Healthier Ever After

A patient switches her weekly GLP-1 injection from her abdomen to her arm in the middle of a frustrating plateau, and within days the scale starts moving again. She is convinced the site made the difference. Rick and Greg hear this story often in clinic, and in this episode they walk through what is actually happening physiologically versus what is more likely coincidence. In this episode, Rick So...

Self-criticism feels like it should motivate change, but the research says the opposite. In this episode, Rick and Greg cover a 2024 analysis linking self-criticism to disordered eating, and self-compassion to lower rates of it, then walk through what that looks like in real life: the shame spiral of "I ate three cookies, I've ruined everything," why cortisol from that kind of self-...

Water is easy to overlook in a weight loss conversation, but it's involved in nearly every chemical reaction your body runs, including the ones that break down fat. In this episode, Rick and Greg explain the actual chemistry: why fat breakdown requires water, why most of the fat you lose leaves through your lungs as carbon dioxide, and why dehydration is one of the most common (and most overl...

Peptides are all over the internet right now, and the headline is everywhere: the government voted, so they must be legal. In this episode, Rick Sorensen and Greg Camp separate what actually happened from what is being sold to you. When the FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee met this past July to consider seven peptides, the agency's own scientists had already recommended reje...

Most of the frightening GLP-1 stories come down to one thing: the dose. In this episode, Rick Sorensen and Greg Camp explain why semaglutide and tirzepatide drive thousands of poison control calls and ER visits every year, and why almost all of them are preventable. They dig into why injecting a medication is a completely different skill than swallowing a pill, how proper titration works (starting...

Rick opens this one with an image he couldn't shake after a trip to Denmark: you could take a two-ton block of marble and hammer 25% of the weight off it, and you'd still have a block. It looks like nothing. That, he argues, is what crash dieting does — and the actual goal is to pick away gently and intentionally at what you don't want while keeping the form that's already insi...

Cortisol has become the internet's favorite villain — but ask most people what it actually does and the answer is a shrug. Rick and Greg spend this episode fixing that, starting with the uncomfortable truth that you'd be very, very sick without it. The key insight is that cortisol works on a schedule, not a setting. It spikes sharply in the morning to pull you out of sleep, declines thro...

Creatine is having a moment — it's in gummies, powders, capsules, and about half the ads in your feed. So Rick and Greg sat down to sort out what's real. In this episode they explain what creatine actually does at the cellular level (it recharges the ATP "battery pack" your muscles burn through in the first seconds of any effort), and why that matters more than the marketing su...

Rick Sorensen and Greg Camp tackle a term that gets thrown around constantly but rarely explained: insulin sensitivity. In this conversational deep-dive, they break the science down to "eighth-grade biology" and build it back up with analogies anyone can follow. You'll learn how your body converts food into glucose, how insulin works like a key unlocking your cells, and what goes wr...

Rick Sorensen and Greg Camp continue their myth-busting series, tackling four more weight-loss beliefs that surface in clinic all the time — and giving you both the science and the real-world perspective on each. They start with the "starvation mode" myth: eating too little won't make you gain weight, but it will dial your metabolism down and cost you energy and muscle. Greg shares...

Diet Myths, Busted — Part 1: Late-Night Eating, Spot Reduction, Exercise & Carbs After a month-long detour into hormones, Rick and Greg are back to the bread-and-butter of Healthier Ever After: the everyday diet myths they field constantly, both in the clinic and in the ER. In this first installment of a two-part series, they take four of the most common beliefs about weight loss and hold each...

Pregnancy triggers one of the most dramatic hormonal and metabolic shifts a body can experience — and it throws every "normal" weight loss rule out the window. Rick and Greg welcome back nurse and mother of three Lindsay Ellsworth for a candid conversation about staying active and eating well during pregnancy, navigating the postpartum "fourth trimester," and making peace with...

Rick and Greg close out their hormones series with one of the most personal episodes yet — a conversation with a guest who's family: Rick's daughter Lindsay, a nurse and soon-to-be nurse practitioner at BYU, who opens up about her own experience with postpartum depression and anxiety. Lindsay shares what it was like to go through three different postpartum periods — mild anxiety she dism...

