Why We Built Orvi.
Our mom lost 56 lbs on her GLP-1. Nobody ever measured what they were made of.
The question we couldn't answer.
"Am I doing this right?"
Our mom asked us that on a Sunday night in March, 3 months and 23 lbs in.
We're Henry and Jackson, two brothers from Wyoming. We didn't have an answer.
By month 4, the jeans she'd kept for 15 years fit again. Everyone told her she looked amazing.
She didn't feel amazing.
When she got down on the living-room floor to play with the grandkids, she'd started needing the couch to get back up.
In July, her physical therapist ran the same leg test she'd done for her hip that spring. Partway through, he stopped her and asked her to do it again.
She had lost close to half the strength in her legs.
Close to half. By month 7.
She was 57, and she'd done nothing wrong. Neither had her doctor. He had 10 minutes and a scale.
Everybody had warned her about the muscle. Nobody had measured it.
It wasn't just her.
Researchers found that a meaningful share of the weight lost on these medications can be lean mass, not fat. In one of the landmark clinical studies, it ran as high as 40%.1 Across the broader research, it averages out to roughly 1 in 4 pounds.2 Muscle is a big part of that. They all agree: it can be a lot.
A range that big can't tell anyone which end they're on.
Her bathroom scale couldn't either. It weighed her fat, muscle, water and bone together and gave her one number. It never once said which of them had moved.
Muscle is what gets you up off the floor. It's also one of the biggest drivers of metabolism. Less muscle means a slower metabolism, and everything after that gets harder than it needs to be.
What we couldn't find, we built.
So we went looking for whatever would have caught it in March instead of July.
4 major medical organizations agree on exactly what protects muscle on a GLP-1: more protein, resistance training, and tracking your body composition. Almost nobody is set up to help you do all three. Fewer than half of people on GLP-1s reach the protein target that protects muscle.
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You already got the advice. Nobody gave you a way to follow it. And nothing ever told you whether it was working.
2 things had to be true in the same box. It had to show fat and muscle separately. And it had to come with the systems to act on what it showed. Everything we found did one or the other. Almost nothing went near the rebuilding half at all.
So we built both, and the systems came first.
A protein target set from your goal weight, with cold and no-cook options for the days when nothing sounds appetizing. 3 home sessions a week, about 30 minutes, no gym, with a simple rule that tells you exactly when to up the intensity. A review every 4 weeks that turns your numbers into one decision, and one page you can hand your doctor.
The scale was never the focus. The plans were. The scale is just there to prove the plans are working.
The Orvi Body Scan reads your whole body through 8 electrodes and a handheld bar in about 10 seconds. It isn't a lab, and it doesn't pretend to be.
The Orvi Protect System is for while the weight comes off: Fuel, Protect and Measure, in one file.
Then the Grow System, for building muscle once the weight is mostly off. That means eating more, on purpose, and training in the gym when you and your body are ready. That's the part we're actually the most excited about.
Fuel. Protect. Measure. Grow.
Who we built it for.
For everyone who has lost 20 lbs and felt proud and frightened at the same time.
Picture the version of this our mom never got.
10 seconds on the Scan, bare feet, before you eat or drink. Fat line down. Muscle line holding. You hit your protein, even on the days you have to make yourself eat. You did your 3 sessions.
You notice your arms. There's a nice shape to them. Not smaller. Not softer. Yours. Defined. Everyone is saying you look amazing, and you feel it.
You're not hoping it's working. You know.
Close this page, and nothing about tomorrow morning changes. People still tell you that you look amazing. You smile, say thank you, and keep the question to yourself.
The same one our mom asked us in March.
It doesn't have to go that way for you. Protecting muscle now costs less than building it back later, and the systems arrive the moment you order, so you can start before the scale even arrives.
The Protect & Grow System comes with a 100-day guarantee. If it isn't for you, email us and we'll organize a refund. The systems are yours to keep either way.
The first time our mom stepped on the Orvi Body Scan, she sent us a screenshot. Her message was 6 words.
"I wish I had this sooner."
So do we. That's why we built Orvi.
So we built the plan she never got, and a way to see whether it's working.
Henry & Jackson Ellison
Founders of Orvi
