Dr. Jenny Talbert

Dr. Jenny Talbert The Fat Chiropractor

This Thanksgiving I’m grateful for things I used to think were impossible - eating without rules, wearing clothes that f...
11/27/2025

This Thanksgiving I’m grateful for things I used to think were impossible - eating without rules, wearing clothes that feel good instead of “flattering,” and showing up as myself in my practice and at this table. Recovery from diet culture extremes gave me something I never expected: peace.

What are you grateful for this year?

11/20/2025

The DOE just decided some healthcare students deserve federal loans and others don’t.

Spoiler: we’re all losing.

I’ve seen the backlash—nurses and PTs upset that chiropractic “made the list.”

But the problem isn’t who’s ON the list. It’s that the list exists at all.

It’s easier to punch laterally at professions we perceive as “less legitimate” than to fight Congress and the DOE.

But that’s exactly what they want—healthcare providers divided while the system stays broken.

Let’s redirect this anger where it belongs.

11/16/2025

The danger of delaying treatment - Part 2

Untreated OSA causes serious health risks while people are told to lose weight first, and weight loss usually fails anyway

Were you told to lose weight before getting treatment?

5 dangerous facts about delaying sleep apnea treatmentI’m Dr. Jenny, a weight-neutral chiropractor living with OSA. Whil...
11/12/2025

5 dangerous facts about delaying sleep apnea treatment

I’m Dr. Jenny, a weight-neutral chiropractor living with OSA. While doctors tell you to lose weight first, your heart and brain are at serious risk every single night—and intentional weight loss has a 95% failure rate anyway.

The research is clear: OSA severity (not your weight) predicts outcomes. Even after massive weight loss from bariatric surgery, 71% of people still have moderate-to-severe sleep apnea. Meanwhile, untreated OSA nearly triples your cardiovascular risk.

You deserve treatment now. Not after you’ve “earned it.”

Which fact surprised you most?

References:

1. Lettieri CJ, et al. Persistence of obstructive sleep apnea after surgical weight loss. J Clin Sleep Med. 2008;4(4):333-8.
2. Marin JM, et al. Long-term cardiovascular outcomes in men with obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea with or without treatment with CPAP. Lancet. 2005;365(9464):1046-53.
3. Andrade FM, Pedrosa RP. The role of physical exercise in obstructive sleep apnea. J Bras Pneumol. 2016;42(6):457-464.

https://haeshealthsheets.com/obstructive-sleep-apnea/

11/10/2025

The dangerous delay - Part 1

People are avoiding sleep apnea diagnosis because they think they need to lose weight first, but delaying treatment is putting health at serious risk

Have you delayed talking to a doctor about symptoms because of your body size?

11/08/2025

Sleep advocacy work in Washington DC with !!

So grateful to work alongside organizations fighting for better sleep health access and awareness for everyone with sleep disorders.

11/08/2025

What is weight-neutral healthcare and why does it matter?

I’m Dr. Jenny Talbert, a chiropractor for 15 years. Over the last 8 years, I’ve completely transformed my practice from diet culture-focused to weight-neutral, evidence-based care.

Weight-neutral healthcare means focusing on your actual symptoms and function instead of making everything about body size. It means appropriate equipment, no unsolicited weight talk, and treatment that doesn’t start with “just lose weight.”

This isn’t ignoring health—it’s recognizing that health-promoting behaviors benefit people at every size, regardless of whether weight changes. And that you can’t tell someone’s health by looking at their body.

On this page you’ll find education for healthcare providers who want to transform their practices, resources for patients seeking affirming care, and my own journey out of wellness culture and diet culture as both a provider and a patient in a larger body.

Whether you’re a chiropractor, PT, massage therapist, acupuncturist, or any hands-on provider—or you’re someone looking for healthcare that doesn’t center weight—you’re in the right place.

Find my resources, courses, and practice transformation tools at www.drjennytalbert.com

10/31/2025

How one podcast changed my entire approach to patient care.

I was deep in diet culture—as both a provider and a patient—until I heard about Health at Every Size for the first time and everything shifted

What moment completely changed how you see health?

Social Determinants of HealthIn chiropractic school (and I bet the same for other graduate programs), I learned that hea...
10/22/2025

Social Determinants of Health

In chiropractic school (and I bet the same for other graduate programs), I learned that health was mostly about personal choices. Eat right, exercise, get adjusted, think positive thoughts, avoid “toxins”, and you’d be healthy.

Where you live, work, grow up, and how much money you have determines your health more than anything else.

This education gap meant I was practicing from a place of privilege and bias without even knowing it. When patients didn’t get better as expected, it was easy to blame their non-compliance rather than examine the systems failing them.

How poverty, racism, and marginalization create health disparities that no amount of individual effort can overcome. How food deserts and lack of money/resources makes “just eat healthy” meaningless advice for many people.

How weight stigma in healthcare creates barriers to care that worsen health outcomes.

Learning about social determinants changed everything.

Now I ask:

✔️What barriers might this person face?

✔️How can I make care more accessible?

✔️What assumptions am I making?

The personal responsibility model of health is harmful.

Health is largely determined by factors OUTSIDE. individual control.

Recognizing this makes me a better provider and a more compassionate human.

What changed your perspective on patient care? 👇

When 21% of patients report searching for a new doctor after experiencing weight stigma, we have a healthcare crisis.Wei...
10/14/2025

When 21% of patients report searching for a new doctor after experiencing weight stigma, we have a healthcare crisis.

Weight bias among medical professionals is well documented across every specialty you can think of. Physicians, nurses, dietitians, therapists. (I’ll add chiropractors to the list as well)
This bias shows up in real ways: providers spending less time with patients, ordering fewer tests, and patients straight up avoiding care because they know what’s coming.

Research looks at how weight stigma in healthcare creates actual barriers to getting quality care. The problems are everywhere: equipment that doesn’t fit, providers who aren’t trained properly, and attitudes that lead to worse outcomes.

Healthcare should be safe and accessible for all bodies. When providers blame everything on weight without doing their job and actually examining you, that’s not evidence-based medicine. That’s harm.

10/13/2025

It took me about 3-4 years to get comfortable using the word “fat,” and honestly, I didn’t figure it out on my own. I learned from fat activists who had been doing this work long before I even knew it existed.

I started reading books by fat authors who used the word so casually and proudly that it made me realize it didn’t have to be this scary, shameful thing. I filled my Instagram feed with people who looked like me and who talked about their fat bodies without apologizing. Slowly, through seeing it used over and over in a neutral way, it started to feel less like an insult and more like just another descriptor.

Our community reclaimed this word. We took it back from the people who used it to bully us and turned it into something that doesn’t have power over us anymore.

That doesn’t mean everyone is comfortable with it yet, and most people outside of fat liberation spaces still find it offensive.

If this word is still hard for you to use, that makes total sense. You can say “larger body” or “higher weight” instead, which are great alternatives that don’t pathologize our bodies the way medical language often does.

Also, you may have to ask someone if they prefer using a different word before you use fat to describe them.

But for me, learning to say fat comfortably has been one of the most freeing parts of my journey, and I’m so grateful to the activists and authors who showed me it was possible.

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