Los Angeles · Internal Medicine
I’m Dr. Elise Hall, an internist in Los Angeles. I spent two years prescribing these medications before I took one myself. This site is both halves of that: what the evidence actually says, and what the year actually felt like.
Tools
I scored every tracker I could get my hands on against seven criteria that matter specifically on a GLP-1 — not generic calorie counting. Here is the ranking, the rubric behind it, and where my first choice falls short.
Supplements
The shedding starts two to four months after the loss speeds up, which is why almost nobody connects the two. Seven supplements ranked — and one of them interferes with the blood test that rules out a heart attack.
Supplements
Bone is the tissue nobody thinks about until a wrist breaks. Rapid weight loss reduces bone mineral density, the effect is largest in exactly the people most likely to be prescribed these drugs, and none of it produces a symptom until it does.
Supplements
You are already taking the most effective glucose-lowering drug most people will ever be prescribed. That changes what a supplement is for here — and it makes the hypoglycemia question the first one, not the last.
The Journey
I kept notes the way I would want a patient to keep them — during, not after, before the retrospective gloss sets in and everything starts sounding easier than it was.
Every claim traces to a trial, a guideline, or a label — linked, so you can check my reading against the paper.
No affiliate codes, no supplement partnerships, no telehealth referral fees. Where a piece names a tool I use, it says so plainly and carries a disclosure.
Where the evidence is thin, I say so instead of filling the gap with confidence. That happens more than you would think.
New data changes pieces on this site. Corrections are dated at the top, not quietly edited in.
The Sunday letter
What I read that week, what changed my mind, and where I am in my own year. Written for the patient I wish I’d had an hour to talk to.
Dr. Elise Hall, MD — a Los Angeles internist writing about GLP-1 medications, metabolic health, and the parts of weight loss the pamphlet leaves out. Research on one side, her own year on a GLP-1 on the other.