During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a 54% increase in national sales of alcohol for the week ending March 21, 2020, compared with 1...

Well-being is defined as the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy. Sounds simple, and yet with our highly developed frontal...

Currently, 42.5% of Americans have obesity, and, if current trends continue, that will increase to 50% by 2030, according to a 2019...

“I want to learn how to eat and make longterm lifestyle change to keep the weight off once I lose it.” This is an important and...

The Covid Pandemic brought about many changes in how you visited your doctor, perhaps some of them were welcome, and some not so much....

Binge eating disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder, thought to occur is approximately 2% of adult Americans, but the...

Summer is almost upon us! The Pacific Northwest at this time of year is a wonderful place to be! With graduations, weddings, BBQs,...

This Mother’s Day blog departs a little from the usual themes to tell you about the treatments and procedures that Rainier Medical offers...

Introduction Sleep is one of the missing links that can help explain a disconnect between “calories in, calories out” for a person. And,...

Last week, we talked about how the connection between obesity and low testosterone in men. This week, we will talk about Polycystic...

We have talked a lot about how overweight/obesity leads to Type 2 Diabetes, but there is another very important clinical manifestation of...

In medicine, we necessarily rely on making diagnoses which rely heavily upon objective data, laboratory values, normal values, and...

I am seeing some people who have gained all or much of the weight they had lost back during Covid. I have already written about the...

So, you’ve lost 22% of your body weight in 3 months, now what? I am so happy when people ask me in their initial consultation, “What is...

Anybody who has been to Rainier Medical is all-too-familiar with the InBody analysis! Stepping on the machine every week or month is a...

Happy National Obesity Care Week! Did you know that only 1-2% of individuals with the condition of overweight/obesity receives medical...

News flash: There are many weight loss plans out there! Some are 500 calories with HCG shots, some are meal replacement without exercise,...

We are making progress in our research and conversations of the disease of overweight/obesity, but there are still huge, gaping holes and...

Maybe you have noticed that there has been a movement from the old adage of a low-fat diet to a low carb diet. Most people who come to me...

Rainier Medical offers a medical intervention known as a very low calorie diet using a medically formulated liquid diet transitioning to...