Hi!  I’m Dr. Fabry and I’m glad you’re here. 

I understand that surgery can be a scary thing, especially when complicated by health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease or being overweight.  I know that it’s a struggle to lose weight and live healthy.

So we teach small practical steps that will help you lose weight, feel better and decrease your risk for complications in a way that is healthy, fun and lifelong.   You can learn more about this on my Getting Started page.

Who is Dr. Fabry?

How does he know about this stuff?

I am a doctor and I’ve spent most of my career in the operating room treating musculoskeletal and neurological issues. Every year more and more patients are turned away from having much-needed surgery because of how their weight, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and blood pressure greatly increased the risk of unnecessary and avoidable complications.

Patients are told that if they could just lose meet us half-way and lose 20 pounds, then they could have the surgery that they so desperately need. How did we tell them to accomplish that? Simple! Just eat a little better, move as much as possible. These patients left discouraged and frustrated.

You see, I had bought into the lie that it was their fault. That they didn’t want it bad enough. That they had gotten themselves into this situation. I couldn’t understand why someone would CHOOSE to live that way. I didn’t! I was in the gym 5 days a week, and I ate healthy most of the time. But then my whole perspective changed…

Why did you start drjfab?

Because my whole perspective changed!

I went to my yearly physical and my doctor told me that I had prediabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I was stunned because the year before he told me everything was fine and to “Keep doing what you’re doing.” That’s exactly what I did! So, what changed?

Then he said it, the same thing I had told so many of my own patients, “Don’t worry. Just eat a little better, get to the gym more, take these prescriptions…you’ll be fine.”

But I wasn’t fine. I was terrified because I was working with patients every day who had heard this exact same thing from their own doctor 10-15 years before. Now they are headed to an operating table as a result of these terrible diseases.

This was my turning point and I was determined to find an answer. Thanks to the guidance of mentors on the front lines of this battle against metabolic syndrome and lifestyle diseases I lost weight, repaired my blood work and dramatically decreased my risk factors for diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Why do I do what I do?

It’s not about fame.  It’s not about money.

I have since left the operating room to provide personalized healthcare and lifestyle intervention to people all over the country, because I know that if I can just reach you 1 year, 10 years or maybe even 20 years before you end up that patient on a surgeons operating room table that together we can change the course of your entire life.

Don’t Worry!

You’re not too late!

If you have been considering surgery but your doctor asked you to lose weight first, don’t worry, you’re not alone and you’re not too late.  Spend some time exploring my Start Here page to get a sense of where to begin.  This page is designed to help you get started in taking small, progressive steps towards making good health decisions on your own, without having to wade through the confusing and conflicting world of scientific research, busy doctors and sketchy self-proclaimed health “gurus.”

As a healthcare provider, health educator and a speaker I address all types of groups on how to eat, move and live better.  My success is completely driven by how effective I am at helping people discover how to lose weight and feel better in a way that lasts.

– Dr. Fabry