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Summon Health provides you individualized medical care to activate your metabolism and reverse disease through optimizing nutrition, improving physical activity and providing stress mitigation while also utilizing the latest technologies and medicines

10/05/2022

Congratulations to Dr. Sandra Sobel for being chosen as Pittsburgh's 2022 best endocrinologist, Best of Pittsburgh award!

Dr. Sobel's endocrine practice focuses entirely on metabolic health - which includes metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, diabetes, pcos, fatty liver disease, and weight management and she is so passionate about delivering this care through an innovative and personalized medical approach!

Please be sure to check out our website (link in bio) to see how this is addressed comprehensively through nutrition, a teaching kitchen, exercise prescriptions, stress management, and medications.

07/15/2022

Making a commitment to improve nutrition is exciting and can also feel overwhelming at the same time.

Here are some things to keep in mind to have this attempt at better nutrition become sustainable!

- Nutrition changes will likely involve a change in food choice or food preparation behavior.
- Trying to apply many new behaviors at once may be overwhelming and lead to frustration or sense of inability to see the changes through.
- First, focus on hydration with water. Hydration has many health benefits, which includes mental clarity, satiety regulation, bowel function, and even sleep quality - all which also have profound impacts on metabolism!
- Focus on the quality of nutrition, over quantity.
- Select minimally-processed to unprocessed foods, avoid sugar-sweetened beverages, and enjoy fiber-rich foods!

Starting with these two main principles: 1) Hydration and 2) maximizing the quality of your food, will most certainly boost health!

07/14/2022

I have learned from my patients with type 1 diabetes that there are many things that I take for granted that they think about daily.

In fact, multiple times a day.

And while on some days these thoughts and decisions are no big deal and easy to address, there are also days or weeks at a time where these frequent decisions can feel like a lot.

Like, a real lot.

For those of us who don’t use insulin, I think we benefit from gaining some insight into the difficulty these decisions pose and the decision fatigue they can cause.

Reach out to someone with diabetes on insulin and see if these questions are familiar to them. They may be so relieved to have someone to talk to about this.

Remember, not all questions need answers.

Sometimes, individuals just need validation that the questions are difficult.

07/11/2022

One of the biggest nutrition misconceptions is by far the notion that nutrition has to be an all or nothing approach: ranging from calories to carbohydrates.

Some individuals will seek extreme nutrition measures for a desired outcome.

While this may be possible at the beginning, many frequently realize that this extreme approach is unsustainable and in some cases, frankly, unhealthy.

Healthy nutrition has to be sustainable and extreme measures rarely are.

Choose real foods (meaning avoiding processed foods), high in fiber, high in vitamins and minerals (fruits and veggies are great examples).

Pay attention to your hunger cues and the settings in which they set in.

Are you stressed and therefore grabbing for food?

Have you gone too long without eating and do you now feel ravenous?

Plan your meals and snacks and this time invested in planning will lead to greater satisfaction with the food choices you make during the week.

06/30/2022

Thank you so much for this review. I feel so privileged to be able to collaborate with my patients in this direct care model as we try to summon their best health.

06/27/2022

Individuals with obesity frequently face discriminatory acts and attitudes based off their weight or size - which is what weight stigma is.

Unfortunately, weight stigma manifests in the healthcare setting, a setting where individuals frequently are coming when they are feeling vulnerable and seeking assistance for improving health!

Ways in which weight stigma appears in the healthcare setting:

*Chairs that cannot accommodate all weights and sizes
*Exam tables that are difficult to get on
*Gowns that incompletely cover the patient
*Blood pressure cuffs that are not the appropriate size
*Not using people first language (a person HAS obesity, we should NOT say, “obese person”)
*INSURANCES NOT COVERING ANTI-OBESITY MEDICATIONS (AOMs) ON THEIR FORMULARY

We can do better - especially in the healthcare setting.

My call to action:
✅ Insurance companies: re-evaluate the stigma you are creating and recognize the important role that anti-obesity medications play in treating obesity. By covering these medications, we can reduce obesity, its complications, and in the long-run, reduce healthcare costs.
✅ Healthcare colleagues: please be mindful of the language you use. Please use people-first language when discussing obesity as the medical condition that it is.
✅ Healthcare systems: please ensure that the equipment you have in the office is mindful of all body sizes

To learn more about this, I recommend visiting: https://www.worldobesity.org/what-we-do/our-policy-priorities/weight-stigma

06/24/2022

Food Highlight - Chickpeas! (a.k.a - Garbanzo beans)

A wonder food that packs various nutrition benefits is this delicious legume! According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s FoodData Central, one cup of chickpeas has about:
-14.5 g of protein
-4 g of fat
-45 g of carbohydrates
-12.5 g of dietary fiber
-80 mg of calcium
-269 calories

The protein this food provides is also low in fat - one of the great benefits of plant protein sources.

