Endoscopic Treatments for Weight Loss

What should you know about endoscopic treatments for weight loss? Endoscopy is a technique where without making cuts in the skin, healthcare professionals can put an endoscope or a camera through the mouth and access the stomach and here the stomach can actually be narrowed from within itself through putting stitches inside the lining of the stomach and these full thickness stitches can literally just contract the stomach like a concertina or an accordion and narrow the stomach thereby again limiting the ability to take in calories. procedure is known as an endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty. It's been around for around four or five years and weight loss of around 10 to even up to 20% can be achieved with these treatments. They do require anesthesia and we don't know what the long-term outcomes will be with these techniques. By long-term I mean what happens 10, 15, 20 years after these devices are used to help people lose weight, but studies are ongoing to answer those questions.