Dr. Jon Stevens - The Psychology Behind Medical Weight Loss [Episode 76]

Dr. Jon Stevens is triple board-certified in adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and obesity medicine. With a strong background in psychopharmacology and advanced diagnostic tools, Dr. Stevens strives to blend the art and science of psychiatric care.

Today, Dr. Jon joins the show to discuss the psychology behind medical weight loss, the game changing interventions available today in obesity medicine, and best practices we all can implement to lead healthier and happier lifestyles.

Key Takeaways

01:18 – Dr. Jon Stevens joins the show to share his experience as a board-certified adult psychiatrist and why he recently chose to pursue a board certification in obesity medicine

06:42 – Some sobering statistics on obesity

09:22 – Gastric bypass and lap band surgeries

10:15 – The decision to get board-certified in obesity medicine

13:45 – New weight loss interventions

16:12 – Ozempic and the proper use of Ozempic

22:56 – BMI, explained

25:59 – How age and sex impact weight loss

28:04 – Dr. Flowers thanks Dr. Stevens for joining today’s show and lets listeners know where they canconnect with him

Tweetable Quotes

“Part of getting board certified in obesity and medicine - doing that journey during Covid and having the time to focus on that - was really scratching my own itch. My patients were gaining weight, developing complications from obesity, and we needed to find, together, interventions that would help them.” (03:11) (Dr. Jon)

“There have been some studies, including one in the New England Journal of Medicine that said, ‘in the next ten or fifteen years practically everyone in America could be overweight or obese.’ And we’re already at sixty percent when you count overweight and obese. Forty percent of Americans are clinically obese. I’m not using that term in the pejorative sense that it’s sometimes used. This is really a crisis and epidemic that we’re facing.” (04:40) (Dr. Jon)

“The rates of childhood overweight and obesity are increasing even faster than adults, which is terrifying. Once the body gets to that space, the body sets at that space. A dirty secret is that diet and exercise, once you’re already in the clinically obese realm, only really lead to about five percent body mass loss.” (08:01) (Dr. Jon)

“I’m so excited right now. I wasn’t practicing at the time, but I really feel like right now in obesity medicine with all the new interventions, it must be what it was like for a psychiatrist practicing at the dawn of Prozac. There are some fantastic, new, and really game changing interventions.” (13:52) (Dr. Jon)

“BMI is controversial and much maligned, but it’s still what defines overweight and obesity. Specifically, a BMI of 25 or above is clinically overweight - that’s 25 to 29.9 - and above 30 is obese.” (23:08) (Dr. Jon)

“Many men in this country are silent suffering from that. Men already live much shorter lifespans than women in our country. Diabetes and heart disease many of those cases stem from obesity and being overweight.” (27:38) (Dr. Jon)

Resources Mentioned

J. Flowers Health Institute – https://jflowershealth.com

J. Flowers Health Institute Contact – [phone]

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Dr. Jon’s Website – https://jonstevensmd.com

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