A Quick Note Before You Begin In the span of just a few years, the medical weight loss landscape has been completely rewritten by a new class of medications. Semaglutide reset expectations in 2021. Tirzepatide pushed them further in 2022 and 2023. By late 2026, a third contender is reshaping the conversation again: retatrutide, a triple-agonist molecule with the most impressive early clinical data of any weight management medication to date. For patients considering medical w

Every January, every summer, and every time a wedding or reunion appears on the calendar, the same question resurfaces: how fast can I lose this weight? It is a reasonable question, and it is one most physicians have heard hundreds of times. The problem is that it is the wrong question. The right question is not how fast you can lose weight. It is how fast you should, and what you stand to lose if you push beyond what your body is designed to handle. Weight loss that happens