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Helping busy professionals achieve optimal metabolic health
Triple board-certified physician
San Diego + Newport Beach
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08/13/2026

The strongest weight-loss drug ever tested isn't approved yet — and half of what you've heard about it is already wrong 👆

Retatrutide: the muscle myth, the side-effect myth, and why there's no such thing as "GLP-3."

Send this to someone who's been asking about it.

08/07/2026

The scale gives you one number. It can’t tell you whether the thirty pounds was fat, lean tissue or water — and for most people, nobody ever checks.

A ten-minute DEXA splits it apart and puts a figure on visceral fat: the fat around your organs, the one BMI is blind to. You can sit inside a “healthy” BMI and still carry a lot of it.

One thing worth saying plainly, because it gets repeated wrong constantly — a DEXA doesn’t measure your muscle. It measures lean tissue: muscle, organs and water together. Anyone claiming they measured your muscle to the pound is overselling the machine.

If you’ve been losing weight — has anyone given you that number? Or only the one on the scale?

08/06/2026

Oprah said it out loud: if she took the medicine, she somehow cheated herself. I hear that in my office every week — usually as “I just don’t have the willpower.” 👆

There’s an area of your brain that sets hunger and fullness — hormones and nerve cells. Willpower isn’t one of them. And the medicine doesn’t give you willpower either. It lands on the same nerve cells your own hormones land on, and turns down a signal that was turned up too high.

If you’ve been putting this off — is it because you don’t think it’s safe, or because of what you think it would say about you?

07/30/2026

Bryan Johnson says GLP-1s might be a longevity drug. He’s not wrong about that — but then someone asked him if it’s okay to take one at a healthy weight, and he answered in one word. Yes. To a stranger he’d never looked at. 👆

Those trials enrolled people with obesity, or extra weight plus a real medical problem — heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol. Zero of them enrolled a lean guy trying to drop five pounds.

And in the one semaglutide trial that actually measured body composition, close to 40% of the weight lost was lean tissue. The leaner you start, the more of what you lose comes out of muscle.

If you’re taking a GLP-1 — is anyone actually measuring what’s happening to your body, or are you just another monthly subscription?

07/29/2026

Your doctor tells you your bloodwork is normal. Here are five things that panel didn’t check. 👆

· Fasting insulin (insulin resistance shows up a decade before diabetes)
· ApoB (LDL is the cargo, ApoB is the cars on the road)
· hs-CRP (the smoke detector in your arteries)
· Lp(a) (genetic, 1 in 5, checked once)
· a full thyroid and hormone panel, not just a TSH.

Standard risk calculators don’t take any of the first three. “Normal bloodwork” can still leave you blind to early risk.

Which of these has your doctor actually run?

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888 Prospect Street, Suite 200
San Diego, CA
92037

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm

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+16197361748

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