THE PHYSICIAN
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP is a trauma-surgery-trained anesthesiologist. He went on to become an interventional pain physician. He is an addiction medicine specialist. He is an obesity medicine diplomate. He is a former Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics. He is also a former deputy director of a university institutional review board.
The correction that shaped the practice
For roughly the first twenty years of his career, he did what he was trained to do. He treated pain as a mechanical problem at the spot where it hurt. He told patients whose blood sugar was drifting that it was “not too bad.” He was wrong on both counts. He says so in public instead of quietly changing course.
What changed his mind was seeing which patients did not get better. Some still hurt after a procedure that went well on paper. Those were reliably the ones who also carried metabolic disease. Think insulin resistance, visceral adiposity (fat packed around the organs) and broken sleep. Pain, addiction, obesity and type 2 diabetes stopped looking like four problems. They looked like one collision of epidemics, all run by a shared engine.
How does Dr. Padda treat pain differently?
The tendon is not the whole appointment. A metabolic panel is part of planning a joint injection. It is not a separate concern for a different doctor. Behavioral work is prescribed in-house, with the same weight as a procedure. That is because the injection buys a window, and something has to fill it.
Beyond the clinic
He funds a 501(c)(3) foundation out of his own pocket. He has served on medical missions to Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Seva means service given with no expectation of return, credit or exchange. It is the reason a decision gets made. It is not a claim about how good the practice is.
What are Dr. Padda’s credentials?
Trauma-surgery-trained anesthesiologist. Interventional pain physician. Addiction medicine specialist. Obesity medicine diplomate. Former Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics. Former deputy director of a university institutional review board. In other words, he has sat on the other side of a hard question. What counts as good enough evidence?
That IRB background shapes how this website is written. Someone who has judged study plans tends to be harder to impress with a press release. It is part of why the pages here say plainly where the evidence thins.
The collision of epidemics
The core idea of the practice is simple. Chronic pain, addiction, obesity and type 2 diabetes are not four problems for four specialties that just happen to show up together. They share an engine. That engine is metabolic inflammation, insulin resistance, broken reward signals, and the living and money conditions that drive all three.
Picture a patient with a shoulder that will not heal, a rising A1C, five hours of broken sleep and a job they cannot change. That is not four coincidences. Treating the shoulder alone gives a string of partial wins. It also gives a person who decides nothing works.
What he has put on the record
In August 2026 he published the practice’s own opioid outcomes. He chose International Overdose Awareness Day. 21% of patients were completely off opioid pain medicine within 90 days of active interventional treatment. 34% were off within one year. The large majority of the rest were brought below 30 morphine milligram equivalents a day. They arrived on an average dose above 90. After a hit and run in October 2026, he wrote about his own choice in the ER and about healing after an injury without opioids.
It is the same argument as the collision of epidemics above. The dose falls because the pain generator was treated and the terrain was changed. It does not fall because a taper was forced on its own. Those are figures the practice reported from its own patients. They are not trial outcomes, and individual results vary. Reported by AP News; the full release is here.
Why the behavioral work is delivered in-house
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is provided here by a licensed, pain-trained behavioral clinician. It is not sent out to someone else. It is not a leaflet handed over at discharge. Behavioral and metabolic work is roughly 40–50% of the treatment plan.
The reason is simple. A nervous system that has spent two years guarding a joint needs retraining as much as the tissue does. A referral somewhere else does not get that done. It happens months later, with a clinician who has not seen the imaging.
Seva
He funds a 501(c)(3) foundation out of his own pocket. He has served on medical missions to Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Seva means service given with no expectation of return, credit or exchange.
It is the reason certain decisions get made. Treating people who cannot pay. Building nonprofit groups that bring in no revenue. Telling someone their money is better spent elsewhere. It is not a claim about how good the practice is.
What is an appointment with Dr. Padda like?
You will be asked about things that do not seem to relate to your elbow. You will sometimes be told that the treatment you came in asking about is not a good bet for you. If the honest answer is that you need a surgeon, or a rheumatologist, or a better night’s sleep more than you need an injection, that is what you will hear.
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The confession comes first, deliberately
Most doctor bios are a list of things that went right. This one leads with two decades of being wrong, because that is the more useful fact about how someone practices.
He told pre-diabetic patients their A1C was “not too bad.” He treated pain as a mechanical problem at the spot where it hurt. For years he was a strict vegetarian, preaching the dietary guidelines he now takes apart. None of that was negligence. It was skilled practice of what he had been taught. That is exactly why it is worth saying out loud.
A doctor who has changed his mind in public about something big can change it again when the evidence moves. The other kind of doctor is a flawless authority who has never revised anything. Most patients in chronic pain have already been failed by that kind several times.
How do I make an appointment with Dr. Padda?
Appointments are made through the clinic. The assessment is described on the what to expect page. If you are a physician looking for a regenerative opinion on a complex patient, the referral page covers what comes back to you and when.
Frequently asked questions about Dr. Padda
Is Dr. Padda the person who will see me?
