MyProtocolStack vs Marek Health: Tracking Tool vs Telehealth Clinic

What Marek Health Is

Marek Health is a telehealth clinic founded by Derek (More Plates More Dates) that focuses on TRT, peptide therapy, and broader hormone optimization for men and women. They operate through licensed providers, partner with compounding pharmacies for fulfillment, and run lab work through Quest Diagnostics in most regions.

The typical patient experience looks like this: you sign up, complete an intake form, schedule an initial consult with a health coach, get blood work ordered, review your panel with a provider, and receive a protocol if appropriate. Compounds commonly prescribed in their network include testosterone cypionate, sermorelin, CJC-1295, ipamorelin, BPC-157, GHK-Cu, and tesamorelin, depending on the patient's goals and lab markers. Pricing typically lands between $225 and $350 per month for the protocol itself, which covers the medications, periodic provider check-ins, and a Quest lab order every 8 to 12 weeks.

The strength of Marek's model is the prescriber relationship. You get an actual licensed provider reviewing your labs, an actual compounding pharmacy filling your script, and an actual coach checking in periodically. For a category as compliance-sensitive as peptides, that infrastructure matters. The 2026 reclassification has only made the prescriber-and-pharmacy combination more important.

The gap in the model — and the reason this article exists — is what happens between visits. Once your kit arrives and you start dosing, Marek does not give you a place to log the dose, track how you feel day to day, or see your lab trends connected to your active stack. The check-in cadence is 8 to 12 weeks. Everything in between lives in your head, your phone notes, or a spreadsheet.

What MyProtocolStack Is

MyProtocolStack is a tracking and organization platform built specifically for people running peptide, GLP-1, hormone, or longevity protocols. We are not a clinic. We do not have providers on staff. We do not prescribe, ship, or fulfill anything. The platform is software — you bring your own protocol (whether it came from Marek, a local clinic, your own provider, or a compounding pharmacy), and we give you the place to track it.

Here's what's actually inside the product:

The Optimizer plan is $14.99 per month and includes everything above. There is also a free Explorer tier with unlimited lab uploads and the calculator suite. Annual pricing is $90 (about $7.50 per month equivalent).

Side-by-Side Comparison

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The categories don't overlap on most rows. Marek does the things a clinic does. MyProtocolStack does the things a tracking platform does. The interesting rows are the ones where Marek's clinic model leaves a gap that a software layer can fill.

Who Each Is For

Marek Health is the right call if you don't currently have a provider for peptide, TRT, or hormone protocols and you want one. Specifically:

MyProtocolStack is the right call if you already have access to your protocol — whether through Marek, a different telehealth clinic, a local longevity practice, or your own provider — and what you actually need is a way to track it. Specifically:

The two audiences overlap heavily. Many MyProtocolStack users have a prescriber relationship with Marek or a similar clinic and use our platform as the tracking layer their clinic doesn't build.

When You Might Use Both

The most common case for using both products is straightforward: Marek (or any telehealth clinic) handles the prescription and the lab orders. MyProtocolStack handles everything between visits.

A typical month for a Marek patient using MyProtocolStack as the tracking layer might look like this. You receive your monthly vials. Each injection day, you open MyProtocolStack and log dose, site, time, and any notes (sleep quality, training response, side effects). The site rotation tracker shows you which quad to use next. The vial inventory counts down so you know when to schedule the next refill. When your 12-week Quest panel arrives, you upload the PDF, the biomarkers parse automatically, and StackAI reads the panel in the context of your active stack. You walk into the next coach call with a trended view of every relevant marker, your adherence log, and a side-by-side comparison of this panel against your last two.

The Marek coach gets a much higher-resolution patient. You get a much clearer picture of what's actually changing. The clinic does what a clinic does — provider relationship, prescription, pharmacy. The tracker does what a tracker does. Neither product tries to be the other.

What to Track if You're on a Marek Protocol

If you're already a Marek patient — or any telehealth clinic patient — and you're trying to figure out what's actually worth tracking between visits, here is a starting point. None of this is medical advice. It's an organizational checklist for the data your protocol generates.

Dose adherence. Log every injection with timestamp, compound, dose, and site. The most common reason a protocol "doesn't work" is missed or inconsistent doses, and the most common reason patients can't have a productive coach call is they don't remember when they last took what. A 30-second log immediately after each injection eliminates this.

Site rotation. Repeated injection at the same site causes lipohypertrophy, scar tissue, and inconsistent absorption. A simple rotation tracker (delts, glutes, quads, abdomen) prevents this. MyProtocolStack does this automatically when you log a dose.

