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Before You Start a Weight Loss Injection: 7 Questions to Ask Your Physician (That Most Clinics Skip)
A Note Before You Begin Weight loss injections have become one of the most searched health topics of the past three years, and for good reason. GLP-1 receptor agonists such as semaglutide and tirzepatide have delivered clinical results that were once considered impossible without surgery: 15 to 22 percent total body weight loss in randomised controlled trials, with meaningful improvements in blood sugar, blood pressure, and cardiovascular risk markers. The surge in demand has

Jan Medical Group
1 day ago8 min read


How Much Weight Can You Safely Lose Per Week, and Why Faster Isn't Better
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

Jan Medical Group
May 319 min read


Why Dieting Alone Is Not Enough: The Science Behind Medical Weight Loss with GLP-1
You have tried the calorie counting. The elimination diets. The intermittent fasting windows. You did everything right, at least on paper, and yet the weight came back. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone, and you are not weak. What most popular diets will never tell you is that the body is not a passive calculator. It is a dynamic biological system shaped by millions of years of evolution to prevent starvation. When you reduce your food intake, your body fights back.

Jan Medical Group
May 258 min read


Understanding Mounjaro: Why It’s Part of Today’s Weight-Health Conversation
If the name Mounjaro keeps showing up in conversations, sometimes casually, sometimes with curiosity, it reflects a broader change in how people are thinking about weight, appetite, and metabolic health. The tone of the discussion has shifted. It’s no longer just about discipline or rigid rules, but about why certain patterns are hard to change even when effort is already there. More people are asking better questions. A different kind of curiosity What’s interesting is that

Joshua Mitre
Jan 163 min read


A New Chapter in Weight Management: The Arrival of the First FDA-Approved Weight-Loss Pill
The conversation around weight management is changing, and this time, it’s not driven by hype, social media trends, or extreme promises. In December 2025, Novo Nordisk received U.S. FDA approval for the first oral GLP-1–based weight-loss pill , a tablet version of its well-known injectable therapy, Wegovy. This marks a pivotal moment not only for pharmaceutical innovation, but for how people may finally access sustainable, medically supported weight loss. For years, injecta

Joshua Mitre
Dec 23, 20253 min read


Available Weight Loss Medication in the Philippines and What You Need to Know About Them.
By this time we are all probably well-acquainted with the concept of obesity. Obesity is defined as a complex disease that involves an...

Pauleen Flake, RND
Feb 11, 20224 min read
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