Weight Loss
Weight Loss & Metabolic Health
You've tried everything. The weight won't budge. When diet and exercise aren't working, the answer often lies in your metabolism, hormones, or inflammation.
Weight Loss
You've tried everything. The weight won't budge. When diet and exercise aren't working, the answer often lies in your metabolism, hormones, or inflammation.
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Weight Loss
Stubborn weight is a clinical phenomenon, not a discipline problem. When weight refuses to release despite reasonable effort, there's almost always an identifiable hormonal, metabolic, or inflammatory driver in the way.
Weight Loss
Insulin resistance is the central metabolic dysfunction underlying most chronic disease in adults — and roughly 4 in 10 American adults have it. Most don't know, because standard screening focuses on blood sugar, which only changes years after insulin resistance has developed.
Weight Loss
Two people at the same weight can have completely different metabolic and longevity profiles depending on how much of that weight is muscle, how much is fat, and where the fat sits. Composition predicts what scale weight can't.
Weight Loss
Postpartum weight retention isn't a willpower problem. The body has been through nine months of profound hormonal, structural, and metabolic adaptation, and unwinding it doesn't happen on a six-week timeline.
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Board-certified physician and founder of Extend Medical, a virtual precision and longevity medicine practice. She founded Extend Medical to practice the kind of medicine she believes patients deserve: thorough, personalized, and built on deep investigation rather than quick fixes.
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