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“One shot a month instead of one a week” is a genuinely appealing idea, and it is driving a lot of interest in an investigational drug called MariTide. As…

If you have followed weight-loss medicine at all, you already know the current names — semaglutide, tirzepatide. The question my Chattanooga patients ask…

If you follow weight-loss news, you have probably seen the headlines about retatrutide — the “triple agonist” producing trial numbers no obesity drug has…

There is a class of weight-loss medicine you have probably never heard of, and it is about to be in the news constantly: amylin. CagriSema — a once-weekly…

A large share of the women I see at Summit Metabolic Health in Chattanooga share a familiar frustration: they eat carefully, they exercise, and the scale…

“Do I have to give myself a shot?” It’s one of the first questions I hear from new patients at Summit Metabolic Health in Chattanooga — and a fair one…

I hear a version of this question almost every week from patients here in Chattanooga: “Why did you just double my dose?” Sometimes it comes from someone…

Starting a GLP-1 medication like semaglutide or tirzepatide changes how you eat — often before you’ve decided to change anything at all. These medications…

The first month on a GLP-1 medication sets the tone for everything that follows — and it’s also when most patients have the most questions. At Summit…

Side effects are the number-one worry we hear from patients across Chattanooga and Signal Mountain who are considering a GLP-1 medication. It’s a fair…