Arc-1 review

Arc-1 is a small Las Vegas longevity practice whose founder page identifies Dr. Todd Stearns and describes his OB/GYN credentials and Nevada practice. Those are company disclosures, not an individual license verification. The catalog is short and focused: compounded NAD+ as an injection or nasal spray, sermorelin and glutathione injections, compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide, enclomiphene, and rapamycin and metformin. Enclomiphene isn't FDA-approved, and FDA’s advisers recommended against adding it to a compounding list in 2022; that vote was not itself final approval or prohibition. The rapamycin page describes generic and compounded possibilities without establishing the exact dispensed product or capsule strength for your order; metformin’s identity and supply also need confirmation. The site currently carries an "under construction" banner, and the reviewed product pages print offers that still need their exact supply and renewal terms confirmed.

Those prices are the easy part. Each longevity product shows an "as low as" subscription price per month and says how much you save on every refill compared with a one-time order, and the table uses the subscription figure (the NAD+ nasal spray is $94.99/mo). Every product page also lists the states it can't ship to. For GLP-1s, the tirzepatide page’s starting banner differs from its embedded entry-variant amount. The variant is not a completed checkout quote. Confirm the actual dose, first payment and renewal instead of assuming the banner applies.

The order of events is worth knowing before you start. You add a product to the cart and pay at checkout, with no consultation fee, and only then fill in the intake forms. A practitioner reviews them and may follow up by chat, phone or video before approving the prescription. The pages don't say how a declined order is refunded, so ask before you pay. Refunds are murky in general: the general policy offers 30-day returns of unused goods, while the support page excludes prescription returns. A generic satisfaction badge does not establish a prescription refund or non-approval policy. The policy also describes six to eight weeks for approval and processing, so ask for the actual eligibility and timeline.

The pharmacy is the Flag. Badges promise "US-Licensed Pharmacies", but the terms, privacy, HIPAA and refund pages never name one. Ask which pharmacy compounds your order, and look up its license, before your first shipment. If you want to talk to a doctor first, the homepage lets you book a 20-minute consultation with the founder, though it doesn't show the price. That call is a sensible place to ask about the pharmacy and the refund rules together.

Clinical benefit is a separate question from a subscription price. The site’s aging, recovery and cognitive claims do not establish outcomes from the particular dispensed NAD+, sermorelin or rapamycin product. Rapamycin’s marketed aging use is not its FDA-approved indication. A page’s dosing or cycling suggestion should not substitute for the prescriber’s instructions. Ask for product identity, strength, quantity, refill frequency and the cancellation cutoff together; an advertised monthly equivalent cannot answer all of those questions.