normal.
Strategene Genomic Report
A 116-page functional read of raw data you already have from 23andMe or Ancestry. Your genes set the terrain. The other three panels show what you are doing with it.
Methylation, detoxification and neurotransmitter pathways with your own variants marked on each enzyme. This tells us which nutrients you burn through faster than the person next to you, and where to look when a marker will not move.
Add four weeks of tracked food in Cronometer and, where you can get one, a continuous glucose monitor, and I can connect what you eat to what your labs are doing. Without that I am interpreting a photograph. With it I am reading a film.
How it goes
From first email to a plan you can act on
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The free call
Twenty minutes. I show you what the work looks like, you ask whatever you want, and we decide together whether to go further.
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Labs get ordered and drawn
I confirm exact current pricing, you pay the labs directly, and the blood draw happens at a lab near you. The hormone and genomic pieces are done at home.
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Tracking starts
Once your blood is drawn, you log four weeks of food in Cronometer, and wear a CGM if we agreed on one. Results take about four weeks to come back, so this fills the wait rather than delaying the draw.
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I do the analysis
Every marker, then every pair that matters. You get written interpretation documents built around your goals, not a generic printout.
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The review session
I walk you through all of it in plain language, recorded, so you can go back to it. You leave knowing what to change first and what to expect when you do.
Three ways to work together
What it costs, in full
Lab fees are paid directly to the labs. My fee is separate and listed under each option. Lab pricing shifts, so I confirm exact numbers before anything is ordered.
Complete Health Intelligence Package
For people who want the most thorough assessment available and intend to act on it.
$900 my fee, one time
- In-depth analysis across all four panels
- Custom interpretation documents written to your goals
- A recorded review session covering every finding in plain language
- The connections between your data and your next steps, in priority order
- Longevity–Vitality blood panel (incl. Omega check) ~$855
- SpectraCell micronutrient panel $560
- DUTCH hormone panel $510
- Strategene genomic report $85
- Local blood draw fee ~$10
- Lab costs, paid to the labs ~$2,020
- Total including my fee ~$2,920
Optional add-on: a personalized action plan session, $700, turning the findings into a concrete roadmap. Requires four weeks of Cronometer tracking, CGM where available, and existing 23andMe or Ancestry raw data for the genomic report.
Longevity–Vitality Assessment
A focused, high-value place to start. The blood panel and your genomics together.
$500 my fee
- Complete interpretation of the Longevity–Vitality blood panel
- Your Strategene genomic report read alongside it
- Recorded review session
- Targeted recommendations based on what your results actually show
- Longevity–Vitality blood panel (incl. Omega check) ~$855
- Strategene genomic report $85
- Lab costs, paid to the labs ~$940
- Total including my fee ~$1,440
Requires four weeks of Cronometer tracking, CGM where you can get one, and existing 23andMe or Ancestry raw data for the genomic report.
Hourly Consulting
For a targeted question, a review of labs you already have, or ongoing guidance once we have a baseline.
$700 per session, up to 90 minutes
- Focused discussion on your labs, your diet, or a specific question
- Full session recording, so you are not taking notes instead of listening
- Discounts when you prepay for three or more sessions
Already have recent lab work or genetic raw data? Send it along and we will use it.
Not sure which one? Take the free call. Picking the wrong panel is an expensive mistake and it is avoidable in twenty minutes.
Before you inquire
Whether this is for you
I would rather you self-select than spend $2,900 finding out we were a bad match.
This works well if you
- Want to understand your health, not be handed a protocol
- Are willing to track your food for four weeks before we start
- Find data interesting rather than intimidating
- Want the reasoning, not just the recommendation
- Are prepared to change something once you see what the data says
This is a poor fit if you
- Want a supplement list without the lab work behind it
- Are looking for a quick answer to a single symptom
- Need acute or emergency medical care
- Are not willing to track intake, which is most of the diagnostic value
- Want me to replace your physician rather than work alongside them
If a practitioner handed you a protocol without ordering labs first, they did not assess you. They guessed at you. The labs exist. That is the difference this work is built on.
Who does the work
Dr. Karl Goldkamp
Naturopathic Doctor
Licensed Acupuncturist, Dipl. Oriental Medicine
Bastyr University, dual degrees
New Bern, North Carolina
I graduated from Bastyr with a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and a master’s in acupuncture, ran a brick-and-mortar practice in Connecticut for twelve years, and taught functional medicine and nutrigenomics at the University of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. Environmental medicine and nutrigenomics have been the focus throughout.
