Duodenal Switch

Benefits of Duodenal Switch Weight Loss Surgery

Posted: Jul 05 in Weight Loss Tips by

The duodenal switch procedure is an advanced form of bariatric surgery that offers several greater health benefits than traditional gastric bypass surgery. This surgery reduces the size of the stomach and reroutes the small intestines to reduce the amount of calories absorbed from food. This combination of reduced intake of food and lessened calorie absorption helps patients lose weight quickly. It also makes maintaining a healthy weight easier.

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Steve: Duodenal Switch

Posted: Jan 10 in Weight Loss Results by

I’m Steve and I’m a family physician. I also suffered from severe morbid obesity for decades and knew that I needed to look into something to give me back the quality of life that I deserved. Prior to undergoing duodenal switch in December 2009, I suffered not only from severe morbid obesity, but also type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and obstructive sleep apnea.

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Teri: Duodenal Switch Surgery

Posted: Mar 25 in Weight Loss Results by

Hi I’m Teri. I had my surgery not quite a year ago, I had to do a duodenal switch and I’ve lost 153 pounds so far. Before surgery I had sleep apnea that was my main problem. I also a condition called sarcodosis which effects the lungs and I was short of breath I had trouble breathing and I had two small children that were very hard to keep up with. I really wanted to improve my quality of life for them – to be around for them.

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Duodenal Switch Outperforms Gastric Bypass

Posted: Dec 11 in Weight Loss Tips by

New research suggests that duodenal switch surgery is more effective at reducing obesity-related health problems than gastric bypass surgery, and leads to greater weight loss in severely obese people. Duodenal switch surgery does not bypass the stomach. Instead, it actually removes 75% of the stomach and rearranges the small intestine so that the section carrying [...]

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Advantages of the Duodenal Switch Surgery

Posted: Oct 03 in Weight Loss Tips by

While gastric bypass and LAP-BAND surgery have a higher profiles in media and support forums throughout the United States, it often surprises people to know that duodenal switch weight loss surgery has better weight loss results and higher levels of patient satisfaction than either of the more commonly performed procedures. Duodenal switch surgery is a more complicated [...]

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