Dr. Brian’s Blog

Anti-inflammatory diet: an overview

The anti-inflammatory diet focuses on eating foods that have anti-inflammatory properties, and avoiding pro-inflammatory foods.

The shortage of Ozempic has led to many compounding pharmacies using a knock-off version of semaglutide that has not been FDA approved.

Once you have a gastric balloon, properly transitioning from liquids on day 1 to 3, to solids by day 14, is key to success on your balloon.

The MIND diet is a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diet, and is designed to improve cognition, but is also good for weight loss.

The Allurion is a swallowable gastric balloon that naturally passes into the stools itself. However, it is smaller than the Orbera balloon.

Estroven can manage some symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes or night sweats, but it has limited ability to aid in weight loss.

Knowing when to snack is as important as knowing what to snack on. Proper snacking can be beneficial to your weight and health.

Zotrim isn’t much more than a caffeine pill. It also contains yerba mate, but a more effective alternative might just be green tea extract.

Zenith by Awakend uses a fraudulent study and bogus patent rights to shill a completely useless weight loss supplement at an exorbitant price.

Emotional eating is the habit of using food to cope with emotional distress rather than to satisfy physical hunger. It can cause weight gain.

Modern commercial yogurts are in many ways more similar to dessert puddings than the health food we used to associate yogurt with.

SKALD Oxydynamic Fat Scorcher uses false claims and scientific-sounding words that don’t mean much to promote an overpriced caffeine pill.