TreatmentsMedical Weight Loss
GLP-1 and GIP programs prescribed, dosed, and monitored by board-certified nurse practitioners who stay with you for the whole journey.
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How our program
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GLP-1 and GIP medications changed what medical weight loss can honestly promise. By mimicking your body's own satiety hormones, they turn down appetite and food noise at the source.
What makes the difference between a prescription and a program is everything around the injection: proper screening, individualized dosing, side-effect management, and a provider who adjusts the plan as your body responds.
That wraparound is what we built. Weekly rhythm, regular check-ins, and a nurse practitioner who knows your chart, not a mail-order vial and good luck — plus honest guidance on how much weight loss is realistic.
Weight is medicine here, treated with the same seriousness as anything else we prescribe. Screening is real, monitoring is real, and honesty about candidacy comes first.
Health history, labs, and candidacy screening before any prescription is written.
Doses start conservative and titrate to your response, not a fixed calendar.
Nausea and adjustment effects are anticipated and treated, not endured alone.
Maintenance planning is part of the program from day one, not an afterthought.
When willpower was never the missing piece, medicine fills in the biology.
This program starts with an honest medical evaluation. If the medications are not appropriate for you, our providers will say exactly that and discuss what is.
The Cycle Keeps Repeating
Loss and regain over years usually signals biology, not character, needing support.
Appetite Feels Louder Than You
Constant food noise is precisely the signal these hormone pathways quiet.
Health Numbers Are Drifting
When weight starts moving labs in the wrong direction, supervised loss becomes preventive care.
You Want a Doctor's Rigor
Screening, monitoring, and honest candidacy talk separate a program from a product.
Not another
diet lecture.
Actual medicine,
actually supervised.
They mimic hormones your body already makes after eating, which slows digestion, steadies blood sugar, and quiets the constant food noise. Appetite shrinks to match your actual needs, and sustainable loss follows.
GLP-1 medications work on one hormone pathway; newer dual-action medications add GIP, a second pathway that can enhance the effect for some patients. Which fits you is a medical decision your provider makes from your history and labs.
Candidacy depends on your health history, current medications, BMI, and goals. The consultation includes a genuine medical evaluation, and our providers will tell you plainly if this program is not the right fit.
Regular check-ins are built into the program: dose adjustments, side-effect management, and progress reviews with your nurse practitioner. This is supervised medicine, not a subscription box.
We plan the exit as carefully as the start. Your provider tapers or transitions your plan and focuses on the habits that maintain the loss, because keeping the result matters more than reaching it once.
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Medically reviewed by Barbara Kowalczyk, FNP‑BC and Michael Fressola, ACNP‑BC, board-certified nurse practitioners at Skin Med Spa. This page is for education and is not a substitute for a personalized medical consultation.