In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Scott Isaacs talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape about the regularity of contact with patients during their weight loss phase.

In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Scott Isaacs talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape about the medications and strategies used to help with obesity treatment.

In part 5 of this Exclusive Interview, Scott Isaacs talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape about how to move patients back to a regular diet after weight loss using meal replacements.

In part 6 of this Exclusive Interview, Scott Isaacs shares the best ways to maintain weight loss following weight loss using meal replacements in a discussion with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape.

In part 7 of this Exclusive Interview, Scott Isaacs talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape about his recommendations to medical professionals looking to use meal replacements as a method to help their patients who have excess weight or obesity.

In part 8, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Scott Isaacs talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape about the big differences with using meal replacements to help people with type 1 versus people with type 2.

Although GLP-1's don't usually cause hypoglycemia except when given with insulin or a sulfonylurea, I have found that when patients who do not have diabetes are started on a GLP-1, some can have symptoms of hypoglycemia and/or more untoward GI side effects if they start when they come in the office fasting.

Alpana Shukla MD, MRCP (UK) graduated from Grant Medical College Mumbai, India and trained in Endocrinology in the UK and Australia. She is Assistant Professor of Research in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Director of Clinical Research at the Comprehensive Weight Control Center. Dr Shukla is a research mentor for the MS program at the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University. Her research interests and publications include novel behavioral interventions for management of type 2 diabetes and obesity, pharmacotherapy for obesity, and metabolic surgery.

In this Exclusive Interview transcript, Dr. Alpana Shukla talks about Food Order studies and the dramatic impact eating carbs last during meals can have on blood glucose levels and other indicators.

In this Exclusive Interview, Alpana Shukla talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape during the ADA 2018 convention in Orlando about the Food Order Study.