Some experts lean into the idea that some people’s brains just have “different wiring” which is responsible for various brain disorders, including addiction.

Death and drinking are two more areas that interact with GLP-1 drugs and their cousins. But failing to treat obesity can also lead to suicide.

A discouraging number of lawsuits involving the new weight-loss drugs are currently underway, with potentially thousands more waiting in the wings.

A book on gaming addiction examines the moral, social, and emotional ramifications of a certain genre of electronic games.

To lose weight and keep it off, one has to make lifestyle interventions become the lifestyle, and to accomplish that is a lot more difficult than it sounds.

Can the GLP-1 drugs cure obesity once and for all, and can they possibly do so in the absence of continuing lifestyle intervention?

Lifestyle medicine is definitely not an afterthought or an inconsequential footnote to treatment. All the six types of intervention are important.

Now is a good time to look into how continuing lifestyle intervention pairs up with surgical intervention.

Some people benefit from help for the rest of their lives, and there is nothing wrong with that. The need to manage substance abuse is continuing and ongoing.

Nobody chooses to become an addict, although once that happens, the disease will convince them that the condition was always inevitable.

One of the murkier areas of addiction theory is how it relates to the basic biological drives inherent in an organism. Let’s take a look.

Often, success depends on the person being prepared to jump in there with a positive displacement behavior to take the heat off.

It’s time to get on board with the idea that obesity is just another chronic noncommunicable disease, and people should have a choice in what to do about it.

No conscientious medical professional should plunge right in by suggesting that you lose a few pounds. Here’s why.

With COVID-19, the disease is caused by a particular virus, and that’s an epidemic. But with obesity, the old multi-factorialism comes into play.

The new weight-loss meds do not treat the root causes of obesity, just like asthma drugs don’t treat air quality and pain relievers don’t prevent injury.

Dr. Yoni Freedhoff proposes that the idea of holding patients entirely responsible for managing their own weight loss is unrealistic.

Today, almost every aspect of the culture, in almost every corner of the world, tells us to eat eat eat.

In weight loss for health, two things are clear: Long-term sustainability is the prevention of relapse, and relapse avoidance is long-term viability.

Research shows that intensive lifestyle intervention, followed by tirzepatide, has about the same effect as the first year following a sleeve gastrectomy.

To put it bluntly, weight loss drugs don’t work unless the patient is also involved in some aspect of what the drug makers define as intervention.

A universal treatment for addiction may be feasible. The displacement mechanism might serve as the basis for such a unified theory of addiction.

Do the new, remarkably effective GLP-1 obesity medications eliminate the need for obesity interventions such as the BrainWeighve app?

Tirzepatide, a medication combining semaglutide with another GLP-1 agonist, known as Mounjaro, is approved for type 2 diabetes but widely used for weight loss.

Do the new, remarkably effective GLP-1 obesity medications eliminate the need for obesity interventions?

Today’s question is: Do the new, remarkably effective GLP-1 obesity medications eliminate the need for obesity interventions such as BrainWeighve?

Random, reactive displacement behaviors usually only make things worse, while conscious displacement can create a space for positive change.

A perplexing aspect of the displacement mechanism is why it becomes excessive and destructive in some individuals.

It’s possible the destructive displacement behavior may become the sole coping avenue, may be self-reinforcing, and may reach a “point of no return.”

The advantage of an interactive app is that you can hear it from peers who will attest to the fact that this works, and they want you to know it.