Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS

“Instead of Ozempic, why don’t we just give everyone a gym membership to treat obesity”- said by someone who literally doesn’t understand obesity. Exercise is important but not sufficient to treat obesity, a truth people can’t accept🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

Unpopular opinion: Fiber rich plants, lean protein, movement, sleep, GLP 1s, statins, and SGLT2 inhibitors will do more for your cardiometabolic health than dye free Doritos or cane sugar in soda ever will.

You know what, @SecKennedy? I also started asking questions. Why are people getting sicker, younger? Why are kids developing diseases that used to only affect adults like type 2 diabetes, MASLD and more? And you know what conclusion I came to? That it’s complicated. There’s no…

Look, I get it, we’re hungry for change. We want a food environment that’s healthier, more sustainable, more affordable, more accessible. We want it to actually support people in eating well. And I know some will say, “Well, it’s a start…” But let’s be clear: swapping one kind…

Unpopular opinion: If people actually followed the USDA dietary guidelines, we’d be a much healthier nation. Are the guidelines perfect? No. But blaming them for rising rates of obesity and chronic disease is wild when the majority of the American diet comes from ultra processed…

Just because I said swapping high fructose corn syrup for cane sugar doesn’t make soda “healthier” doesn’t mean I’m defending HFCS. 🤦🏽‍♀️ I don’t care what kind of sugar is in it, it’s still sugar, and it’s still soda.

Ask yourself: What kind of wellness influencer wakes up and thinks, “You know what’ll heal the nation? Screaming at fruit in the grocery store.” Dude bro, it’s not the bananas that need help. 🤦🏽‍♀️

The next frontier in medicine is not listening to people who say crap like this. NO ONE is out here claiming heart disease is caused by a statin deficiency, Mark. 🤦🏽‍♀️

We’re cheering for dye free ice cream while millions may lose Medicaid and SNAP because nothing says public health like ignoring actual people’s needs.

Wellness influencers be like: “Avoid anything processed… except my $80 processed green powder in a plastic tub.” 🤦🏽‍♀️🙄

“Modern medicine is only good for emergencies, not health or longevity.” Really? So we should just toss out vaccines, antibiotics, insulin, cancer therapies, heart treatments, all the advances that have literally added decades to human life? Modern medicine isn’t just for car…

Modern wellness influencer logic: -Chug butter, it’s “ancestral” -Natural = better always, don’t question me! -Your doctor? Lying. Me with no real qualifications? Truth teller. -Big Pharma = bad. My $1000 detox = good. -Blame seed oils, dyes, and corn syrup but ignore poverty…

Let’s stop pretending “natural” equals “healthier”, “safe” or “better.” Arsenic is natural. So is cyanide. That doesn’t mean you should put them in a smoothie.

Celebrating frying fries in beef tallow and replacing the HFCS in Coca Cola with cane sugar and touting those as Make America Healthy Again wins is like throwing a green juice on a dumpster fire and calling it wellness. It ain’t gonna do shit.

No it’s not….not even close🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

Tell me you haven’t picked up a nutrition textbook or even glanced at a USDA website recently, without telling me: You go on national television and say the “food pyramid” still exists. Spoiler alert: It was retired in 2011. Even though it’s not perfect, MyPlates been used over…

They say, “Well behaved women seldom make history.” Damn straight. You don’t shatter glass ceilings with good manners. Not in a world where women’s pain is dismissed, their health is deprioritized, and their worth is measured by how small, quiet, or self sacrificing they can be.…

Isn’t it ironic how wellness influencers blame the food pyramid and dietary guidelines for the “chronic disease epidemic”, when most people aren’t even following them to begin with? The food pyramid was retired over a decade ago. The current guidelines? They say eat more…

Isn’t it wild that RFK Jr. is trying to dismantle science and medicine… while the President of the United States just got treated by an actual doctor for leg swelling?