The Doctor Who Had to Learn the Hard Way
I'm Dr. Josh Lindsley, DO, DABOM—a board-certified obesity medicine physician and emergency medicine doctor. When I started GLP-1 medications, I dropped 70 pounds. I thought I had won.
But something felt wrong. I was lighter on the scale, yet I felt weaker. My metabolism tanked. I looked smaller, but I wasn't stronger—I was depleting.
So I got a DEXA scan—the same gold-standard body composition technology we use at Highland Longevity. The results were sobering: despite all that weight loss, I was sarcopenic (suffering from severe muscle loss) with 25% body fat.
"Weight loss doesn't equal health. I learned that the hard way so my patients don't have to."
That failure became my obsession. I rebuilt myself from the ground up—tracking everything, preserving muscle, optimizing hormones. The protocol I developed is now the foundation of everything we do at Highland Longevity.
In my second transformation phase, I lost an additional 17 pounds of pure fat while actually gaining lean muscle mass. 99% of the weight I lost was fat—verified by DEXA.
Highland Longevity exists so you don't waste years making my mistakes.
