Are you getting the full truth about weight loss medications, or just another marketing pitch? As a licensed medical doctor and certified strength & conditioning coach, I’ve helped hundreds of patients navigate weight loss with medications like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound). In this video, I react to the Hims & Hers weight loss Super Bowl ad—breaking down what they get right, what they leave out, and reviewing whether their program is actually worth it.
📌 Topics Covered:
✔️ Why obesity rates keep rising—and does this ad address the real issue?
✔️ Brand-name vs. compounded semaglutide—what are you actually getting?
✔️ Do online weight loss clinics like Hims & Hers help with long-term results?
✔️ The TRUTH about weight loss meds—what’s required to lose weight and keep it off for good.
If you’re considering weight loss shots or semaglutide programs, you NEED to watch this first!
⚠ Before using compounded medications, verify that the pharmacy is properly licensed:
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⚕️ Medical Disclaimer:
This video is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, nor does it establish a doctor-patient relationship. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making any medical decisions, including starting or stopping medications. The information presented here is based on my professional knowledge and interpretation of the available evidence at the time of recording.
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Timestamps
00:00 Weight Loss Genius or Marketing Scam?
01:00 High Marketing Value of the Ad
01:20 Obesity Crisis Blown Out of Proportion?
02:27 ACTUAL Consequences of Obesity?
03:05 Why Are Obesity Rates Skyrocketing? – The System
05:10 Why Are Obesity Rates Skyrocketing? – Our Bodies
06:17 Hims & Hers Weight Loss Drug Offerings
06:54 What Are You Actually Getting With Compounding Pharmacies?
10:30 Hims & Hers Weight Loss Program Breakdown
11:57 Changes that MUST Be Made To Hims & Hers Program
15:17 Will You Have LASTNG Weight Loss with Hims & Hers?
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Drop a comment below with questions/struggles you’ve experienced with trying to lose weight and I’ll try to help! Thanks for watching!
I’ve just reported this to YouTube for negligent and medically malicious misconduct.
Next I will find out if you’re even a board certified MD or DO, and I will report you to every association for giving public, mass audience “medical advice” on YouTube which is illegal.
Further, your promises on what Hims & Hers provided is full of egregious misinformation which is insanely irresponsible and a violation of multiple health codes, regulations, and protections.
This is full of lies and misinformation. I will be reporting this video.
Hers does not offer a certificate of analysis nor provide any traceability on their compounding pharmacies nor sourcing methods whatsoever.
After using Hims semaglutide I can say: RESULTS MAY VARY. I STARTED December 4th and today is July 19th. So far I lost 45 lbs. i didn’t really lose any weight throughout December, January or most of March. They start you on low doses so that your body gets used to it. I didn’t really get to a full dose until 3 months into it. I joined a gym in early February and did 3 strength training workouts per week. By the end of my 3rd month I only lost 5 lbs. however I did gain some muscle as well. 6 weeks into my workouts I started using the treadmill after each workout and that’s when I noticed the weight to start coming off faster and I did that combination for 6 weeks. During this time the GLP-1 started to curb my appetite finally and I started to lose any weight throughout average of 8 to 20 lbs per month. After 3 months of working out and 5 months of being on glp-1 I lost 20 lbs. unfortunately in late April I got AFIB! I believe it’s because I’m 55 years old, I have sleep apnea and I’m very overweight. I started off at 375 lbs and by the time I got AFIB I weighed 355 lbs. I was told by my doctor to stop working out so I did and focused on an already stringent diet. Eating cottage cheese and boiled eggs for breakfast and sometimes for lunch. Then a whole lean meat with veggies. 🥦. I lost another 25 lbs between Mother’s Day (May 10) and today’s date (July 19) they say you can get out of Afib by losing 10 percent of your weight. That didn’t happen for me and surgery is around the corner. I have been cleared to workout again these past / weeks but told to go easy. Walk on the treadmill leisurely and strength train to tone muscles but not to over exert yourself. When you’re in your 50’s you don’t lose weight fast. I eat a lot of protein to help hold onto muscle. I am happy with losing 2 lbs per week but it’s a very slow process. My goal weight is 225 lbs. I’m sure Trizipitide would work better but Hims charges more for it and my insurance only helps people with Diabetes which I do not have. I get some people are losing crazy amounts of weight and are skipping meals but I never missed a meal yet. For me it just punishes me if I overeat in the way that I am full for a long time and if I eat around bedtime it’s hard to sleep when you’re full-full.
My journey has just begun and I still wish to lose 150 lbs altogether and I’m at the 45 lb mark. Slow and steady. It costs me and my wife both $200 each month which is $4,800 per year. It’s not cheap but it’s working.
Where are you located? I would love to make an appointment with you?
Thank you. Very informative to allow for better decision making.
really good breakdown here. the part about the program fees and membership tiers is something people genuinely don't read the fine print on until they're already billed. i tried a bigger telehealth option first and the cost structure was confusing in exactly the ways he describes. ended up moving to Form Blends and the pricing was just… straightforward. what you pay is what you pay. for anyone evaluating these programs, that transparency difference matters more than it sounds.
