Medical Weight Loss & GLP-1 Program in Vancouver & Camas, WA

GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) medications mimic a natural hormone your body releases after eating. They slow stomach emptying, steady blood sugar, and quiet the constant food noise in your brain — so you feel full sooner, stay full longer, and stop fighting your own appetite all day. Tirzepatide adds a second hormone pathway (GIP), which can enhance the effect. Combined with nutrition guidance and monthly monitoring, the biology finally works with you instead of against you.

Your investment depends on the medication, dose, and treatment plan selected with your provider. When medication is included through the program, its cost and all other inclusions are identified before enrollment. The program may also include biweekly vitamin injections, a monthly body composition scan, a weight loss guide, and monthly provider follow-up. Exact pricing is reviewed at consultation, and Cherry financing is available if needed.

Coverage for GLP-1 medications prescribed for weight management varies widely by plan and is often limited or excluded. Your consultation and medically necessary evaluation may be covered depending on your benefits. We accept Aetna, United Healthcare, Cigna, and Regence/BCBS for eligible services and can help you verify coverage. HSA/FSA eligibility depends on your plan and the service provided.

Results vary based on your starting point, medication, dose, health history, nutrition, activity, and consistency with follow-up. Your progress is monitored with monthly body composition data so your provider can evaluate fat loss, muscle preservation, and whether the plan needs adjustment. No specific result can be guaranteed.

The most common side effects are digestive — nausea, constipation, or reflux — especially in the first weeks and after dose increases. Most are mild and improve as your body adjusts, and careful, gradual dose titration is how we keep them manageable. Because your program includes a monthly provider visit, side effects are caught and addressed early — you're never left managing them alone. Serious side effects are uncommon but real, which is why screening and monitoring matter.

GLP-1 therapy is generally not appropriate during pregnancy or for patients with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma, MEN 2, or a serious hypersensitivity to the prescribed medication. Other conditions — including prior pancreatitis, gallbladder disease, severe gastrointestinal disease or gastroparesis, kidney disease or dehydration risk, breastfeeding, use of certain diabetes medications, or a history of an eating disorder — require individualized evaluation. Your provider reviews your complete history before prescribing.

Semaglutide works through the GLP-1 receptor pathway, while tirzepatide works through both GIP and GLP-1 receptor pathways. The best option depends on your health history, contraindications, tolerance, access, and response. Your provider reviews those factors with you rather than treating one medication as the automatic choice for everyone.

Phentermine is a prescription appetite suppressant approved for short-term use in selected patients. At Body Balance, it may be considered as a separate alternative when clinically appropriate; it is not presented as a routine add-on to GLP-1 therapy. Because it can affect heart rate and blood pressure and has important contraindications, candidacy is evaluated carefully before prescribing.

Your individualized plan may include semaglutide or tirzepatide, biweekly vitamin injections, a monthly body composition scan report, a weight loss guide, and monthly provider follow-up. The exact medication, dose, program inclusions, and cost are reviewed before enrollment. Phentermine, when appropriate, is considered separately as a short-term alternative rather than an automatic program inclusion.

Yes. Weight loss medicine at Body Balance is for men and women alike — and for men, weight and testosterone are often tangled together, since low testosterone makes fat easier to gain and muscle harder to keep. Because we also provide men's TRT, both can be evaluated in the same place, by the same provider, with one plan.

Weight management and hormone therapy can be coordinated when clinically appropriate. Perimenopause, menopause, low testosterone, sleep, and metabolic health may all affect weight and body composition. Because Body Balance offers both services, your provider can evaluate whether either or both belong in your individualized plan.

This is an honest question that deserves an honest answer: some regain is common when medication stops, because the underlying biology doesn't disappear. That's why our program is built to change more than a number — body scans track muscle versus fat so you keep the right kind of weight off, and your provider builds a maintenance plan with you before you ever taper. What we don't do is hand you a prescription and disappear.

Body Balance Health & Aesthetics Medicine is located at 1905 SE 192nd Ave STE 201, Camas, WA 98607 — about 15 minutes from downtown Vancouver, serving Washougal, Ridgefield, Battle Ground, and all of Clark County. Call (360) 859-8393 or book a consultation online.

No referral is needed — you can book a consultation directly by phone or online. If you plan to use insurance for covered services, some plans have their own requirements, and our team will help you check your coverage before you begin.