Empowered Health Course · Lesson 1 · 2:25
I'm Dr. Michael Mindrum, an internal medicine physician in Kentville, Nova Scotia, and an obesity specialist. I absolutely love what I do.
This course — Empowering Health: Your Journey to Best Weight — is really a dream of mine. I'm a little anxious about how it goes, because I've been thinking about it for so long. What I want it to do is augment your clinical care: to empower you with information so you can better understand your health condition, how the mind works when it comes to changing habits, how weight is regulated, and how the brain defends against weight loss — and what tools you can use. I think of these tools as yours to understand. My role is to educate you about the risks and benefits of each one, to support you toward your best weight.
Best weight is so much more than the number on the scale. It's about health gains, and it can be about personal transformation — how we think about ourselves and how we relate to the world, whether that's friends, society, food, or our sense of health. This whole course is about that, and I hope we can succeed. I hope you enjoy it.
The sessions can be watched at your own pace. You can watch with a friend or a loved one, watch repeatedly if there's something you want to revisit, and skip over anything that doesn't feel pertinent to you.
This transcript has been lightly edited from the video for readability. For the complete experience, please watch the video above.