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Care Clinics review

Publishes a dose-by-duration table where the same charge buys a lower dose for twice as long.

Reviewed by Lena OrtizMetabolic Health Editor

Price updated August 2026

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$499 for 20 weeks at 1 mg, or 10 weeks at 2.5 mg — same charge

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Every period is quoted in weeks, and none of the eight lengths used is a month.

Price as published

Care Clinics

$499 for 20 weeks at 1 mg, or 10 weeks at 2.5 mg — same charge

Vs median
Not comparable — no per-month rate is published — the verified string carries no monthly figure
Market
$59–$1,300/mo across 299 of 548
Structure
Quotes off the lowest dose
Dispensed
Pharmacy not publicly identified

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In one paragraph

The verdict

This is the only seller found so far that publishes the thing this whole site is trying to establish, and it publishes it as a table. Hold the lowest dose and one charge lasts twenty weeks. Hold two and a half times as much and the same charge lasts ten. The money does not change; the time does, in direct proportion to how much drug you take. The higher-dose plan behaves identically, and a further tier buys more time again at the same doses. If you are deliberately holding a small amount, that is the clearest possible answer to what taking less is worth: it is worth double the duration, and the seller has done the arithmetic in advance rather than leaving it to be inferred from a vial size nobody publishes. Two things keep it from being a complete answer. Every period is quoted in weeks, and none of the eight lengths used is a month, so none of these figures can be set against the monthly rates that make up the rest of this market without a conversion the seller has not performed. The seller also does something very few sellers here manage: it names the drug behind each receptor label, describing its GLP-1 program as semaglutide and its GLP-1/GIP program as tirzepatide, with the full week-by-week titration set out for each. Every rung therefore carries a milligram and the molecule it belongs to, which is rarer than either alone.

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Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.

Who it suits, and who it does not

A good fit if

  • You want to see, in writing, what a lower dose actually buys you in time
  • You want a milligram AND a named molecule on every rung, not one or the other
  • You are content to buy a block up front rather than pay month to month

Look elsewhere if

  • You are comparing monthly rates. Every period here is quoted in weeks
  • You want to pay monthly. Every period here is a prepaid block of weeks
  • You want a calendar month. The twelve-week programs are not three months either

What it actually costs

Price as published

$499 for 20 weeks at 1 mg, or 10 weeks at 2.5 mg — same charge

Vs median
Not comparable — no per-month rate is published — the verified string carries no monthly figure
Market
$59–$1,300/mo is the full published spread on this site
Structure
Quotes off the lowest dose

States plainly that its advertised figures are based on the lowest dosage and that higher doses may cost more. On a general ranking that is a warning; for someone staying small it is the one model that bills accordingly.

49 of the 548 programs here price a small dose this way. The only seller here that publishes the key relationship as a table: the same charge buys a lower dose for a longer period, stated dose by dose. Hold the lowest step and your money lasts twice as long as at the highest. That is the clearest possible answer to what taking less is worth, and the seller has done the arithmetic for you instead of leaving it to a vial size nobody publishes. Every step carries a milligram figure and the molecule behind it: the seller maps its receptor labels to drugs, describing the GLP-1 program as semaglutide and the GLP-1/GIP program as tirzepatide, with the full week-by-week titration for each. Milligram and molecule together is rarer than either alone. Every period is quoted in weeks, and none of the eight lengths used is a month, so nothing here lines up with a monthly rate without a conversion the seller has not done.

See Care Clinics's current price

Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.

What is included

Consult
Included in the price
Dietitian
Not confirmed
Labs
Not required
Pricing
Check plan terms

What it does well

  • Publishes a full dose-by-duration table, so what a lower dose buys is explicit.
  • The same charge covers twice the time at the lowest dose as at the highest.
  • Every rung carries a milligram AND names the molecule behind it.

Pharmacy, labs and oversight

Care Clinics does not publicly identify the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. No bloodwork is required before you start. A clinician review is included in the price.

Transparency check

1 of 4 published openly

What Care Clinics publishes about itself, read from its own pages when we verified them — not estimated, and not a score.

Pharmacy named and regulatedNo pharmacy is identified anywhere on its own pages.
Not published
A price you can read before intakeThe figure appears only after an intake quiz, so it cannot be compared before signing up.
Not published
What a higher dose costsPriced by dose, plan or tier, and the higher rungs are not published — the advertised figure does not tell you what a larger dose costs.
Not published
No FDA warning letter on fileChecked against the FDA's own warning-letter database; nothing on file for this company.
None on file

How the program works

This seller publishes how long a fixed amount of medication lasts at each dose, and it publishes it as a table. Hold 1 mg and $499 lasts twenty weeks. Hold 2.5 mg and the same $499 lasts ten. The money does not change; the time does, in direct proportion to how much drug you take. The higher-dose plan behaves identically — $699 covers sixteen weeks at 7.5 mg or eight weeks at 15 mg — and a second tier at $799 buys more time again at the same doses. For a reader deliberately holding a small amount, that is the clearest possible answer to what taking less is worth: it is worth double the duration, and the seller has done the arithmetic in advance rather than leaving it to be inferred from a vial size nobody publishes. Two things keep it from being a complete answer. Every period is quoted in weeks, and none of the eight lengths used is a month, so none of these figures can be set against the monthly rates that make up the rest of this market without a conversion the seller has not performed. The seller also does something very few sellers here manage: it names the drug behind each receptor label, describing its GLP-1 program as semaglutide and its GLP-1/GIP program as tirzepatide, and sets out the full week-by-week titration for each. So every rung carries a milligram AND the molecule it belongs to, which is rarer than either alone.

The honest cons

Every period is in weeks, and none of the eight lengths used is a month.
  • The twelve-week titration programs are not three calendar months either.
  • The blocks are paid up front rather than month to month.
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Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.

How it compares

Care Clinics is one of 548 low-dose GLP-1 programs compared on this site, and 299 of them publish a monthly rate you can read before signing up. The full list puts every published price in one place, with the companies that pay us listed first — something we state there, on the page it applies to.

Also consider

Two more programs to compare with Care Clinics. Both are partners: we may earn a commission if you start care through these links.

Partner

ShedRx (Shed)

$149–$199/mo microdose (2-month minimum)

Charges less for less

Partner

Strut Health

$99/mo sema lozenge (auto-refill)

Standard plan, self-directed low dose

FDA warning letter · Strut Health · February 2026 · addressed to Strut Health, LLC dba Strut. Details in our review.

Where this sits

#276 of 548

Ordered with the companies that pay us first, and Care Clinics is not one of them. A disclosed partition, not a score.

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Read this before you buy

Intentional GLP-1 microdosing is off-label and unproven — no randomized trial has established that a sub-label dose does anything, and any dose belongs with a clinician who knows your history. If you are going to have that conversation, have it with real numbers.

Start with Care Clinics

Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.

Another program to compare

Eden

$99/mo sema · $129/mo tirz (all-inclusive)

FDA warning letter · Eden · June 2026 · addressed to Eden Health International Inc. dba Eden. Details in our review.

Vs median
$76/mo below the $175 median
Market
$59–$1,300/mo across 299 of 548
Structure
Same price at every dose
Dispensed
Compounded by Eden Pharmacy (Albuquerque, NM)

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Read the Eden review →

Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.