The assessment and injection are physician-delivered. What to expect.
What is MHP?
Metabolic Health Practitioner, through the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. Why that matters to a tendon.
Does he still practice interventional pain medicine?
Yes — this practice is one part of a broader pain and metabolic practice. Opioid stewardship.
Why does a PRP clinic ask about my blood sugar?
Because repair runs on metabolic substrate (the fuel and building blocks the body heals with). That is the difference between restarting a repair and asking one to fail twice. Candidacy.
What kind of doctor is Dr. Padda?
He is a trauma-surgery-trained anesthesiologist. He went on to become an interventional pain physician. He is an addiction medicine specialist and an obesity medicine diplomate. He is also a Metabolic Health Practitioner. He is a former Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics. He is a former deputy director of a university institutional review board. That is why the pages here say plainly where the evidence thins.
Should I tell my pain doctor about things that seem unrelated?
Yes. Here you will be asked about sleep, blood sugar and your job, because repair runs on metabolic substrate. A shoulder that will not heal, a rising A1C, five hours of broken sleep and a job you cannot change are not four coincidences. Leave any of them out, and the treatment gets blamed for failing.
Will Dr. Padda always recommend PRP?
No. You will sometimes be told that the treatment you came in asking about is not a good bet for you. If the honest answer is that you need a surgeon, a rheumatologist or a better night’s sleep more than an injection, that is what you will hear. That holds even when it means your money is better spent elsewhere.
Publications and outside work
Dr. Padda has published in the peer-reviewed literature. He speaks in public on metabolic health, pain and addiction. His frequent point is that these fields have been falsely split apart. He has served on the boards of Exoneration Nation, Arise Veterans, the March of Dimes and the Deva Singh Foundation. From 2023 to 2026 he also sat on the boards of directors of two real estate development funds, Grocapitus Investments and UGRO.
Published research. His peer-reviewed record is registered under ORCID 0009-0001-0166-3186 and indexed at PubMed, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar. His biographical record is Wikidata Q141049117.
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What he says he got wrong, specifically
The list he gives in public is not vague. He treated pain as a local mechanical problem. He calmed patients about blood sugar that was already drifting toward disease. He accepted diet advice he now argues fed the metabolic epidemic he treats. He believed a technically excellent procedure was the whole job.
Each of those directly changes how a patient is handled here. That is the only reason any of it belongs on a clinic website.
The bite of beef that ended twenty years of certainty
He was a strict vegetarian, defending the dietary guidelines he now takes apart, until a beef on bun at Gates Bar-B-Q in Kansas City. That is a flip way to date a serious reversal. He tells it that way on purpose, because a doctor who describes his own change of mind as a clean, logical process is describing something that did not happen.
The reversal itself was not flip. It meant facing two hard facts. For two decades he had told pre-diabetics their A1C was “not too bad,” and the acellular carbohydrates and industrial seed oils he thought were neutral were doing measurable work on the patients who did not get better.
He publishes that instead of quietly revising, because the other choice is a flawless authority that has never been wrong about anything. That is exactly the kind his patients have already been failed by several times.
What he is actually angry about
Not patients. Not the doctors who prescribed in good faith under guidance that later reversed. The anger in this practice is aimed at incentives.
- A food supply engineered against dopamine circuitry. Subsidies make it the cheapest calories around. It is packed into the places where other choices are fewest.
- Medicalization. The payment system funds the injection and the prescription. It does not fund the hour of behavioral work. That reliably produces care that milks the cow instead of curing it.
- Symptom-based silos. Four specialists each run their own part of the body well. Nobody owns the collision.
- Loneliness. We treat it here as a main driver of chronic pain and addiction. It is not a soft factor. Social disconnection raises inflammatory markers. It lowers pain thresholds as measurably as any drug.
The enemy is always a system or an incentive. It is never the person sitting in the room. It is never a colleague or another practice.
Health and wealth are one system
He is also a businessman. He is president of Red Pill Kapital, an ASC director, a restaurateur and coauthor of a bestselling book on building a life. That is not a side interest that competes with the medicine. It is where the big-picture economic lens comes from.
The same operator’s eye that rebuilds a preadmission program spots the pattern. We subsidize the crop that causes the disease. Then we means-test the insulin. A patient bankrupted by their illness has not been treated, no matter what happened to their imaging.
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- Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD: Trial Suggests PRP May Delay Knee Replacement for Patients Already on the Surgical List
EIN Presswire, October 12, 2026. For World Arthritis Day, he reads a 90-patient trial of PRP in knees already on the replacement list as the authors did: a bridge that can delay surgery, not a cartilage cure. - Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD Puts the New Low-Carb Guideline to Work in Pain Care: Medicines Change Before Pain Does
EIN Presswire, October 7, 2026. An injection can quiet a pain generator for a while; the release explains why he pairs it with a supervised low-carb plan built on the new Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners guideline.
Ask him about your own case
Whether PRP is reasonable for you depends on your tissue, your metabolic health and what you have already tried. That is a conversation, not a form.
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