Dr. Jeffrey GladdenFounder & CEO of Gladden Longevity

Optimize Your Weight Health: Your Best Shot 🌱

20 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dr. Jeffrey Gladden explains the motivation behind his book "Your Best Shot." He emphasizes that the book is not about specific injectable weight‑loss drugs (semaglutide, tirzepatide, retatrutide) or achieving a particular number on the scale. Instead, the core message is to focus on weight composition and overall weight health—building strength, emotional openness, hope, and the capacity to fulfill one's life purpose. Gladden argues that optimizing weight health is essential for emotional well‑being and for realizing personal purpose, positioning it as the "best shot" at a meaningful life.

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I want to make two distinct points. You've first of all literally nailed it. The reason that I wrote my book, the reason I titled my book your best shot is not because I believe that, you know, semi glutide or tirzepatide or retatrutide like that. There's a shot, a physical shot that you know, we need or to, you know, that that will. Will help us all achieve some weight or composition. I the total number on the scale I could care less about, but weight composition, it's that when we are strong, struggling to optimize our weight health, when we're investing resources, yes, we care about money, we, we absolutely care about our time. But I'm talking about our hope, I'm talking about our emotions and be it being able to have our hearts open. When we're investing that and we're struggling and we're not seeing the outcomes or we're seeing the failures, we can't actually fulfill our life purpose. And I believe that your best shot at fulfilling your life purpose is actually learning about optimizing weight health.