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We at the #Obesity #Medicine Fellowship Council (omfellowship.org) are drafting guidelines on multidisciplinary care. Need your input!

Don’t blanketly stop hormone replacement therapy for all menopausal women at age 65

journals.lww.com/menopausejourn…

It always needs to be an individualized risk/benefit discussion

#womenshealth #menopause #endocrine

To open #OMA2024 yesterday, David Arterburn, MD, MPH presented a brilliant perspective on the radical paradigm shift and price wars that lie ahead in #obesity care.
conscienhealth.org/2024/04/can-ob…

Are anti #obesity #medications forever?

Not necessarily. If the #obesity is caused by an external factor that eventually resolves, you may not need medication to correct the pathophys

eg) Investment banker binges because of work-related stress➡️retires

#unpopularopinion

“We’ve got to understand the connection between what’s in the food and what’s in this gut-brain axis that the GLPs are now uncovering is a biological phenomenon. It's not just willpower.' -Dr. Robert M. Califf

Latest Food Fix, on ultra-processed foods:

foodfix.co/ultra-processe…

I am also pushing back on 'forever' drug concept. In our WM program, we couple simple lifestyle counseling with AOM's. Our pts (off GLP1 due to coverage issues) are NOT gaining back as much as studies are showing. I start older agents. Pts aren't going back to unhealthy habits.

Senate Begins Investigation Into Ozempic and Wegovy Prices - The ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/24/wel…

Despite the very clear #research showing #weight regain after discontinuation, I do push back on the idea that anti #obesity meds are forever.

In #endocrinology , the chronic disease of #osteoporosis can be treated with 3 once-a-year injections. Then you’re done. That’s it.…

Will we always have to “keep taking” #obesity medicines to keep this chronic disease under control? Maybe not if Novo Nordisk and Amgen 🧪🔬🧬 have their way and find success in #innovation .
conscienhealth.org/2024/04/will-w…

Novo is discontinuing an insulin after cutting its price, highlighting a key gap in policy efforts: Even if officials get pharma to lower prices, companies can choose to just pull the drug, without guaranteeing someone else continues to make the compound
statnews.com/2024/04/24/nov…

A little bit of #science and a whole lotta #sensation in headlines about sex, alcohol, and #GLP1 meds.
HT: Beverly G. Tchang, MD
conscienhealth.org/2024/04/sex-al…

But also…

It’s ok if it’s easy

Health shouldn’t be hard

Goodness this needs some major fact-checking
people.com/ozempic-change… via People

I have not seen any #research on #Ozempic and personality changes

Please direct me if you have? Michael "Mike" Albert, MD Neil Floch MD Angela Fitch,MD Dr. Spencer Nadolsky Ted Kyle

Hundreds of websites are selling fake Ozempic, says company. Doctors say it's only going to get worse. I was that doctor. Bad actors are preying desperate people. There are good online companies. Use them and don’t be fooled. cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…

Curious about Eli Lilly and Company pursuing FDA approval of tirzepatide for indication of sleep apnea investor.lilly.com/news-releases/…

Is AHI the defining outcome? Because...
⬇️27 events/h with tirzepatide over 52 wks
⬇️12 events/h with liraglutide over 32 wks
⬇️32 events/h with phen/top over…

The number of people I know who are paying $1000/mo out of pocket for tirzepatide is 🤯

The bottom line isn't that #Zepbound #Mounjaro is worth the $

It's that you are.

#BecauseYoureWorthIt

So excited for YWM Virtual from OAC! What an exciting line-up of speakers! Looking forward to the presentations from Beverly G. Tchang, MD Robyn Pashby, PhD (she/hers) Angela Fitch,MD Ted Kyle Aaron S. Kelly, Ph.D.

ywmconvention.com/ywm-virtual/sc…

I'm co-hosting a #free #webinar on #Lifestyle #medicine for #obesity with NEJM and Dr. Meghan Butryn on 4/25 12-1:30PM ET

Register👉events.nejm.org/events/688?pro…

See you next week!