Dr. Howard Goodman D.C. has earned three of Long Island’s most competitive healthcare recognitions in both 2025 and 2026, supported by more than 450 five-star Google reviews and a patient base exceeding 3,000 all without pharmaceutical intervention.
The weight-loss industry has never been bigger, and its results have rarely been harder to defend. As global expenditure on weight management climbs toward $298 billion by 2030, sustained outcomes for patients remain the exception. Dr. Howard Goodman D.C., Founder of the Long Island Weight Loss Doctor practice in Merrick, New York, has spent nearly two decades building an approach that runs counter to the prevailing model and the results are publicly documented.
In both 2025 and 2026, Dr. Howard’s practice swept all three of Long Island’s most recognised independent healthcare awards: the Best of Long Island, the Long Island Choice Award, and the Excellence in Healthcare Award, each in the weight loss category. The Best of Long Island and Long Island Choice awards are determined entirely by community votes from residents who have used the practices they recommend. The Excellence in Healthcare Award is independently judged. None can be bought or nominated by the recipient. Winning all three twice in succession is a different order of achievement.
Alongside that award record, the practice holds more than 450 verified five-star reviews on Google and has treated over 3,000 patients not one of whom received a prescription as part of their programme.
“Most people are not failing weight-loss programmes. Weight-loss programmes are failing people. They treat hunger as the problem when hunger is a symptom. Until you address what is actually driving the weight, nothing permanent happens.”
– Dr. Howard Goodman D.C., Long Island Weight Loss Doctor
Why the Industry’s Results Don’t Hold
The weight-loss market’s fundamental problem is not a lack of options. It is a failure to measure what happens after treatment ends. Most programmes report weight lost at completion. Almost none publish outcomes at two or five years.
GLP-1 medications are the sharpest current illustration. Semaglutide and tirzepatide produce real short-term weight reduction, but the majority of patients discontinue within two years driven by costs exceeding $1,000 a month, side effects including nausea and lean muscle loss, and an unavoidable pharmacological fact: when the medication stops, the weight returns. The underlying metabolic dysfunction was never treated. The drug managed a symptom. The symptom resurfaces.
Dr. Howard understood this cycle before GLP-1 drugs became a mainstream conversation. He understood it because he had lived it.
A Doctor Who Became His Own Patient
Howard Goodman opened a chiropractic practice on Park Avenue, Manhattan, in 1998. He was 197 pounds and built his work around natural, drug-free medicine. In 2000, a herniated disc changed everything.
Pain medication followed the injury. Depression followed the medication. By 2003, Dr. Goodman weighed more than 350 pounds and carried diagnoses of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and sleep apnoea. He underwent gastric bypass surgery that year. Initial weight loss gave way to complications, persistent infection, chronic vomiting, and what clinicians call addiction transfer, where the behavioural patterns driving problematic eating shift rather than resolve. The weight came back in full. By 2007, he weighed 410 pounds.
“I spent years watching the same system fail patients and failing within it myself. Diets addressed calories but not cortisol. Surgery addressed capacity but not psychology. Medications addressed appetite but not the metabolic dysfunction behind it.”
– Dr. Howard Goodman D.C.
In 2007, he built a protocol from the ground up, targeting the biological systems he believed conventional approaches were ignoring. He tested it on himself first. He lost more than 200 pounds and has maintained that loss for nearly two decades, without pharmaceutical support.
The Protocol: Treating the Cause, Not the Signal
The programme is structured around four physiological drivers that standard weight-loss models routinely leave unaddressed.
Gut Microbiome composition determines how the body harvests energy, stores fat, and signals hunger. The protocol restores microbiome balance through targeted nutritional guidance and lymphatic drainage.
Cortisol Regulation is central to visceral fat accumulation. Chronic cortisol elevation disrupts satiety hormones and promotes fat storage at the abdomen. Structured stress-reduction is built into every stage of the programme.
Metabolic Restoration addresses the insulin resistance that underlies much chronic weight gain. Progress is tracked through genuine metabolic markers, glucose regulation and energy function, not scale weight alone.
Individualised Support means direct, continuous, one-to-one guidance from Dr. Howard and his team throughout the programme. It is, the practice maintains, what other programmes remove first and what patients need most.
Treatment modalities include FDA-cleared red light therapy for circulatory improvement and skin tightening, and lymphatic drainage massage.
“What sets this practice apart is not any single modality. It is the accountability and the personal attention that other programmes do not offer. That is why patients succeed here when everything else has not worked.”
– Dr. Howard Goodman D.C.
What Patients Report
The more than 450 verified five-star Google reviews tell a consistent story: patients who had tried and exhausted other options, found a different outcome here, and took the time to say so publicly.
One verified patient documented 93 pounds lost and maintained for over two years, eating to satisfaction, without calorie counting, with marked improvements in overall health. A patient managing active type 2 diabetes reported that insulin requirements dropped by more than 50 percent within the first month of the programme. A Doctor of Clinical Nutrition who attended as a patient described the practice as the only intervention that enabled a complete metabolic reset.
Post-gastric-bypass patients who had regained all the weight. Individuals with more than 100 pounds to lose. Active diabetics with complex clinical histories. Across hundreds of accounts, the common thread is the same: root causes addressed, not symptoms suppressed.
Dr. Howard documents this publicly. A library of before-and-after progression videos spanning years, not single moments, is maintained across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. The purpose is specific: to show what the majority of the weight-loss industry never has to prove, that the results last
About Dr. Howard Goodman D.C.
Dr. Howard Goodman D.C. is a Doctor of Chiropractic and founder of the Long Island Weight Loss Doctor practice at 50 Merrick Avenue, Merrick, New York. Over more than two decades, he has developed a non-pharmaceutical, root-cause approach to weight management built on gut microbiome health, cortisol regulation, and metabolic restoration. The practice operates Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, and Saturday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
MEDIA CONTACT
Dr. Howard Goodman D.C. | Long Island Weight Loss Doctor
50 Merrick Avenue, Merrick, NY 11566
Tel: (516) 986-9512 | www.longislandweightlossdoctor.com
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