Rick Tague, MD, MPH & TM
Medical Weight Loss Specialist Serving Patients in Kansas City & Topeka

Optimum Health Through the Healing Power of Weight Loss and Nutrition

Personalized Medical Weight Loss Treatment from Board Certified Physician and Weight Loss Specialist, Rick Tague, M.D., M.P.H. & T.M.

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Rick Tague, M.D., M.P.H. & T.M.

Board Certified: American Board of Obesity Medicine, American Board of Family Medicine. Tulane Medical School degrees in Medicine and Public Health. Member Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Medical Clinics in Kansas City (Leawood) and Topeka, Kansas. Learn more about Dr. Tague…

Dr. Tague is an American Board of Obesity Medicine Certified Diplomat

Helping Patients in Kansas City & Topeka Lose Weight & Keep It Off for Over 25 Years

Weight and metabolism problems require a thoughtful, personalized, effective care plan.

The Tague Approach™ to Weight Loss and Optimum Health is at the center of our personalized nutrition and weight management program, available to individuals without a referral from their primary care physician.

Learn more about your success-oriented options at one of our free consultations. We are here to help you.

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Featured News:

Health and Weight Goals Finally Achieved Using Synergy with the NEW, GLP-1 Medications

Adding New Medications (in low doses) to Proven Center for Nutrition Protocols is a Strategy for Success!

Learn more about the new weight loss medications nicknamed “Glip 1’s”, technically known as GLP-1 Receptor Agonists, with names including Semaglutide, Tirzepatide, Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound

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Dr. Tague’s Center for Nutrition Celebrates 25 Years!

We’re thrilled to be featured in this issue of Topeka City Lifestyle! Check out the article, Obtaining Optimum Health, about Dr. Tague and The Center For Nutrition here:

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We help patients solve their weight management problems!

Each medical weight loss treatment plan is customized to help you solve weight-related problems and medical disorders, such as:

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Latest Health Articles from Dr. Tague

Read Dr. Tague’s latest health articles on weight loss and obesity, metabolism, nutrition, appetite, and Optimum Health.

  • Body, Soul and Spirit: Seeking Complete Health

    A personal, reflective, and “optional” philosophical note from Dr. Tague Humans are complex beings.  And that is an understatement!  What is it that makes us who we are?  Are we just a bag of skin containing chemicals and chemical […]

  • Excessive Weight Gain: Why does it happen?

    Have you ever met anyone who wanted to gain an excessive, unhealthy amount of weight? Of course not! No one wants to be overweight! Research says that many people would choose blindness over obesity. Others would choose to lose an arm or leg rather […]

  • Trim, Fit, & Healthy in the New Year… It’s Never Been More Important!

    Has your scale steadily increased since COVID-19? You’re not alone. Gaining weight this past year has been epidemic, causing major setbacks to health and happiness. Many dine-in restaurants closing, gyms shutting down, and unprecedented stress has […]

  • COVID-19: Three Ways Weight Loss Helps!

    COVID-19 contributed to the deaths of over 200,000 Americans during the first several months of 2020. The CDC predicts 5,000 additional deaths per week for at least the next few months. Regrettably, many of these COVID-19 deaths were preventable […]

  • COVID-19 & Survival

    If you are like me, you’ve never been more interested in your immune system and its ability to fight off infections. COVID-19 has gotten our attention! How peculiar that the same virus can cause an infection with few or no symptoms in some, but […]

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