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- The real revolution of the GLP-1 shots is the insight that the body regulates appetite and more with the hormones GLP-1, GIP, PYY, and CCK--and with Your Best Shot in hand, you can learn to optimize their function and your weight health for life.Whether you have a little or a lot of fat to lose, cravings to curb, or use a shot or don't, weight health hormone optimization is your best shot.
- Author(s): Ashley Koff Rd
- 368 Pages
- Science, Life Sciences
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Book Synopsis
The real revolution of the GLP-1 shots is the insight that the body regulates appetite and more with the hormones GLP-1, GIP, PYY, and CCK--and with Your Best Shot in hand, you can learn to optimize their function and your weight health for life.
Whether you have a little or a lot of fat to lose, cravings to curb, or use a shot or don't, weight health hormone optimization is your best shot. Over two decades of research in her practice, renowned weight health expert Ashley Koff, RD, developed this game-changing system for patients and practitioners. Taking your best shot, you:
- determine whether your weight-health hormone function is suboptimalidentify your suboptimal-function type and narrow down causesget specific, targeted, doable recommendationsuse experiments to lock in on your better choicesdevelop strategies to tune out food noise and fight infobesitylearn how to vet the growing number of weight-health hormone-targeting medications, supplements, and devicesdiscover why better, not perfect, is the route to optimized healthchoose the methods and tools you'll use to reset your course whenever life happens
This evidence-based program is for anyone pursuing weight health--the majority of us not using a weight health hormone replacement, along with the millions who are, or are ready to come off it.
Your Best Shot is not another plan. It's your plan.
Review Quotes
"Ashley is one of the most insightful and trusted nutrition experts I know--there is no one I trust more to train practitioners and guide patients. Your Best Shot puts Ashley's wisdom and knowledge into practice--it's the weight management tool we have been waiting for. " -- Tieraona Low Dog, MD, ABOIM, Director, Integrative & Functional Medicine Fellowship, UC-I Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute
"With growing interest in GLP-1 therapies, it's more important than ever to have a guide you can trust. Your Best Shot is that guide: thorough, precise, compassionate. Ashley Koff RD gives you more than just protocols, she gives you the tools to understand your own body and to choose what works best for you." -- Frank Lipman MD, New York Times bestselling author
"A practical, science-based guide to weight health. Ashley Koff RD translates complex hormone science into clear, actionable steps--no gimmicks, just results. She's an expert I trust, and now you can too." -- JJ Virgin CNS, CHFS, New York Times bestselling author
"Timely, engaging, and empowering. Overcoming--the challenges of losing weight you don't want, finding health you do--begins with understanding, and you will find that here in delightful abundance." -- David L. Katz, MD, MPH, Past President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine; Founder, Diet ID
"After decades of books that treat everyone the same, Your Best Shot emerges as a breakthrough. Ashley Koff RD's new work recognizes that weight health is not one size fits all: it's about weight-health hormones, total nutrition, lifestyle choices, genetics and more. The strategies are evidence-based, actionable, and rooted in real clinical practice. Our patients have benefited tremendously from this approach, and I am thrilled it is now available for everyone's benefit." -- Darshan Shah MD, CEO and founder Next Health