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Doctor Tro’s Newsletter
Clinical perspective from Dr. Tro Kalayjian on metabolic health, medicine, research, controversies, and patient care.
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Autoimmune Disease Isn’t Just About the Immune System
When someone is diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, they’re often told that their immune system is “attacking itself” and that the primary treatment is medication to suppress that…
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Understanding Hunger: Why Your Hunger Has Nothing to Do with Willpower
One of the biggest myths in medicine is that hunger is simply a matter of self-control. If that were true, obesity would have been solved decades ago. Instead,…
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The Truth About TRT: How Modern Medicine Treats Low Testosterone Backwards
This Isn’t Aging. You’re Being Treated Backwards As a physician, I see patients every day who present with the same frustrating cluster of symptoms: profound fatigue, brain fog,…
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What Stress Quietly Changed: An Experiment and 10 Pounds Lost
For years, I followed a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic approach with consistency. This was not a temporary phase or a cyclical strategy. It was a sustained, deliberate way of eating…
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If You Wouldn’t Eat It, Why Put It on Your Skin?
Our skin and our gut are how our bodies connect with the world. They absorb sunlight and nutrients. But they also absorb toxins, heavy metals, plastics, parasites, and…
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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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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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What you need to know
about Ozempic & MounjaroWhat the news & your obesity doctor won’t tell you about Ozempic and Mounjaro. Many of my patients have come to me with questions about this new…
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The state of the
healthcare systemWhat is going on with your healthcare system? Many of my patients ask me why I think the healthcare system is in such a disastrous situation. Besides…
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The “5 Musts” of
lifestyle changeAfter helping thousands of patients lose weight, here’s my advice for those looking for lifelong, sustainable life changes. These are the “5 MUSTS” anyone trying to lose weight…
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8 lessons after reviewing 10,000 CGMs
Over the past several years I have focused on empowering patients both with education and real-time biofeedback. In our office, we have embraced the use of remote monitoring,…
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Low carb diets can help testosterone function
Testosterone is a steroid, anabolic hormone made in the testes and ovaries. There are specific cells, called Leydig cells, which sit in the testes that are the predominant…
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A Support Line: Near Immediate Help with Lifestyle Change
Over the last five years, I’ve seen over 2000 patients struggling with obesity, diabetes & metabolic syndrome. My model has been laser-focused on making the journeys of people…
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Pre-diabetes is a lie…
I have a serious problem with the term “pre-diabetes.” The prefix “pre” is used to describe what comes before something. In reality, “pre”-diabetes is actually AFTER or “post”…
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Five years of Type 2 and
Obesity reversal, more to comeFive years ago today, I realized I could no longer practice medicine as it existed. At that time, private practice was still the most common type of employment…
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My Approach to Exercise…
One of the most pervasive public health messages in the past 30 years has been to eat “less and exercise more.” Unfortunately, this message has been an overwhelming…
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A Year-in-Review and Update on Dr. Tro’s Medical Practice & Clinical Operations
As I sit here writing this year-end review for our practice, a member of my staff has literally been waiting on the phone for three hours with an…
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Update on COVID
I wanted to share some thoughts as many questions are coming into my office about COVID. The issue with COVID is not necessarily what the virus will do…
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Obesity Week 2019: Why is it So Hard for Doctors to Admit Their Failure?
By Dr. Tro Kalayjian It’s Thursday night, and I’m sitting in an airplane, about to take off for New York. I’m heading home from Las Vegas after attending…
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