Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts |
Gallstones are also common among obese patients who lose weight rapidly after gastric bypass surgery. (In gastric bypass surgery, the size of the stomach is reduced, preventing the person from overeating.) One study found that more than one-third (38 percent) of patients who had gastric bypass surgery developed gallstones within three months after the surgery. The research findings, however, refer only to gallstones in the gallbladder. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
The Allopathia press is also reporting this week that gastric bypass surgery is really good for you! The more people who undergo the barbaric procedure, we're told, the healthier the population will be. Removing huge sections of a person's digestive organs is, we're told, a great way to reduce their risk of heart disease. Apparently, it's even better than teaching people how to be healthy in their food and dietary choices. In Allopathia, surgery triumphs yet again!
Raw foods are not raw, they're pasteurized!
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Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts |
One study found that more than one-third (38 percent) of patients who had gastric bypass surgery developed gallstones within three months after the surgery. The research findings, however, refer only to gallstones in the gallbladder. The damage done to the liver itself through this procedure is likely to be far greater than the negative effects that organ suffers as a result of a few gallstones accumulating in the gallbladder.
If substantial or rapid weight loss increases the risk of developing gallstones, the obvious way to reduce this risk is to lose weight more gradually. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts |
Loss of weight and visceral fat also improved endothelial dysfunction and vascular inflammatory markers when combined with exercise, or secondary to gastric bypass surgery [176, 177]. Dietary factors modulate endothelial function; not only have postprandial hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia been shown to generate oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction [178], but meals high in advanced glycation end products, secondary to frying or broiling and cooking at high temperatures for long durations, have been reported to induce acute impairment of vascular function as well [179]. |
Bottom Line Health See book keywords and concepts |
| Diabetes Improves After Weight-Loss Surgery
In a study, 84% of obese diabetics who underwent gastric bypass surgery had normal blood sugar (glucose) levels after surgery. Most of these patients were able to discontinue their diabetes medication shortly after surgery.
Theory: The weight-loss surgery, which allows food to bypass part of the small intestine, may alter the secretion of gastrointestinal hormones that increase insulin levels.
David E. Cummings, MD, associate professor of medicine, division of metabolism, endocrinology and nutrition, University of Washington, Seattle. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Something like one percent of all people undergoing gastric bypass surgery die on the operating table. That's going to happen in any country, anywhere you are. And whether or not there's medical insurance and malpractice insurance in effect at the time of your surgery doesn't affect your outcome. All it does is it gives people a chance to sue when they don't get the outcome they want.
Personally, I'm against radical Western surgical procedures to begin with, especially things like gastric bypass surgery. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry See book keywords and concepts |
She asked me if she had to go through with the gastric bypass surgery. I told her it was her decision, but that anyone who was doing what she had done probably didn't need it.
Now at 275 pounds, Rachel continues to follow Diet Evolution and is losing 4 pounds every month, as she heads toward a new life. I found out recently that her ex-husband had visited and asked her to remarry him and move back to Indianapolis, her hometown. She's leaving the motorized wheelchair behind. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Let's do gastric bypass surgery. That will help your obesity," say some surgeons. They take out part of your digestive tract. Have you ever thought about this? It is like saying that if you have vision problems then you should rip out your eyes. gastric bypass surgery is no magic bullet solution, and people still get obese after having it. They just eat ice cream all day. Obviously, obesity is not a stomach size problem.
Did you know that mammograms give you cancer? The mammography equipment actually radiates your breast. |
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| A University of Washington study found the death rate for Medicare recipients 30 days after gastric bypass surgery was 2%. After 90 days, that rate was 2.8% and after one year, the death rate for bariatric surgery patients receiving Medicare benefits was 4.6%. This study also found that when the surgery was performed by a surgeon who had not done many of these procedures the death rate was 1.6 times higher than when the procedure was done by a more experienced surgeon.
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"I was not surprised by these findings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
In the US, it's $60,000 to $80,000. gastric bypass surgery in the U.S. can cost $10,000 to $20,000. Overseas it can be done for well under $5,000.
So where do the cost savings come from? How come these hospitals offshore can offer these services at much lower prices? The answer lies in the economics of healthcare in the United States and the amount of fraud and waste that is present in the U.S. healthcare system. I've spoken to many MDs over the years, and some insist that as much as 80% of all healthcare dollars that go through their office cover nothing but paperwork. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN See book keywords and concepts |
Turning to diet drugs or gastric bypass surgery have serious and long-lasting effects on metabolism and overall health. There is a healthy way to solve these issues. It begins with understanding the body and how it is supposed to be working. It continues with the application of what is learned on a consistent basis. Only in this way can a Health Asset Manager™ solve the problems of leptin.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Personally, I'm against radical Western surgical procedures to begin with, especially things like gastric bypass surgery. I think surgery should only be a last resort, and should never be used to treat chronic diseases like obesity, cancer, diabetes or heart disease. I think surgery is really only appropriate in very rare cases of those diseases, or when treating trauma and accident patients. In those cases, surgery is well justified and greatly needed. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN See book keywords and concepts |
This is quite different than a normal-weight person's correct and healthy ghrelin function. gastric bypass surgery permanently destroys normal ghrelin function and rhythm.
