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What is life like after weight loss surgery?.

What is Life Like After Weight Loss Surgery?

By Dr.Babak Moein / March 8, 2021

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 gain more mobility. Weight loss […]

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Insurance Denied Your Claim for Bariatric Surgery Coverage? Now What?

By Dr.Babak Moein / March 1, 2021

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 playing field. Now more people […]

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Skin Removal after Bariatric Surgery

Skin Removal After Weight Loss Surgery – What You Should Know

By Dr.Babak Moein / February 22, 2021

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 pounds! The best part is […]

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Sleeve Gastrectomy Weight Loss Timeline in Los Angeles

Sleeve Gastrectomy Weight Loss Timeline – How Much Can You Lose & What Can You Expect?

By Dr.Babak Moein / February 15, 2021

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 you lose with the gastric […]

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The sleeve gastrectomy can help.

Diabetes and Obesity Affect the Brain – But the Sleeve Gastrectomy Can Help!

By Dr.Babak Moein / February 1, 2021

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 various complications, some of which occur […]

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Weight loss surgery for teenagers growing in popularity.

Weight Loss Surgery for Teenagers Growing in Popularity

By Dr.Babak Moein / January 25, 2021

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 that teens who underwent bariatric […]

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Diabetes and Weight Loss Surgery

11 Ways Diabetics Benefit from Weight Loss Surgery

By Dr.Babak Moein / January 18, 2021

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 diabetes can substantially decrease your […]

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Bariatrics on The Rise during COVID-19

13 Reasons Why Bariatric Surgeries Are on the Rise During the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Dr.Babak Moein / January 11, 2021

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 and above increases your risk […]

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Lower your risk of early death with weight loss surgery.

Study Links Bariatric Surgery with Lower Risk of Early Death

By Dr.Babak Moein / January 4, 2021

If you are obese, a recent study shows that bariatric surgery can help you live a longer life. That was the finding of a recent Swedish study that compared two groups of obese adults. One group underwent bariatric surgery, such as the gastric sleeve, while the other participants received the standard level of obesity care. Before the study, scientists felt that weight loss […]

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The Best Weight Loss Surgeon in Los Angeles – Top Qualities to Look For

The Best Weight Loss Surgeon in Los Angeles – Top Qualities to Look For

By Dr.Babak Moein / December 28, 2020

When considering bariatrics, you want the best weight loss surgeon in Los Angeles you can find. A quick search on the internet will bring up dozens of doctors you can choose from. But how can you determine which doctor is the best of the bunch? Of all those doctors, only a few possess the top qualities you should look for when searching […]

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