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Tirzepatide

Routed from your metabolism signal. 2 vendors scored against the published 11-signal rubric. The honest version of the peptide decision.

Monthly cost
$180 – $450
USD
Dose / week
5 – 10
mg
Ramp
12
weeks
Rubric
11
signals
SURMOUNT-1 · n=2,539 · 72-week follow-upMethodology →
Your primary zone

The metabolic work, clarified.

Your primary signal points to metabolism. Tirzepatide is the lead compound for this route, and the trial data is what backs it.

What the first 72 weeks usually look like

Three checkpoints along the SURMOUNT-1 time course. Trial-average numbers, not a forecast for you. Your actual curve depends on dose tolerance, adherence, and what you do outside the injection.

Week 4
~3%
off baseline

The dose is still climbing. Nausea tends to peak here, then ease as your receptors adjust. Most quits happen this month.

Week 20
~10%
off baseline

You feel it without weighing in. Clothes sit differently. Many reach their dose plateau here. The signal is now more behavioral than pharmacological.

Week 72
~22.5%
off baseline on 15 mg

The trial endpoint. Mean across the top dose arm. How much of that is fat versus lean mass is decided almost entirely by protein intake and resistance training.

Trial context: 91% of the 15 mg arm passed 5% weight loss. 57% passed 20%. Where you land depends on effort, adherence, and biology. Jastreboff AM et al. SURMOUNT-1, NEJM 2022.

Where your metabolism lives

MetabolismRecoverySleepMindLongevitySexual HealthHormonesImmuneGut
CoveredPartialOpen
Geographic arbitrage

The same molecule, five price points.

Tirzepatide is tirzepatide. The difference between 1,350 and 180 is geography, distribution, and whether a US pharmacy benefit manager is between you and the molecule. If you can travel or ship from Thailand, you pay a fraction.

US
US telehealth (brand Mounjaro or Zepbound)

10 mg monthly, often insurance-gated, Eli Lilly list price.

$1,000 to $1,350
/month
US
US compounded telehealth

503A compounding pharmacy, prescription required, state-by-state variance.

$250 to $500
/month
UK
UK private prescription (Mounjaro)

NHS rarely covers. Boots, Pharmacy2U, etc.

$450 to $900
/month
Thailand
Bangkok clinic (brand Mounjaro, doctor-reviewed)

Same FDA-approved Lilly molecule, imported, doctor-prescribed, clinic-pickup or delivery.

$180 to $450
/month
Thailand
Bangkok direct vendor (research-grade)

No consultation, more user responsibility, vendor-quality-dependent.

$80 to $220
/month

Ranges reflect public vendor pricing April 2026. Your actual number depends on dose progression and any consultation fees. The Panya match names the vendor and cites the current invoice.

Compound

Tirzepatide

Dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist, once-weekly injection. Approved for chronic weight management on the strength of SURMOUNT-1 and for type 2 diabetes on SURPASS. Below: what the primary trial data says, what the mechanism actually is, and three caveats the marketing tends to skip.

22.5%
Mean body-weight loss on 15mg at 72 weeks. Placebo arm: 2.4%.
[1] New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
91%
Of the 15mg arm lost at least 5% of body weight. Placebo: 35%.
[1] New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
82.5%
Regained at least 25% of lost weight within a year of stopping (SURMOUNT-4).
[2] JAMA, 2023
SURMOUNT-1, % reaching threshold at 72 weeks

Outcome distribution by dose

How often the trial participants hit each weight-loss threshold. Placebo arm is the baseline; 15 mg is the top dose. Numbers marked "approx." are read from the NEJM figures rather than the primary tables.

Weight-loss thresholdPlacebo5 mg10 mg15 mg
≥5%
35%
85%
89%
91%
≥10%approx.
19%
69%
78%
84%
≥15%approx.
9%
50%
64%
71%
≥20%
3%
30%
50%
57%
≥25%
2%
15%
32%
36%
[1] New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
Mechanism

What is actually happening

Imbalanced dual agonist

Tirzepatide binds the GIP receptor with higher affinity than the GLP-1 receptor. At GLP-1 it is a biased agonist favoring cAMP signaling over β-arrestin recruitment, which means slower receptor desensitization than native GLP-1. Translation: it engages GLP-1 signaling without burning out the receptor as quickly.

