Which patients benefit from weight loss surgery?

Mr Pukiasa, you're a weight loss metabolic surgeon, which sort of patients benefit from weight loss surgery? It's an interesting question because although everyone thinks of it as just weight loss surgery, there are many facets to benefiting from this sort of procedure. Obviously, it helps people who are overweight or obese, but it also helps people who have diabetes and lots of other obesity-related or weight-related comorbidities. For example, patients with high blood pressure, patients with high cholesterol, patients who fall asleep during the day because they have obstructive sleep apnea. Patients who are on multiple medications for a combination of factors, such as these three, are the patients that benefit the most. They're also a small cohort of patients that really benefit because their mobility is so affected by their excess weight. They get back pain, joint pain, knee pain. And weight loss therapies, including surgeries such as bariatric surgery, altogether, within the multidisciplinary team approach to helping people's lifestyles, weight management, and sustained weight loss, helps those patients to get up and about, be more mobile, have less pain and therefore do the things that enables them to have a healthy lifestyle.