You don’t need a script.
You need a system.
A doctor decides your treatment, and a team gets you through it. Flourish is a GLP-1 programme run by HPCSA-registered doctors, dietitians and human coaches — with FIA, your AI coach, there at 2am when the nausea, cravings and questions actually happen. One video consult to start, and the app runs every week after it.
Free to check · No account needed · A doctor makes the final call
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Care delivered by 7 named South African clinicians — doctors, dietitians and coaches.
- 48 hrs
- to your video consult
- 7 clinicians
- HPCSA-registered, named on this site
- R999
- to start · R249 back if you don’t qualify
What members say
Individual member experiences, in their own words — and every clinician behind them is named on this site.
“After 8 weeks I’m down 9.5 kg and 30 cm. This program is going to change the face of obesity care in South Africa.”
Sarah · −9.5 kg and 30 cm in 8 weeks
“Since starting in December 2024 I’ve lost over 20 kg — and I actually get excited for weigh-ins every week!”
Nicky S. · −20 kg since December 2024
Individual member experiences, shared with permission. Weight loss varies from person to person and depends on your treatment, your health and how you use the programme. These are not typical or guaranteed results.
The people behind it
Your treatment is decided by a doctor whose name you can look up.
Not a call centre, and not a form that ends in a prescription. Flourish is run by registered South African doctors, dietitians and coaches — the same people you will actually see.
- HPCSA-registered
- Every doctor and dietitian is registered with their South African council.
- SCOPE-certified
- Our lead doctors hold the international certification in obesity management.
- SAHPRA-approved medicines
- Registered medication dispensed by a licensed pharmacy. No grey-market pens.
Dr Patrick Bennett
Founder & Chief Executive
MBChB (UP)
Dr Kyle Winik
Sports & Exercise Medicine Doctor
MBChB (UP, cum laude), Dip Sports & Exercise Medicine (IOC)
Dr Amanda Nel
Women's Health & Weight Loss Doctor
MBChB (UP)
Checkable, not claimed
We are the metabolic partner to South Africa’s leading specialist practices.
Fertility, bariatric and sleep teams treat what they are expert in. We treat the weight underneath it, and send the clinical picture back to them.
FertilityVitalabWeight moves conception rates and IVF outcomes in both partners. We treat the metabolic side so the fertility work is not fighting it.
Bariatric surgerySandton Bariatric & Metabolic UnitPre-operative optimisation, and the patients for whom surgery is not the answer yet. Medication is not right for everyone, and neither is theatre.- Restonic Ezintsha Sleep ClinicSleep medicineApnoea and obesity drive each other, so treating the sleep while the weight climbs stalls. South Africa’s first dedicated sleep research and treatment clinic, with Wits University’s Ezintsha.
The problem underneath the problem
Eight things to manage, or one.
What you’re holding now
None of them talk to each other. All of them are your job to reconcile, every day, while your appetite and your energy are changing week to week.
What Flourish gives you instead
One programme. One next step.
- A doctor who decides the treatment
- A dietitian who builds the eating
- A coach who knows your case
- FIA, holding all of it together
You open the app and it tells you the one thing that matters this week. That is the whole design.
A real doctor.
Within days.
Not a questionnaire that ends in a prescription. A 30-minute video consult with a registered South African doctor who takes a full history, answers your questions, and decides with you.
If the doctor says GLP-1 treatment isn’t right for you, your R249 first programme month is refunded.No forms, no phone calls. The consult itself isn’t refunded — a doctor assessed you either way. Being straight about that is the whole reason we can afford to be honest with you.
- HPCSA-registered South African clinicians
- Video consults — no travel, no waiting rooms
- Reschedule free up to 24 hours before
- Reports you can share with your own GP or medical aid
What your doctor decides
Whether medication is right for you at all
Including saying no. Roughly one in five people who apply are better served without a GLP-1 — and their first programme month is refunded.
Which medication, and at what dose
Chosen against your history, your other medicines and what you can tolerate — not against what’s in stock.
When to move up, hold, or step back
Every titration decision is a doctor’s, made off the weight, doses and side-effects you’ve logged in the app.