[5] JCI Insight, 2020
GIP drives tissue-level effects

GIP receptor activation in adipose tissue improves glucose disposal and lipid handling. Phase 2 data showed insulin sensitivity improvements only partly attributable to weight loss, suggesting a direct tissue effect independent of the appetite pathway.

[5] JCI Insight, 2020
Once-weekly via albumin binding

A fatty-diacid side chain gives tirzepatide a ~5-day half-life through high-affinity albumin binding. That is why it dosed once weekly rather than daily.

[5] JCI Insight, 2020
Adverse events, SURMOUNT-1

Side-effect rates, with the real numbers

GI events dominate, heaviest in the first weeks of dose escalation. Pancreatitis incidence stays within placebo range across dose arms when adjudicated.

EventPlacebo5 mg10 mg15 mg
Nausea9.5%24.6%33.3%31.0%
Diarrhea7.3%18.7%21.2%23.0%
Discontinuation from adverse event2.6%4.3%7.1%6.2%
Pancreatitis (adjudicated)0.4%0.2-0.4%0.2-0.4%0.2-0.4%
[1] New England Journal of Medicine, 2022[8] Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
What the marketing tends to skip

Three caveats worth sitting with

Stopping usually means regaining.

In SURMOUNT-4, 82.5% of people who stopped tirzepatide regained at least a quarter of the weight they had lost within a year. Cardiometabolic improvements partially reversed in proportion to regain. Practical read: this is long-term medication, not a course of treatment.

[2] JAMA, 2023
About a quarter of lost weight is lean mass.

In the SURMOUNT-1 body-composition substudy, roughly 74% of weight loss was fat mass and 26% was lean mass. On 15mg the absolute lean-mass loss is 5 to 6 kg. Protein intake and resistance training are not optional on this compound.

[4] Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 2025
Real-world dropout is rougher than trial dropout.

In a US real-world registry of ~21,000 patients, six-month persistence was 55%. Top reasons for stopping: cost (48%), side effects (15%), shortage or supply gaps (12%). Trial populations are selected. General-population experience is not.

[3] Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 2025
What the domain experts say

Direct, attributable, on the record

If you are taking these drugs, really pay attention to your protein consumption and your resistance training. That is going to be an important part of being on the right side of that body-composition curve.
Peter Attia, MD. AMA #64, The Drive. peterattiamd.com/ama64
Dual GIP and GLP-1 agonism is the current state of the art, and muscle loss is the primary near-term concern the next generation of compounds is being designed to offset.
Andrew Huberman with Dr. Zachary Knight. Huberman Lab, June 2024. hubermanlab.com / Zachary Knight episode
Honesty

Who this is not for

If any of the below applies, tirzepatide is either off the table or needs a clinician in the loop before a vendor. We are a matchmaker, not a prescriber. Naming this up front is the job.

  • Personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma, or MEN2 syndrome.
    Boxed warning on the FDA label. Risk is not theoretical. Clinician-gated regardless of access path.
  • Prior pancreatitis or active biliary disease.
    Signals from trials and post-marketing put this population at higher risk. Not a solo decision.
  • Pregnancy, planning pregnancy, or breastfeeding.
    Not studied in these populations. Contraception is recommended during treatment and for a period after.
  • Severe gastroparesis or gastric motility disorders.
    Tirzepatide slows gastric emptying as part of its mechanism. It will make this worse.
  • Type 1 diabetes, without clinician supervision.
    Not indicated for T1D. Hypoglycemia risk changes the calculus and needs a specialist in the loop.
  • Active suicidal ideation or severe untreated depression.
    GLP-1 class has post-marketing signals the FDA is still evaluating. A mental-health clinician goes first.

Not medical advice. This is the shortlist we check against before matching. If anything on it applies to you, the next click is a clinician, not a vendor.

Vendor matches

Two vendors reviewed

Your email unlocks the full write-up from our Vendor-Match Agent. Names, pricing, lead times, shipping posture.

