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When to Consider Weight Loss Medication

Constantly thinking about how amazing it would feel to be more comfortable in your own skin, but finding it hard to shed extra pounds with diet and exercise alone? It might be time to think about weight loss medication.

Jun 4th, 2025

5 Signs You're Low on Estrogen After Menopause

If you’re always tired, gaining weight, and not feeling quite yourself, it could be a low estrogen level. It happens to every woman during menopause, but you don’t have to live with it. Here’s how to get back in balance.

May 9th, 2025

Why You Shouldn’t Take Just Any Weight Loss Supplement

Beware of weight loss supplements that promise miracles! Many contain hidden and unregulated ingredients and could cause harmful side effects. Skip the risks and choose medically approved treatments that actually work.

Apr 13th, 2025

How to Choose the Right Weight Loss Medication

Deciding to use medication to make your weight loss experience easier is a big step — and you have another, even bigger choice ahead: which one to pick. Knowing how each medication works can help you choose one that aligns with your health goals.

Mar 10th, 2025

Signs You’re a Candidate for Medical Weight Loss

Are you struggling and looking for a way out of the never-ending cycle of losing weight and gaining it back? Medical weight loss offers a fresh start using science-based strategies. Learn whether you’re a candidate here.

Feb 7th, 2025

Why is Weight Loss More Difficult After 50?

Weight loss is challenging enough when you’re young — but after age 50, it seems far more difficult. Here, our weight loss experts in Irvine explain why your body changes with age and how you can overcome these challenges for successful weight loss.

Jan 22nd, 2025

How Ozempic® Can Help You Realize Your Weight Loss Goals This New Year

Ozempic® has gained traction in the media lately, so you’ve probably heard all the buzz. Maybe you’re wondering if it’s true: Can Ozempic really lead to amazing weight loss results? Yes! We explain how it helps here.

Dec 17th, 2024

The Link Between Hormone Imbalances and Difficulty Losing Weight

Hormones are well-known as the culprit behind skin breakouts, mood swings, and reproductive health problems — but did you know they play a role in weight management, too? If you’re struggling to lose weight, understanding your hormones can help.

Nov 12th, 2024

I'm Losing Muscle Mass — Can You Help?

You may expect to lose muscle mass as you age, but you don’t have to accept it. Understanding how and why your body changes and adapting your health care to accommodate those shifts allows you to seize control and regain muscle mass.

Oct 21st, 2024

Unique Challenges Women Face When Trying to Lose Weight

Weight loss is a complex process, especially for women who face unique hormonal, reproductive, and lifestyle challenges. By understanding these challenges, women can achieve their weight loss goals and improve their health and well-being.

Sep 23rd, 2024

Ozempic® and Mounjaro®: Can These New Weight-loss Meds Everyone is Talking About Help You?

It seems like everyone is talking about Ozempic® and Mounjaro® as miracle weight-loss drugs. They represent exciting advancements in weight-loss medications, but are they right for you? We help you sift through the hype to find out.

Aug 13th, 2024

How Phentermine Can Help in Aiding Weight Loss

If you’re struggling with obesity and need help achieving your weight loss goals, phentermine might be the boost you need. Here’s how this drug can help aid your weight-loss efforts.

Jul 21st, 2024

What is Male Menopause and Can it be Treated?

Male menopause describes a gradual decline in testosterone levels and can cause symptoms like sexual dysfunction, fatigue, and mood swings. Read on to learn effective treatments that can address these symptoms so you feel like yourself again.

Jun 23rd, 2024

Myths and Facts About Hormone Replacement Therapy That Every Woman Should Know

Misinformation surrounds hormone replacement therapy, so it’s understandable if you’re unsure about how it can help you. Here are some common myths about HRT and the facts you should know if you’re considering it.

May 28th, 2024

The Unknown Hormone: Vitamin D

The most important hormone shown to prevent heart disease, diabetes, immune diseases and cancer in fact, a hormone with more than 1,000 critical functions, is Vitamin D. That’s right, “Vitamin D” is in fact, a hormone, not a vitamin.

Oct 17th, 2016

Low Metabolism

When I walk into an exam room, the first thing I do is shake my patient’s hand. I do this both for the social connection, but even more importantly, to feel the temperature of the hand. If they are feeling run-down, I listen to the patient’s complaints...

Aug 6th, 2016

Happy Wife, Happy Life!

Specializing in Integrative Medicine & Anti-Aging. In my day to day life, I am never happier than when my wife is happy, energetic, and feeling upbeat, and is not suffering from chronic pain.