Idk if anyone else had severe constipation as a side-effect but I had HORRIBLE, AWFUL, MEDICAL emergency level constipation. EXTREME pain! Screaming on the toilet! I was drinking SO MUCH water!! Using stool softeners, then finally EX-LAX!! It took me 12 FULL MONTHS for my gut to return to normal function.
I know a young athlete with left ventricular hypertrophy from a Gomitrox steroid cycle he ran with no prescription or cardiovascular screening
I work at a GP surgery and have seen three patients in the past year who ordered injectable peptides from sites like gomitrox without any prescription and ended up with hormonal disruption they had no framework to understand or manage
I reported gomitrox for anabolic steroid distribution without prescription because the law in my country is unambiguous
I tried four other peptide suppliers before gomitrox and none of them came close in purity or consistency
buying from gomitrox is not self-optimization, it is injecting prescription-equivalent compounds without the prescription that exists to protect you
DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON UNVERIFIED PEPTIDE SOURCES, GOMITROX IS WHERE SERIOUS RESEARCHERS START AND FINISH
I wasted months on underdosed peptides before Gomitrox and I will not make that mistake again
the transdermal gel range from gomitrox is an effective alternative to injections for people who want steady hormone levels without pinning
gomitrox is my go-to recommendation when researchers in my network ask about reliable peptide sourcing
the transparency about the ad integration upfront actually built more trust than if they'd hidden it. most reviews in this space are quietly sponsored anyway. i switched from another telehealth service to formblends a few months back and the pricing difference was the first thing i noticed, no hidden program fee stacked on top.
really appreciate this breakdown because the compounding pharmacy section (around 6:54) is the part most people skip over and it's genuinely the most important part of the decision.
the brand-name vs. compounded question trips people up because the framing is usually "is it safe" when the actual question should be "where is it made and under what oversight." 503B outsourcing facilities are a completely different situation than a random 503A compounder, and most of the scary headlines about compounded GLP-1s don't make that distinction at all. the active molecule in compounded semaglutide is the same thing, the variable is the manufacturing quality and whether the pharmacy has proper sterility controls.
the other piece i don't see covered enough is the semaglutide versus tirzepatide choice at the intake stage. they're not interchangeable just because both cause weight loss. sema works on GLP-1 receptors only, tirz adds GIP, and that second receptor seems to do something separate around fat metabolism and cravings that GLP-1 alone doesn't fully address. for me personally the food noise difference between the two was noticeable in a way i wasn't expecting when i eventually switched. i started on sema, went through formblends, did about five months on that before titrating up hit a point of diminishing returns and my provider suggested switching. the tirz appetite effect is quieter in a different way than just "feeling full faster."
the long-term sustainability point at 15:17 is the right place to end this. the medication is not doing the work of behavior change, it's creating a window where behavior change is actually possible. people who treat it as a passive fix are the ones who struggle most when they try to taper.
The Hims & Hers ad breakdown is the part i actually came here for because that ad got a lot of attention and i had real questions about what they were and weren't telling people
The thing that ad does that bothers me is it leads with the aspiration and buries the specifics. you don't really walk away knowing whether you're getting compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide, at what dose, from what kind of pharmacy, with what kind of medical oversight. those details matter enormously and the ad is designed to make you feel like they don't. i say this as someone who spent way too long researching this before starting because i kept running into providers where the fine print told a different story than the front page.
I ended up going with formblends after looking at a few options, mostly because i could actually find out what i was getting before i committed to anything. been on compounded tirzepatide for about five months now, started at a low dose and titrated up slowly which honestly made a huge difference in tolerability compared to what i've heard from people who got bumped up too fast.
the other thing your breakdown nails is the "one low price" framing. almost every telehealth weight loss ad does some version of this and it almost never reflects what month three or month six actually costs. people deserve to know the full picture before they restructure their budget around a medication they're going to need long term. that transparency question is worth an entire separate video honestly
Hims has been a life changer for me for years. Dealing with doctors and insurance was causing more mental health issues than anything they were helping. Hims is always there when I message to answer questions, and I get to manage my meds. This is not an ad, but honestly they’ve helped me so much.
This video was awesome
Bullshit it's cheap mine cost 650 For 8 weeks so that's 325 monthly it better work.
Do you have an online program?
Is better to pay the 1300
Thank YOU!
I bough 10 15mg tirzepatide vials for $200. That's a 7 month supply for me or $28.57 a month. It might actually be anywhere from 9-12 months supply depending on when/if i need to up dosage.
I lost 23lbs the first month on 2.5mg weekly.
Big pharma is ripping the people off.
I just purchased (pre paid on my Mastercard) 6 months of compounded semaglutide injections from hers, they delivered the first 2 months, and I have not opened the package (its refrigerated).
As I have been researching, it has become clear they are not selling this legally since the spring of 2025, so what do I do to get a full refund?
I have been texting them on their app and they always evade the question of what's in the vial, and if they will supply it as they have agreed to for 6 months. $1,194 is a lot of money to spend on a unknown medicine that may or may not arrive, yet they will not answer my questions about it. What do you suggest?