Series – Ardenwell Press

AN EDITORIAL COLLECTION

The Sovereign Patient Series

Pharmacist-led nonfiction dedicated to bridging the gap between clinical complexity and patient agency.

VOLUME I • COMING SOON

Beyond the Shot

A Pharmacist’s Field Guide to GLP-1s, the Next Generation of Weight-Loss Medicine, and How to Protect Your Muscle, Your Metabolism, and Your Money

GLP-1–based medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro have transformed weight loss, but the shot alone is only half the story. Drawing on the clinical insight of a practicing pharmacist, this field guide shows you how these drugs actually work inside your body and where they quietly fall short. You’ll learn how to preserve the lean muscle and metabolic health that rapid weight loss puts at risk, and how to avoid the costly mistakes that drain your wallet without improving your results. It’s the practical, science-grounded companion every patient deserves before, during, and after treatment.

VOLUME II • IN DEVELOPMENT

The Regain

What Really Comes Back When You Stop a GLP-1 — and the Pharmacist’s Plan to Keep the Fat Off and the Muscle On

The data is clear: stop a GLP-1 without a plan, and you’ll regain roughly two-thirds of the weight you lost within a year — but the body that comes back isn’t the one you started with. This book reveals exactly what returns when the medication ends, why fat rebuilds faster than muscle, and why that shift quietly undermines your metabolism and long-term health. Drawing on clinical pharmacology and a pharmacist-designed protocol, it gives you a precise, step-by-step strategy to transition off these drugs without losing your progress. This is the roadmap for keeping the fat off and the muscle on — for good.

VOLUME III • IN DEVELOPMENT

The Peptide Promise

What GLP-1s, New Peptide Therapies, and the Compounding Boom Reveal About the Future of Medicine — and Where the Real Science Ends

Peptide therapies are being hailed as the next frontier of medicine, fueled by GLP-1 breakthroughs and an explosive compounding boom. But amid the hype, it’s increasingly hard to tell genuine science from clever marketing. This book separates real, evidence-backed promise from speculation, giving you a clear-eyed view of where these treatments are truly headed. Equal parts guide and reality check, it helps you understand the future of medicine without being misled by it.

Our goal isn’t just to publish books — it is to build a collection that helps everyday people think clearly about their health.

The Editorial Roadmap

Over the coming months, Ardenwell Press will broaden the series across several key areas of clinical care. We’ll dig into medication safety and polypharmacy, how prescriptions pile up, interact, and sometimes do more harm than good. We’ll cover diagnostic gaps and misdiagnosis, where real problems get missed, mislabeled, or brushed off as “normal.” We’ll examine special populations who are too often overlooked, including women, children, and aging parents. And we’ll take on the bigger picture of healthcare systems and access — from what happens behind the pharmacy counter to what families face when their local pharmacy disappears. Across all of these, every book shares the same mission: take confusing medical information and make it clear, so you can make smart, confident choices about your own health. We hope you’ll come along for the journey toward a more informed and empowered future

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Medication safety and polypharmacy

How prescriptions interact and accumulate

Diagnostic gaps and misdiagnosis

Women’s health and overlooked conditions

Children’s health and family care

Aging parents and caregiving

Healthcare access and pharmacy systems

The realities of modern medicine

Every book shares the same mission:

Take confusing medical information and make it clear, so people can make informed, confident decisions about their health.

We hope you’ll join us on the journey toward a more informed and empowered future.

The science behind your decisions, Weekly.

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