Jan 8th, 2015

Psychological relief during stressful times, naturally.

During our current pandemic, most of my patients state they are stressed to the point where they are considering asking for medication to help them. Medications are an acceptable way to calm down and function within our work, family, and environment.

Apr 1st, 2020

How to Boost Your Immune System by Dr. John Alevizos

How to Boost Your Immune System by Dr. John Alevizos

Apr 1st, 2020

2019 IBJJF World Masters Purple Belt Champion!

Congratulations Dr. Alevizos on your IBJJF World Master Purple Belt Jiu-Jitsu Championship!

Oct 2nd, 2019

What Type of Exercise is Best?

Patients often tell me they exercise most days a week walking and some even jog. This type of aerobic exercise is good but interval training is much better.

Sep 15th, 2019

Can Optimizing Hormones Slow Down The Aging Process?

Can Optimizing Hormones Slow Down The Aging Process?

Jun 4th, 2019

Top 10 Anti-Aging Treatments for 2019

Dr. John Alevizos presents his top 10 anti-aging treatments for 2019. Call us to receive your free consultation!

Apr 23rd, 2019

Gynecomastia (Man Boobs) and what to do about it.

Man Boobs (Gynecomastia)- What it is and what you can do about it. Click to see video.

Feb 18th, 2019

The Brain & Alzheimer’s Disease

The good news is that are living longer and global life expectancy is higher then ever. If only we could all enjoy long lives while maintaining our mental faculties, this news would be even better, but unfortunately, mental decline is a major cause of...

Dec 5th, 2018

2018 Pan-Am Jiu-Jitsu Championship

Congratulations Dr. Alevizos for your Double-Gold win at the 2018 Pan-Am Jiu-Jitsu Championship!

Mar 11th, 2018

Is Arthritis Preventable?

Life is challenging enough without arthritis pain. Defined as inflammation and swelling in one or more of our joints, there are actually 100 different types of arthritis. However, this article will cover only the most common type— Osteoarthritis.

Feb 11th, 2018

Can Sleep Habits Affect Your Longevity?

The subject of sleep has always fascinated me as I have a difficult time falling asleep and staying asleep. My wife, on the other hand, can be sitting in the car and fall asleep mid-sentence. Statistically, about 40% of Americans experience...

Oct 2nd, 2017

The Secret to Anti-Aging

The number one most important anti-aging intervention that any person can do for their lives right now, today, is physical activity, which is essential to prolong our life expectancy and our quality of life. When it comes to our bodies and muscular...

Sep 5th, 2017

Inflammation: How it Affects to your Health

Approximately 90% of Americans suffer from chronic diseases that come from an inflammatory process. As you can imagine, these diseases include heart disease (the number one killer in America, and for the most part, in all industrialized nations),...

Jul 25th, 2017

Probiotics – Healthy Benefits For You!

Our gastrointestinal system contains more than one hundred trillion bacteria. These micro-organisms provide so many important benefits to the body that they are sometimes called a “forgotten” organ.

Jun 11th, 2017

Is Salt Really Bad For You? The Benefits of Iodine Salt.

Since the early 1980’s, you have been hearing health experts advocate that we decrease our consumption of salt due to the risk of high blood pressure. But you should also keep in mind that in the 1920’s, the government mandated that iodine be added to...

Apr 6th, 2015

Vitamins: What you really need to take….

There are only two valid reasons to take supplements. One is to make sure your diet is sufficient in essential nutrients. The other is to boost your natural immune system so as to provide greater protection against disease—in other words, to slow...

Mar 13th, 2015

Antioxidants & Longevity

AS A SOCIETY, over the past several hundred years, we have dramatically improved the human condition and added to human longevity. In the old days, people didn’t live much past 40 years.

Mar 8th, 2015

How to Measure and Treat Male Hormone Deficiency.

This article will focus on how to measure and treat male hormone deficiency. It should be noted that the articles in the coming several months will not be as technical as the past articles, and will actually be a bit more fun and easier to attain.

Mar 8th, 2015

Why Is My Gut So Big?

Of all my monthly articles, this is going to be the most important one that I hope everybody reading will research and explore, and definitely not ignore.

Jan 1st, 2015

A Good Night’s Sleep

The subject of sleep has always fascinated me as I have a difficult time falling asleep and staying asleep. My wife, on the other hand, can be sitting in the car and fall asleep mid-sentence.

Nov 8th, 2014