🧠 What Is Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)? Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common but serious sleep disorder that causes repeated...

If you’ve been hearing about compounded versions of medications like semaglutide  (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) or...

Some people have sent messages asking about changing from semaglutide to tirzepatide following the “news” article that came out...

This blog describes the study on what happened after semaglutide was discontinued in the SELECT 1 trial. The SELECT 1 trial was the...

While taking semaglutide or tirzepatide, sometimes, people eat very few calories. Of course this often leads to a very large amount of...

With the recent election and naming of the US Health Secretary, Ozempic is back in the news again with people choosing sides of lifestyle...

Highlights Menopause is associated with increased abdominal and visceral obesity. Abdominal and visceral obesity increases...

We have come a long way in researching and treating obesity as a disease. But, there are actually multiple types of this disease. Now ...

One in eight Americans had taken a weight loss injectable medication as of May 2024 as reported in an article  by CNN.  The article...

A common concern people have before starting one of the new generation highly effective chronic weight management medications is that...

For many people, weight management medications are completely excluded from insurance coverage. Why can treatment for a medical condition...

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...

There are many reasons why the regulation of energy expenditure and storage in the human body is not just a matter of “calories in,...

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...

When I left primary care to practice Medical Weight Management full time in April of 2015, there were very few physicians in this...

Emotional resilience is the ability to keep your sailboat steady amid a storm. It is the ability to see adversity as temporary, and use...

Why is the prevalence of obesity increasing so much? Why does it seem like your weight can increase, even if you are not changing...

Many people are using Wegovy and now Zepbound for weight loss. They are incretin mimetics, puportedly treating the incretin defect that...

When we are young, everything is a “first”. Every event, experience, holiday, and new person seems fresh and new. The possibilities seem...

While weight management medications are not new, they have evolved so that more people are taking them and more people will take them as...