Adrienne Youdim, MD, FACP

Adrienne Youdim, MD, FACP Center for Weight Loss and Nutrition
Dr. Adrienne Youdim MD FACP

Our hunger represents our unmet physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational needs. When these needs go unmet we are m...
10/19/2025

Our hunger represents our unmet physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational needs.
When these needs go unmet we are more likely to be reactive.

🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏽‍♂️Physical hunger longs for rest, movement, nourishment, and regulation — the basic bodily needs that support your physical health and vitality.

💗Emotional hunger seeks validation, belonging and comfort — the reassurance that our inner world is seen and valued.

☯️ Spiritual hunger yearns for purpose, and meaning or faith and surrender — connection to something larger than ourselves.

👩‍❤️‍👨Relational hunger desires attention, connection, and intimacy — the bonds that remind us we are not alone.

When these hungers go unmet, we become reactive — quick to anger, to craving, to withdrawal.
But when we feed them intentionally, they become the foundation of resilience, presence, and self-respect.

🎧Deep dive on this weeks HealthBite podcast ✨





Such a joy celebrating  at the Illustrious Alumni Awards with my dear friend and colleague president of the Alumni Board...
10/16/2025

Such a joy celebrating at the Illustrious Alumni Awards with my dear friend and colleague president of the Alumni Board of . I have loved our work on the board together!

Hey alumni! Our institution is doing life changing work! Let’s reconnect and support them in this mission to do good!
PS…I will be hosting a soirée for School of Medicine Alumni in LA in January. SOM alums DM me- we want to see you there!!

Hunger for more is not a personal failure but hardwired in our biology- something psychologist call the hedonic treadmil...
10/15/2025

Hunger for more is not a personal failure but hardwired in our biology- something psychologist call the hedonic treadmill- the tendency to adapt to success-momentarily- only to reach out for more. Constantly reaching for a moving target 🎯 leaving us discouraged and disenchanted.
Learn more about the “fix” this week on the HealthBite podcast and my book Hungry for More found on and

We have been conditioned to view hunger as something to suppress - but what if your hunger is a signal of something deep...
10/08/2025

We have been conditioned to view hunger as something to suppress - but what if your hunger is a signal of something deeper.
✨Hunger for rest when you are depleted from giving to everyone else
✨Hunger for belonging when you are stuck in a loop of disconnection
✨Hunger for validation that keeps you chasing success.

Your body is trying to get your attention.

You don’t need to silence your hunger.
You just need to listen.

🎧Listen in on the conversation on the HealthBite podcast- anywhere you listen.

We are reactive, quick to respond to a threat, a craving, an unkind word or an undesirable situation. This reactivity is...
10/01/2025

We are reactive, quick to respond to a threat, a craving, an unkind word or an undesirable situation. This reactivity is hard wired in our nervous system and perpetuated by our news feed, our social media, and our amazon app. But when we cultivate the ability to pause between trigger and reaction, between desire and habitual response, we reclaim our agency, free will and choice. In that space, we uncover the ability to act, not react. To live, lead and love with intention and clarity of mind.

Our Resilient Minds cohort has begun! 8 weeks to learn MindBody skills to ✨manage reactivity ✨reduce stress
✨boost resilience
✨enhance emotional regulation.
Waitlist now open for January cohort. DM us for details 🌟

One of the things I love most about what I do is  agency- the fact that we have the power to begin anew - every new year...
09/23/2025

One of the things I love most about what I do is agency- the fact that we have the power to begin anew - every new year, every new moon, every Monday and with every breath.
To turn over a new leaf and choose a new way of relating to our habits, to our partners, to our communities and to the world around us.
Shana Tova to all my brothers and sisters. Wishing you an open mind and open heart in the year to come.
Xx
Dr. adrienne

I’ve experienced a lot of death and dying as a physician.I’ve done chest compressions on people who never came back to l...
09/12/2025

I’ve experienced a lot of death and dying as a physician.
I’ve done chest compressions on people who never came back to life.
I’ve called time of death on more code blues than I can remember.
I administered morphine to my grandfather in his final days on hospice.
And I reassured my cousin to go in peace minutes before her last breath.
But seeing that video shook me.
Because we are not meant to witness that kind of horrific violence, nor were we meant to just keep scrolling on by…
If you are feeling unsettled, off, distracted, irritable, distraught…
that’s your humanity speaking to you.

Connect with the humans around you. A friend, family member, mentor, confident.

And if you need help remember there are resources out there to help you 🙏
Xx,
dr. adrienne

09/11/2025

New Breast Cancer study came out that blew my
mind🤯
Listen in to hear more!



70-80% of our diet comes from processed or ultra processed foods.The result- blood sugar crashes resulting in hunger, ir...
09/10/2025

70-80% of our diet comes from processed or ultra processed foods.

The result- blood sugar crashes resulting in hunger, irritability, fatigue and reactivity.
Some simple ways to nourish:
More from earth, less from pantry
High-protein foods (natural GLP-1 boost)
High-fiber foods (sustained energy)
Fermented foods (gut health)
Water over caffeine/alcohol





Social media memories reminded me that this week marks over a decade since I left my position as the Medical Director of...
09/10/2025

Social media memories reminded me that this week marks over a decade since I left my position as the Medical Director of the Center for Weight Loss at Cedars Sinai.

I loved my work, my colleagues and my institution but left for more autonomy, creativity and agency.

At the time I was told I would never make it. Obamacare, competition, yada, yada, yada…

And yet when I opened my own practice 2 weeks later, the patients came, and have been coming ever since.
I wrote a book, did a TEDx, and created Resilient Minds helping high acheivers like myself manage the stress and reactivity that leads to self sabotaging behaviors like over-eating and over-drinking and ultimately burnout. Most importantly I practiced medicine on my terms.

I wonder if you have ever been told how to work, when to marry, how many kids to have or when to have them? That you could never be successful or joyful or content doing your life how you saw fit?

Chances are you have.

As I celebrate my anniversary today, I am here to remind you that you and only you know your next best move, your next best step, and how to live a life that is uniquely you. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise- no matter how noisy they might be.

Here’s to being the master of your own domain 🥂

What a joy to celebrate  this weekend, the incredible paraolympians and founders .frech  .I have had the privilege to be...
09/09/2025

What a joy to celebrate this weekend, the incredible paraolympians and founders .frech .

I have had the privilege to be a part of this organization since its inception and how exciting to meet one of the hero’s of Adaptive - a documentary following the journeys of 3 paraolympians to the Paris Paraolympics.

In this beyond beautiful narrative- you will laugh, you will cry, you will be reminded of what it means to be human.

Do yourself a favor and watch Adaptive now streaming on Peacock.

I promise you will thank me later ❤️

In case you needed this  ✨💫🌟
09/08/2025

In case you needed this
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