"Conventional thought is when you make the stomach smaller, patients lose more weight because they have less room to put more food and, therefore, eat fewer calories. But as it turns out, the reason why the surgery works is that you are changing the bile acids."It's not about feeling full. They have done hundreds of thousands of surgeries based on an erroneous assumption. That's their standard operating procedure though....
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
As I was saying
Gut metabolism changes—not stomach size—linked to success of vertical sleeve gastrectomy
