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Risa Friday

Risa Friday

Adolescent medicine physician and founder of Tribeca Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine in New York City; board-certified in Adolescent Medicine and Pediatrics.

Jun 28, 2026

1:55
How does adolescent medicine and nutrition work? And what is it that you're seeing in the culture right now of raising an adolescent?
2:07
Yeah.
2:09
Okay, so let me explain a little bit about what adolescent medicine is because I think that it's not really well known.
2:15
I think it's not really well understood, even if people have heard of it.
2:18
But the number of times I've heard, you know, someone has asked what I do or what kind of physician are you? And I say, I'm an adolescent and young adult physician.
2:25
And they're like, what's that? So it's really a very...
2:29
an unfamiliar field to a lot of people, which is disappointing because it is, in my opinion, obvious bias, such an important field.

14 MINS LATER

16:23
But of course, we do have to listen for or ask questions about the food culture in the home and say, or be curious about whether or not you know, are carbs allowed? Are the parents following a certain restrictive intake, right? Because those could potentially affect the adolescent because they're primed for being sensitive to the parents' behaviors and even beliefs around food.

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