This one finding is enough to call a halt to such surgeries. Why? Because ghrelin is the key signal in the body that enables the proper release of growth hormone.292 Ghrelin is a major discovery in the growth hormone field. Without proper ghrelin function, numerous parameters of aging worsen as the body cannot correctly repair itself. |
| It is coming to light that individuals with gastric bypass surgery need to contend with the issue that they are likely to develop serious metabolic bone disease as they grow older. This is a well-documented side effect of this surgery.290 In the past, it was thought that this side effect was due to malabsorption of food or eating too little or both.
New science shows a different cause; the surgery is ruining metabolism in the body. How is this possible?
The surgery reduces the amount of functional stomach. |
| The widespread promotion of gastric bypass surgery is a new low. The economic forces behind it promote its "safety," downplaying its serious risks and problems with a marketing campaign appealing to thinner America.
There is only one safe and healthy way to lose weight and maintain quality of health. That is to implement a comprehensive approach to achieving and maintaining natural balance. All quick-fix weight-loss solutions are detrimental to natural balance.
The health risks associated with obesity are serious. Taking proactive steps on a consistent basis is essential. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
And if you have this barbaric surgical procedure called gastric bypass surgery, you'll no longer be obese. And if you're not healthy, don't worry; we have magic bullet prescription drugs that will make you even healthier. So we're a clever population at the same time that we're incredibly stupid. Do you know what that's called? That's called being a population of great technicians and lousy healers. And that's exactly what we are today.
Having used the word "stupid" throughout this editorial, I use it deliberately. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
It is like saying that if you have vision problems then you should rip out your eyes. gastric bypass surgery is no magic bullet solution, and people still get obese after having it. They just eat ice cream all day. Obviously, obesity is not a stomach size problem.
Did you know that mammograms give you cancer? The mammography equipment actually radiates your breast. Computed Tomography scans give you more radiation than hundreds of chest x-rays. A number of doctors were asked this question about CT scans, and only 20 percent knew how much radiation the scans would produce. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
This is now recognized as a common side effect of bariatric surgery or gastric bypass surgery. When this happens to you, you're put in a very difficult spot as the patient because the thing that's typically suggested to you to solve this problem of your pancreas producing "too much insulin" is to surgically remove part of your pancreas.
How's that for brilliant? The surgeons harm your body with the first surgery, and then they create a condition where they get repeat business because they have to remove part of your pancreas to balance your blood sugar. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
How about the gastric bypass surgery? They basically rip out part of your digestive system, staple it back together and call it a weight-loss plan. Now you can't eat and you wonder why. This is called "heroic medicine." It looks courageous, but it's really just barbaric. The patient wakes up -- well 99 percent of them do -- and suddenly they can't eat as much. Is this a weight-loss program and strategy? Is this how you support the human body?
You don't support human health by ripping out parts of the body that are necessary to sustain human health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
You know, it's funny; people out there are getting gastric bypass surgery, or bariatric surgery as it's sometimes called, in huge numbers. This is a procedure that can cost anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000. I call it a lobotomy of your digestive tract because they literally rip out a portion of your stomach and sort of rework your plumbing down there. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
We're still living it, and millions of Americans each year are being subjected to surgical procedures that can only be described as utterly mad, if not downright profitable for the masked men performing them: Hysterectomies, gastric bypass surgery, heart bypass surgery, carpal tunnel surgery, the surgical removal of wisdom teeth and many more.
None of these have any medical justification except in a few extreme cases. |
John A. McDougall See book keywords and concepts |
Within sixteen weeks of beginning a low-calorie diet, about 10 percent of dieters develop gallstones, and more than 30 percent develop gallstones within twelve to eighteen months following gastric bypass surgery (an extreme weight-loss measure).
How does weight loss lead to gallstones? When the body begins to shed pounds, stored cholesterol is released in large amounts from the body fat into the bloodstream and is then secreted into the bile. As a result the bile becomes supersaturated with cholesterol, the primary cause of gallstones. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan See book keywords and concepts |
At Catholic University in Rome, Italy, eight patients underwent gastric bypass surgery.18 The operation is commonly done as a last-ditch treatment for massive obesity, and for good reason. What it involves is this: The stomach is stapled so that only a tiny pouch about the size of an egg is left to receive food. Then the intestine is cut in two. The first part of the intestine simply lies unused, while the lower portion of the small intestine is attached directly to the tiny stomach pouch. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
If patients just had access to good information, they'd make better choices, and far fewer patients would undergo gastric bypass surgery in the first place. Of course, that's exactly what the surgeons in this country don't want to happen. They want to see more people opting for surgery, because that means more money in their pockets.
Hospitals and clinics want the same thing. Disease = revenue. Education = loss of revenue. In this way, conventional medicine is clearly against patient education about disease prevention. |