Dr. Rashika Bansal on Building HALT Clinic: Modern Metabolic Care, GLP-1s, and Physician Entrepreneurship

On the Underdog Physician podcast, host Anish interviews Dr. Rashika Bansal about her path from India to U.S. training in internal medicine and an NIH endocrinology fellowship that shaped her focus on obesity and metabolism, followed by work at Cleveland Clinic and a move back to the Northeast. She explains why she launched HALT Clinic to deliver more streamlined, closely monitored weight management and metabolic care amid growth of telehealth weight-loss companies, compounded drugs, and social-media misinformation. Dr. Bansal discusses the value of ABOM certification, HALT’s protocols including body composition tracking, CGM-guided nutrition personalization, and lab monitoring, and potential expansion into longevity, stress management, yoga, and peptides. She shares startup lessons on bureaucracy, marketing, delegation, team-building, bootstrapping, and balancing business ethics with medicine, plus work-life integration, exercise habits, supplements, and a legacy goal of improving women’s health and empowering female physician entrepreneurs.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:02 Origin Story and Training

02:50 Mentors and Finding Endocrinology

05:30 Exploring Career Options

07:46 Why Start Halt Clinic

10:11 ABOM and Obesity Expertise

12:10 Halt Protocols and KPIs

14:57 Startup Lessons and Team

17:45 Co-Founder and Early Mistakes

21:12 Scaling Without Losing Quality

22:48 Bootstrapping and Knowing Numbers

25:09 Work Life Integration and Wellness

29:35 Advice Legacy and Closing

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