Did you see us on CBS? Here are 3 things to know about medicine for weight loss.

Did you see us on CBS? Here are 3 things to know about medicine for weight loss.

Did you see us on CBS? Here are 3 things to know about medicine for weight loss.

Curious to learn more about medicine for weight loss after seeing Found Health on CBS Sunday Morning? Here are three things to know as you start your journey.

Shaun Chavis
Last updated:
February 1, 2024
January 31, 2024
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Americans are even more curious about drugs used for weight loss since CBS Sunday Morning aired a story featuring Found’s Chief Medical Officer, Rekha Kumar, MD, MS, and a Found member, LaQuita Clark.

With Found, LaQuita has access to a physician trained in obesity medicine to personalize her prescription, a Found health coach, an exclusive community for support, and an in-app lifestyle change program designed by behavioral scientists. 

If you’ve seen the CBS Story and you’re interested to know more, here are three things to know as you start your weight loss journey:

  1. Addressing chronic weight problems isn’t just about calories in, calories out. One-size-fits-all approaches and conventional diet plans don’t work. 
  2. There are often underlying biological causes and contributing factors that keep people from losing weight. Genetics, hormones, brain chemistry, and even pollution can all play a role. 
  3. As much as obesity is a growing epidemic in the US, most physicians aren’t trained to treat it. Only 1% of physicians in the US are certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

Obesity medicine specialists, like the health care providers affiliated with Found, can help you identify what’s keeping you from losing weight and personalize a prescription to help you with your goals.

If you’d like to look into personalized medicine for weight loss, start with Found’s MetabolicPrint™ assessment—it’s a quick quiz

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January 31, 2024
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Shaun Chavis
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Shaun Chavis specializes in health and food journalism. Her work has won the James Beard Award for Focus on Health. She's written or edited for Health, Cooking Light, How Stuff Works, Real Simple and other media. She has a masters degree from Boston University.
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Sources

  • What Causes Obesity? (n.d.). Obesity Medicine Association. Retrieved December 22, 2023, from https://obesitymedicine.org/blog/what-causes-obesity/
  • Gudzune, K. A., Johnson, V. R., Bramante, C. T., & Stanford, F. C. (2019b). Geographic Availability of Physicians Certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine Relative to Obesity Prevalence. Obesity, 27(12), 1958–1966. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22628
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