Dr. Andrew Hajduczek explains how having bariatric surgery can help an obese person lose weight.
Dr. Hajduczek:
Bariatric surgery helps patients lose weight by several mechanisms. First is restriction, which is the main mechanism for gastric bands and significant mechanism for ROUX-en-Y gastric bypass, as well as sleeve gastrectomy, basically forcing people to take smaller bites, chew them slowly, make sure they swallow first bite before they go to the next one. And as a result, they eat much slower, which fills them up and satisfies hunger better with much less amount of food. So it’s the mechanism number 1.
Second mechanism is malabsorption, which is significant part of gastric bypass. And the third mechanism is a ghrelin effect. It’s a hormone produced mostly by mucosal lining of upper part of the stomach that, by disconnecting it in the ROUX-en-Y gastric bypass from a passage of food, or eliminating by removal in vertical sleeve gastrectomy, results in a dramatic drop in ghrelin hormone in the bloodstream, which, as a result, eliminates stimulation for the brain hunger centers, which basically eliminates that aspect for great majority of people for significant amount of time. It was invent, I mean in case of gastric bypass a, ghrelin effect lasts for at least a year or two before it eventually kind of wears off gradually.
About Dr. Andrew Hajduczek, M.D.:
Dr. Andrew Hajduczek was born and raised in Poland where he graduated from The Silesian Medical Academy and finished internship and surgical training (5 years). After immigrating to the United States, he completed internship and the surgical residency program at UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA and started in busy private practice in the South Bay area in 1988. The scope of his practice included all aspects of general surgery (including laparoscopic – since 1990) as well as vascular and thoracic surgery. He served as Chief of Surgery in three hospitals (double terms after first being a Vice Chief there).
Keywords:
Condition: Obesity, Morbid Obesity, Weight Loss, Morbidly Obese
Related Terms: StomaphyX™, Weight Loss, Bariatric Surgery, LAP-BAND®, Laparoscopic Gastric Banding, Gastric Sleeve, Revisional Bariatric Surgery, Nutrition, Overweight, BMI, Body Mass Index, Decreased Mobility, Comorbidities, Diabetes, Hypertension, REALIZE®, GERD, Bariatric Seminars
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Expertise: Incisionless Bariatric Surgery, REALIZE® Band, Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery, StomaphyX™, Bariatric Surgery, LAP-BAND®, Laparoscopic Gastric Banding, Gastric Sleeve, Revisional Bariatric Surgery, Sleeve Gastrectomy