Its fiber content helps reduce hunger, regulate bowel function, helps promote healthy weight, and can help promote steady blood sugar levels!

In addition to its great nutrition benefits - its versatility in recipes adds to its appeal!

✅It can easily be added to salads once drained from the can
✅It can be added to brown rice, farro, or quinoa to elevate complexity of the grain
✅It can be roasted to provide an excellent, crispy snack
✅It can be smashed and blended with tahini, lemon juice, and some olive oil to make your own delicious hummus to enjoy with raw veggies
✅It can be combined with other beans and/or veggies to make knock-out chilis or soups

What’s your favorite way to use chickpeas?

06/17/2022

The comprehensive Summon Health approach includes:

Nutrition
What have you tried in the past?
What has worked and what has not?
Are you aware of the importance of fiber?

Exercise
Do you make time for exercise? Why or why not?
Are you familiar with what the exercise targets are?
Are you familiar with what inefficiency in exercise means?

Stress
What are your stressors?
How do you deal with them?
Have you tried meditation?

Health Technology
Do you have wearable health technology?
Does your data help lead to behavior change?

Medications
What questions do you have about the roles medications have in improving health?

06/15/2022

Thank you for this amazing review! Having the time to sit down with each person and understand time sequence of symptoms, offer explanations for labs to clarify a diagnosis, and discuss potential management options is something I am so grateful to be able to do to personalize each person’s care plan. 🧡

06/02/2022

Summon Health's Dr. Sandra Sobel was nominated as one of Pittsburgh's 2022 Top Doctors!

Help us in congratulating her on this distinction and check out our latest newsletter for a glimpse of her thoughts on this acknowledgement!

05/23/2022

×Myth #1: You have to eat low carb
·NOPE! It is possible to have excellent diabetes control, improved insulin sensitivity, and control your weight by eating COMPLEX carbs filled with fiber

×Myth #2: People with type 1 diabetes can’t eat sweets
·Please do not hold back the dessert tray from someone with type 1 diabetes. They will make the decision as to whether or not the FEEL like eating sweets. It's not that they CAN'T. If they want it, they can have it, and they bolus their insulin for it.

×Myth #3: Food is the only thing that impacts blood sugars
·People sometimes get confused with blood sugar numbers because even though they eat the same thing for breakfast every day, the blood sugar response can be very different. This happens.
·Other things that impact blood sugar
˃Stress
˃Sleep
˃Pain
˃Illness
˃Those who menstruate - time of the month

×Myth #4: insulin pump fixes everything
·If only! An insulin pump is not a pancreas. The person who wears an insulin pump still needs to be very engaged with their diabetes care and still has to tell the pump how many carbs they are about to eat. This tech space is improving, but it is not an automatic pancreas (yet)!

×Myth #5: A person needs insulin if their blood sugar is low
·NO! SO DANGEROUS! Giving someone with low blood sugar more insulin will make it worse and can be fatal. They need rapid acting sugar if they can eat or drink. If not, they need a hormone called glucagon that can be sprayed in the nose or injected to help increase blood sugars.

05/20/2022

My top 7 obesity myths!

Myth #1: It’s a person’s fault they have obesity
This is the number one, most INCORRECT statement there is about obesity
- FACT: obesity is a multifactorial disease and is - NOT a personal choice

Myth #2: All you have to do is eat less and exercise more
- This speaks to the misguided belief that weight is just the result of a simple equation - calories in and calories out
- But if it were as easy as that, then the prevalence of obesity would not be what it is

Myth #3: You haven’t tried hard enough if you have to use weight loss medicine
- Using a weight loss medicine, in no way, implies the person has not tried hard enough. Physiology is leading to excess weight imbalance and medicines help counter this resistance
- Having a board certified Physician prescribe them is important, to make sure you are getting FDA approved medicines that have been properly tested and shown to be safe and effective

Myth #4: Sleep has nothing to do with weight management
- Disordered sleep impacts hormone secretion in a way that makes weight loss more difficult

Myth #5: You can’t lose weight if you are eating fruit and whole grains
- There is a big misconception that these foods have to be dramatically eliminated in order for there to be weight loss, but this is false
- The high fiber content actually facilitates satiety and aids in weight loss

Myth #6: It’s all the thyroid’s fault
- Honestly, it would be so easy if it was - we would treat it, and then excess unhealthy weight would go away.
- There are MANY variables involved in metabolism and weight balance. The thyroid function is one of those, but only having tunnel vision on this and not considering the other factors is one of the many reasons why weight loss efforts stall

Myth #7: If the number on the scale stalls, no change in happening
- The number on the scale is a quick and easy way to track progress. It is also important to remember that it is unable to reveal all the change that is happening
- If the number on the scale stays the same, but you are still noticing improvement in movement or in how clothes fit, then this is real and likely positive changes in body composition are occurring

Address

5119 Coral Street
Pittsburgh, PA
15224

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

+14122787960

Website

https://www.summonhealth.com/

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