Built by people who get it.
Zynta exists because we lived it.
For three years, my doctor kept telling me it was time to start cholesterol medication. I kept putting it off, hoping I'd get ahead of it on my own. But something had shifted. In my younger years, I'd put on a few pounds over winter and shed them by spring without much thought. That stopped happening. The weight came on and stayed on, and the numbers at every check-up told the same story.
What finally moved me wasn't the bloodwork. It was thinking about my grandkids' weddings. I wanted to be there. I wanted to still be here when those days came, and I wanted to have the legs to get out on the dance floor when they did.
So I started a GLP-1. Over time, I lost 70 pounds.
Here's what nobody really prepared me for: a lot of what I lost wasn't fat. It was muscle.
I felt it in little things first — stairs, carrying groceries, getting up off the floor. Building that strength back was harder than losing the weight in the first place, and it was lonelier too. Most of the conversation out there is about the number on the scale. Almost none of it is about what happens after.
My wife Kathleen's road looked different, but we ended up in the same place.
Years ago she'd had bariatric surgery, and for a long time it worked. Then, slowly, the weight started creeping back. Her doctor suggested a GLP-1, and she lost the 50 pounds she'd been fighting. The changes went deeper than her clothes fitting again. She came off her CPAP. She started sleeping through the night. The headaches she'd been living with for years — just gone. She has more of her day back now, and more of herself.
But she lost muscle too. And getting back to walking, finding the energy, finding the motivation on the days her body didn't want to cooperate — that took real support. Some days it took someone to say, "let's just go to the end of the block."
That's why we built Zynta.
Too many people are going through this without anyone walking alongside them for the part that comes after the weight comes off. The muscle loss. The fatigue. Figuring out what healthy even looks like in this new body. Finding a reason to lace up your shoes on a Tuesday when nothing hurts enough to force you out the door but nothing feels quite right either.
We built this because we needed it ourselves. And because we know how many people are out there right now, quietly trying to figure it out alone.
You're not alone in this. We get it — because we've lived it.