Gastric Bypass Truth

Well, here’s a gastric bypass surgery benefit for ya: According to a report on WCBSTV.com, gastric bypass surgery may actually make you smarter. The article (Gastric Bypass Surgery May Make You Smarter) claims that gastric bypass surgery improved a patient’s ability to remember, to think through problems, and pay attention to details.

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More gastric bypass surgery benefits. The following article appeared at this link: Gastric Bypass Cuts Heart Risks Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:16pm BST By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk faced by obese people of having a heart attack or other cardiovascular “events” is reduced substantially after they undergo gastric [...]

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Interesting tidbit today. (Warning: This post could be a bit more risque than normal. You’ve been advised. Proceed accordingly.) According to a Reuters item (Weight Loss Surgery Boosts Testosterone Levels) Men who have gastric bypass surgery can increase libido and actually cure erectile dysfunction. Talk about your gastric bypass surgery benefits! Well, that’s cool.

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A new study came out today that underscores the essential need to TAKE YOUR VITAMINS – especially your calcium. As you lose weight, this study finds, you lose bone mass. This is one of the gastric bypass surgery complications you don’t want to mess with.

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I’ve mentioned this topic before (Weight Loss Surgery For Teens?). But a new article came out yesterday (The Battle Over Childhood Obesity: Weighing The Risks), and it really made me mad. I was a little undecided before, when you’re talking about 16 or 17 year-old kids. But this article talks about children as young as [...]

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This story isn’t new. In April of 2008, 60 Minutes did a segment on Gastric Bypass and the benefits beyond weight loss. I ran across it today as I was looking at something else, and thought it would be a good counter-balance to the general negativity I’ve been flinging towards the media this week.  

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I’m often asked how I made the decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery as opposed to the Lap Band. For me, the fact that the Lap Band is so easily reversible and adjustible was a negative. I know me all to well, and if there was a way out during the difficult times I’d take [...]

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Well, I thought this was very interesting. According to a study published this week in the Archives of Surgery, it seems that diabetics may lose less weight after having GBP. Part of what’s so interesting about this is the fact that other studies have shown gastric bypass surgery to be an effective treatment for diabetes. In [...]

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Wow. Just Wow. I’ve never been a big fan of the mainstream media. After all, I can’t forget Time actually running a cover story that boys and girls are different. (They discovered this amazing fact on Jan 20, 1992). It’s in that same spirit of breathtaking discovery that the New York Times yesterday announced that being [...]

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I found the following article on Insurance companies and Gastric Bypass surgery from Reuters. Seems to me that if more insurance companies realized this, it wouldn’t be so hard for some of us to get our surgery covered. When you consider this, along with the list of gastric bypass surgery benefits (as in this photo), it [...]

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