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Metabolic Health
Guidance on low-carbohydrate nutrition, ketogenic diets, fasting, protein, exercise, and broader metabolic health.
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6 Simple Steps to A More Satisfying Holiday Season
This time of year can be full of landmines and pitfalls to your eating and fitness routines. Here are a few tips to help you avoid the holiday…
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Amy’s Corner: Protecting Your Lifestyle
Over the last 3 weeks of our #WhyWait2024 challenge, we have talked about the basics for a healthy lifestyle: why and how to keep carbs low, utilizing technology…
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Lessons from the Gila Monster: GLP-1 and Ketogenic Diets
The Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum), a unique lizard known for its binge-eating behavior, produces the hormone exenatide, the basis for diabetes medications such as Ozempic and Mounjaro. …
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Beyond the Pill: Why Pharmaceutical Quick Fixes Fall Short
In a striking display of marketing prowess, Eli Lilly recently funded a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, touting its latest pharmaceutical offering as a groundbreaking solution…
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Questioning the American Academy of Pediatrics’ View on Low-Carb Diets for Children
A recent critique authored by Dr. Tro Kalayjian, Dr. Laura Buchanan, and colleagues in the Journal of Metabolic Health take aim at the American Academy of Pediatrics‘ (AAP)…
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Member Spotlight: Bryan
First name: Bryan Age: 43 Where do you live? Long Island, NY Profession? School bus supervisor/trainer Diet/weight history? Weight has fluctuated but I hit…
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Empowering Health: Results and Initiatives Revealed at SMHP Low Carb Conference
In addition to moderating the Type 1 workshop and delivering a talk on the ‘Factors that predict weight loss or improved food relationship,’ Dr. Tro Kalayjian presented the…
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Unveiling Groundbreaking Research at SMHP’s Low Carb BOCA Conference
Dr. Tro’s Medical Weight Loss to Showcase Groundbreaking Research at SMHP’s Low Carb BOCA Conference Hosted by Low Carb USA Dr. Tro’s Medical Weight Loss is set…
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Diet Study Reveals Major Flaws
The reanalysis of a study conducted by the NIH examining the differences between an animal-based low-carbohydrate diet and plant-based low-fat diet goes beyond the expected support for low-carb…
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Mastering Special Events
The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and, unfortunately for many, a potential derailing of carefully maintained diets. Thanksgiving, in particular, often serves as the…
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Dr. Laura Buchanan SMHP Grand Rounds
I will be delivering a Grand Rounds Presentation on Saturday, November 4, 2023, from 12 PM to 2 PM PST. My presentation is titled “Rapid Review: Benefits of…
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Dr. Tro’s Fasted 5K
Armenia, a country steeped in history, is grappling with a humanitarian severe crisis. The aftermath of the Artsakh war has displaced over 100,000 refugees, leaving them in…
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The SMHP Launches the Journal of Metabolic Health
The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners (SMHP) has taken a significant leap forward with the launch of the Journal of Metabolic Health. This journal offers a vital platform…
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Amy’s Inspiring Journey: Featured in Woman’s World
Taking steps toward a healthier life comes with its challenges, and Amy’s experience with the keto diet illustrates this well. In a recent Woman’s World feature, we learn…
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Member Spotlight: Carrie
First name: Carrie Age: 47 in August, but feel like I am half that Where do you live? Fairbanks, Alaska Profession: Wife, stay-at-home-mother, and money…
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Understanding Keto Products
Medically reviewed by Tro Kalayjian, DO Updated and medically reviewed August 28, 2026 #1 malnutrition problem in the U.S. In 1977, George McGovern warned that obesity would…
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Fasting in 5 Steps
Medically reviewed by Dr. Laura Buchanan Updated and medically reviewed August 28, 2026 We’ve identified five essential steps for starting your fasting journey. If you’re interested in learning…
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Low-Carb Diet for Older Adults: Protein, Strength, and Medication Safety
Highlights from Dr. Laura Buchanan’s talks on low-carbohydrate nutrition for older adults, including protein, strength, frailty, medication safety, and clinical supervision.
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Get to know Dr. Laura Buchanan
Dr. Laura Buchanan is a board-certified family medicine physician with a passion for using lifestyle modification as the first-line standard of care wherever possible. She completed her family…
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How to Recover When You’ve Been Off Plan
Are you filled with food-regret, feeling ashamed, and ready to hit the ‘Refresh” button on your diet? Have you eaten so off plan you cannot fathom how to…
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