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"Gallstones are also common among obese patients who lose weight rapidly after gastric bypass surgery. (In gastric bypass surgery, the size of the stomach is reduced, preventing the person from overeating.) One study found that more than one-third (38 percent) of patients who had gastric bypass surgery developed gallstones within three months after the surgery. The research findings, however, refer only to gallstones in the gallbladder." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Nutritional deficiencies are more likely in the gastric bypass versus the gastric banding procedures. In addition to the type of procedure, the risk and severity of postoperative nutritional deficiency is dependent on factors such as preoperative nutrition status, occurrence of postoperative complications, the ability to modify eating behavior, and compliance with prescribed vitamin and mineral supplementation [126]. Micronutrient deficiencies of thiamin, vitamin B)2, folate, and iron are common and require treatment." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Surgical procedures include gastric banding techniques, laparoscopic gastric banding, gastric wrap, intragastric balloon, biliopancreatic diversion, distal gastric bypass, and Roux en Y gastric bypass. These procedures are only performed on those whose obesity is so extreme that it threatens their health. Such surgery can successfully cure some diabetics once weight loss is achieved. Complications, both physical and psychological are quite high for these procedures. Consult your doctor for more information. O ?" - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"One thing the physician can do to combat obesity is bariatric surgery, in which a gastric bypass (about 20% of these procedures restrict the gastric opening) results in significant long-term weight loss. In 1998, surgeons performed 13,365 of these surgeries. By 2002 the number was 72,177; in 2003 it was 102,794, almost an eightfold increase in five years! About 84% of bariatric surgeries were performed on women, a disproportionate amount given that two-thirds of all morbidly obese Americans are female.22 What might we expect in the future?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Nor is gastric bypass without risks. Bariatric surgery is not a regulated or credentialed surgical subspecialty. About 8% of all procedures resulted in complications requiring further surgery. Thirty-day mortality ranges between .5% and 2%. One-year mortality among medicare beneficiaries has been reported as high as 4.6%.24 Cigarette smoking and obesity are generally conceptualized as a personal behavioral problems. In a limited sense, this is obviously true. Changing personal behavior can and does benefit one's health. Such change should be encouraged in myriad ways." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Bobby to perform gastric bypass safely. Rachel had every medical problem in the book: high blood pressure, diabetes, severe arthritis, and abnormal heart rhythms. It was difficult for her to understand that the budget-conscious food she was eating—beans, rice, macaroni and cheese, and pretzels—was killing her. But she was motivated by Dr. Bobby's promise that that if she dropped under 300 pounds, he would perform her stomach stapling surgery. When Rachel hit 299 pounds, I called Or. Bobby and told him that she was ready for surgery." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "She asked me if she had to go through with the gastric bypass surgery. I told her it was her decision, but that anyone who was doing what she had done probably didn't need it. Now at 275 pounds, Rachel continues to follow Diet Evolution and is losing 4 pounds every month, as she heads toward a new life. I found out recently that her ex-husband had visited and asked her to remarry him and move back to Indianapolis, her hometown. She's leaving the motorized wheelchair behind." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "I'm worried about all those gastric bypass patients who lose 150 pounds in six months. I'd like them to let me know how they're doing twenty to thirty years from now. So how fast is too fast? Working with the results of the Biospherians, Dr. Walford and his colleagues calculated that a rate of 50 pounds lost per year would allow heavy metals to be safely flushed from the body.3 Hence my personal planned weight loss of 50 pounds, basically a pound a week, in the first year. Here's my rule: You just can't beat 1 pound per week! But again, remember that everyone is different." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "Even one or two days after gastric bypass, most patients completely lose their previously insatiable desire for food. Gastric bands that merely reduce the stomach size have no effect on these hormones, which explains why weight loss is less effective, and why many gastric band patients rupture their stomachs or continually vomit because of their drive to keep eating. How do you put this knowledge into action?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The procedure results in ingested food bypassing the majority of the stomach and variable lengths of the small intestine. gastric bypass is thus both a restrictive and malabsorptive procedure. Recently, adjustable gastric banding has become a more frequently used procedure. This restrictive-only procedure involves wrapping an inflatable band around the stomach to create a small pouch with a narrow outlet. The band is connected to a small subcutaneous reservoir so that the degree of gastric restriction can be adjusted postoperatively by injecting or aspirating saline from the device." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"One of my patients, a physician, was morbidly obese and had tried everything from liquid diets to gastric bypass, all of which failed. It wasn't until he got his insulin under control that he was successful in losing a hundred pounds, but what was more remarkable was the transformation in his mood and his cravings. We often think cravings are psychological in nature, but just the way a child who is iron deficient may eat dirt, if we are overfed and undernour- ished with too many empty calories and not enough nutrients, our brains may search for more nutrients." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Up to 70% of patients undergoing a gastric bypass procedure will experience some degree of a "dumping syndrome." Vomiting and intolerance to solid food are the most common side effects of a gastric restrictive procedure. Vomiting following a restrictive procedure is frequently due to behavioral origin (e.g., inadequate chewing, quick consumption of fluid leading to overdistention of gastric pouch, large-volume meals); however, stricture, stenosis, marginal ulcers, and intestinal obstruction must be ruled out [126]. VI." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"He had finally resorted to gastric bypass when he yo-yoed back up past 400 pounds. After the surgery, he quickly lost about 80 pounds but then figured out that even though he couldn't eat a lot at once, he could satisfy his cravings by eating M&M's one after the other. He even failed gastric bypass: he had found a way to undermine it by eating M&M's one at a time until he gained back every pound that he had lost after the operation. He described the feeling of an insatiable hunger and craving always gnawing at him." