Built by a Firefighter Paramedic. For the People Who Carry the Weight.
Summit Performance Wellness was founded by Ryan Strachan, an 18-year Colorado Firefighter Paramedic, after seeing firsthand what real recovery, hormone optimization, and medically supervised peptide therapy could do for his family, his crew, and himself.
Summit isn't another company selling medications. It's a comprehensive wellness platform — combining peptide therapy, GLP-1 weight loss, hormone optimization, recovery protocols, nutrition, and fitness coaching under one roof.
Ryan Strachan — 18 Years on the Line.
Ryan has spent nearly two decades in the most demanding environments in healthcare and public safety. He currently serves with a major South Denver Metro fire department and previously spent seven years as a paramedic with Denver Health, one of the nation's most respected emergency medical systems.
He's a husband and father of four. His wife works at a major Denver pediatric hospital. After four pregnancies, years of shift work, and the everyday weight of two healthcare careers, they both experienced firsthand why a comprehensive, medically supervised approach to recovery and performance matters.
Like many first responders and active adults, Ryan has worked through multiple injuries throughout his career. His own recovery journey is what revealed the role that properly prescribed peptide therapies, hormone optimization, nutrition, and fitness coaching could play in restoring health and performance. Summit is the result.
- National Registry Paramedic
- Colorado State Paramedic
- Firefighter I & II
- Fire Instructor
- Fire Officer I
- ACLS & PALS
- Advanced education in hormone optimization, GLP-1, recovery & performance
One Platform. One Standard of Care.
The goal was never another company that simply sells medications. It was to build an affordable, comprehensive wellness platform — quality medical oversight, legitimate pharmacy sourcing, nutrition, fitness, recovery, accountability, and long-term planning under one roof.
Medical Oversight
Licensed providers and reputable compounding pharmacies — every protocol, every refill.
Evidence-Based Therapies
GLP-1 programs, Semaglutide, Tirzepatide, TRT/HRT, peptides, recovery and longevity protocols.
Performance Partnerships
Body composition, macros, accountability and training with Kyle Gillian (Fit Republic) and Edgar Sanchez (Dark Horse Performance).
Built by a First Responder
Designed around the realities of shift work, injury recovery, and demanding careers.
Affordable Access
Membership pricing built to remove insurance friction and keep care continuous.
Colorado Roots, National Reach
Founded in Colorado to help people live longer, healthier lives — wherever you serve.
Strength & Conditioning Partners
Summit partners with elite Colorado coaches who bring decades of combined experience in body composition, strength training, and tactical fitness.
Dark Horse Performance
Edgar Sanchez
Marine, law enforcement officer, and protective security professional with 27+ years of service. Edgar brings tactical fitness, strength & conditioning, and combat sports coaching to Summit members seeking disciplined, results-driven training.
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Fit Republic
Kyle Gillian
World-champion coach and owner of Fit Republic. Kyle provides body composition analysis, macro programming, accountability, and performance training for Summit members ready to level up.
View The Fit Republic Program →Why This Is Personal.
Beyond his professional career, Ryan is a husband and father of four. His wife Penn works in healthcare at a major pediatric hospital in the Denver metro area — long shifts, mental focus, emotional resilience, and physical stamina, every day.
Penn has navigated the demands of healthcare, shift work, and recovery after three pregnancies — including a twin pregnancy — while raising four children and maintaining an active lifestyle. Like many active adults, healthcare professionals, and parents, she understands that optimal health requires a comprehensive approach that goes far beyond simply treating symptoms.
Throughout his own career, Ryan experienced multiple injuries, physical setbacks, disrupted sleep, chronic stress, and the wear and tear that often accompanies a life spent serving others. Through nutrition, fitness, recovery strategies, hormone optimization, and peptide therapies when medically appropriate, he began experiencing real improvements in recovery, performance, energy, and overall health. Those experiences became the foundation for Summit.
Medications Are Only One Piece of the Equation.
Today's healthcare landscape offers more access to medications than ever. Companies like Hims, Hers, and Ro have made GLP-1 medications and hormone optimization more accessible than ever — but too often patients receive a prescription and are left to navigate weight loss, hormone optimization, recovery, and long-term health on their own.
Summit was built on a fundamentally different philosophy. Lasting results are achieved when medications are combined with nutrition, exercise, recovery, accountability, education, lifestyle modification, and ongoing support.
Through partnerships with Fit Republic and Dark Horse Performance, Summit clients get access to body composition analysis, nutrition coaching, accountability support, customized training programs, and performance-focused strategies that extend far beyond a prescription.
Evidence-Based Medicine Meets Longevity Science.
The Summit philosophy is heavily influenced by both evidence-based medicine and emerging research in hormone optimization, peptide therapy, metabolic health, longevity medicine, recovery science, and cellular wellness.
As part of his continuing education, Ryan completed advanced training through the Seeds Scientific Research & Performance Institute (SSRP), studying peptide therapies, cellular health, recovery science, metabolic optimization, and performance-focused wellness strategies developed by Dr. William Seeds and other leaders in the field.
Nutrition, movement, recovery, sleep, hormones, metabolic health, and cellular function all work together to influence how we feel, perform, recover, and age. Our goal is to help clients create healthier environments within the body so they can recover more effectively, improve performance, optimize body composition, and maintain long-term wellness.
Licensed Providers. Reputable Pharmacies. Real Oversight.
Summit partners with licensed healthcare providers, experienced healthcare infrastructure organizations, and reputable pharmacies to provide access to evidence-based therapies — with a strong focus on patient safety, medical oversight, compliance, and quality care.
GLP-1 Weight Loss
Semaglutide & Tirzepatide programs
Hormone Optimization
TRT for men, HRT for women
Peptide Therapy
Recovery, growth hormone & longevity
Recovery Protocols
Injury recovery & tissue repair
Longevity Programs
Cellular health & healthy aging
Performance Optimization
Body composition & output
Trained Alongside the Coaches Who Built Summit's Partnerships.
Ryan has competed as a physique athlete and worked closely with respected coaches including Kyle Gillian of Fit Republic and Edgar Sanchez of Dark Horse Performance. Edgar coached Ryan through his physique competition preparation, and both Kyle and Edgar have helped shape Summit's understanding of fitness, nutrition, performance, recovery, and sustainable health optimization.
Ryan has also been featured in the Colorado Firefighter Calendar and the Fire Rescue Dogs Calendar — experiences that reinforced his passion for fitness, health, wellness, and representing the first responder community.
To help people throughout Colorado — and beyond — safely improve their health, recover from injuries, lose weight, optimize hormones, improve performance, and live longer, healthier lives through medically supervised programs that address more than just symptoms.
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Licensed clinicians, US-compounded medications, and a complete wellness team behind every protocol.
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