Podcast Episode Topics: Bariatrics

The holidays can make healthy habits feel impossible. Between packed schedules, comfort food, and family pressure, it’s easy to feel like staying on track just isn’t realistic.

In this live Doc Talk episode, the Weight Management Clinic team in Spearfish shares practical, judgment-free advice for navigating the holiday season without guilt or perfectionism. They talk honestly about food pressure, portion control, alcohol, winter exercise, and why consistency matters more than “starting over” in January.

The conversation also tackles big questions around intermittent fasting, weight loss medications, postmenopausal weight changes, and why the number on the scale doesn’t tell the whole story.

If you’re looking for realistic strategies, encouragement, and a healthier mindset this holiday season, this episode meets you right where you are.

Recorded live at The Matthews Art Center in Spearfish and featuring, Keena Byrd-Moro, DNP, Amanda Taglioli, PA-C, Katy Jones, DNP, Cora Bush, PA-C, Laura Morris, R.D., all of Spearfish Bariatrics and Weight Management and Emilia Flint, Ph.D., of Black Hills Psychology.

Mandi Leite, a Nurse Practitioner who specializes in psychiatric and mental health at Lead-Deadwood Hospital and Erin Adkins a Certified Social Worker at Lead-Deadwood Clinic join Mark Houston to talk about providing mental health and counseling services to the area. They discuss their individual approaches to treatment and how they collaborate together. Much like Lead and Deadwood themselves, medication and therapy can be thought of as interlinked. Listen in as Mandi and Erin describe how they encounter and treat the wide spectrum of mental health symptoms as part of the emerging whole-person model of care.

This week we share the first in an ongoing series of Doc Talk Live! episodes recorded in front of an audience at the Matthews Opera House and Art Center in Spearfish. Andrew VanOsdol, M.D., fellowship-trained Bariatric Surgeon at Spearfish Clinic, North Avenue, discusses obesity and surgical weight loss and answers questions from the crowd. Dr. VanOsdol shares his expertise on GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic and gives general advice on weight management, particularly as you age.

Kyle Larson, D.O., board-certified Obesity Medicine Physician, and Danielle Heins, PA-C, both from the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute at Rapid City Hospital, join Mark Houston to explore the growing role of medications like Ozempic in treating obesity and managing diabetes. They discuss how these medications work in the body, address common misconceptions and stress the importance of an individualized approach to weight loss that includes medication, diet, exercise and mental health.