When something needs a person, urgently
Your coach can escalate to your doctor the same day. Nobody is left waiting on a contact form.
Rather talk first? Book a consult
You don’t have to join anything to speak to a clinician. Book a one-off consult — R1 000, or R750 once you’re a member.
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How it works
From first question to lasting results.
Two-minute eligibility check
A short set of questions about your goals, health and where you are with medication. No account needed, and it’s free.
Video consult within days
An HPCSA-registered doctor takes a full history and decides with you. If the doctor says GLP-1 treatment isn’t right for you, your R249 first programme month is refunded.
Medication, plan and coach
If it’s prescribed, medication is couriered to your door. Your dietitian plan and your human coach start the same day.
Every week after that
Track weight, doses, side-effects and muscle. FIA answers at 2am, your coach checks in, and your doctor reviews the data at week four.
The system
A loop, not a subscription.
Step 1 · in
You, in the app
Weight, dose, side effects, food, movement — logged in seconds, not written up.
Step 2 · in
FIA reads it first
Answers immediately, and flags what a human needs to see — a stalling loss, a side effect that has stopped being normal.
Step 3 · in
Your doctor sees the pattern
Dose decisions made on twelve weeks of your own data, not on how you felt in the ten minutes of a consult.
Step 4 · back to you
Your dietitian rebuilds the plan
Appetite at 0.25 mg is a different problem from appetite at 2.4 mg. The plan changes with the dose.
Step 5 · back to you
Your coach makes it happen
The plan lands back in your app as this week’s one thing — and a named person checks you did it.
And it runs for 52 weeks — including the part where you stop.
The loop tightens as you go: more coaching early while the side effects are live, more maintenance and muscle work later, then a planned taper with your coach through it. Stopping is a programme here, not a cliff.
- 52
- weeks, mapped
- 24/7
- FIA, between the humans
Your care team
Four people in your corner. One of them is an AI.
Your doctor
HPCSA-registered, GLP-1 focused
Takes your history, decides on treatment, and owns every dosing decision. You meet them within days and see them again at week four.
- Dr Patrick Bennett
- Dr Kyle Winik
- Dr Amanda Nel
Your dietitian
Registered, and used to a quiet appetite
Builds an eating plan for the stage you’re actually at — including the weeks when food stops being interesting and protein gets hard.
Philippa Bramwell-Jones
Ashleigh Caradas
Your health coach
One human who knows your story
Checks in before you have to ask, answers the same day, and escalates to your doctor when something isn’t right.
Nomfundo Zondi
Jonica van der Merwe
FIA, your AI coach
The 2am one
Answers instantly, every hour of the night, and flags anything clinical to the humans above. Never the one making a medical decision.
The evidence
We'd rather show you the trials than our adjectives.
−14.9%
mean body weight at 68 weeks on weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg, against −2.4% on placebo
−22.5%
mean body weight at 72 weeks on weekly tirzepatide 15 mg, against −2.4% on placebo
−16.0%
mean body weight at 68 weeks when the same medication is paired with intensive behavioural support — nearly three times the −5.7% that support achieved on its own
64.8%
of people without type 2 diabetes stopped their GLP-1 within twelve months of starting it. That is the number Flourish is built against. A prescription is easy to get and hard to finish — the dietitian, the coach and the doctor review at week four exist because the medication only works while you're still taking it.
US real-world claims analysis, 2024- Wilding JPH, Batterham RL, Calanna S, et al. Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity. N Engl J Med. 2021;384(11):989–1002.
- Jastreboff AM, Aronne LJ, Ahmad NN, et al. Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity. N Engl J Med. 2022;387(3):205–216.
- Wadden TA, Bailey TS, Billings LK, et al. Effect of Subcutaneous Semaglutide vs Placebo as an Adjunct to Intensive Behavioral Therapy on Body Weight in Adults With Overweight or Obesity: The STEP 3 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2021;325(14):1403–1413.
- Rodriguez PJ, Goodwin Cartwright BM, Gratzl S, et al. Discontinuation and Reinitiation of Dual-Labeled GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Among US Adults With Overweight or Obesity. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(11):e2441898.
Member stories
The part that keeps people going.
