Dr. Gordon | Obesity Medicine
Board-certified obesity medicine physician. Weekly clinical breakdowns on why midlife metabolism shifts and what drives it. Grounded in physiology, not blame. Opinions only. Not medical advice.
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It's Your Body, Every Time
Live with Dr. Gordon | Obesity Medicine 20 August 2026: Fat cells, The Biggest Loser, Pregnancy and Set Point, Hormones and GLP-1
Thank you Donna Cravotta, Lynn L, Nancy Elise Pulliam, Patricia Lewis, Lola Strickland, and many others, for...
What Happens When You Stop a GLP-1 for Surgery
This week’s community questions: why identical meals produce different results on and off a GLP-1, and what “balance your hormones” actually means.
Two questions from the subscriber chat threads this week. Bonnie Keisler stopped her GLP-1...
It Costs 12 Cents a Dose to Make. You Pay $500 a Month.
“I can’t afford it, and insurance won’t approve it because I’m not diabetic.” I hear a version of that sentence every week.
A new report in the journal Obesity examined real shipment data for semaglutide moving in and out of India. They tr...
No Amount of Wine Is Safe for a Woman Your Age
What Alcohol Does in a Midlife Woman’s Body: The physiology nobody walked you through. Read it, then decide for yourself.
This is the first in what will become a memoir series, plus or minus science. No paywall on this one: it’s important...
Your Genes Are Not Your Destiny
What the genetics of obesity actually says about whether it is your fault, and whether you can do anything about it.
Almost every week, someone asks me if their weight is genetic. What they’re really asking is whether obesity is their faul...
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Michelle E. Gordon DO, DABOM, DACLM, FACS, FACOS Board-Certified Obesity Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, General Surgery. Clinical education about midlife metabolic health. Evidence-based, no quick fixes. Weekly paid subscriber articles.
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