The benefits
of gastric bypass surgery seem obvious any time you see a dramatic change in a friend who's had the procedure or amazing before and after shots of bypass patients on television.
$ 8 million for a 35 - year - old female who suffered severe brain injuries after healthcare providers failed to recognize complications
from gastric bypass surgery.
Understanding how
gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery.
This may be
why gastric bypass surgery, if the eating plan is followed strictly, has long - term effectiveness regarding weight loss.
While gastric bypass surgery can be a powerful help to individuals battling obesity, the recovery process does require some fairly significant lifestyle changes.
The goal of this line of research is to find new treatments that will not
require gastric bypass surgery, which is still considered an invasive procedure.
Changes in appetite, taste and smell are par for the course for people who have undergone Roux - en -
Y gastric bypass surgery during which one's stomach is made smaller and small intestines shortened.
These risks have been highlighted further by the recent story Joanne Slater, a 38 - year old woman from Sheffield who died following complications of
gastric bypass surgery in 2005.
A study from the Cleveland Clinic
suggests gastric bypass surgery not only has the ability to help patients lose weight, but also to help the pancreas increase insulin production by five-fold.
«As a result of these findings, we expect that more physicians will
consider gastric bypass surgery as a viable option for patients with type 2 diabetes and mild to moderate obesity when previous attempts to lose weight and improve glycemic control have not been successful,» said Simonson.
«Our study demonstrates that in patients with mild - moderate obesity and type 2 diabetes,
gastric bypass surgery leads to a sustained reduction in weight, improvement in glycemic control, and decrease in cardiovascular risk compared to a medical diabetes and weight management program,» said lead author Donald C. Simonson, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D., of the BWH Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension.
Gastric bypass is a subset of these surgeries that first divides the stomach into a small and large pouch and then connects the small stomach pouch to the lower small intestine; Roux - en - Y is the most
popular gastric bypass surgery in the group.
In a sense, the postop bacterial changes are not surprising, says endocrinologist David Cummings at the University of Washington, Seattle, (although he notes it's a «herculean feat» to
manage gastric bypass surgery in animals as tiny as mice).
The researchers» colleagues divvied mice into three groups: those
getting gastric bypass surgery; those given sham surgery; and those given sham surgery whose diet was restricted, to match what the bypass group weighed after the operation.
According to Professor Lars Fändriks at Sahlgrenska Academy, researchers had not realized that
gastric bypass surgery reinforces this process to such an extent that it contributes to preserved weight loss.
Surgical trials have made some headway in the United States, particularly to test cutting - edge science:
whether gastric bypass surgery can cure diabetes, for example, or whether fetuses with serious health conditions can be helped by surgery before birth.
Pepino MY, Okunade AL, Eagon JC, Bartholow BD, Bucholz K, Klein S. Effect of Roux -
ex-Y gastric bypass surgery: converting 2 alcoholic drinks to 4.
The improvements observed in type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high blood cholesterol may significantly decrease the risk of heart disease in individuals who have undergone
gastric bypass surgery compared to those treated through other means.
The childhood obesity epidemic has gotten so bad in the United States that there are now doctors advocating stomach -
stapling gastric bypass surgery for kids.
Source: Clinical and Patient - Centered Outcomes in Obese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes 3 Years After Randomization to Roux - en - Y
Gastric Bypass Surgery Versus Intensive Lifestyle Management: The SLIMM - T2D Study Diabetes Care
SIBO is associated with a wide array of conditions: diabetis, pancreatitis, decreased gastric acid, gluten free diet, aging that leads to decreased motility allowing bacterial reflux from the large intestine, alcohol and other toxins affecting the small intestine lining,
post gastric bypass surgery or other abdominal surgeries, as well as other digestive inflammatory illnesses as Chron's disease.
For this reason, the templates are NOT for those with diabetes, thyroid conditions, pregnant, breastfeeding, or a history of diagnosed eating disorders or any other metabolic or digestive tract related diseases (
including gastric bypass surgery).
Gastric bypass surgery refers to a procedure that helps an individual lose weight by changing how the stomach and intestine handle the food that a person eats.
According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 2 percent or one in every 50
gastric bypass surgery patients died within 30 days of their operations.
And in a nod to my Care2 post Stomach Staples or Healthy Kitchen Staples, I relate a cautionary tale
of gastric bypass surgery in The Dangers of Broccoli?