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Summer Shape-Up: How BMI Guides Personalized Weight Management at BMI – Bariatric & Metabolic Institute With summer on the horizon, many of us are eager to shed excess weight and get in shape for the warmer months ahead. At BMI – Bariatric & Metabolic Institute, we understand the challenges of weight management and are here […]

Testimonial from Bobbie Rice, a happy patient of Dr. Vishon J Subramani M.D. Want to lose unwanted stubborn fat? I lost 60 pounds safely in 10 months. My highest weight was about 309 pounds. I am morbidly obese. It is awful! I was restricted in what I could participate in. Therefore, I felt I was

The stool is a diverse array of organisms that can be dangerous or beneficial.   We can evaluate the stool and decide multiple health advantages.  We can custom tailor your probiotic therapies and what you need to eat to improve the stool diversity.

 Do you have a relationship with food?  If not,  I think that it is important to have one. What is a relationship with food mean?  Just like relationships with other humans, we also have a relationship with foods.  We have food that we dislike.  We have foods we like.  We have food that we “avoid”. 

Fat production in adipocytes is strongly stimulated by insulin. By controlling the activity of the pyruvate dehydrogenase and the acetyl-coA  enzymes, insulin promotes unsaturated fatty acid synthesis.  It also promotes glucose uptake  and induces SREFB1, which activates the transcription of genes that stimulate lipogenesis. Clinical studies have repeatedly shown that even though insulin resistance is

Sleep is one of the most under-appreciated tools in the fight against obesity.  Adequate and quality daily sleep helps regulate hormones of food intake and stress.  It is important to ask about getting a sleep study if you think that you are not getting adequate, quality sleep

Fat cells do not just carry lipid or “fat” the also have mitochondria which make them very active producing thousands of by products such as hormones, inflammatory markers, etc…

We are stuck in this view that all weight loss is good weight loss.  That is partially true.  Any weight loss that is intentional is good weight loss.  Unfortunately, when we starve ourselves and lose weight, we also lose muscle mass.  The key with weight loss is to do it in baby steps and not

It is very simple.    Have a structured eating plan and follow it.  The plan should encourage all the main food groups-  Complex carbohydrates, proteins and fats.