The Obesity Guide with Matthea Rentea MD
Matthea Rentea MD leads discussions on obesity and chronic weight management. Her guests range from experts in the fields that intersect with obesity and wellness, to individuals successful in their weight journey. She is a Board certified Internal Medicine and Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and founder of the Rentea Metabolic Clinic, a Telehealth clinic for residents of the state of Indiana and Illinois that helps comprehensively with weight management. This podcast is for information and education purposes only. No medical advice is being given. Please talk to your physician for what is right for you.
Episodes
222 episodes
What GLP-1s Are Revealing About Addiction and the Brain with Dr. Nishant Kumar
“Doc, I just don't feel like drinking alcohol anymore." Addiction psychiatrist Dr. Nishant Kumar kept hearing it. Patient after patient, unprompted. And nothing in their lives had changed… except one thing. They'd started a...
Skin Removal Surgery After Weight Loss: What You Need to Know with Dr. Beckman
We talk a lot about losing weight… but rarely about what it actually feels like to live in that new body. And for a lot of people, that experience includes the physical and emotional impact of excess skin.Excess skin isn’t just about app...
Losing Weight and Losing Hair? Here's What to Do with Dr. Katherine Nolan
It’s one of the most distressing side effects people can experience during a weight loss journey, yet almost no one warns you about it.At first, it’s easy to dismiss. Then it starts showing up everywhere: in the shower drain, on your pil...
8 Health Basics That Beat Every Supplement, Tracker and Program
I've been thinking a lot lately about how much we overcomplicate our health. Tracking 15 different metrics, obsessing over the perfect supplement, debating which programme is best — while the simple basics just... aren't happening. I catch myse...
Tired, Hungry, and Stuck? How Poor Sleep Affects Hormones, Cravings, and Weight Loss with Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown
You might be blaming your hormones, your medication, or yourself... when the real problem could be your sleep.Sleep is one of the most overlooked parts of metabolic health. And when it's off, everything feels harder. You feel hu...
Plateaued? Try These 5 Things Before You Clamp Down Harder
When the scale stops moving, the instinct is to restrict more, exercise harder, and white-knuckle your way through it. I get why this is a common reaction, but it's not what your body actually needs to break through.In this episode, I ex...
GLP-1s at Every Age: What You Should Actually Be Watching For
When it comes to GLP-1 medications, your age and stage of life matter more than a lot of people realize. What works for your body at 25 won't work the same way at 45... and definitely not at 65.Yet somehow, most people are still being tr...
How Your Nervous System Hijacks Your Eating (and How to Get It Back) with Jane Pilger
For 25 years, Jane Pilger couldn't figure out why she couldn't stop binge eating. It wasn't until she uncovered the one piece no one had ever explained to her that things finally started to change.And it had nothing to do with willpower…...
Jacqui Cook on GLP-1 Weight Loss, Maintenance Fears, and Letting Go of Diet Rules
For decades, Jacqui Cook lived in a cycle many women know all too well: losing weight, gaining it back, and starting over… always wondering why nothing seemed to stick. Food was her love language, life kept getting in the way, and no matter how...
You've Hit Your Goal Weight…Now What? 5 Truths About Long-Term Weight Maintenance
You hit your goal weight. So now what...?For a lot of people, maintenance feels like uncharted territory. And without the right mindset, it's easy to either white-knuckle it or slowly drift back to old patterns. In this episo...
GLP-1s and Vision Loss: Separating Fact from Fear with Dr. Mina Farahani
There’s a lot of noise online about semaglutide, sudden vision loss, and scary eye complications. If you’re taking a GLP-1 (or thinking about it), you might be wondering: Am I putting my vision at risk? In this episode, I s...
Restarting GLP-1s? 5 Reasons It Feels Harder This Time
Back on your GLP-1 medication… but confused why it isn’t working this time?Lots of people stop these medications for valid reasons. Cost, side effects, pregnancy plans, or simply because things were going well and it felt like the right ...
Perimenopause, GLP-1s, and What's Actually Affecting Your Sex Drive with Dr. Kristen Wolfe
If you've noticed your sex drive has tanked, whether from GLP-1s, perimenopause or menopause, postpartum changes, or simply the mental load of being a woman in 2026… you're not imagining it. And you're definitely not “broken”.In this epi...
Understanding PCOS: From Diagnosis to Long-Term Health with Dr. Sabrina Huq
If you’ve been told you have PCOS (or suspect you might), you’ve probably been left with more questions than answers. It’s one of the most misunderstood conditions out there, and a lot of people are misdiagnosed, under-treated, or given the sam...
The Cost of GLP-1s is Forcing Switches: Can You Maintain Your Results?
What happens when the medication that's finally helping you is no longer affordable?If you've had success on Mounjaro or Zepbound but need to switch to a more affordable option like Ozempic for maintenance, you're probably wondering:...
Your Friday Five: Cozy Protein Favorites, Movie-Night Snacks & a Surprise Soda
Welcome back to Your Friday Five — a quick roundup of products I’ve been loving lately, especially when it comes to easy ways to add more protein.Here’s what’s in my current rotation:•
Weight Loss Stalled on GLP-1? Focus On THIS Instead
Some of the best conversations start with listener questions, especially the ones that come from feeling stuck, confused, or wondering, 'is this normal?'In this special Q&A episode, I'm tackling two listener questions. One is about u...
We Are Not Chasing Suppressed Hunger
In today’s quick Friday Five episode, we’re talking about something that causes fear for so many people on a weight loss journey: hunger.If hunger starts returning, many people immediately assume something has gone wrong — that the medic...
Oral Wegovy: How to Take It, Who It's For, and What It Costs with Joseph Zucchi, PA
We finally have the first-ever FDA-approved oral GLP-1 for treating obesity, and it's a much bigger deal than the headlines suggest…In this episode, I'm joined by Joseph Zucchi, PA, a clinical supervisor at a weight management clinic who...
The Week Muscle ‘Disappears’ (But Doesn’t)
In this short Friday episode, Dr. Matthea Rentea breaks down a common body composition mistake that causes unnecessary panic: apparent muscle loss that isn’t real.She explains two very common scenarios where body composition sca...
200-Pound Weight Loss: Why Self-Love Is a Practice, Not a Feeling with Dr. Joy Bracey
Self-love gets talked about a lot… but most of us still don’t really know what it is. Is it positive affirmations? Spa days? Just “being nicer” to yourself?And if that’s true, why do so many capable, motivated people still feel ...
Your Friday Fave: The One Question That Changes Everything
This week’s Your Friday Five centers around a single question—one that has the power to shift your mindset, your habits, and the way you evaluate progress. I came across it in a video from Jamie Seltzer (linked below), and it stopped m...
New Obesity Medications Coming 2026-2028
Weight loss medications are evolving at lightning speed. But once you start digging online, it’s easy to feel unsure about what’s real, what’s safe, and what your options actually are if a medication stops working.In this episode, I walk...
Your Friday Five: The “Prepared, Not Perfect” Nutrition Reset
In this New Year edition of Your Friday Five, we’re talking about the ONE strategy that consistently transforms my patients’ nutrition—and my own. Winter is here, the days are darker, and this is the time of year when energy dips and c...