Live Vital Review

Live Vital: a doctor's peptide practice with two GLP-1s kept off the menu

Live Vital is the telehealth practice of Dr. Patrick Taylor, a family-medicine physician in Salt Lake City, and it wears that on its sleeve. His name, his residency and his own 100-pound weight-loss story sit on the homepage, and the site says he "reviews every intake personally." What it mostly sells is peptides. The public treatments page lists nine protocols for skin, recovery and metabolism, and not one of them is a GLP-1. Compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide are still sold here at some of the lowest advertised rates in this category, but you have to already know their pages exist to find them.

The price tag is the second thing to read twice. Both GLP-1 pages quote a per-month figure and, in smaller type, a "10-week protocol" total. Ten weeks is not three months. Per calendar month, the semaglutide rate is closer to $130 (after intro offer) than to the $99 printed on the tag.

How the pricing works, and the fine print

The semaglutide page reads "Starting at $99/mo" with "10-week protocol" and a total underneath. The tirzepatide page uses the same construction at $183 a month. The total is what you pay, in one charge, and the monthly figure is that total divided by three. Ten weeks is 2.3 calendar months, so the calendar-month cost is about $130 (after intro offer) for semaglutide and about $239 for tirzepatide. Both still land well under the category median of roughly $179 a month. They're just not as low as the tag.

How we get the market median: $179 is the middle value of each program's lowest listed ongoing monthly price for compounded semaglutide (month to month, not a first-month promo, a prepaid plan or a price with a membership on top), across the 114 programs that publish one.

"Starting at" is doing work too. Neither page says what a higher dose costs, only that Dr. Taylor "personalizes your dose and schedule after your medical intake." Every plan is described as "Doctor-prescribed," filled by a "Licensed US pharmacy," with "Unlimited messaging" included, and there is no separate membership fee. Insurance is out: "We do not accept insurance," though HSA and FSA funds are eligible and the Terms offer superbills you can submit yourself. The Terms also say "Payment is due at the time of service," which for a 10-week protocol means the full amount up front.

The medications, and what the menu hides

There are exactly two GLP-1 options, and both are weekly injections. Live Vital does not sell Wegovy, Ozempic or Zepbound, and it doesn't offer an oral semaglutide. Both compounded drugs come from what the footer calls "503A-licensed pharmacies," none of them named. A dose ladder is not published. The pages say Dr. Taylor will "start low, and titrate slowly" and that "Dosing is not one-size-fits-all," but nothing tells you whether tirzepatide begins at 2.5 mg or what the step-ups look like. Our tirzepatide page has the standard ladder if you want to ask a precise question.

You'll get a multi-dose vial rather than a pen. The FAQ spends a lot of space on vial handling: what to do when the label says to discard "28 days after first puncture," why the beyond-use date may read short, and the instruction to "use a new needle each week." That is useful, and it also tells you how this practice thinks. It's a peptide clinic that happens to prescribe GLP-1s.

The peptide catalog is the main storefront: GHK-Cu, two repair blends called Glow and Klow, a BPC-157/TB-500 blend called Wolverine, CJC-1295/Ipamorelin, NAD+, glutathione, tesamorelin and MOTS-c. The last two are filed under "Weight & metabolism" in the spot where the GLP-1s would sit. The site's own FAQ says "Many peptide therapies are not FDA-approved." A retatrutide page that used to be live now returns a 404, so that experiment appears to be over.

What signing up asks of you

There are two doors. One is a self-serve online intake the site puts at "about 10 minutes." The other is a free 15-minute phone consult, booked through a Cal.com scheduler, with "no video, no waiting room" and a warning that it "does not guarantee a prescription." No video visit and no lab work are required to start.

The general intake opens with "Do you already know which medication or therapy you're interested in?" and then shows a list of eight. Tirzepatide is on it. Semaglutide is not; its own page carries a separate intake link that skips that list. Next comes your state, from a dropdown of all 50 states plus D.C., under the note "Certain medications can only be shipped to select states." Then a welcome screen, then your first and last name, and nothing past that point is visible without personal details. The price is public before any of this begins.

The timeline is spelled out. "A physician reviews your submission within 24 to 48 hours," the pharmacy compounds and tests the vial, and the FAQ allows "5–7 days for total processing" before it ships "overnight in cold packs." The how-it-works page sums it up as 5 to 10 days from intake to first dose. After that, "Prescriptions are synced and shipped automatically," refill and dose changes go through the portal, and the practice promises replies "within 24 hours, often same-day."

Cancellation is the soft spot. The Terms say "You may cancel at any time. Cancellation will be effective at the end of your current billing period." Consult refunds are "at our discretion," and "Medications and lab work are generally non-refundable once ordered or dispensed." A 10-week protocol is a single charge, so once the pharmacy has your prescription, that money is spent. There is no published pause option and no refund window after approval.

Trust and safety: a named doctor, an unnamed pharmacy

The strongest trust signal is a named physician. Dr. Taylor's medical school, residency and menopause certification are on the homepage, the practice is Live Vital LLC with a street address in Draper, Utah, and the Terms are governed by Utah law. There are no FDA warning letters against it. What's missing is the other half of the usual checklist: no LegitScript seal anywhere on the site, no pharmacy named beyond "503A-licensed pharmacies," no dose-by-dose price, and no third-party review badge. You can see how those pieces are weighed in our scoring methodology.

Who should choose Live Vital, and who should skip it

Choose Live Vital if you're paying cash, you want a named doctor rather than an anonymous clinician pool, and you like the idea of a free phone call before you commit. It's also a natural fit if you were going to shop for peptides anyway and would rather have one prescriber for both. Do the 10-week math first and budget on $130 a month (after intro offer), not the tag.

Skip it if you want brand-name Wegovy or Zepbound, an oral option, a named pharmacy or a LegitScript-certified operation. Skip it if you want month-to-month billing with a refund window after approval. And skip it if seeing the GLP-1 on the menu matters to you, because on this site you won't.

Live Vital is a small, physician-run practice that sells GLP-1s at a low advertised rate without featuring them on its menu. The doctor is real, the price is real once you convert it to calendar months, and the refund policy is unforgiving. Know all three before the first charge.

For a side-by-side, Eden ($99/month) and Sesame Care ($149/month) are the most comparable options to weigh against Live Vital.