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Experts in chronic medical weight management for preventing, managing and reversing health conditions.
We prescribe and manage chronic weight managment pharmacotherapy within a structured and comprehensive program for the best long term results.
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Should You Change Horses Mid-Race?
Some people have sent messages asking about changing from semaglutide to tirzepatide following the “news” article that came out...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Dec 8, 20247 min read
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Outcomes Following Discontinuation of Semaglutide
This blog describes the study on what happened after semaglutide was discontinued in the SELECT 1 trial. The SELECT 1 trial was the...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Nov 30, 20243 min read
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Nutritional Health on Semaglutide or Tirzepatide
While taking semaglutide or tirzepatide, sometimes, people eat very few calories. Of course this often leads to a very large amount of...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Nov 23, 20245 min read
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Countering the Red Herring
With the recent election and naming of the US Health Secretary, Ozempic is back in the news again with people choosing sides of lifestyle...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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Menopause and Obesity
Highlights Menopause is associated with increased abdominal and visceral obesity. Abdominal and visceral obesity increases...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Nov 2, 20245 min read
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The Multiple Faces of the Disease of Obesity
We have come a long way in researching and treating obesity as a disease. But, there are actually multiple types of this disease. Now ...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Oct 6, 20243 min read
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Tips & Access for Semaglutide and Tirzepatide
One in eight Americans had taken a weight loss injectable medication as of May 2024 as reported in an article by CNN. The article...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Sep 29, 20248 min read
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UGHHHH, do I really need to take this medication forever?
A common concern people have before starting one of the new generation highly effective chronic weight management medications is that...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Sep 15, 20245 min read
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Finally, Coverage for the Condition of Overweight/Obesity?
For many people, weight management medications are completely excluded from insurance coverage. Why can treatment for a medical condition...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
May 4, 20241 min read
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What's Up With the Weight Loss Plateau?
A common question I get is, “Doctor, I was losing weight great, then it slowed way down and stopped! I didn’t chan ge anything I was...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Apr 14, 20242 min read
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Fructose: The Smoking Gun?
There are many reasons why the regulation of energy expenditure and storage in the human body is not just a matter of “calories in,...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Mar 31, 20245 min read
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Got Stubborn Fat? It May be White Adipose Tissue.
Have you cut your calorie intake and reached a weight loss plateau anyway? Have you counted your calories and done the math and can’t...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Mar 24, 20247 min read
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Experience Matters
When I left primary care to practice Medical Weight Management full time in April of 2015, there were very few physicians in this...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Mar 17, 20245 min read
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Emotional Resilience: Finding the Meaning in Adversity
Emotional resilience is the ability to keep your sailboat steady amid a storm. It is the ability to see adversity as temporary, and use...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Mar 3, 20244 min read
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Environmental Obesogens
Why is the prevalence of obesity increasing so much? Why does it seem like your weight can increase, even if you are not changing...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Feb 24, 20243 min read
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Very Low Calorie Ketogenic Diet / Incretin Mimetics: The Yin/Yang of Weight Management?
Many people are using Wegovy and now Zepbound for weight loss. They are incretin mimetics, puportedly treating the incretin defect that...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Feb 4, 20243 min read
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Hope & Faith for a New Start
When we are young, everything is a “first”. Every event, experience, holiday, and new person seems fresh and new. The possibilities seem...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jan 1, 20243 min read
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The Role of Meal Replacements for Weight Management in the Era of Semaglutide and Tirzepatide
While weight management medications are not new, they have evolved so that more people are taking them and more people will take them as...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Dec 2, 20236 min read
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Shared Medical Appointments- Better Together!
Rainier Medical is excited to begin offering the option of Shared Medical Appointments as part of our medical weight management programs....
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Oct 21, 20234 min read
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Don’t Waste Your Workout! Top 4 Tips for Results.
Some people love exercise, some people do not. But, we all want results and to feel as good as possible when you do exercise. Many common...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Sep 17, 20238 min read
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