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Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD

Biography

Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD

Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD, is the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) and Professor of Pediatrics (Pediatric Endocrinology) at Yale School of Medicine. A compassionate physician-scientist and founding director of the Yale Obesity Research Center (Y-Weight), Dr. Jastreboff is an international thought leader in the scientific development and clinical application of novel obesity medications revolutionizing the treatment of obesity.

Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD

Books by Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD

Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like to Be Free
by Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey - Fitness, Health, Nonfiction, Self-Help

Obesity is a disease. It’s a question of biology, created by our bodies' need to survive and the environment we created and now live in. And it’s treatable. The new medications can lower our body fat set point (our brain’s “Enough Point”), so that we lose weight without battling biology with willpower. Dr. Ania Jastreboff describes strategies to optimize health and manage side effects, all with the reassuring perspective of decades of experience treating patients with obesity and leading studies with these medications. Oprah says she’s learned so much from Dr. Jastreboff about how, when it comes to weight, our bodies work with us --- and also against us. How each of our struggles are different and each of our choices in living with obesity also may be different.