WEIGHT LOSS
Medical Options
Medical weight loss is a program designed to help individuals achieve and maintain a healthy weight through a personalized approach. Unlike fad diets or over-the-counter weight loss supplements, medical weight loss involves a comprehensive evaluation of your health, including factors like metabolism, hormone levels, and any underlying medical conditions that may affect your ability to lose weight. The goal is not just to lose weight but to improve overall health and reduce the risk of obesity-related conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension.
Key Therapies in Medical Weight Loss:
Appetite Suppressants: Medications that help reduce hunger and control cravings, making it easier to stick to a reduced-calorie diet.
Hormone Therapy: Weight gain is a hormonal issue, so we balance hormones that may be contributing to weight gain, such as insulin, thyroid hormones, GLP-1, testosterone or cortisol.
Lipotropic Injections: Injections that contain fat-burning compounds like B12, methionine, inositol, and choline, which help boost metabolism and promote fat loss.
Expectations:
- Treatment Time: 10 minutes
- Recovery: No Downtime
- Cost: $250-350/mo for semaglutide
MEDICAL WEIGHT LOSS
Weight loss is an imbalance of hormones – too much insulin and cortisol (stress) and too little of metabolism drivers. We like to emphasis that weight gain is not a character flaw or a lack of discipline.
It is an imbalance of hormones and it can be corrected with hormone optimization, irrespective of diet and exercise.
We believe it’s important to start sooner than later. We can help if you need to lose 10 pounds or 100 pounds or more.
Diet and exercise are essential for cardiovascular health and longevity but are not drivers of sustainable weight loss.
In fact over exercising leads to increased cortisol, which leads to weight GAIN. And low calories leads to a metabolism that is too low to function. Ever see dieters who are cold, exhausted and miserable? It’s because they don’t have any energy. This leads to adrenal failure, cortisol increases and insulin resistance.
Optimizing hormones is your path to safe, sustainable weight loss.
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Am I a candidate for medical weight loss?
Why doesn't dieting alone work?
Your hormones dictate how energy is used. You cannot selectively decide to metabolize fat only. When you decrease available energy to the cells, energy is taken away from all processes including temperature regulation (this is why dieters are always cold), movement (fatigue), digestion, liver detoxification, brain functioning, etc. Ironically, hormones will selectively hold onto fat as a way to preserve itself and only use it in extreme famine.
Why can't I just exercise off fat?
Exercise alone only accounts for about 5-10% of the body' energy expenditure. So even if you exercised all day every day, you can only ever have a 10% impact on your weight. The flip side to that is excessive exercising stresses the body and causes cortisol release, which increases weight gain. Extreme exercise may be counterproductive to your goals.
As stated before, energy expenditure (output) cannot exceed energy input. You must supply the body with the calories it uses or it will be taken from somewhere else causing other problems such as extreme fatigue, coldness, problems digesting, loss of hair, brain fog, cognitive dysfunction, etc.
Can medical weight loss improve other medical conditions?
Metabolic dysfunction is thought to be the root of most diseases at this time including 13 cancers.
Is medical weight loss a lifelong commitment?
The problem with gaining weight in the first place is that fat cells have memory. You will always be fighting the cell's desire to return to the increased size. The only way to avoid this is to never gain the weight in the first place. The next best thing is to optimize your hormones.
Will insurance cover medical weight loss?
We believe weight gain should be avoided as much as possible and should start when a person needs to lose as little as 5-10 pounds. Again, the fat cells have memory. When someone is 50-100 pounds overweight, their journey is much more difficult. It is inherently better to never gain the weight in the first place. Unfortunately many people do not have that luxury and we meet you where you are at.
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"I was hesitant to start medical weight loss. I didn't think it was for someone like me. I wanted to lose 40 pounds, but nothing I tried worked. Within 4 months, I was down to my ideal weight."
– Alex J.