Dr. Tro’s Medical Weight Loss Announces Poster Presentation at the Symposium for Metabolic Health – Boca ’23 Dr. Tro’s Medical Weight Loss and Virtual Primary Care, a nationwide metabolic health practice focused on reversing type 2 diabetes, obesity and food addiction, is conducting a poster presentation at the Symposium for Metabolic Health – Boca… Continue reading Poster Presentation at SMHP Conference
Author: Dr. Tro
I am a board-certified physician, I lost 150lbs to reclaim my health for myself and my family. I did it by ignoring much of the conventional medical advice that we have been told. My life's goal is to get you healthy and prevent disease. I want to get you OFF of your medications.
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 medicine residency at Wake Forest in 2022 and was a valedictorian of her class at the University of Florida College of Medicine. For her undergraduate education she… Continue reading Get to know Dr. Laura Buchanan
5 Simple Steps to Start Your Weight Loss Journey
Today is National Keto Day. A day created to educate and bring awareness to the ketogenic diet and further highlight the many health benefits a keto lifestyle offers. We’ve outlined five simple and effective steps you can implement to get started on your journey for sustainable weight loss. Step One Transform Breakfast… Getting a… Continue reading 5 Simple Steps to Start Your Weight Loss Journey
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 get back on? Or are you waking up each day committing to starting anew only to eat something you didn’t intend and by evening you’ve totally blown… Continue reading How to Recover When You’ve Been Off Plan
Ready, set, reset!
If you are looking for motivation and support to start the new year off right and get back on plan, our Practice will be hosting a January Reset Challenge starting January 1st consisting of 5 weekly challenges where we will be giving away 5 FREE CGMS & 5 FREE ketone meters. Look out for the… Continue reading Ready, set, reset!
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, including an array of tools from home sleep studies, to continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). After reviewing over 10,000 CGMs, I wanted to share some of the lessons/insights… Continue reading 8 lessons after reviewing 10,000 CGMs
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 manufacturing cell of testosterone in males. Cholesterol is the precursor to testosterone production and starts when cholesterols enters the mitochondria of the Leydig cells. There are… Continue reading Low carb diets can help testosterone function
Dr. Tro Kalayjian Lectures on the Clinical Approach to Food Addiction
Dr. Tro Kalayjian was invited to be an expert speaker at the Nutrition Network’s latest online training in Addictive Eating here he will lecture on the Clinical Approach to Food Addiction. If you are a medical professional, Allied Healthcare worker, or Nutrition Network graduate, you can enroll in the flexible, self-paced online training and… Continue reading Dr. Tro Kalayjian Lectures on the Clinical Approach to Food Addiction
Misunderstood: Food Addiction
Food addiction has been a pretty controversial subject recently; many people deny it even exists because they just can’t fathom the fact that you can be addicted to food; others are offended because they believe the word addicted should only apply to things like drugs, alcohol, gambling, and tobacco because of the serious effects that… Continue reading Misunderstood: Food Addiction
Notable Focus on Food Addiction at the next Symposium for Metabolic Health Boca ’23
One of the key hallmarks of this years Symposium for Metabolic Health (SMHP) in Boca is getting together all the minds in the food addiction and metabolic psychiatry field. Dr. Tro Kalayjian, a board-certified obesity medicine physician and founding member of the Society of Metabolic Practitioners, and Amy Eiges, certified health coach and program… Continue reading Notable Focus on Food Addiction at the next Symposium for Metabolic Health Boca ’23
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 with obesity MUCH easier. We have employed the use of biofeedback and remote monitoring with amazing success. We’ve developed an app that has a fully guided weight… Continue reading A Support Line: Near Immediate Help with Lifestyle Change
Understanding Our Triggers: Pattern Recognition
The scale. A combination of glass, metal and springs that can be a useful tool to give us information about our current gravitational pull on earth. Data, a number. Nothing more, nothing less. And yet? And yet. If you have spent any time attempting to lose weight, you more frequently see it as… Continue reading Understanding Our Triggers: Pattern Recognition
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” 15 years of the high insulin levels & inflammation associated with the modern lifestyle. Prediabetes is usually diagnosed by checking an a1c level, which is the percentage of… Continue reading Pre-diabetes is a lie…
New Study: Highlighting the power of nutrition & the importance of bonding with patients
A new paper recently co-authored by Dr. Tro Kalayjian, DO, highlights the unique hormonal effects of a ketogenic diet in a patient with an undiagnosed brain tumor that typically excretes stress hormones and causes weight gain. The case highlights how the diagnosis evaded his medical team but ultimately how the disease state, called Cushing’s Disease,… Continue reading New Study: Highlighting the power of nutrition & the importance of bonding with patients
Don’t Be There, By Design
The blog below is from Bob H., a member of our community. In this blog, Bob reflects on his past to highlight the importance of choice. He shares his opinion about the community we have fostered and our book club that is held at the end of each month in addition to our weekly meetings.… Continue reading Don’t Be There, By Design
Is Low-Carb
Eating Expensive?
Is low-carb eating expensive? The short answer is NO, but it can be if you let it! Why? The main culprits are prepackaged keto products. A lot of people buy these to replace the old carb-filled foods they used to eat, but these products are often very expensive, and the costs can add up… Continue reading Is Low-Carb
Eating Expensive?
Member Spotlight:
Barbara F.
Name: Barbara Age: 58 Where do you live? Kenner, Louisiana Profession? Customer Service Account Representative Diet/weight history? I have tried many diets over the years and was not successful. I have been obese most of my life and my weight has been increasing every year…until I started Dr. Tro’s Weight loss program. Successes achieved on… Continue reading Member Spotlight:
Barbara F.
Five years of Type 2 and
Obesity reversal, more to come
Five 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 for physicians, but increasingly, hospitals, insurers, pharmacy chains, venture capitalists, and big tech companies were aggressively acquiring medical practices, hospitals, nursing homes, and pharmacies. In 2015, 75%… Continue reading Five years of Type 2 and
Obesity reversal, more to come
New Study: Outlining the Impact of a Metabolic-Health Employee Wellness Program
A new paper recently co-authored by Dr. Tro Kalayjian, DO, found that employees who participated in an employer-sponsored metabolic health program lost weight, reduced their a1c, reduced the need for medications, and significantly improved their cardiac risk. Published September 9, 2022 in Metabolites, an open-access Journal, the report is entitled “A Company Is Only as… Continue reading New Study: Outlining the Impact of a Metabolic-Health Employee Wellness Program
Member Spotlight: Gregg S.
Name: Gregg Schenck Age: 56 Where do you live? Ponchatoula, LA – home of the Louisiana Strawberry Festival. Approximately 50 miles northwest of New Orleans. Profession? Oracle ERP Analyst / Developer Diet/weight history: My weight history can somewhat be described as a series of plateaus and failures. When I was a child, my parents were… Continue reading Member Spotlight: Gregg S.