Why Are You Hungry? weight gain weight loss Dec 12, 2023

You’re hungry. How do you know that you really need food and are not substituting for some other emotion, like boredom?

In this video, Dr. Thoma shares ways to decide if you really are hungry or not.

Dr. Thoma is a functional medicine physician in St. Louis County Missouri. His specialty...

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Evolving My Primitive Brain: Why Do I Overeat? brain diet primitive brain weight gain weight loss Mar 29, 2022

Have you ever eaten more than you planned or wanted to?

We all have! It's our primitive brain taking control of our body as it attempts to ensure that we will be safe and survive in our environment.

In this video, learn more from Dr. Thoma about why our primitive brain wants us to overeat and...

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Why Do Women Under Stress Have a Harder Time Losing Weight than Men? diet men stress weight gain women Dec 22, 2020

A lot of times I have men and women come into the office and the women have a harder time losing the weight than the men. This is traditionally how it works out.

If you take us back to our primitive bodies, the men in the old time villages would go out and they would fight off the enemy, the...

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