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What are the advantages of a mini gastric bypass?
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What are the advantages of a mini gastric bypass?

Recent research demonstrates that mini gastric bypass reduces operating time, may result in equivalent weight loss (some studies show that mini-gastric bypass may result in higher weight reduction) and lowers overall complication rates when compared to gastric bypass surgery. See what Mr. Ahmed Ahmed tells us about the advantages of mini gastric bypass.

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The advantages of a mini gastric bypass are that you benefit from the gut hormone changes that you would normally get with a regular bypass, but in addition, you would also benefit from not absorbing some of the calories that you're taking in. Because with the mini bypass, what's happening is that some of the calories you've ingested will fast track through the intestine and not get absorbed. Typically, we know that those patients who eat a lot of fatty, fried, or oily food may actually develop diarrhea. you

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