Month: September 2017

Dr. Terlinsky Attends Medical Conferences Worldwide

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Over the past year, I have attended several medical conferences all over the world. I go to these events for two very specific reasons:

First, I believe that I owe it to all my patients to be up to date and cutting edge.

Second, I love what I do. I love being able to learn what’s happening within my industry, connecting with other like-minded physicians and becoming a better care-provider as a result.

Here are my activities over past 15 months and what I have planned for the rest of the year:

1. June 2016, Paris European Society of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

2. September 2016, Chicago Annual Meeting of Obesity Medicine Association

3. October 2016, Orlando Annual Meeting North American Menopause Society

4. December 2016, Las Vegas Advanced Workshop Men’s and Women’s Sexual Health 

5. December 2016, Las Vegas Annual Meeting American Society of Anti-aging and Restorative Medicine

6. April 2017, Orlando Endocrine Society Annual Meeting 

7. June 2017, Milan European Society of Hypertension

8. September 2017, San Antonio Obesity Medicine Association

9. October 2017, Philadelphia North American Menopause American Society

10. December 2017, American Association of Anti-aging and Restorative Medicine

Dr. Terlinsky’s Thoughts at the Annual Meeting of the Obesity Medical Association

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Good morning, Dr. Terlinsky here in San Antonio, TX at the annual meeting of the Obesity Medicine Association. I will be attending lectures and other educational sessions on the latest developments in the fields of nutrition and weight management.

This morning I had breakfast with Dr. Eric Westman from Duke University who is an international expert on weight loss and ketogenic diets He told me about his program at Duke and how patients are treated with low carb diets. Dr. Westman is a firm believer in teaching patients how to follow low-carb diets to cure their sugar addiction, improve insulin sensitivity and lose excess body fat. He shared data with me relating to the likelihood of a patient getting into ketosis based on the total amount of carbs ingested. His initial favorite is to start at 20 grams per day.

I heard the results from an interesting, novel strategy to lose weight by following an alternate date fasting (ADF) vs. a calorie reduction diet (CR) of 25 % per day.

Basically, a person eats about 500 calories on one day and gets to eat whatever they want on the other.

After one year there was not much difference between the two. There may be an advantage to the alternate-day fasting for pre-diabetics as insulin sensitivity may improve with the alternate-day fasting.

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