Longevity

Patients ask us all the time: do I really need surgery, or is conservative care enough? Should I be on a GLP-1 if my BMI is 28 and my legs hurt?

Introduction If your hips, thighs, or arms grew disproportionately large at puberty, pregnancy, or menopause, and they hurt to press, and they don’t respond…

Lipedema treatment has expanded significantly in the past decade.

The hardest parts of having lipedema usually aren’t medical.

Lipedema doesn’t go away. Even after successful liposuction, the underlying tissue defect remains, and untreated areas can still progress.

Patients ask us this constantly: will Wegovy or Zepbound finally fix my lipedema?

Movement matters in lipedema, but not the kind of movement most people associate with weight loss.

Introduction Diet doesn’t shrink lipedema fat, and we want to start there because too many patients arrive in clinic exhausted from a decade of…

Introduction If you’ve spent years dieting and exercising while your hips, thighs, and calves stayed stubbornly large and painful to the touch, the problem…