“After 8 weeks I’m down 9.5 kg and 30 cm. This program is going to change the face of obesity care in South Africa.”
“Since starting in December 2024 I’ve lost over 20 kg — and I actually get excited for weigh-ins every week!”
“After five months I’ve lost more than 18 kg, improved my body composition, and built habits.”
“The team keeps me on track, cares deeply, and has helped me change how I think about health.”
Individual member experiences, shared with permission. Weight loss varies from person to person and depends on your treatment, your health and how you use the programme. These are not typical or guaranteed results.
The coach who never clocks off.
FIA is your AI health coach — built on the clinical knowledge behind GLP-1 care, tuned to South African life, and personal to you. Motivation, answers, and a calm head in the moments a prescription can't reach.
- Knows your plan, dose & history
- Triages symptoms, escalates to your doctor
- Protein, plateaus & side-effect coaching
Safety first. FIA flags red-flag symptoms and hands you to a real clinician whenever something needs human eyes.
I feel really nauseous a day after my injection.
That's common in the first weeks. Let's ease it: smaller, lower-fat meals, sip ginger or peppermint, and stop eating at the first sign of full. If it's severe or you can't keep fluids down, I'll flag your doctor.
The scale hasn't moved in 10 days and I'm losing motivation.
Plateaus are part of the process, not a failure. Your measurements and energy often shift before the scale does. You've shown up 18 days straight — that consistency is exactly what gets you through this.
Why does everyone keep going on about protein?
On a GLP-1 your appetite drops, so it’s easy to under-eat protein and lose muscle along with fat. Aim for ~1.2–1.6g per kg of body weight — it protects muscle, keeps you full, and keeps your metabolism humming.
Already on a GLP-1?
Skip the programme story. Get the app.
- FIA answers at 2am, when the nausea and the cravings actually happen
- Your weight, dose, side effects and muscle in one place — not four apps
- Nutrition matched to your treatment stage, not generic macros
- Plateaus flagged from your own data before you notice them
The phone apps are in store review. Everything works in the browser today.
Cancel anytime from inside the app. Medication isn’t included — you keep your own prescription, and we work alongside whoever writes it.
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Let’s talk about side effects
The first three weeks are the hard part. We plan for them.
Nausea and a too-full feeling are common early on. Pretending otherwise is how other programmes lose people in month one — they get a pen in the post and nobody to tell when it goes badly.
Nausea, feeling full far too fast, tiredness
Your coach responds the same day with practical fixes, and a doctor is behind them if it doesn’t settle.
A symptom that worries you
Log it in the app. Anything clinical is escalated to your doctor rather than answered by a chatbot.
The plateau, and losing muscle with the fat
Protein targets, resistance work and Muscle Protect tracking — the part most programmes skip entirely.
Already on a GLP-1?
What’s worrying you most right now?
Your dispensing pharmacy
The medicine comes from a registered pharmacy, not a reseller.
An independent, SAPC-registered pharmacy
Evia Health (Pty) Ltd is registered with the South African Pharmacy Council under number 0979023. Dispensing sits with them, prescribing sits with your doctor, and those are deliberately not the same company.
Registered medicine, cold-chain delivered
GLP-1 medication is temperature-sensitive. It travels in a maintained cold chain from the pharmacy to your door, so what arrives is what was dispensed — not a pen bought from a grey-market reseller.
Checked, packed and labelled by machine
Evia packs medication into dated, time-labelled pouches on automated dispensing equipment, then a pharmacist checks it. Fewer hands, fewer errors, and no ambiguity about what to take when.
- Pharmacy
- Evia Health (Pty) Ltd
- SAPC registration
- 0979023
- Responsible pharmacist
- Veronique Sampson · P37745
- Premises
- 33 Fricker Road, Illovo, Johannesburg, 2196
Who runs the pharmacy
Evia Health is its own business with its own leadership. These are the people accountable for what ends up in your box.
Steven Isaacson
Chief Executive, Evia Health
Runs the registered pharmacy that dispenses and delivers every prescription
Dr Craig Nossel
Chief Medical Officer, Evia Health
Preventive health strategy
Veronique Sampson
Registered Pharmacist, Evia Health
Accountable for how every prescription is prepared, checked and dispatched
Pricing
All of it, on one page.