What changed the work was my own health crisis, and my wife Judi’s, at the same time. Conventional advice did not give us a path forward. Getting out of it meant going further into the data than either conventional or naturopathic medicine had bothered to go. That is where the plotting started, and it has not stopped since.
Today I work online with clients anywhere, and I still do every analysis myself. There is no team, no associate, no software reading your labs for you. You get me.
Written work
Two books on the method
If you want to see how I think before you spend anything, start here. Both are on Amazon, and there is more at ketonaturopath.com/our-books.
Unlocking Optimal Metabolic Health
The reasoning behind the panels and how metabolic markers move together.
Precision PSMF
The protein sparing modified fast, done with data. Co-authored with Judi Goldkamp.
Common questions
What people ask before they start
Is the 20-minute call really free?
Yes. No card, no obligation, no sequence of follow-up emails afterward. It exists because this work is hard to describe and easy to show, and because a bad-fit client is expensive for both of us.
What happens after I email you?
I read it and write back myself, usually within a couple of business days. For the free call I propose a time from the windows you gave me. For a paid option I confirm current lab pricing and tell you honestly whether the option you picked is the right one.
Do I have to do all four panels?
No. The Longevity–Vitality panel on its own is a real assessment and the right starting point for most people. The four together answer questions no single panel can, which is why the package exists, but it is not a prerequisite.
Why do you require Cronometer?
Because without it I am reading your labs against your story about your diet rather than your diet. Those are different things, and four weeks of honest tracking is what separates them.
Do I need a continuous glucose monitor?
Maybe not, and I would rather tell you that up front than sell you one. I look at your insulin, your glucose and your beta-hydroxybutyrate first. Those three tell me whether a CGM will teach us anything. If you are not insulin resistant, a monitor is usually one more thing to do for very little signal. When it is worth it I am happy to arrange one. When it is not, I will say so.
Can I use lab work I already have?
Send it. If it is recent and complete enough, we use it. If it is missing the markers that carry the signal, I will tell you which ones to add rather than repeat what you already paid for.
I live in New York, New Jersey or Rhode Island. Can I still do this?
Not through the lab system I normally use. Those three states do not participate in direct-access lab ordering, so I cannot send you a requisition there the way I can everywhere else.
That does not have to end it. One client I work with now drives from New York into Pennsylvania for his blood draw, and that is the whole workaround. The requisition goes to a lab in a participating state and you go to it. If a drive across a state line is not realistic, and your own physician is willing to order these panels, that can work too. Tell me what state you are in when you write and I will tell you straight away where you stand, rather than letting you find out three emails in.
Where are you, and does that matter?
I work online with clients anywhere. Blood draws happen at a local lab near you, and the hormone and genomic panels are done at home.
Is what I tell you private?
Yes. What you send me is not sold, traded, or shared with anyone who could identify you, and I do not discuss you with a third party without your say-so.
One thing I want you to know up front rather than bury. Across twelve years I have built a reference dataset from the people I have worked with, and it is the only reason I can show you where you sit against everyone who came before you. Your results join that dataset with your name and anything identifying stripped out. In that form the patterns show up in my teaching, my videos and my books, as anonymous points on a curve. Nobody can work backwards from them to you. If you would rather your data stayed out of it entirely, say so and it will, and it changes nothing about the work I do for you.
Are you my doctor?
No, and I will not pretend otherwise. I analyse and interpret laboratory data and help you understand what it means and what to do about it. I do not diagnose or treat disease, I do not prescribe, and I will not tell you to stop or change a medication your prescriber put you on. Keep your own physician and keep seeing them. This work sits alongside that relationship, not in place of it.
Is this covered by insurance?
No. Insurance does not pay for this depth of analysis, which is the reason it is not already being done for you.
You can run these labs this month, or run them in five years
The labs will be the same. You will not be. The data is not going to interpret itself, and that is the job.
drgoldkamp@ketonaturopath.com · Every legitimate inquiry gets a reply from me.
Dr. Karl Goldkamp is a naturopathic doctor and licensed acupuncturist. This consulting work is educational and analytical: it interprets laboratory data and supports dietary and lifestyle decisions. It is not the practice of primary care, it does not diagnose or treat disease, it does not include prescribing, and it does not replace your own physician or any treatment they have prescribed. If you have an urgent or emergency medical problem, contact your physician or emergency services rather than waiting to hear from this practice. Client information is kept private and is never sold or shared in identifiable form; de-identified data may contribute to the aggregate reference dataset described above. Lab prices listed are approximate and set by the laboratories, not by this practice; exact costs are confirmed before any panel is ordered.
