The Impact of Stress on Metabolic Health
Stress is an inescapable feature of modern life, and most people have at least an intuitive sense that it is not good for their health.
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Insights, updates, and education from our team.
How Sleep Affects Weight Loss
Weight loss conversations tend to focus on two variables above almost everything else: what a person eats and how much they move.
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The Truth About "Starvation Mode"
Few concepts in the popular weight loss conversation are more widely referenced and more poorly understood than starvation mode.
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GLP-1 for People Without Diabetes
When GLP-1 medications first entered public awareness, they arrived primarily through the lens of diabetes management. Ozempic's original FDA approval was for type 2 diabetes, and the early conversations around these medications were largely clinical, centered on blood sugar control and cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic populations.
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The Role of Leptin and Ghrelin in Weight Gain
Two hormones sit at the center of the body's appetite regulation system more than any others, and understanding them changes everything about how weight gain, persistent hunger, and the difficulty of sustained weight loss are interpreted.
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What Is Medical Obesity Treatment?
Obesity has been mischaracterized for a long time. Decades of cultural messaging reduced it to a matter of personal choice, a problem of insufficient discipline or poor lifestyle decisions that individuals needed to simply try harder to overcome.
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Bariatric Surgery and Long-Term Vitamin Deficiencies
Bariatric surgery is one of the most powerful medical interventions available for the treatment of obesity, and its capacity to transform metabolic health, resolve chronic disease, and extend life expectancy is well-established.
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GLP-1 and PCOS/ PMOS: A Promising Match?
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), now known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) is one of the most common hormonal disorders affecting women of reproductive age, and yet it remains one of the most underdiagnosed, undertreated, and misunderstood conditions in women's health.
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How to Track Progress Beyond the Scale
There is a moment that almost every patient on a weight loss journey eventually encounters. The habits are solid, the effort is consistent, the body feels different in ways that are real and meaningful, and yet the scale has barely moved in weeks.
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Why Muscle Loss Happens During Weight Loss
Weight loss is often talked about as though it is a single, uniform process. The scale goes down, and the assumption is that what is being lost is fat.
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