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You're losing the wrong weight.

35–40% of weight lost on GLP-1 medications is lean muscle. Your doctor told you the number on the scale. Nobody told you what was underneath it — or what to do about it.

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The key statistic
35–40%
of GLP-1 weight loss is lean muscle, not fat — a clinical reality most prescribers don't address.
Dropout rate
~30%
of users quit within 3 months. GI side effects are the #1 reason. Most are manageable.
Monthly searches
3M+
Americans searching for GLP-1 guidance every month. Trustworthy content is scarce.

Your GLP-1 is working.
Your body composition isn't.

The clinical framing of GLP-1 success — "you're losing weight" — misses what's actually happening inside the body. Three problems compound each other, and none of them are addressed in standard care.

35–40%
Muscle loss, not fat loss
On a GLP-1-induced caloric deficit without intervention, over a third of the weight you lose is lean tissue — muscle, bone density, organ mass. The scale drops. Your body composition gets worse.
~30%
Dropout from side effects
Nausea, gastroparesis, sulphur burps. GLP-1 slows gastric emptying — that's the mechanism of action. The side effects are baked in. Managing them day-by-day is learnable. Nobody teaches it.
#1
Reconstitution is the blindspot
For compounded peptide users, reconstitution is where most errors happen. No major health publisher covers this. Peptide vendors fill the gap — with obvious commercial incentives. We don't have any.

What your doctor didn't tell you

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The GLP-1 Muscle Protection Protocol

The clinical supplement stack for preserving lean mass on GLP-1 therapy — creatine, HMB, leucine, protein targets, timing. Evidence-graded, PubMed-cited. Free, no strings.

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Evidence-graded
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Medically reviewed
Every guide reviewed by a credentialed clinician. Published, last-updated, and review dates visible on every page.
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Public corrections
Errors are disclosed on our public corrections page. Inspired by the GiveWell model. Mistakes happen — hiding them doesn't.
"Every major GLP-1 content producer sells prescriptions. We don't. That's the entire difference."

Hims, Ro, Noom, Calibrate, Found — every major GLP-1 publication is a funnel for medication subscriptions. Their content is good. Their incentives are compromised. When every recommendation points toward their product, you can't know which ones you can trust.

We built glp.health because nobody was addressing the post-prescription experience honestly. The muscle loss. The GI management. The reconstitution errors. The supplement confusion. These problems don't have a clean commercial solution — which is exactly why the telehealth content machine ignores them.

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