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Decoding GLP-1 Side Effects: Practical Gut Health Solutions for Therapy Success

Presenter: Robert Alan Bonakdar M.D., FAAFP, FACN, ABOIM

Event Details

Date: July 22, 2026 Start Time: 11:00 AM PT End Time: 12:00 PM PT

Webinar Summary

About the webinar:

GI side effects are the number one reason patients abandon GLP-1 therapy. Nausea, early satiety, constipation, diarrhea, dyspepsia are all examples of predictable consequences of how GLP-1 receptor agonists reshape motility, bile flow, gastric emptying, and gut–brain signaling.

This session connects the mechanism to the management. We’ll unpack why these symptoms occur, then translate that physiology into an integrative toolkit: dietary guidance, lifestyle shifts, and evidence-based nutraceuticals, mapped to the specific symptom clusters you see in practice. You’ll leave with a clinical roadmap you can apply immediately to improve tolerability, protect outcomes, and keep patients on therapy safely.

You will learn how to:

  • Explain how GLP-1 medications alter gut motility, gastric emptying, bile flow, and gut–brain signaling.
  • Apply functional medicine frameworks to assess digestive health in GLP-1 users.
  • Match integrative strategies—nutrition, lifestyle, and targeted nutraceuticals—to major GI symptom clusters.
  • Build an actionable plan that supports long-term metabolic and GI health throughout GLP-1 therapy.

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Presenter Bio

Dr. Robert Bonakdar is a physician and researcher who has spent over two decades advancing integrative approaches to chronic pain. Since 2002, he has served as Director of Pain Management at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, leading a multidisciplinary team that combines nutrition, acupuncture, biofeedback, mind–body therapies, and emerging technologies with conventional care.​

His work focuses onnon-pharmacological strategies for headache disorders,neuropathy, and metabolic contributors to pain, including gut–brainmechanisms. His research includes the DELITE program demonstrating gutassociated lifestyle approaches reducing endotoxemia can improve metabolicandpain as well as an ongoing randomized clinical trial evaluating probioticsfor migraine.​

Dr. Bonakdar has presented nationally, contributed to federal discussions onpain care, and is editor ofIntegrative Pain Management(Oxford UniversityPress). His interest in integrative medicine began during a Richter InternationalFellowship studying Eastern medical traditions in Southeast Asia.​

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