About 250,000 people in the US get bariatric surgery each year. Worldwide the figure is north of 550,000. Most people have heard about bariatric surgery, but not many people know how it works. Even fewer know that the success of bariatric surgery (it does work!) is as much due to altering the hunger-hormone ecosystem as it is due to the physical shrinking of the stomach itself (the size of the stomach and the pathway food takes is inextricably linked to our hormones). Crazy right?
Bariatric Surgery: Gastric Bypass vs. The Sleeve
Bariatric Surgery: Gastric Bypass vs. The…
Bariatric Surgery: Gastric Bypass vs. The Sleeve
About 250,000 people in the US get bariatric surgery each year. Worldwide the figure is north of 550,000. Most people have heard about bariatric surgery, but not many people know how it works. Even fewer know that the success of bariatric surgery (it does work!) is as much due to altering the hunger-hormone ecosystem as it is due to the physical shrinking of the stomach itself (the size of the stomach and the pathway food takes is inextricably linked to our hormones). Crazy right?