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Semaglutide Safe & Effective in Patients With Schizophrenia & Prediabetes
I'm linking an external article I came across that has great information on Semaglutides I'd like to share! physiciansweekly.com by...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Sep 26, 20251 min read


Navigating Life's Sliding Scale: Finding Balance
The last few weeks of travel stress + personal / family / professional responsibilities + menopause took a serious toll on my health....
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Sep 10, 20252 min read


Lifestyle is A Choice. Treatment After a Heart Attack is not.
When my son was younger, I enjoyed reading him a series of books called The Power to Choose. The main character, a...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Aug 23, 20252 min read


BDNF: The Brain Fertilizer
What is BDNF? • BDNF stands for Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor . • It's a protein found throughout the brain and nervous system....
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Aug 19, 20253 min read


5 Lessons from the Blue Zone Sardinia
A Blue Zone is a region where people live significantly longer than average, with high concentrations of centenarians (people aged 100 or...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Aug 17, 20253 min read


Food Decisions
My personal relationship with food has been transformed over the past few years. Through consistent nutritional self-education and...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 29, 20253 min read


Ikigai
Ikigai , the "reason for being", is a powerful Japanese concept that holds deeply personal significance. For the last few years, Ikigai...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 21, 20251 min read


The Anti-inflammatory Diet
Diet is one of the leading risk factors of death and disability in the United States. Conditions such as cardiovascular diseases,...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 15, 20254 min read


GLP-1/GIP induced muscle loss
GLP-1 and GIP are two known incretins, which are hormones produced in the GI tract and partially account for the postprandial insulin...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 12, 20252 min read


Women's Midlife Weight Gain
Midlife, defined as occurring between the ages of 40 and 65 years, is a time of significant physical and hormone changes for women....
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 7, 20252 min read


Insulin resistance - the silent epidemic
Insulin resistance affects 88% of adults in United States and it is associated with numerous chronic conditions as heart disease,...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jun 25, 20252 min read


The science of Lifestyle
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the case of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jun 15, 20252 min read


What is Lifestyle Medicine?
"Healthy lifestyles should be a right, not a privilege, and access to lifestyle medicine should be equitable for all" ...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jun 11, 20252 min read
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