What Is Medical Weight Loss?
Medical weight loss is a physician-led approach to losing weight and keeping it off. Unlike commercial diet programs, it starts with lab work and a full medical history so Dr. Portes can identify what is actually driving weight gain — thyroid function, insulin resistance, hormone imbalance, medication side effects, or metabolic slowdown. From there, she builds a plan that combines nutrition, activity, behavior change, and, when appropriate, FDA-approved weight loss medication.
Patients searching for a weight loss doctor near me in Miami choose this program because it treats the whole person, not just the number on the scale.