Rick, Greg, and nurse practitioner Caitlin wrap up their women's hormonal health series with a practical episode focused on what to actually do. They start with the lifestyle foundation — resistance training, protein, sleep, and stress — and then move into the full menu of hormone therapy options: estrogen (why the patch is often the safest bet), progesterone, testosterone for women, and vagi...

Hormones don't just affect reproduction — they shape nearly every system in your body across your entire lifetime. In this episode, Rick and Greg continue their conversation with women's hormone specialist Caitlin, covering the full hormonal timeline of a woman's life: what estrogen is actually doing from your twenties through perimenopause, how to recognize when symptoms cross from...

What if the study that scared an entire generation of women away from hormone replacement therapy was fundamentally flawed — and the fallout lasted twenty years? Rick and Greg sit down with Caitlin Robinson, NP, to trace the full arc of female HRT: from the optimism of the 1960s through the 2002 Women's Health Initiative study that brought it to a hard stop, to the slow, ongoing rehabilitatio...

Most guys know something's off — they just can't name it. In this episode, Rick and Greg break down what to actually do about low testosterone: the lifestyle foundation that has to come first, the supplements worth considering (including why boron is getting more attention than it used to), and the three medication-based options your provider might discuss — SERMs, HCG, and full testoste...

In this episode, Rick and Greg turn their focus to men's health — specifically the quiet, decades-long decline in testosterone levels and why so many men are being told they're "fine" when they're anything but. They walk through the classic patient story that Greg hears constantly in the clinic: a man in his forties or fifties, gaining weight in the midsection, losing musc...

Rick and Greg take a detour from their upcoming hormones series to address a topic that comes up constantly in the clinic: the stigma surrounding GLP-1 medications for weight loss. If you've ever heard — or thought — "they took the easy way out," this episode is for you. They walk through the most common myths about medication-assisted weight loss, explain why these beliefs are medi...

In this episode, Rick and Greg discuss a groundbreaking 2026 policy statement from leading obesity organizations that redefines how obesity should be treated in modern medicine. The key takeaway: Obesity is a chronic, biologically driven disease—and it’s being significantly underdiagnosed and undertreated.   The new guidelines emphasize: Earlier and more aggressive intervention Combining lifestyle...

In this episode of Healthier Ever After , Rick and Greg explore the often-overlooked impact of obesity stigma —and why it may be one of the biggest barriers to better health. Drawing from recent policy statements and research, they unpack how weight bias shows up in healthcare, media, workplaces, and everyday life , and how it contributes to depression, anxiety, social withdrawal, and even avoidan...

In this episode, Rick and Greg discuss a groundbreaking 2026 policy statement from leading obesity organizations that redefines how obesity should be treated in modern medicine. The key takeaway: Obesity is a chronic, biologically driven disease—and it’s being significantly underdiagnosed and undertreated.   The new guidelines emphasize: Earlier and more aggressive intervention Combining lifestyle...

In this episode, Rick and Greg discuss why protecting muscle mass during weight loss is essential for real, lasting health. They explain that while GLP-1 medications can be powerful tools for weight loss, the real key to staying healthy during that process is making sure you are losing fat, not valuable lean mass .   They explore how muscle functions as more than a cosmetic feature — it is a major...

In this episode, Rick and Greg explore effective weight loss options outside of GLP-1 medications , offering a practical and medically grounded look at alternatives for patients who cannot tolerate or access these newer therapies. They begin with a discussion of weight loss physiology, emphasizing the roles of hormones, appetite regulation, and metabolic signaling—highlighting why willpower alone...

Intermittent Fasting, Insulin & the Truth About Weight Loss In this episode of Healthier Ever After, Rick and Greg break down one of the most talked-about—and often misunderstood—topics in health and weight loss: intermittent fasting, meal timing, and the powerful role of insulin. Rather than focusing solely on calories, this conversation dives into the why behind weight gain, plateaus, and su...