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
237 episodes
2 Simple Ways to Improve Morning Insulin Resistance
Is your breakfast making mornings harder than they need to be?You eat well, you move your body, you’re doing all the “right” things… so why is your blood sugar still higher in the morning? There’s a natural hormonal shift happening when ...
Why Stepping Back Might Be the Best Thing You Do for Your Health This Year
When was the last time you slowed down long enough to just... think?Most of us move from one task to the next, filling every quiet moment with work, scrolling, or chores around the house. We stay so busy we never stop to ask: what do I a...
How to Rewire Your Cravings: Physiology, Habits, and the Thoughts That Help
Have you ever found yourself negotiating with a pint of ice cream at 9 p.m., even though you ate dinner just two hours ago?You tell yourself you’ll have “just one bite.” Then maybe one more. Suddenly, you’re standing in front of the free...
You're Not Lazy: How Undiagnosed ADHD Could Be Derailing Your Health Goals with Dr. Ida Salusky
You've spent years believing you're undisciplined, inconsistent, bad at adulting. But what if you've been white-knuckling undiagnosed ADHD this whole time? More than half of my clinic has some form of attention deficit, and I see th...
Weight Loss Plateau or Treatment Problem? How to Tell the Difference
The scale has stopped moving, and you're already spiraling: Has my medication stopped working? Should I switch things up? Am I doing something wrong?Panicking and changing everything is often the worst move you can make. But how...
Stick to the Plan, Not Your Mood: Building Healthy Habits That Survive a Bad Week
That 45-minute workout plan feels completely doable when you’re making it on a Sunday. Same with the meal prep, the protein goals, the whole “this is the week I get it together” plan. And then Tuesday hits…Your sleep is off, work is a lo...
Finding Your Floor: How to Maintain Healthy Habits in a Busy Season
You know you should move your body, eat well, and take care of yourself… but what happens when life is so busy that even the basics feel impossible?In this episode, I’m joined by Maggie, the creator behind @pump.med and a medica...
"I Feel Like I've Been Teleported Into Someone Else's Body": Adjusting After Body Change
What happens when your body changes, but your brain hasn’t caught up yet?A listener wrote in after skin removal surgery and said, “I feel like I’ve been teleported into someone else’s body.” Honestly, I don’t think there’s a bet...
Social Media, Comparison, and Weight Loss: Protecting Your Mental Health Online with Schnelle Acevedo
You open your phone for a quick break, and somehow 30 minutes disappear…By the time you put it down, you feel overwhelmed, behind, and worse about yourself. In the weight loss space, every scroll can bring another dramatic before-and-aft...
Is Retatrutide the Most Powerful Weight-Loss Drug Yet? The Data So Far
A weight-loss injection with results on par with bariatric surgery? With retatrutide, that is not an exaggeration.Although it’s not FDA approved yet, retatrutide is one of the most talked-about medications coming down the line. In this e...
Foundayo (Orforglipron): Weight Loss Pill Benefits, Risks & Results
A new GLP-1 has entered the chat, and I'm already seeing a lot of confusion around it. Meet Foundayo (orforglipron), a needle-free tablet you take once a day with none of the usual restrictions around timing, food, or storage.On paper, i...
How to Hit Your Fiber Goal Without Overhauling Your Diet
The average American gets only about 10 to 15 grams of fiber a day, which is less than half the recommended 25 grams for women and 38 grams for men.Most of us don’t realize we’re falling short until digestion starts to feel off: bloating...
The Hair Loss Conversation Your Doctor Should Be Having With You with Dr. Komal Patil-Sisodia
As women, so much of our identity is tied to our hair. And when it starts to fall out, the internet will sell you a thousand solutions before anyone stops to ask why.In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Komal Patil-Sisodia — triple board-c...
How to Read Your Body Composition Data (And What to Do With It)
What if you've actually been making progress, but just didn't know how to see it?So many people feel stuck because the scale isn't moving, or because progress feels painfully slow. But total weight is only one piece of the picture. You c...
How to Rebuild Your Routine When Life Has Wiped You Out
After pouring everything into my recent in-person retreat, coming home felt harder than I expected. I was sleeping in on weekends, struggling with my normal routine, and asking myself, "Why can't I just get it together?"Turns ou...
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...