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Gallstones are also common among obese patients who lose weight rapidly after gastric bypass surgery. (In gastric bypass surgery, the size of the stomach is reduced, preventing the person from overeating.) One study found that more than one-third (38 percent) of patients who had gastric bypass surgery developed gallstones within three months after the surgery. The research findings, however, refer only to gallstones in the gallbladder." - Andreas Moritz, The Amazing Liver & Gallbladder Flush: A Powerful Do-It-Yourself Tool To Optimize your Health and Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Complications and Side Effects For centers that specialize in obesity surgery, the immediate operative mortality for both adjustable banding and gastric bypass procedures is relatively low and usually in the range of 0.5% to 1% [121]. These postoperative complications include wound infections, wound dehiscence, leaks from the staple line breakdown, stomal stenosis, marginal ulcers, pulmonary problems, and deep venous thrombosis. Other problems may arise in the later postoperative period." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"While obesity has been declared a health epidemic and gastric bypass operations are on the rise, organizations like National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance present an alternative to the medical definitions of overweight. These ac- tivists have mounted a protest movement against medical approaches to obesity, staunchly claiming that obesity is not a disease. They argue that bodies come in many sizes, and that health can be had at every size. (Crary, 2004). It is unclear whether this movement will have a significant impact on the definitions or treatment of obesity." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "The increasing use of gastric bypass operations for obesity, the rising number of breast implants (Conrad and Jacobson, 2003), and other forms of cosmetic surgery (Sullivan, 2001) are medical interventions that reshape bodies to make them more socially acceptable. Medicalization is key to these types of social control; without the problem being medicalized, physicians could not legitimately perform these kinds of procedures. One social implication of increased medical social control is that more forms of behavior are no longer deemed the responsibility of the individual." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Hidden Dangers of gastric bypass Surgery Edward Livingston, MD, Hudson-Penn Chair in Surgery, professor and chairman of gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery, University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, Dallas, and chairman of the bariatric surgery work group, Department of Veterans Affairs' national health care system. David Zingmond, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, Center for Surgical Outcomes and Quality, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles. The Journal of the American Medical Association." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "Because it is very difficult to lose weight through diet and exercise, it's not surprising that more people are turning to bariatric, or gastric bypass, surgery to treat their weight problems. But several new studies point out the risks that are associated with this procedure. STUDY FINDINGS One study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Irvine, found that the number of bariatric surgeries being performed in the United States have increased dramatically, from 13,365 in 1998 to an estimated 102,794 in 2003." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "A University of Washington study found the death rate for Medicare recipients 30 days after gastric bypass surgery was 2%. After 90 days, that rate was 2.8% and after one year, the death rate for bariatric surgery patients receiving Medicare benefits was 4.6%. This study also found that when the surgery was performed by a surgeon who had not done many of these procedures the death rate was 1.6 times higher than when the procedure was done by a more experienced surgeon. REACTION "I was not surprised by these findings." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "The most commonly performed inpatient bariatric surgery is called the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. In this procedure, the stomach is made smaller and a part of the small intestine is bypassed so that fewer calories and nutrients are absorbed, according to the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Among the risks from this procedure are infection, hernia and long-term nutritional deficiencies." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"As it turns out, gastric bypass dramatically lowers the levels of ghrelin because there are fewer stomach cells that can make it. This is permanent. A person might think this is good because they will not be hungry as often. However, once the surgery is complete there is no normal ghrelin response to food.291 This is quite different than a normal-weight person's correct and healthy ghrelin function. gastric bypass surgery permanently destroys normal ghrelin function and rhythm. This one finding is enough to call a halt to such surgeries. Why?" - Byron J. Richards, CCN, Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving Obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"The number of gastric bypass and similar surgeries in the United States has risen from 20,000 in 1965 to 103,000 in 2003, with over 140,000 estimated in 2004 (Grady, 2004). In the context of the so-called obesity epidemic (Abelson and Kennedy, 2004), bypass operations are becoming an increasingly common way to treat the problem of extreme overweight, with the threshold for treatment decreasing and becoming more inclusive. The recent Medicare policy shift declaring obesity a disease could further expand the number of medical claims for the procedure." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"He even failed gastric bypass: he had found a way to undermine it by eating M&M's one at a time until he gained back every pound that he had lost after the operation. He described the feeling of an insatiable hunger and craving always gnawing at him. Then one day came fen-phen, one of the first pharmaceutical appetite suppressants. He tried it. Suddenly, he said, it was as if a switch had been turned off in his brain. He wasn't hungry anymore. It was at that moment he realized that his drive to eat was hormonal or chemical in origin." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"One study found that more than one-third (38 percent) of patients who had gastric bypass surgery developed gallstones within three months after the surgery. The research findings, however, refer only to gallstones in the gallbladder. The damage done to the liver itself through this procedure is likely to be far greater than the negative effects that organ suffers as a result of a few gallstones accumulating in the gallbladder. If substantial or rapid weight loss increases the risk of developing gallstones, the obvious way to reduce this risk is to lose weight more gradually." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Within sixteen weeks of beginning a low-calorie diet, about 10 percent of dieters develop gallstones, and more than 30 percent develop gallstones within twelve to eighteen months following gastric bypass surgery (an extreme weight-loss measure). How does weight loss lead to gallstones? When the body begins to shed pounds, stored cholesterol is released in large amounts from the body fat into the bloodstream and is then secreted into the bile. As a result the bile becomes supersaturated with cholesterol, the primary cause of gallstones." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.)

"At Catholic University in Rome, Italy, eight patients underwent gastric bypass surgery.18 The operation is commonly done as a last-ditch treatment for massive obesity, and for good reason. What it involves is this: The stomach is stapled so that only a tiny pouch about the size of an egg is left to receive food. Then the intestine is cut in two. The first part of the intestine simply lies unused, while the lower portion of the small intestine is attached directly to the tiny stomach pouch." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

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