How we source and check every guide
There is a lot of confident, unsourced writing about GLP-1 medications and muscle. Some of it is wrong in ways that would cost you real progress. So the whole of this library is built on one rule: if we put a number in front of you, you get the link to where it came from, and that link has to open.
Who writes these. Mira’s guides are researched and written in-house for people doing strength training while on a GLP-1. Every factual claim is verified against the primary source rather than a search result, links are restricted to free and durable hosts, and two automated checks run before any page is published.
We do not currently have a clinician reviewing these pages, and we would rather say so than imply one. That is also why nothing here is written as advice about your medication: those decisions belong with your own healthcare provider, and this site stays on the side of the subject it can speak to, which is training.
The process
1The source is read, not skimmed
Every number that appears in a guide is checked against the record itself. A search snippet is not verification: snippets have handed us the wrong study identifier more than once on this project, which is exactly why the rule exists.
2Links have to be free and durable
An automated check restricts every citation to hosts that stay put and let a reader see the source without paying: national health institutes, public-health bodies, open-access journals, and the study records themselves. Publisher pages that paywall are rejected by the build, because a citation nobody can open is not a citation.
3Sources that do not say what we hoped get rejected
We keep a written record of the ones that failed. A sleep paper we wanted to cite for a specific number turned out not to state one anywhere in its abstract, so it is on the rejected list rather than in a guide. That list exists so the same mistake cannot be made twice.
4Corrections are made everywhere at once
Three real mis-citations have been found and fixed here. One attributed a protein range to a position stand that gives different numbers; one described a review as though it were an analysis of a trial. Each had spread across roughly a dozen pages before it was caught, so each fix went to all of them, and a new automated check was written afterwards to catch that class mechanically.
What we will not write
These are enforced by an automated check that runs before anything is published. A guide that breaks one of them fails the build rather than reaching you.
- No claim that a product, food or exercise treats, prevents or reverses anything.
- No risk scores, no diagnostic labels, and nothing that tells you what a number means about you personally.
- Weight loss is never celebrated. Progress here is reps, form and strength.
- Only one medication term is used anywhere on the site, and it is the class name.
- Every guide carries the same disclaimer, and it is not buried.
The honest caveats
Research on strength training specifically during GLP-1 treatment is young, and several of the studies we cite are small, short, or done in people who were not on these medications at all. Where that is true the guide says so rather than rounding it up into confidence.
The most important one is worth repeating here. Lean mass is not the same thing as muscle. It is roughly three-quarters water, and researchers estimate only around 60% of the fat-free mass people lose is actually skeletal muscle. Every lean-mass figure on this site is an upper bound rather than a verdict, and one guide exists specifically to explain that.
122 guides, and every statistic in them links to its source. If you find one that does not hold up, tell us at hello@mymira.fit and we will fix it across every page it appears on, the same way we have before.
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