Gone are the days of viewing weight loss as a grueling uphill battle that ultimately results in a plateau.
When you partner with our team at Regain Functional Medicine + Aesthetics we merge medical weight loss with holistic lifestyle guidance to transform plateaus into milestones.
While we offer weight loss injectables in Leawood and Lawrence, our care doesn’t stop there. Instead, we guide you through the journey to slimming down and even combine our treatments for a comprehensive and effective weight loss journey tailored to your needs.
Here’s how we do things differently at Regain.
Table of Contents
If you’re eager to learn more about weight loss injectables or our complementary treatments, you can use this guide to jump to what’s most relevant to you.
- What Are Weight Loss Injectables?
- How We Go Above and Beyond
- Complementary Treatments
- Treatment for Post-Weight Loss
→ Read this article to learn more about our weight loss program.
→ If you’ve recently found success with medical weight loss and now you’re interested in learning about our weight management services, read this article.
*Compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide are only provided pursuant to a valid prescription for each individual patient after evaluation by a trained medical professional. This medication is a compounded product; the FDA does not evaluate compounded medications for safety or efficacy. This medication is provided under the supervision of a licensed prescriber.
Understanding Weight Loss Injectables
At Regain, we currently offer 2 weight loss injectables in Leawood: *semaglutide and *tirzepatide. These medications mimic a specific hormone in your body known as the GLP-1 hormone, that is responsible for:
- Increasing satiety (fullness): GLP-1 signals to your brain that you’re full and should stop eating.
- Slowing digestion: Slows the rate at which food moves through the digestive tract, which can keep you feeling fuller longer.
- Triggering insulin production: Insulin helps our body use food for energy while also lowering blood sugar levels and blocking glucagon secretion.
By mimicking this hormone, weight loss injectables help to reduce your appetite and regulate blood sugar so you can maintain a calorie deficit (burning more calories than you consume).
Semaglutide vs. Tirzepatide
Semaglutide and tirzepatide work similarly, the difference is that tirzepatide also mimics the GIP hormone, which plays a role in regulating blood sugar and reducing appetite.
Administering Weight Loss Injectables
We teach you how to administer these injectables during an in-office visit. Each week, on the same day, you are going to inject either semaglutide or tirzepatide in a prescribed dosage, alternating the injection sites around your arms, abdomen, or thighs.
We don’t only offer these medications as weight loss injectables in Leawood. If you have a needle aversion, we can prescribe you daily oral forms of semaglutide and tirzepatide instead.
Results Expectations
Many patients ask how soon they can see results. Our answer: it varies! Our bodies are all different, and how yours responds to the medication differs from another person’s. We can tell you that you will feel the effects of weight loss medications before you see them. At the start of your program, you’ll notice a reduced appetite and curbed cravings. This should give you confidence that your medication is working as it should.
Patient Results
Here are the results from one patient’s journey with our weight loss program.
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After
How We Go Above and Beyond
To our team, it’s not enough to just prescribe you a weight loss injectable and send you on your way. Instead, we guide you through the journey and offer advice, guidance, and support. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Nutritional guidance
- Exercise recommendations
- Lab and blood work
- Monthly scans on our InBody Body Composition Analysis
- Side-effect management
L-Glycine Injections
Included in your weight loss program are 4 L-glycine injections in addition to your weight loss injectables in Leawood.
When we say weight loss, we don’t just mean fat loss. Weight refers to your overall body composition, including:
- Fat
- Muscle
- Water
- Bone
When you lose weight, a percentage of that includes muscle loss—which is not as ideal as losing fat. This happens because you’re eating less, and therefore, your muscles receive fewer nutrients than normal.
L-glycine is an amino acid that aids in fat loss while also reducing muscle loss. These injections boost your health because they support:
- Detoxification
- Sleep quality
- Cardiovascular health
This injection can also boost glutathione production, a naturally occurring tripeptide that maintains cellular health, immune strength, and overall vitality.
Complementary Treatments
Weight loss injectables in Leawood are powerful tools that help you slim down and boost your health. When combined with complementary treatments, they enhance the efficacy and help you extend both your life span and health span (the years you live free of disease or chronic conditions).
