Our weight management program: 12 months of semaglutide, 7 months of tirzepatide

Weight loss after switching from semaglutide to tirzepatide

Our one year data is in! The bottom line? Our patients are losing weight on both semaglutide and tirzerpatide! These are amazing medications that allow patients to get to their goal weight and maintain that weight with one of our less expensive maintenance subscriptions that include fewer injections per month.   While both medications are […]

Maintenance therapy on semaglutide or tirzepatide

bottles of semaglutide and tirzepatide

So you’ve lost the weight on semaglutide or tirzepatide, now what? If you’ve been utilizing our coaching program, then the behavioral changes associated with coaching on diet and exercise are designed to assist you in maintaining your weight. But what if you’re continuing to diet and exercise, doing everything you’re supposed to do but still […]

Ozempic is safe. How fake news wants you to believe otherwise.

The medications you’ve been hearing so much about are just shy of miraculous. And that’s not hyperbole. These medications have all of the positives of effective weight loss meds (they help you lose weight!) without the worse possible side effects (heart valve dysfunction with Fen-Phen in the ’90’s or the side effects associated with amphetamines) […]

Weight loss results after 8 months on semaglutide, 4 months on tirzepatide

Semaglutide after 8 months - October 2023 data release

We’re very excited to release our October weight loss data from our weight management program that includes semaglutide (the active ingredient found in Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (the active ingredient in Mounjaro). The medications we offer come from a compounding pharmacy which by law, must be a duplicate of these name brand active ingredients […]

NUEVO PROGRAMA DE CONTROL DE PESO: PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS

Dos Formas de Obtener Medicamentos Tiene dos formas de obtener Ozempic/Wegovy (semaglutida) o Mounjaro (tirzepatida): Semaglutida o tirzepatida compuesta en una farmacia de compuestos Una prescripción para el medicamento de marca Ozempic/Wegovy (ingrediente activo: semaglutida) o Mounjaro (ingrediente activo: tirzepatida)   Los beneficios de la semaglutida compuesta o tirzepatida compuesta: Se envía el medicamento directo […]

Weight management now available for patients in California, Arizona, Hawaii and Florida

weight management program flowchart

We continue to offer surgical and non-surgical services to patients who can eventually come into the office. But weight management patients have the benefit of utilizing our services entirely virtually. And because of the benefits of virtual consultations, baseline lab work at a LabCorp near you and the shipping of medications to your doorstep, we […]

Coaching may be for 6 months but medications are month-to-month

weight management program flowchart

There may be some confusion regarding our coaching program and medication. While we encourage patients to join our 6-month coaching program, you don’t have to take the medication for 6 months. You can take it for longer or less. It’s a month-to-month subscription.   Benefits of coaching In studies, patients who stopped medication, stopped exercise […]

Weight Loss Results after 4-5 months on semaglutide

weight loss after 4 months on semaglutide

Results of weight loss program The data is in! After 4-5 months of our patients on semaglutide in our weight management program, we’re still seeing amazing results. You can see average weight loss each month in the graph above.   Each month, patients increase their dosage with each injection, starting at 0.25mg then up to […]

Kids approved for weight loss drugs!

Wegovy approved in kids

As we’ve discussed here before, we have a weight loss program in our practice that offers patients semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (the active ingredient in Mounjaro). Currently, most of the patients in our program are adults, ie anyone 18 and older. But did you know that Wegovy is FDA-approved […]

Webinar Recording on Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro Q&A [video]

ozempic webinar

 Jonathan Kaplan: Thanks everyone for joining. Again, those of you in the Zoom community, some of you on Instagram Live and TikTok Live, so if you see my head moving around, that’s looking at each of the cameras, but we’re going to be talking about Ozempic and Wegovy today. We’ll get to all your […]

Weight Loss Results after 4 weeks on Semaglutide

weight loss results

  Results of weight loss program The data is in! Based on the results of our weight management program, our patients have lost an average of 7.7 pounds in only 4 weeks on the lowest, introductory dose of semaglutide!   We’ll continue to track all of our patients with surveys and follow up appointments to […]

How we’re able to get “generic” Ozempic/Wegovy 🤔

semaglutide

via GIPHY We’ve received questions about how we’re getting semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, since it’s currently so backordered. We’re ordering our semaglutide from a compounding pharmacy. Never heard of a compounding pharmacy? That’s ok, chances are you’ve used medication from a compounding pharmacy before.   Examples of what a compounding pharmacy […]