Subjective response. Sleep quality, energy, training recovery, mood, libido, sexual function, GI symptoms. These are the inputs your coach asks about at the 8-week call. Logging them weekly (or daily for the first 4 weeks of a new compound) gives you actual data to bring instead of "I think I felt better."

Lab trends. Whatever your panel includes — total testosterone, free T, IGF-1, SHBG, estradiol, lipid panel, fasting glucose, HbA1c, hsCRP, CBC, CMP, prolactin — track every marker over time. A single number tells you almost nothing. Three or four values across 6 months tells you the direction.

Compound-specific markers. If you're on a GH-secretagogue (sermorelin, CJC-1295, ipamorelin, tesamorelin), IGF-1 is the single most important marker. If you're on testosterone, free testosterone and estradiol matter as much as total. If you're on a GLP-1, fasting glucose, HbA1c, and ApoB are the core trio. If you're on BPC-157 or TB-500 for healing, there's no biomarker that confirms it's working — you have to track subjective response carefully.

Vial inventory and expiry. Compounding-pharmacy peptides have shelf-life constraints. Tracking which vial is open, when it was reconstituted, and how many doses remain prevents both running out and using past-expiry product.

Cycle timing. If your protocol involves on/off cycles (common with GH peptides and some hormone protocols), track exactly when you started, when you're scheduled to pause, and when the next cycle begins.

The 16 free calculators on MyProtocolStack — reconstitution, BAC water, half-life, IU-to-mg, pen-click conversion, and others — handle the math at injection time so you don't make mistakes when you're tired or distracted.

Pricing Reality Check

It's important to be honest about pricing because the numbers can be misleading. Marek Health's $225 to $350 per month is the cost of the protocol itself — the medication, the provider relationship, the lab orders. MyProtocolStack's $14.99 per month is the cost of software for tracking. They are not the same line item, and one does not replace the other.

If you cancel Marek, you don't have a prescription anymore. If you cancel MyProtocolStack, you still have your prescription — you just don't have a tracker. The decision between the two is not "which is cheaper." The decision is "do I need a prescriber, do I need a tracker, or do I need both." Most serious protocol users need both. Some users with an existing provider relationship only need the tracker.

FAQ

Is MyProtocolStack a replacement for Marek Health?

No. Marek prescribes; we don't. We're a tracking and organization platform that works alongside any prescriber. If you cancel Marek, you don't have a script anymore — that's a clinic question, not a tracker question.

Can I use MyProtocolStack if I'm already a Marek patient?

Yes, and many of our users are. You upload your Quest panels, log doses between coach calls, and walk into your next visit with a high-resolution view of your protocol. The Optimizer plan at $14.99 per month is the typical fit.

Does MyProtocolStack order labs or recommend doses?

No on both counts. We don't order labs (you can use Marek, Function Health, your own clinic, or a direct order through Quest or LabCorp). We don't recommend doses — that's a prescriber decision. We organize, trend, and visualize the data your protocol generates.

What if I want to switch from Marek to a different provider?

That's a clinic decision and not something MyProtocolStack can help with directly. What we can do is keep your full protocol history — every dose, every panel, every trend — in one place so a new provider sees the complete picture instead of starting from zero.

Do I need to be on peptides to use MyProtocolStack?

No. The platform supports TRT, GLP-1s (semaglutide, tirzepatide, retatrutide), hormone optimization, supplement stacks, and longevity protocols generally. If you're tracking labs and any kind of regimen, the dashboard fits.

The Honest Verdict

If you're searching "Marek Health alternative" because you want a different prescriber, MyProtocolStack is not your answer — we are not a clinic. There are other telehealth options in the category and your decision there is about provider quality, pharmacy network, and pricing. We can't help with that.

If you're searching "Marek Health alternative" because you want a tracking layer Marek doesn't build, MyProtocolStack is exactly that. The combination of lab parsing, dose logging, AI panel analysis, calculators, and cycle planning is designed for people running protocols who need a system more durable than iPhone notes.

The most common pattern we see: a serious patient stays with Marek (or a similar clinic) for the prescriber side, and uses MyProtocolStack for the tracking side. Different products, different problems. Both can be the right answer.

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*This article is for informational and educational purposes only. MyProtocolStack is a tracking and organization platform — it does not diagnose, treat, prescribe, or provide clinical decision support. Marek Health is a telehealth clinic operated by licensed providers. Pricing and service details for Marek Health are based on publicly available information and may change. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before starting, modifying, or stopping any peptide, hormone, or pharmaceutical protocol.*