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Which Healthcare Professionals Can Help With Weight Loss?

For effective and sustainable weight loss, it may help to have the support of a variety of health specialists.

Lauren Smith, MAPreeti Parikh, MD
Written by Lauren Smith, MA | Reviewed by Preeti Parikh, MD
Updated on February 20, 2024
Reviewed by Preeti Parikh, MD | February 14, 2024

In this video, people who have lost weight share who is on their care team, and how they found healthcare professionals they could trust and rely on. 

You can read about Pete’s weight loss to qualify for bariatric surgery, Larisa’s struggle with food noise, and Arelis’s experience taking semaglutide after weight-loss surgery here.

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Lauren Smith, MA
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Lauren Smith, MA
Lauren Smith, MA, has worked in health journalism since 2017. Before joining GoodRx, she was the senior health editor and writer for HealthiNation.
Preeti Parikh, MD
Reviewed by:
Preeti Parikh, MD
Dr. Preeti Parikh is a board-certified practicing pediatrician in New York City. In addition to overseeing all editorial content at HealthiNation, she sees patients at Westside Pediatrics, is an assistant clinical professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and is an American Academy of Pediatrics spokesperson.

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