Team

Joshua Nichvolodoff

Founder · writes and edits the Light Years guides

Joshua builds Light Years, the calm GLP-1 companion, and writes and edits its guides.

Joshua writes as the person accountable for the site, not as a clinician: the guides are general information, sourced to public records, and never medical advice.

Credentials

No clinical credentials are listed. Joshua does not write as a clinician, and the guides are not medical advice.

Conflicts of interest

• Owns Light Years, which is free to use and has no paid plan.
• Light Years has no affiliation with any medication manufacturer, pharmacy or insurer, and earns nothing from the products named in the guides.
• Light Years currently runs no ads and no affiliate links. If that changes, it will be disclosed on the page and at /affiliate-disclosure and /advertising-policy.

Guides written

• Why the daily scale lies
• When your trend goes flat
• Walking in prepared
• After you reach your goal
• Apo-Semaglutide, explained
• Sevmia, explained
• Generic Ozempic cost in British Columbia
• Generic Ozempic cost in Ontario
• Generic semaglutide in Canada, plainly explained
• How much protein on a GLP-1?
• Small, high-protein meals when your appetite is low
• Foods to eat on Ozempic: what the guidance says
• Is there a best diet with Mounjaro?
• How much does generic Ozempic cost in Canada?
• Nausea on GLP-1 medications
• Constipation on GLP-1 medications
• Renewing GLP-1 coverage in the US: a prior-authorization checklist
• Renewing GLP-1 coverage in Canada: public plans and private insurers
• Ozempic cost in the US: self-pay, savings cards and list price
• Wegovy cost and coverage in the US
• Mounjaro and Zepbound cost and coverage in the US
• GLP-1 savings cards and coupons, explained
• GLP-1 cost without insurance in the US
• Diarrhea on GLP-1 medications
• Fatigue on GLP-1 medications
• Hair loss on GLP-1 medications
• Injection-site reactions
• Gallbladder and pancreas warning signs
• When to call your prescriber
• Semaglutide, explained
• Tirzepatide, explained
• Ozempic, explained
• Wegovy, explained
• Mounjaro, explained
• Zepbound, explained
• Oral semaglutide (Rybelsus, Wegovy pill), explained
• Compounded vs generic vs brand-name GLP-1s in the US
• Compounded vs generic vs brand-name GLP-1s in Canada
• A high-protein, high-fibre day
• Dairy-free and plant-based protein
• Keeping muscle while you lose weight
• Eating well on a budget
• Protein and food-tracking apps compared
• Stopping a GLP-1: what the trials found
• Weight after stopping a GLP-1
• The maintenance conversation
• If you miss a dose
• Storing your medication
• Travelling with your medication
• Injection technique