Start with a doctor
New to GLP-1 medication, and you want it done properly.
includes your doctor consult · then R599/month, or R199 app-only
- Video consult with an HPCSA-registered doctor, within days
- If the doctor says GLP-1 treatment isn’t right for you, your R249 first programme month is refunded.
- Your first month on the programme
- Continue with a coach at R599/month, or app-only at R199/month
- A dedicated human health coach
- FIA, your AI coach, 24/7
- Muscle-protection and side-effect support
Coach plan
Already on treatment, or you want a human coach alongside the app.
cancel anytime · medication not included
- A dedicated human health coach
- The full Flourish app and programme
- FIA, your AI coach, 24/7
- Nutrition matched to your treatment stage
- Plateau, protein and side-effect coaching
- Doctor and dietitian consults bookable as needed
App plan
You want the programme and FIA, without a human coach.
cancel anytime
- The full Flourish app and programme
- FIA, your AI coach, 24/7
- Weight, dose, side-effect and muscle tracking
- Personalised nutrition plans
- Upgrade to a human coach whenever you want
Consults, whenever you need them
Book a doctor or dietitian as a one-off, whether or not you’re on a plan. Members pay less. Your first doctor consult is already included in the R999 start.
| Consult | Member | Non-member |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor consultEligibility, prescriptions, dose changes and reviews — 30 minutes on video. | R750 | R1 000 |
| Dietitian consultA registered dietitian builds the eating plan around your treatment stage. | R550 | R850 |
Not sure which is yours?Take the two-minute eligibility check — it’s free, and a doctor still makes the final call.
Choose your path
Three ways in. One clinic behind you.
New to medication
Begin with a doctor, not a guess
Start with a doctor who decides whether medication is right for you — then a plan and a coach to make it work.
Check if you qualifyAlready on medication
Make the medicine you already have work harder
Bring your current medication. We add the clinical oversight, nutrition and coaching most prescriptions are missing.
Optimise my treatmentWithout medication
The whole system, no injection
A dietitian-built plan, a human coach and the full app. The same system, run without medication.
Start without medicationWhy Flourish
Care you can trust with your health.
Doctor-led, always
Every plan is set and overseen by a registered clinician — never an algorithm alone.
Muscle, not just weight
We protect lean muscle as you lose fat, so results last beyond the medication.
POPIA-compliant & private
Your health data is encrypted, South African, and never sold. Yours to share, with your provider, on your terms.
A clinic, not a pharmacy
We treat the whole journey — nutrition, mindset, side-effects — not just a prescription in the post.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Is Flourish a real clinic, or just an app?
Both. Flourish is a fully digital, doctor-led obesity clinic. Registered South African clinicians review your case, decide on treatment and oversee your care — the app is how you carry your care team, plan and coach with you everywhere.
I'm already on Ozempic / Wegovy / Mounjaro. Can I still join?
Yes — that's our 'already on medication' path. Bring your current GLP-1 and we add the clinical oversight, dose guidance, nutrition and coaching that a prescription on its own doesn't include.
Do I have to take medication to use Flourish?
No. A doctor decides whether medication is appropriate for you. Many members benefit from the nutrition plan, coaching and tracking — with or without a GLP-1.
What is FIA?
FIA is your AI health coach, available 24/7. She knows your plan, medication and history, and helps with side-effects, motivation, nutrition and what to do next — escalating to your doctor whenever something needs a human.
How do consultations work?
You book a doctor-led consultation directly from your dashboard. Choose a time that suits you and meet your clinician online — no waiting rooms, no travel.
How much does it cost?
Pricing depends on your path — starting fresh, transferring an existing prescription, or returning as a member. See the pricing section above for each plan. Medication, where prescribed, is billed separately.
Is my data safe?
Your health data is encrypted, stored in line with POPIA, and never sold. You can generate a report to share with your own healthcare provider at any time.
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Free to check, no account needed, and a registered doctor makes the final call.If the doctor says GLP-1 treatment isn’t right for you, your R249 first programme month is refunded.