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Your hormones regulate various bodily processes, including:
- Sleep/wake cycles
- Mood
- Blood sugar
- Blood pressure
These chemical messengers also determine key factors involved in your weight, including:
- Metabolism
- Body fat distribution
- Hunger
- Body fat accumulation
When you experience a hormonal imbalance, it can alter your body’s appetite, making you feel more hungry and less satisfied with meals. It can also slow your metabolism, so your body stores food as fat instead of using it for energy.
For most patients, we focus on balancing their hormones with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) before prescribing weight loss injectables in Leawood. This allows us time to improve your body’s metabolic function and optimize your response to the medication.
→ Learn more about how we use BHRT for weight loss in this article!
This approach helps ensure the injectables are as effective as possible, complementing the physiological changes already underway. We often find that patients experience more significant and sustainable results with this personalized, preparatory phase.
With that being said, if you’re keen to begin weight loss medications, we can start your BHRT and weight loss journey simultaneously.
IV Therapy
We offer IV therapy and vitamin injections to all patients to support their overall health by delivering vitamins and minerals intravenously for their cells to use immediately. IV therapy can improve metabolic function, fix nutritional deficiencies, maintain muscular strength, and much more.
For weight loss, we recommend the following vitamin injections and IV infusions:
- MIC Lipotropic Injections: Contains a combination of methionine, inositol, and choline. These nutrients enhance your body’s ability to burn and break down fat.
- NAD+: Not only do the NAD+ IV or Intramuscular (IM) injections improve energy at a cellular level by supporting mitochondria, it also improves sleep and enhances recovery after exercise. These are just a few of the many benefits you can experience from NAD+. For your convenience, we offer weekly IM injections you administer yourself at home.
- Ultimate IV: Infused with an amino acid blend, the Ultimate IV nutrition supports immunity, recovery, and fat burning.
Treatments for Post-Weight Loss
Our care doesn’t stop once the number on the scale lowers. We provide ongoing support so that you can maintain your results and continue improving your health. This looks different for everyone. Some patients may be able to slowly discontinue taking their medications. Others may benefit from a lower maintenance dose to regulate their appetite.
No matter what your post-weight loss journey looks like, we are here for you. In addition to continued care, we also offer the following post-weight loss treatments to help you feel more confident and comfortable in your body.
Body Sculpting and Contouring
Once you’ve reached your goal weight and size with weight loss injectables in Leawood, we can sculpt your body using our PHYSIQ for body contouring. Sometimes, stubborn fat bulges may remain in certain areas of your body despite your hard work.
This nonsurgical treatment combines heat and electric muscle stimulation to reduce unwanted fat while toning muscles underneath. With 4 different applicators, we can tighten and tone the following areas of your body:
- Abdomen
- Buttocks
- Arms
- Inner thighs
- Outer thighs
We can treat a maximum of 3 areas in 1 day.
Microneedling
We often pair the PHYSIQ with Morpheus8 RF, our microneedling device used for skin tightening. Weight loss comes with a lot of benefits: a slimmer physique, more energy, and improved health.
However, some people also experience excess skin on their body from weight loss. This happens because your skin and tissue stretched and expanded to fit your body, which breaks collagen and elastin fibers. Unfortunately, your skin’s original shape can’t be restored, which results in excess skin.
The Morpheus8 Body applies the tried-and-true method of microneedling. It creates tiny holes in your skin to increase collagen and elastin production and improve skin tone and texture with radiofrequency (RF) energy. RF penetrates deeper areas of the skin to enhance results for tighter, healthier skin.
Microneedling works from head-to-toe to tighten loose skin, smooth wrinkles, and improve scarring.
Experience True Support With Our Team
While weight loss injectables in Leawood work effectively to help you achieve a slimmer physique, you still deserve credit. At Regain, we recognize the hard work that you put in to prioritize your health and wellbeing. We are here to support you from the moment you make the decision to embark on this new journey, to once you’ve reached your goals and continue to maintain your results.
To get started, you can request a consultation or try our treatment planner tool.
