Dr Ellen Fallows

Your questions answered on how best to lose weight when considering new weight loss medicines and taking a whole-person approach to health. What are the new weight loss medicines? Tirzepatide (brand name Mounjaro) and Semaglutide (brand name Wegovy) are protein like molecules that are naturally secreted by our guts in response to food (GLP 1 analogues). These have been artificially synthesized to last longer in the body. Scientists believe that they work by slowing the movement of food...

Lifestyle Medicine is a global medical discipline that uses well-researched interventions to help people to make and sustain lifestyle changes. These lifestyle changes have been found to not just prevent but treat and even put into remission, some long-term conditions such as Type-2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, depression, anxiety and metabolic liver disease. A clinician trained to use Lifestyle Medicine doesn’t just give you simplistic advice (most of us know what we need to do...

Sometimes, intensive lifestyle changes can result in being able to stop some long-term medicines. This is called remission - for example "remission of Type-2 diabetes". Remission of long-term conditions means normal blood tests despite stopping medicines. This can sometimes be achieved with intensive lifestyle changes in the early stages of chronic diseases such as obesity, high blood pressure, Type-2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, depression and anxiety. Some early research suggests that...