Vendor 01 · Primary match
Rubric
94/100

Revealed on email unlock

Bangkok clinic, peptide-forward practice, ISO/GMP facility, named clinicians with verified credentials.

Thailand · Clinic channel · English and Thai concierge
  • Founder-accessible
  • 40+ peptide catalog
  • Pricing on request, released on unlock
  • Multilingual concierge intake
Revealed on email

Vendor name, current pricing, direct contact. No list, no drip.

Vendor 02 · Secondary match
Rubric
88/100

Revealed on email unlock

Bangkok-based direct vendor, COA on request, same-day moto courier in-city, EMS 1 to 2 days domestic.

Thailand · Direct-to-user · English
  • Janoshik third-party testing
  • Owner-responsive, 14+ verified reviews
  • Same-day Bangkok, EMS 1 to 2 days outside
  • Best Thai research-chem in our scoring pass
Revealed on email

Vendor name, current pricing, direct contact. No list, no drip.

27 vendors considered. 19 filtered out. See why the rest did not make your match.expand

Panya considered every vendor in the Phase 1 roster against your quiz profile. Here is the non-redacted breakdown of why the vendors that did not appear in your top 2 were filtered:

  • 5Publicly documented failure (FDA action, conviction, permanent closure). See names.
  • 7Cold-chain handling not documented or evidence of shipping-temp excursion.
  • 5COA refused more than twice or only first-party testing available.
  • 2Not compliant with your region's regulatory posture.
  • 4Rubric score under 60 of 100; passed some signals, failed on response time or identity verification.
  • 4Price band outside what your quiz indicated you wanted to consider.

Names redacted for the 19 only when publication carries defamation risk. When evidence is public (regulatory action, conviction, closure), the vendor appears by name on our filter page.

How your match was decided

Panya showed its work.

Most matchmakers hide the reasoning behind the recommendation. Here is what Panya actually did for your match, step by step. Deterministic output from your 5 quiz signals and our vendor database. No LLM slop, no black box.

  1. Quiz parser
    Parsed your 5 signals

    goal=metabolic · urgency=n/a · budget=n/a · region=your region

    ok
  2. Santora
    Loaded scored vendor pool

    vendors evaluated against the 11-signal public rubric

    72 vendors
  3. Silent Filter
    Removed documented failures

    FDA action · conviction · permanent closure · review-forensics failure

    5 filtered out
  4. Regional Compliance
    Checked routability for your region

    Import rules, prescription posture, cold-chain feasibility for your region

    4 compliant
  5. Budget Matcher
    Filtered to "unknown" budget tier

    Price band intersection with user-selected budget signal

    5 within range
  6. Rubric Ranker
    Ordered by trust-weighted score

    Signals weighted: identity (×3), cold-chain (×3), COA (×2), response time (×2), else ×1

    Top 2 surfaced
Plain-English summary

Panya started from 72 scored vendors, filtered to 5 that fit your profile, ranked by rubric trust signal, and surfaced the 2 you see above.

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Two emails. No list.

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Email 1 · Right after you submit
From: hello@panya.health
Got it. Your match is coming within 48 hours.

Quick confirm. We received your metabolism-signal submission. A human is reviewing the Vendor-Match Agent draft right now. Expect the full match within 48 hours.

Email 2 · Within 24 to 48 hours
From: hello@panya.health
Your tirzepatide match

Two vendors reviewed against the 11-signal rubric. Your primary match, score 00/100, plus one line on why this one fits your profile. A second vendor as backup if the primary is not right for you. Pricing posture, direct contact, and the honest tradeoffs. No more emails after this.

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Sources
  1. 1
    Jastreboff AM et al. SURMOUNT-1 trial
    New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
    Tirzepatide once weekly for the treatment of obesity. n=2,539. 72-week follow-up.
    Read the study →
  2. 2
    Peter Attia, MD. AMA #64 on The Drive
    Stanford, internal medicine, longevity
    "If you're taking these drugs, really pay attention to your protein consumption and your resistance training."
    Source →
  3. 3
    Andrew Huberman with Dr. Zachary Knight. Huberman Lab
    Stanford neuroscience, June 2024
    Dual GIP/GLP-1 agonism explained. Muscle loss flagged as the primary near-term concern.
    Source →