Dr. Michelle Gordon

Dr. Michelle Gordon I was a surgeon for 20 years. Built a multi-million dollar practice from scratch. Then I burned out and walked away from everything I'd built. The biology did.

| Obesity Doctor | Menopause Doctor | Longevity Doctor | Recovering Surgeon |Stories | World Traveler | Opinions not Medical Advice |

Website: https://drgordon.me When I pivoted to obesity medicine, I found the patients no one was treating well. Midlife women who were doing everything right and still gaining weight. Women whose doctors told them their labs were normal and to just try harder. I kept hearing the same story. The effort never changed. And nobody was explaining why. So that became my work. I study the physiology of weight regulation in midlife women. I've listened to thousands of them describe the same pattern. And I built a practice around the kind of medicine they deserve: a physician who stays, watches the pattern over time, and makes decisions as the biology shifts. I offer education for women who want to understand what's happening in their bodies, and a clinic for those who want a long-term medical partner in managing a chronic disease. https://drmichellegordon.com
Obesity medicine grounded in physiology, not blame.

03/30/2026

What does it mean to be boarded in obesity medicine?

Here’s the tea 🫖

Someone asked on one of my posts about what it means to be boarded in obesity medicine. Here’s the tea 🫖 Only physicians...
03/30/2026

Someone asked on one of my posts about what it means to be boarded in obesity medicine.

Here’s the tea 🫖

Only physicians license in the United States with an unrestricted license to practice medicine are eligible for the obesity board exam.

There are two pathways:
1. An obesity medicine residency or fellowship after/during family practice or internal medicine residency.

2. Physicians board certified in another specialty (like me-boarded in general surgery) who spend a minimum of 60 hours learning obesity medicine through Continuing Medical Education.

Completing either pathway makes a physician eligible to take the obesity board examination.

It’s given annually in October.

In addition to the CME, I studied for several months prior to taking the test.

I’m not lying when I say it’s one of the most difficult medical examinations I’ve ever taken. And doctors take a LOT of tests.

This is what it means to be board certified in obesity medicine.

03/29/2026

Eat more get bigger. Eat less get smaller. If chronic disease were that simple, we wouldn’ t need medicine for any of it.

03/29/2026

Estrogen directs fat storage. Testosterone drives muscle. When both decline, body composition shifts independent of calories. The Finkelstein study proved estrogen deficiency drives fat gain even in men.

03/27/2026

A man in my comments said women have zero testosterone. Women produce testosterone every day. The ovaries keep making it for up to a decade after menopause.

And men? Estradiol is the primary regulator of your bone metabolism. Every human body runs on both hormones.

03/26/2026

HRT and GLP-1s together. Early data suggest they work better combined. The physiology supports it. And maybe we’d know more if more than 10.4% of the NIH budget went to women’s health.

03/26/2026

I started a subscriber group here on FB. If you join now, you lock in the current price. It goes up at 100 subscribers.

03/25/2026

No one explains what your body does after weight loss.

Thank you for having me on the unPaused Podcast!Great conversation on midlife and GLP-1 and more.
03/25/2026

Thank you for having me on the unPaused Podcast!

Great conversation on midlife and GLP-1 and more.

03/23/2026

Bruh 😎
Calories in, calories out, dude.
It’s just physics.

Except your body drops its metabolic rate, lowers leptin by 44%, drops T3 by 39%, and defends its energy reserves with every hormonal tool it has. That’s biology determining the burn rate.

Add in the metabolic zone of chaos known as perimenopause, and there’s a predictable pattern of weight gain. In fact, I have a whole training on this on my website. Link in bio.

03/23/2026

“Your labs are fine” means the tests your doctor ordered came back in range.

It doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Physiology precedes lab abnormalities by years. Here’s what standard panels miss.

Normal may not be optimal for you.

03/23/2026

Long but worth it.
Misogyny (W2W)
Weight stigma
Worth a listen

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