Posts Tagged ‘multimodal obesity treatment’

The Race Track, painting by Albert Pinkham Ryder

Surgery Beats Medicine for Obesity – Is Anyone Listening?

September 16, 2025 — Today in Nature Medicine, compelling new research tells that long-term outcomes with metabolic surgery are superior to the outcomes with GLP-1 agonists in persons with diabetes and obesity. These are impressive and important results. But we have to wonder if anyone is really listening. The enthusiasm for advanced obesity medicines is so great that many […]

The Hot Topic in Obesity Care: Multimodal Therapy

September 8, 2025 — For a long time, the relatively few people with deep commitment to obesity care knew that multimodal therapy was necessary. Bariatric surgery centers of excellence assembled teams to deliver nutrition, mental health, and physical therapy support. But persistence with follow-up was often disappointing. Now, though, something different is emerging. Suddenly, multimodal therapy is the hot […]