Posted on 06/16/2009 8:17:46 PM PDT by wintertime
Last year, 200,000 Americans had weight loss surgery and while gastric bypass surgery can significantly reduce weight, the surgery comes with risks.
Now a procedure that was once commonly used to treat ulcers is being tested as a safe alternative to weight loss surgery.
Action News reporter Kimberly Tere has the details.
The vagus nerve controls your feeling of hunger.
Some even say every single thing the vagus nerve does is designed to make you gain weight.
That is why San Francisco Doctor Robert Lustig is testing laparoscopic vagotomy, a surgery in which the vagus nerve is cut.
Cutting the vagus nerve can reduce the amount of fat stored in the body and can increase energy levels.
"Every patient in the study said their hunger was gone, just gone. One comment I got from one patient was this is the first time in her life that she was not a prisoner to food," said Dr. Lustig.
doubt very seriously if you had 40’ of small intestine ....more like I’m positive you didn’t...and there is no way he could have measured small intestine w/o opening your abdomen as it loops through out your abdomen and pelvis....just saying. I’m not a doctor but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express....LOL.
Many years ago I spoke with a woman who had almost triple the amount of intestines that she should have had and it was removed and she lost weight. She was heavy since birth like my daughter,
I had my gastric bypass in 1992. It was done by opening me from the sternum down to my abdomen and the small intestine was physically measured.
With a measuring tape. Very low-tech but effective. And all 40' is there and still accounted-for.
So instead of the bypass why not cut out some small intestine?
Per one of my previous posts, my surgeon doesn't take anything out he doesn't have to "just in case" you need a revision (i.e. hooking more back up).
I asked him afterward what he'd used to measure the damn thing. It was a measuring tape. He brought a measuring tape into the operating room. ::shakes head::
She had never made wild, fanciful claims. Just by casually adopting (then more seriously) adopting her suggestions, Mr. Peel, a heavy diabetic has gone from 5 injections of insulin a day to 1. This is just based on diet alone.
I know dozens of people (myself included) who have a degree in one discipline and follow another. In fact, the best employees that I have hired in the past (looking for Computer Science people) had original backgrounds in Japanese Literature, Architecture and Latin. They followed their passion and were excellent in their field. I find your bigotry very narrow minded and distasteful.
But if it works for you; Mazol Tov. I found the phony PhD in holistic nutrition
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
offputting and cause for concern.
Off topic, but the best computer people you know are economic refugees? While they are often smart and interesting and fun to work with, they only study enough about computers to get by. There's no natural curiosity in their spare moments. They are not the best. They'd rather be doing something else, and eventually they do. Recessions like this one flush many of them out.
I’m waiting to hear more about this.
I read about it several years ago.
Thank you for the link
I welcome any additional thoughts and/or research you may have or discover.
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