weight loss surgery
The Decision to Have Weight Loss Surgery
Should you get weight loss surgery? This question can be difficult to answer. Obesity is dangerous, and surgery works far better than any other weight loss method, but there are associated risks, and not everybody is successful after surgery. So how do you decide? The bottom line is that surgery can work great to help…
Read MoreDenis’ Incredible Gastric Bypass Success Story
The following incredible gastric bypass success story is about a patient of mine named Denis, who transformed his life from disaster (>500lbs, heroin addict) to awesome (healthy weight, successful entrepreneur). I have been fortunate as a bariatric surgeon to have been able to help countless people improve their lives with weight loss surgery. I have seen…
Read MoreWhat to Eat after Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery enables weight loss, we are learning, by changing the body weight “set point” to a lower weight (see blog post Weight Loss Surgery Changes The Body Weight Set Point). This is a compelling justification for weight loss surgery – it changes the biology that prevents weight loss. Nothing else that we know…
Read MoreWeight Regain after Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery is the most effective long-term treatment for obesity. Why? Because surgery resets the body weight “set-point” to a lower weight (see blog post Weight Loss Surgery Changes The Body Weight Set Point). Nonsurgical methods of weight loss are not effective over the long-term because they do not change the body weight set-point (see…
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