In practice since 1997. Over 110,000 people served through the Rockford clinics he started and the Secret for Weight Loss program.
Weight loss is harder when you’re fighting your own biology. “You can’t fight biology,” Dr. Todd says. The physician-guided program he built adapts to each person’s age, metabolism, medications and daily life, so it doesn’t feel like a diet.
The same thinking runs through his pain care. Find the source first, then bring the right specialties together. “Pain is usually multifaceted,” he says, so one treatment rarely fits everyone.
The injections mimic a gut hormone that tells your brain you are full and slows how fast your stomach empties. That lowers appetite while the drug is in your system. It does not correct the metabolic pattern underneath. When the drug stops, appetite signals come back, often stronger than before, and muscle lost during rapid weight loss is not automatically rebuilt. That is why the weight often returns. It is not a failure of willpower.
“Food noise” is the constant background pull toward eating: thinking about the next meal before this one is finished, the 3 PM urge, the late-night snack you were not hungry for. It is driven by hormone signaling, especially the hunger hormone ghrelin and the blood sugar swings that follow a high-glycemic meal. Weight loss drugs quiet it chemically. A metabolic approach quiets it by stabilizing blood sugar so the signal stops firing in the first place.
Patients tell Dr. Todd they eat well, exercise, and the belly fat will not move. Cortisol is usually part of that story. It is the stress hormone, and it directs fat storage to the abdomen. Sleep, stress load, and the timing of what you eat all move cortisol, and a plan that ignores them will stall no matter how clean the diet is.
The program Dr. Todd built is drug-free. It uses doctor-formulated nutraceutical drops, a food plan built on real meals, and clinical supervision, in two phases: the first brings blood sugar and appetite under control, the second rebuilds a stable metabolism so the results hold. It runs through licensed providers, in their clinics, under their supervision.
Dr. Todd graduated from Life University in 1997 and opened his own clinic in Rockford in 2000. He went on to start Rockford Pain Management, where medical providers, physical therapists and chiropractors work as one team, and Rockford Weight Loss.
He also leads Secret for Weight Loss as CEO. It is his physician-guided program, now offered to other providers.
He is the author of Business Management for Physicians, has spoken and trained internationally, and has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX.
Short TV segments where Dr. Todd answers common questions about weight, metabolism and chronic pain.
Conversations with Dr. Todd on metabolic health, sustainable weight loss and building a healthcare practice.
Let the most successful doctors share their secrets with you. Dr. Todd’s book for physicians, published in 2017 and available on Amazon.
Dr. Todd’s work reaches patients through Rockford clinics and providers through Secret for Weight Loss.
Weight loss in Rockford, built on metabolic health, not willpower.
Pain care in Rockford. Medical providers, physical therapists and chiropractors working as one team.
Bring Dr. Todd’s physician-guided weight loss program to your practice.
No. The program runs through licensed providers in their own clinics. In the Rockford area, start with Rockford Weight Loss or Rockford Pain Management above.
Yes. No injections and no prescription weight loss medication.
Adults who want to lose weight without medication, and adults who have stopped a weight loss drug and want to keep the weight off.
He is a Doctor of Chiropractic. The providers who run the program include chiropractic and medical practitioners, and each patient is supervised by the provider they see.