My experience and training in gastroenterology, hepatology and minimally invasive bariatric endoscopy, allows me to design and implement effective and comprehensive strategies to help our members achieve long-term weight loss results, and improvement in obesity related comorbidities.
The Oak Longevity program provides innovative and patient centric strategies in helping address weight loss, longevity and aligning the gut brain axis with patient safety at the forefront. Our team at Oak is in the process of developing a comprehensive evidence-based lifestyle guide to help augment a more tailored and personalized treatment plan to help achieve enhanced member outcom
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that, when they appear together, dramatically raise your risk of heart disease, heart failure, stroke and diabetes, as well as other non-cardiovascular conditions. Nearly one in three Americans have metabolic syndrome.
If you have obesity and complications from metabolic syndrome, you may need weight-loss to help you lose weight. Weight-loss medicines can help you lose weight by making you feel less hungry. They can also reduce how much fat your body absorbs from your food.
We’re so inundated by advertisements for weight loss programs, tips and products that it’s easy to lose track of what’s real and what’s fake on the quest to lose weight
Common Misconception : Once you start, you’ll keep losing weight
Weight loss takes time, You can expect more substantial loss at the beginning of your lifestyle change and then increasing difficulty with weight loss as you get closer to your goal weight. Having the right guidance and plan towards healthy weight loss is ideal.
Some people do have genetic syndromes that lead to obesity, and have genes that can be turned on or off depending on their environment, which can lead to obesity.
While obesity does have a strong correlation with genetics, genetics are not absolute determinants. You have the ability to positively influence your health in many ways, and a healthy diet, lifestyle along with the compliment of the right medication can help to prevent chronic diseases and improve overall quality of life.
You can’t outrun (pun intended) an unhealthy diet. Avoiding unhealthy calorie dense, nutrition poor foods should always be avoided. Of note, limiting alcohol to near zero, is a newly supported measure by the American Heart Association. Additionally, you might not burn as many calories during exercise as you think. Your device or fitness tracker may tell you that you burned 800 calories with a 45-minute workout, but the reality is that you have most likely burned less than that. So, use those numbers as a comparative tool rather than as an exact measurement.
As always, a healthy diet, an active lifestyle with 30 minutes of heart raising exercise and resistance training up to 3-5 days a week can help in long-term weight management.
Recently, GLP-1 receptor agonists have demonstrated weight reduction efficacy with remarkable metabolic and reproductive benefits among individuals with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to published study finding published. GLP-1s have also shown promising results in decreasing the risk of cardiac, liver, neurocognitive and pulmonary diseases.
Lifestyle changes serve as the foundation of weight loss. However, research has shown that patients who suffer from obesity lose less than 3-5% percent of their excess body weight from lifestyle modifications alone. Many patients require escalation of weight loss measures to include medication, which, on average, can result in up to 15% of excess weight loss.
Most common weight loss medications may cause side effects including diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. Other more serious side effects include Increased blood pressure and heart rate, insomnia, nervousness, restlessness, dependence, abuse or withdrawal. Newer GLP-1 medications have the least risk serious side effects compared to older medications previously approved by the FDA.
Weight management medications are meant to help people who have health problems related to overweight or obesity. Health care professionals use BMI to help decide whether you might benefit from weight management medications. Your health care professional may prescribe a medication to treat your overweight or obesity if you are an adult with:
Certain GLP-1 agonists have been shown to have a better effect on, diabetes, cardiac and liver outcomes which may be considered when choosing the right medication for you.
In the past decade, remarkable breakthroughs have allowed scientists to count and characterize the genes in our gut bacteria. Our gut bacteria have 250 to 800 times more genes than we have human genes. When we eat food, our gut breaks it down into small pieces. Only the smallest pieces get absorbed into our blood. The rest is eliminated as waste material. In other words, not all of the calories in the food we eat get into our body and increase our weight. The gut bacteria help break down food. Some bacteria are better able to chop food into those smallest pieces that get digested, add calories to our body and thereby tend to increase our weight. Theoretically, if our guts have more of those kinds of bacteria, it should be harder to lose weight.
Certain foods are rich in a number of different foods are good for gut bacteria, including:
On the other hand, eating some foods in excess may harm gut your bacteria, including:
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