Dr. Brian’s Blog

The MIND Diet: an overview

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.

Protein powder from animal sources are easier to absorb and offer a complete amino acid profile, but plant sources can be just as good.

Magnesium deficiency is more common in obese and diabetic people, so supplements can help. However, excess intake is not beneficial.

Newer GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy may increase thyroid cancer risks significantly more than what the current evidence shows.