Your doctor
Registered with the HPCSA
Reads your history, decides whether treatment is appropriate for you, and sets and adjusts your dose. Every clinical call on the programme is a doctor's call.
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Doctor-led care
Your care team
The four roles behind your treatment: an HPCSA-registered doctor, a licensed South African pharmacy, your coach, and regular reviews.
Who does what
Four roles stand behind your treatment
We would rather show you the roles than a wall of smiling stock photos. What matters is which part of your care each role owns, and who carries the responsibility for every decision made about you.
The dispensing pharmacy
A licensed South African pharmacy
Dispenses genuine SAHPRA-registered medication and couriers it to you in cold chain, kept between 2 and 8 degrees. The pharmacy bills you for the medication separately.
Your coach and support
The part between your reviews
Day to day questions, habits, meals and movement, and the ordinary practical help that keeps you going in the weeks between doctor reviews.
The review process
Regular check-ins, not a once-off sale
Set check-ins to look at how you are doing: dose changes, side effects, plateaus, and whether to carry on. The reviews are the plan, not an extra.
You are welcome to ask for the registration details of the doctor who reviews your assessment, and to check them yourself on the HPCSA register. Read more about how our medical review works.
HPCSA-registered doctors
SAHPRA-registered medication
Licensed South African pharmacies
Cold chain, 2 to 8 degrees
POPIA-compliant
Want to know whether any of this applies to you?
Free, takes about 2 minutes, no obligation. You only pay if a doctor recommends treatment for you.
Behind the eligibility check
What a doctor actually does with your answers
Your eligibility check is not a form that gets filed. It is the beginning of a proper medical history, and it is what a doctor reads before deciding anything at all.
Your goals, and why now
What you want to change and why you are doing this now. Weight that affects your knees, your sleep, your energy or your blood sugar each points in a slightly different direction, so being honest here genuinely helps.
Your medical history
Current and past conditions, especially blood pressure, cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, thyroid problems and digestive issues. This tells the doctor whether treatment could help a weight-related condition, and whether anything makes it unsafe.
Your medicines and what you have tried
Everything you take, including over-the-counter products and supplements. The doctor also wants to know what you have already tried, from eating plans to other treatments, and how your body responded.
Your family history
Some questions are about your family, not just you. A family history of certain thyroid cancers or a rare hormone condition changes the answer, which is exactly why it comes up early rather than late.
The safety checks
The doctor confirms there is no reason you should not use this treatment. It is not appropriate during pregnancy or breastfeeding, or for anyone with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer or MEN 2. Height, weight, blood pressure and sometimes blood tests fill in the rest.
How the decision is reached
Body mass index is the starting point, read together with the rest of your health. A BMI of 30 or above is one common threshold, and 27 or above may qualify where there is a weight-related condition. Two people with the same number can still get different advice, because the full picture decides.
There is more detail in what happens in your first consultation and in who qualifies for treatment.
Two different jobs
Where the coach stops and the doctor starts
Coaching and clinical care are two different jobs, and we keep the line between them clear so you always know whose answer you are getting.
Your coach and support handle
- Day to day questions in the weeks between reviews
- Habits, meals, protein and movement
- The practical side, from reminders to finding your way around the app
- Keeping you going when motivation dips or the scale stalls
Your doctor handles
- Whether treatment is appropriate for you at all
- Which GLP-1 medication is recommended, and at what dose
- Any change to your dose, including pausing or stopping
- Side effects, new symptoms and anything that feels wrong
If you are not sure which of the two it is, ask anyway. Anything clinical is passed to the doctor rather than answered by a coach.
Straight answers
The questions people ask before they start
Fair questions, answered plainly, before you hand your health details to anyone online.
Still want to ask a person?
Email hello@glp1weightloss.co.za, read the full FAQ, or see how it works step by step.
Check if you qualifyFree, takes about 2 minutes, no obligation.
You only pay if a doctor recommends treatment for you.
Every clinical decision sits with a doctor registered with the HPCSA, and the medication is SAHPRA-registered stock dispensed by a licensed South African pharmacy. Side effects such as nausea are common in the first weeks, which is precisely why the doctor starts you on a low dose, steps it up slowly, and reviews you as you go. There is more in managing side effects.
The full programme starts at R299 a month, a once-off consultation is R850, and the annual option is R2,999. Medication is billed separately by the pharmacy, and any blood tests by the lab. The eligibility check itself is free. The pricing page sets it all out.
Nobody can hand you a number in advance. In trials, average weight loss ran from about 8 percent to over 20 percent of body weight depending on the medicine and the study, and your result can be different. What your care team can offer is a proper assessment, honest guidance, and reviews that adjust the plan as you go.
The doctor tells you so and explains the reason. That is a normal clinical outcome, not a failure, and it happens for a range of medical reasons. If treatment is not recommended for you, you do not pay for medication, and where we can we point you toward something that suits you better.
Two minutes to find out where you stand
Answer a few questions and see whether GLP-1 treatment could suit you. Free, no obligation, and you only pay if a doctor recommends treatment for you.
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