Dr. Rajat Thapa

Dr. Rajat Thapa is a Family Physician in Airdrie, Alberta and the physician behind Airdrie Metabolic Health. He practices full-scope family medicine and has a focused clinical interest in metabolic health, obesity, insulin resistance, and sustainable chronic disease care.

Patients often find this page by searching for Dr. Rajat Thapa, Rajat Thapa MD, or Dr Rajat Thapa Airdrie. The core of his work is helping people understand why weight gain, rising blood sugar, high blood pressure, fatty liver, sleep disruption, gout, PCOS, and other cardiometabolic problems often cluster together around insulin resistance.

His metabolic health approach emphasizes realistic treatment plans that can be maintained in daily life: food quality, therapeutic carbohydrate reduction when appropriate, meal timing and fasting, strength and movement habits, sleep, stress recovery, and evidence-based medication use when it is truly useful.

Before medicine, Dr. Rajat Thapa completed a PhD in behavioural neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge. That training continues to shape how he approaches habit change: durable health improvement usually comes from making the environment and routine easier to repeat, not from relying on short-term willpower.

Outside the clinic, he lives in Airdrie with his family and continues to build practical health tools and software. He is also the founder of CentaurMD.ca, reflecting an ongoing interest in using technology to support better care and better decisions.