Medical weight loss
Physician-supervised weight loss in Lafayette, Indiana — built on the metabolic reason the weight is not moving.
People who cannot lose weight are usually not eating in secret. They are up against something measurable: insulin resistance, an untreated thyroid, sex hormones that shifted in their forties, a medication with weight gain as a listed side effect, or several of these together.
Telling that person to eat less and move more is not a treatment plan. It is a description of what they have already tried.
We measure first. Fasting insulin, HbA1c, a full thyroid panel, sex hormones, and a review of every medication you take. Then we treat what we found.
Dr. Turner has written about each of these — his own pages, restored from the practice's earlier site.
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People who cannot lose weight are usually not eating in secret. They are up against something measurable.
Insulin resistance, an undertreated thyroid, sex hormones that shifted in the forties, and several very common prescriptions all make weight loss substantially harder. Frequently more than one is in play.
Telling that person to eat less and move more describes what they have already tried.
Fasting insulin and HbA1c, because insulin resistance is visible long before blood sugar goes abnormal.
An undertreated thyroid makes weight loss close to impossible. It is one of the first things we rule out.
Learn moreBoth men and women change body composition when sex hormones shift. That is treatable.
Learn moreSeveral very common prescriptions cause weight gain. Sometimes the answer is a different drug in the same class.
Where they are appropriate, discussed honestly — including what happens when you stop.
Re-testing on a schedule, so the plan changes when the numbers do.
How it works
Functional medicine is not a different set of drugs. It is a different order of operations: measure first, then treat what the measurements actually show.
Step 1
We take a full history — symptoms, timeline, diet, sleep, stress, medications, family history. Most patients have never been asked these questions in one sitting. This is where the pattern usually shows up.
Step 2
A normal thyroid panel is often just TSH. A normal hormone panel is often nothing at all. We test the full picture — thyroid antibodies, free hormones, nutrient status, inflammatory and metabolic markers — so the treatment plan has something real underneath it.
Step 3
You get your results explained, not filed. What is out of range, what it means, what we are going to do about it, and what should change and by when.
Step 4
We re-measure. If the numbers moved and you feel better, we hold. If they did not, we change the plan. Treating on symptoms alone is how people end up on therapy they do not need.
If none of that sounds like you, call anyway — we will tell you honestly whether this is the right service.
The office is open Monday to Thursday. Send this and someone will call you back — a sentence about what is going on is enough.
The workup tells you why the weight has not moved. Most patients have never had it done.
