You got a prescription. Nobody told you the rest.
Research from the STEP and SURMOUNT trials shows that 25 to 40 percent of the weight lost on GLP-1 therapy is lean muscle, not fat. That means if you lose 20 pounds on semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) or tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound), up to 8 of those pounds could be muscle. Muscle controls your metabolism. Muscle is why 68 percent of people regain weight after stopping the drug. Nobody covered that at your appointment.
This book covers it. All of it.
Dr. Shallanda Hunter is a Florida licensed PharmD educator (MBA, RPh, CFNMP) and functional medicine educator. She wrote this book because she kept seeing the same gap: people starting GLP-1 medications with almost no educational context for what comes next. Most books cover the drug. This one covers the protocol around the drug, which is the part that determines whether your results last.
Inside, you will learn:
The five things GLP-1 medications actually do inside your body and the two things they cannot do. Every baseline lab you should have ordered and exactly what to say when your prescriber did not order them. The protein and resistance training protocol that protects lean mass while the medication works. The supplement protocol that addresses what GLP-1 depletes: exact forms, doses, and timing, with third-party certification standards. Medication and supplement interactions most prescribers never flag, reviewed at PharmD depth. Cultural food adaptations for Jamaican and Caribbean, Latin and Hispanic, South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, Southern American, West African, and Filipino traditions, making this the only GLP-1 book with this coverage. The 90-day transition protocol for coming off the medication without giving the results back.
This is the ROOTS Framework: Review, Optimize Nutrition, Optimize Biochemical Balance, Transform Lifestyle Factors, Sustain and Adapt. This is the proprietary methodology Dr. Hunter built for Hunter's Holistic Health LLC.
Updated for 2026: orforglipron (Foundayo), oral semaglutide (oral Wegovy), SELECT cardiovascular outcomes trial, FLOW kidney trial, Medicare Bridge pricing, and the post shortage compounded GLP-1 landscape.
Whether you are on semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy), tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound), orforglipron (Foundayo), or considering starting, this book gives you the language, the labs, the protocol, and the questions to walk into your next prescriber visit informed.
Free companion tools, including a Lab Request Sheet, Supplement Tracking Template, and Provider Appointment Scripts, are available at hunters-holistic-health.kit.com.
