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How does Gastric bypass improve metabolic health?
Gastric bypass may make the stomach smaller and also bypass a portion of the intestine. This results in less food intake and changes how the body absorbs food for energy resulting in decreased hunger and increased fullness. These procedures improve the body's ability to achieve a healthy weight. in this video, Mr. Ahmed Ahmed talks about the good impact of gastric bypass on metabolic health.
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How does gastric bypass improve metabolic health? Well, the gastric bypass leads to weight loss, which clearly is going to have an improvement in various health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, blood pressure, so on and so forth. Interestingly, we know that gastric bypass has a direct impact on specifically diabetes. So patients who come into the hospital for a gastric bypass have the operation and a proportion of them will leave hospital with no longer suffering from diabetes. And this is actually before they've lost any weight. And this is due to the hormonal changes that take place immediately after surgery.
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