Dr. Krista Hennigar, ND

08/05/2026

❌Stop celebrating the side effects.❌

Somewhere along the way we’ve started believing that the sicker you feel, the better your GLP-1 must be working.

⚖️Losing weight as fast as possible.
🤢Feeling nauseous every day.
😞Having zero interest in food.

None of those are the goal.

The goal is to lose fat while protecting your muscle, nourishing your body, and building habits you’ll actually be able to maintain long after the prescription changes.
Sometimes “working” actually means your treatment needs to be optimized.

Did any of these surprise you?

08/04/2026

Can we talk about how backwards weight loss culture has made this?

Everyone is obsessed with checking the scale. Down two pounds this week? “It’s working.” Down zero? “It’s not working.” That is it. That is the entire conversation most people are having about their GLP1.

I don’t care about that number nearly as much as I care about this one thing. Can you actually stick to your plan now?

Because here is what I see constantly. Someone comes in white knuckling their way through every meal, forcing themselves through workouts they hate, still fighting cravings at 9pm. And somehow that gets called “progress” because the scale moved. No. That is not your medication working. That is you gritting your teeth through the same fight you were already losing before you started.

When your GLP1 is actually dialed in, something quieter happens. The food noise turns down. Saying no to the thing that used to derail you stops taking so much effort. The plan we built together stops feeling like a punishment and starts feeling like something you can just do.

That is the win. Not the scale. Not the absence of nausea. Whether the life you’re trying to build actually got easier to live.

If you’re on a GLP1 right now white knuckling it every single day, that is information. Bring it to your provider. There is a version of this that doesn’t feel like a fight.
Save this one. You’ll want to come back to it. 🔥

📩 DM “DOSE” if you want to talk about whether yours is actually right for you.

08/01/2026

07/29/2026

I’ve had patients delay treatment for months because they were worried about what someone else might think.

At the end of the day, my job isn’t to make them comfortable. It’s to help you make evidence based decisions that fit your health, your goals, and your life.

07/28/2026

“Your labs are normal.”

I can’t tell you how many women have sat across from me, exhausted, hair falling out, feeling like they’re losing their minds…after being told this exact sentence.

Here’s what nobody explains: “normal” ferritin doesn’t mean optimal ferritin. Those ranges were built from population averages, not from what your body actually needs to feel good. And ferritin has a dirty secret: it goes up with inflammation, too. So if you’re inflamed, or your body is under more metabolic stress than it should be, your number can look “fine” while you’re still iron deficient underneath it.

That’s not you being dramatic. That’s not “just stress.” That’s a lab test that was never built to catch what you’re actually dealing with.

If this is you, if you’ve been told you’re fine and you don’t feel fine, I want you to hear this: there’s usually a real, findable reason. You’re not broken, and you’re not out of options. You just haven’t had someone look at the full picture yet.

That’s the work I do. Not just the number on the page, the whole story behind it.

Save this for the next time someone hands you a lab result and calls it a day. 🤍