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Should You Change Horses Mid-Race?

Some people have sent messages asking about changing from semaglutide to tirzepatide following the “news” article that came out...

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Outcomes Following Discontinuation of Semaglutide

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Nov 303 min read

Outcomes Following Discontinuation of Semaglutide

This blog describes the study on what happened after semaglutide was discontinued in the SELECT 1 trial. The SELECT 1 trial was the...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Nov 235 min read

Nutritional Health on Semaglutide or Tirzepatide

While taking semaglutide or tirzepatide, sometimes, people eat very few calories. Of course this often leads to a very large amount of...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Nov 172 min read

Countering the Red Herring

With the recent election and naming of the US Health Secretary, Ozempic is back in the news again with people choosing sides of lifestyle...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Nov 25 min read

Menopause and Obesity

Highlights Menopause is associated with increased abdominal and visceral obesity. Abdominal and visceral obesity increases...

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The Multiple Faces of the Disease of Obesity

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Oct 63 min read

The Multiple Faces of the Disease of Obesity

We have come a long way in researching and treating obesity as a disease. But, there are actually multiple types of this disease. Now ...

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Tips & Access for Semaglutide and Tirzepatide

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Sep 298 min read

Tips & Access for Semaglutide and Tirzepatide

One in eight Americans had taken a weight loss injectable medication as of May 2024 as reported in an article by CNN. The article...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Sep 155 min read

UGHHHH, do I really need to take this medication forever?

A common concern people have before starting one of the new generation highly effective chronic weight management medications is that...

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Finally, Coverage for the Condition of Overweight/Obesity?

Valerie Sutherland, MD

May 41 min read

Finally, Coverage for the Condition of Overweight/Obesity?

For many people, weight management medications are completely excluded from insurance coverage. Why can treatment for a medical condition...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Apr 142 min read

What's Up With the Weight Loss Plateau?

A common question I get is, “Doctor, I was losing weight great, then it slowed way down and stopped! I didn’t chan ge anything I was...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Mar 315 min read

Fructose: The Smoking Gun?

There are many reasons why the regulation of energy expenditure and storage in the human body is not just a matter of “calories in,...

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Got Stubborn Fat? It May be White Adipose Tissue.

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Mar 247 min read

Got Stubborn Fat? It May be White Adipose Tissue.

Have you cut your calorie intake and reached a weight loss plateau anyway? Have you counted your calories and done the math and can’t...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Mar 175 min read

Experience Matters

When I left primary care to practice Medical Weight Management full time in April of 2015, there were very few physicians in this...

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Emotional Resilience: Finding the Meaning in Adversity

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Mar 34 min read

Emotional Resilience: Finding the Meaning in Adversity

Emotional resilience is the ability to keep your sailboat steady amid a storm. It is the ability to see adversity as temporary, and use...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Feb 243 min read

Environmental Obesogens

Why is the prevalence of obesity increasing so much? Why does it seem like your weight can increase, even if you are not changing...

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Very Low Calorie Ketogenic Diet / Incretin Mimetics: The Yin/Yang of Weight Management?

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Feb 43 min read

Very Low Calorie Ketogenic Diet / Incretin Mimetics: The Yin/Yang of Weight Management?

Many people are using Wegovy and now Zepbound for weight loss. They are incretin mimetics, puportedly treating the incretin defect that...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Jan 13 min read

Hope & Faith for a New Start

When we are young, everything is a “first”. Every event, experience, holiday, and new person seems fresh and new. The possibilities seem...

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The Role of Meal Replacements for Weight Management in the Era of Semaglutide and Tirzepatide

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Dec 2, 20236 min read

The Role of Meal Replacements for Weight Management in the Era of Semaglutide and Tirzepatide

While weight management medications are not new, they have evolved so that more people are taking them and more people will take them as...

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Shared Medical Appointments- Better Together!

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Oct 21, 20234 min read

Shared Medical Appointments- Better Together!

Rainier Medical is excited to begin offering the option of Shared Medical Appointments as part of our medical weight management programs....

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Don’t Waste Your Workout! Top 4 Tips for Results.

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Sep 17, 20238 min read

Don’t Waste Your Workout! Top 4 Tips for Results.

Some people love exercise, some people do not. But, we all want results and to feel as good as possible when you do exercise. Many common...

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Experts in chronic medical weight management for preventing, managing and reversing health conditions. We prescribe and manage chronic weight managment pharmacotherapy within a structured and comprehensive program for the best long term results. We are a medical program, not just a prescription.

Experts in chronic medical weight management for preventing, managing and reversing health conditions.
We prescribe and manage chronic weight managment pharmacotherapy within a structured and comprehensive program for the best long term results.
We are a medical program, not just a prescription.