Dr. Priya Shankar, MD, MPH

Dr. Priya Shankar trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins and completed an obesity-medicine fellowship through The Obesity Society, where she became preoccupied with a specific failure of modern weight care: the gap between what’s clinically established and what patients actually hear in a 15-minute appointment.

She joined weghtloss.com as medical reviewer to close that gap on the consumer side. Her role: read every article that makes a clinical claim, push back on hand-waving language, and ensure the cited evidence actually supports the conclusion. When evidence is weak, she insists the article say so plainly.

Topics she reviews most: GLP-1 medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound) and natural alternatives, bariatric-medicine context, cardiometabolic risk in weight management, and the functional gastrointestinal disorders (IBS, SIBO, functional dyspepsia) that get incorrectly lumped under “detox.”

She believes weight is a medical issue that has been moralized into a wellness issue, and that the cost has been twenty years of bad advice marketed at the people who need accurate information most.