After seeing dietary discussions on
@Twitter
again yesterday, we need to keep pushing the evidence-based pragmatic concept that dietary pattern improvements need NOT be mutually exclusive. There should not be “keto docs” and “plant-based docs.” Let’s be patient-oriented docs 👍💪🏽
Confused about the genetics of obesity after the
@60Minutes
special?
@DrNadolsky
and I were asked to provide a little bit of nuance to the discussion after so much, “outrage,” on the internet.
Example of adult female w/ type 1
#diabetes
who has struggled in adult years w/
#obesity
started semaglutide (
#Wegovy
) last January before insurance coverage changed; switched to tirzepatide (
#Mounjaro
) recently (on 5mg).
21%
#weightloss
+ markedly reduced insulin requirements
Another awesome trial result for
#Semaglutide
and weight loss. This time in addition to very intensive lifestyle therapy, as noted by 6% weight loss in placebo group.
Obesity is a disease, by definition, whether one wants to agree or not with that fact. It is a complex disease of excess or abnormal adipose (fat) tissue which drives other disease processes on a spectrum of individual variability in a progressively chronic relapsing manner.
My colleagues (endo & dietitian) just saw healthy young female athlete who feels poorly with concerns “hypoglycemia” on very light
#LowCarb
diet overly concerned about her
#CGM
showing glucose in 60-80s mg/dL but scared of 30 mg/dL rise based upon following
@glucosegoddesss
😞
Why is this Tro guy obsessed with my brother and get so triggered by basic pragmatic evidence-based concepts that he has to create strawmen and as hominem response? 😂🤦🏼
What you DON’T NEED for weight loss:
- A doctor who promotes supplements & drugs as a cure for obesity
- overly focusing on a caloric deficit, while ignoring food quality & relationship to food
This doctors is BEYOND terrible, its actually sad
Why are artificial sweeteners such an emotionally charged topic? Clinically meaningful outcomes from actual interventional data matter more than hypotheticals. See my counterpoint
Are artificial sweeteners bad for you? For most people, probably.
But that’s fine don’t talk to me 🧱 🧱, talk to Nature 👇
And what’s wrong with just drinking water anyway?
Low- and No-Calorie Sweetened Beverages and Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Risk meta-analysis
As established, artificially sweetened beverages are better for weight and metabolic health than sugary beverages. via
@JAMANetworkOpen
part of
@JAMANetwork
It is well known that higher saturated fat (SFA) intake, with nuanced differences between types of foods and types of SFA, increase low density lipoproteins (LDL) and thus cardiovascular risk (heart attack, strokes, etc).
@DrNadolsky
@Drlipid
@davidludwigmd
@AdrianSotoMota
Sincere congrats to my younger brother,
@DrNadolsky
. He recently completed fellowship & passed his board examination, now officially certified by the American Board of Clinical Memology. He is also recognized as a fellow by the American College of Memology (FACM). Very proud!
It is nice to see
@garytaubes
come around to the science acknowledging with
@drnadolsky
that an energy deficit, even with high carb intake, results in
#WeightLoss
rather than claiming carbs—>insulin—> obesity or that
#LowCarb
(
#LCHF
) is the only way.
6 years ago I did a video thanking
@hulkhogan
for serving as a positive role model in my youth, influencing me to lift wts etc. Naturally random people took to the comments falsely accusing me of taking anabolic steroids but he came to my defense!
@drnadolsky
was most stoked 😂
Another red flag of quackery is claiming to be “years ahead of your time” rather than being a part of continued scientific progress + academic discussion. Science/medicine is not some secret society; advances/changes are shared then collaborated etc.
@DrAseemMalhotra
@DjokerNole
What if
#tirzepatide
(
#mounjaro
, for now) is added to help patients who already achieved meaningful weight reduction via intensive lifestyle efforts?
SURMOUNT 3 just presented and published today.
#OW2023
Anti‐obesity pharmacological agents for polycystic ovary syndrome: A systematic review and meta‐analysis to inform the 2023 international evidence‐based guideline - Goldberg - Obesity Reviews - Wiley Online Library
We (DocsWhoLift) certainly once thought that all docs etc should “look” healthy. Then learned that there is more to clinician’s expertise than the cover of their book. Like
@DrNadolsky
said, some look “fit,” but take drugs like anabolic steroids. Health habits may not “look” it
I think it’s fair to ask if the MD or scientist or public health official saying to do X or not do Y looks and sounds healthy and vital. I avoid going to a dentist with bad teeth. What do you think? I sense diverging opinions on this.
Podcast w/
@DrSarahHallberg
on carb restriction improved my impression. Pragmatically not discordant from evidence or how we personalize dietary prescription for obesity & spectrum of adiposity-based cardiometabolic / dysglycemic disease like T2DM.
#tirzepatide
+ glargine resulted in outstanding weight loss and glycemic improvements in those with
#ibesity
and type 2
#diabetes
JAMA. 2022;327(6):534-545. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.0078
Case series showing more individualized concern with
#keto
or
#LCHF
(low carb high fat) diets similar to what we've (
@DrNadolsky
and I've) seen and reported (especially depending on the way it's done).
Personalizing dietary therapy is key for everyone. Individualizing one’s dietary pattern toward a “Mediterranean diet” can be a healthy approach in the management of menopause-related obesity / adiposity-based disease and cardiometabolic complications.
500 mg/day of sunflower seed extract in
#obesity
led to improvements in body fat/weight, body mass index, and hip circumference without adverse effects after the intake of sunflower seed extract compared to the changes in the placebo group.
#SeedOils
😉
In my opinion every single man with obesity considering a GLP1 should first be assessed for hypogonadism and have that effectively treated first, if present. Many, many, individuals will no longer need a GLP1 if they have a testosterone level that is normalized.
I was tagged in this because
@drmarkhyman
is always giving advice contrary to evidence-based recommendations from the scientific/medical community without appropriately citing any legit source. It confuses people.
@ClevelandClinic
, let’s do better
@QuackDetector
@QuackeryDog
Are cholesterol/lipid trajectory patterns over the life course associated with heart disease risk in midlife?
In this cohort discrete lifetime lipid trajectories were associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in midlife.
Not a f*#%ing week goes by that I don’t have a patient referred for obesity + complications who has history of weight gain after sexual or other abuse/trauma as child or adolescent. So heartbreaking and infuriating. 💔
Friends and family tease me about my relatively regimented sleep. What do I know, I’m just a clinical endocrinologist who specializes in cardiometabolic health and a shill for lifestyle optimization. That’s fine 😂
@DrNadolsky
Demonizing fruit for those with obesity & type 2
#diabetes
(or type 1 for that matter) is very narrow-minded and simply/acutely glucocentric rather than holistic.
@nicknorwitz
@harvardmed
@DrNadolsky
😉🍐🍓🫐🥝😉💪🏽