Hold Your Wellness Treatments to the Same Standard as Your Ingredients

An Interview with Paulina Riedler, CEO of Spakinect

Today we are joined by Paulina Riedler, CEO of Spakinect, the gold standard in virtual, telehealth-delivered Good Faith Exams (GFEs) and patient-specific orders for Med Spas and wellness practices, with over 1.56 million exams completed and a 100% medical board audit pass rate. As more people go beyond supplements into IV hydration, peptides, and longevity treatments, Paulina explains how to bring the same standards to those decisions that the Gainful community already applies to what goes in their shaker.

Gainful: Recovery IVs, peptides, longevity protocols. The wellness menu at Med Spas keeps growing. What's driving it?

Paulina: As demand for wellness treatments increased, many Med Spas expanded their offerings to provide more comprehensive, patient-centered care. Rather than seeking services from multiple providers, patients could access both aesthetic and wellness treatments through a trusted practice they already knew. Then around 2023, demand for medically supervised weight loss kicked the door open, and it spread from there into recovery, peptides, IV hydration, and longevity protocols. Now when new owners call us, wellness services are just as likely to be part of the conversation as aesthetic treatments. A lot of that demand comes from people who already prioritize fitness, nutrition, and overall wellness, and who want access to the next layer of care from providers they already know and trust.

Gainful: Before someone gets any of these treatments, what is supposed to happen first?

Paulina: A Good Faith Exam. It's a medical evaluation where a licensed provider reviews your health history, your current medications, your contraindications, and your goals before anything is prescribed or administered. At Spakinect our nurse practitioners do these by telehealth, on demand, so the exam happens the same day you walk in. Regardless of where treatment is performed, these are medical procedures. A medical evaluation must be completed before treatment is provided. Skipping this step can put patient safety, clinical oversight, and regulatory compliance at risk.

Gainful: Peptides are everywhere in fitness content right now. If one of your client practices decides to integrate them, how do you decide what your providers will evaluate for?

Paulina: Every new treatment that our clients want to offer goes through our clinical team and chief medical officer before we'll offer it to our clients. If something is FDA approved and well studied, that's an easy yes. The problem is that some products being passed around right now are labeled as research use only, meaning they haven’t been approved for use in people. The supplement world figured this out a while ago: you look for proven ingredients at studied doses. That applies for treatments too. We air on the side of caution when there is a lack of evidence or studies for a new treatment. 

Gainful: How can someone tell whether their treatment is actually personalized?

Paulina: It starts with whether anyone evaluated you. A plan can only be tailored to your history and your goals if a licensed provider reviewed them first. Everything we evaluate for is written as a patient-specific order, meaning the treatment is matched to you specifically. If a practice gives every person who walks in the same protocol, then nothing about it is personal.

Gainful: Where do training and nutrition fit next to all of this?

Paulina: The patients who get the most out of wellness treatments are the ones already handling the basics: protein, hydration, sleep, consistent training. A treatment can support that work. It can't replace it. And honestly, the people who come in with those habits established are the easiest ones for our providers to clear, because their health picture is already strong.

Spakinect provides virtual Good Faith Exams, Patient-Specific Orders, and telehealth compliance services for Med Spas, aesthetic, and wellness practices across the United States. To learn more, fill out the form at spakinect.com/contact.