Frequently Asked Questions

Vitality Texas is a physician-led clinic, not a wellness spa and not a telehealth prescribing service with a doctor's name on the paperwork. Dr. Jamie Lynn Jaqua, MD sees patients, reads their labs, and owns the treatment decisions. That distinction shapes most of the answers on this page: what we will prescribe, what we will not, and where we stop and refer you elsewhere.

Almost everything we treat is a long-term relationship rather than a single visit. Hormone therapy, GLP-1 weight management and growth hormone peptides all require baseline labs, dose adjustment over weeks to months, and repeat monitoring. If you are looking for a one-off prescription with no follow-up, we are the wrong clinic. If you want a physician who will retest and change course when the numbers say so, read on.

GLP-1 medications are the most effective pharmacological weight loss tools available, and also the most oversold. What they do reliably is reduce appetite and food preoccupation, which makes a calorie deficit sustainable in a way willpower alone rarely is. What they do not do is change body composition on their own, protect lean mass, or hold weight off after you stop. Most weight lost is regained within a year of discontinuing, which is why we treat this as ongoing metabolic care rather than a course of injections.

One regulatory point matters before you read further: the compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide we prescribe are preparations made by licensed 503A compounding pharmacies for an individual patient. They are not generic versions of Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro or Zepbound, they have not been through FDA review, and they are not FDA-approved. Any clinic describing a compounded GLP-1 as generic or FDA-approved is telling you something untrue.

IV therapy is the service most likely to be oversold in this industry, so here is our position. Where IV genuinely beats oral is fluid volume when the gut is not cooperating, and micronutrient delivery when you are actually deficient or when oral absorption is capped. Where the evidence thins out is IV micronutrient infusions in healthy, non-deficient adults — the trial data is limited, and surplus water-soluble vitamin is largely excreted. When patients feel markedly better after a drip, rehydration is usually the most plausible explanation.

A liter of IV fluid is also a real physiological intervention rather than a wellness accessory. In heart failure, chronic kidney disease, cirrhosis with fluid retention or any history of fluid overload, the volume itself carries risk, and those patients need clearance before booking. Every infusion here is ordered and supervised by a physician for that reason. Nothing on our IV menu detoxes anything — your liver and kidneys do that — and we will not tell you otherwise.