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When weight loss stalls on semaglutide or tirzepatide, the usual plan is a higher dose. Sometimes that is right. More often the drug is working exactly as designed and the problem sits somewhere it cannot reach. A GLP-1 turns down appetite. It does not build muscle, fix sleep, adjust your thyroid or feed your gut. Here is where I look first with patients in Seattle and across Washington and Oregon. Muscle. A quarter to a third of the weight lost on these drugs can be lean tis

The integrative approach in glioblastoma is not about replacing the Stupp protocol. It is about making Stupp work better, protecting neurological function, getting patients off steroids faster and giving the immune system something to work with. Fred came to me a few weeks after a near-total resection of a left frontal glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype, WHO grade 4. The tumor sat directly at Broca's area and he had expressive aphasia. He was a health and fitness teacher. Words were

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