Dr. Vivek Gupta

Vivek Gupta, MD, MPH is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Obesity Medicine, and a certified MBSR teacher. He founded Mindful Wellness because a ten-minute visit leaves no room for the part that actually changes outcomes — the reasoning, the context, and the permission to have an imperfect week. He practices in Manhattan Beach, California and Las Vegas, Nevada, with telehealth across multiple states.
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Practice News

What we actually believe

Nobody arrives in my office not wanting to be well. The desire is never the missing piece. What we believe at Mindful Wellness about why change is hard, where it

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Mindful Habits

Why we say 80, not 100

A patient confessed she had been bad over the weekend. It may have been the best medicine she took all week. Why we aim for eighty percent, and what the

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Nutrition & Movement

Make the wall smaller

Researchers pooled 67 datasets, 320,000 mood check-ins and nearly a million hours of wearable data. Movement and mood run in a loop, and the movement that did it was walking

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Nutrition & Movement

Start small: the science agrees

Harvard followed nearly 147,000 adults for up to thirty years. Any amount of resistance training beat none, and the sweet spot was about 90 minutes a week. The habit matters

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