By Dr. Humberto Fernandez Miro, MD | May 2026 If you haven’t kept up with what has happened in weight loss pharmacology over the past three years, it’s a lot to catch up on. The category that once meant phentermine and orlistat now includes medications producing 20 percent body weight loss, a newly approved oral […]

When metabolic drugs make headlines, the discussion usually comes down to one number: body weight. It is easy to measure, easy to understand and easy to compare across time. But weight alone says very little about where fat is stored, how much is present in the liver, or whether two people who lose the same […]

Have you ever stuck to a diet plan religiously, only to see the number on the scale stay the same? Studies confirm that the plateau effect is something lots of dieters experience. At that point, losing weight increasingly becomes challenging regardless of how properly you follow your meal plan. The most unfortunate thing about plateauing […]