Weight loss surgery can improve your life in three distinct ways. For one, you stand to lose a significant amount of weight. Gastric sleeve and gastric bypass patients can both look forward to a loss of up to 75% of their excess weight within the first two years. With all that weight gone, you stand to…
With diabetes on the rise and obesity being recognized as a life-limiting illness, many health insurance companies now cover bariatric surgery. That’s good news for individuals whose economic situations might prevent them from ever considering bariatrics. With the average cost of gastric bypass surgery standing at $23,000, and a gastric sleeve procedure at $15,000 respectively, insurance has leveled the…
For life-changing results, after your weight loss surgery, you can consider skin removal surgery as well. Using surgeries like the gastric sleeve and gastric bypass, patients can look forward to excess weight loss of up to 60% or more. If you are 100 pounds overweight, that amounts to a loss of sixty, seventy, or eighty…
More people are opting for gastric sleeves over other weight loss procedures for some exceptionally good reasons. Weight loss surgery is effective at helping patients lose excess weight quickly and comes with relatively low risk. It’s easy to see why all the best bariatric surgeons offer this extraordinary weight loss procedure. But how much can…
Bariatric surgery is gaining in popularity, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. With bariatrics, patients can expect to lose excess weight to reverse the effects of obesity. Many also experience the reversal or remission of obesity-related comorbidities, like type 2 diabetes. While the gastric bypass happens to be the “gold standard” of bariatric procedures, the gastric…
When we think of pandemics, we often think of illnesses like the coronavirus. But two more national pandemics deserve more attention. We are referring to obesity and its close cousin, type 2 diabetes. More than 30 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, and another 87 million have been diagnosed with obesity. The two diseases cause…
Nowadays, the problem of weight gain is seen among teenagers. The imbalanced diet and eating habits lead to the risk of obesity rapidly, and hence, the only treatment of weight loss surgery is also implemented in the case of teenagers. It’s easy to see why. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed…
Type 2 diabetes and weight loss surgery (bariatrics) are often discussed. That’s because, with over 98 million people currently struggling with obesity, many obesity-related ailments are wreaking havoc on people’s health. Type 2 diabetes is one of those conditions you can treat through weight loss surgery somehow. According to the Obesity Action Coalition, obesity and type 2…
The coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of stopping. And it seems the obese are the most affected. Hence, do not delay any more; go for bariatric surgery to come out of the trap of obesity. According to the CDC, being obese is linked to impaired immune function. That means having a BMI between 35 and 40…
Author: Babak Moein, MD
