Chase Salomon

I've worked in health care for more than thirty years, and I've lived with type 2 diabetes for twenty of them.

Three years ago I started tirzepatide. It worked. I lost sixty pounds, I've kept them off, and for the first time in a long time my blood sugar was genuinely under control.

Then something happened that nobody had warned me about. My numbers started climbing again — and not because I had regained weight. The scale hadn't moved. At the same time my energy was draining away, the kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix.

It took me a while to connect those two facts. When I did, the answer turned out to be the same for both: along with the fat, I had been losing lean and skeletal muscle. Muscle is where most of your glucose is stored and burned, so losing it quietly gives back some of the metabolic ground the medication had won. It is also exactly why the fatigue shows up.

So I went looking. I read the research and I talked to physicians about what to do next. What I found is that this is well documented — a substantial share of the weight lost on these medications can be lean mass — and that it is largely preventable with a couple of things most patients are simply never told to do.

I built the program I needed: one path for people like me who have to rebuild muscle they've already lost, and one for people earlier in treatment who want to keep theirs in the first place.

That is what LeanShield Rx is.