Do you fear not losing enough weight after gastric sleeve or any other weight loss surgery?
On this occasion, we will talk about a topic that is very important for both people who are considering weight loss surgery and for your surgeon if he/she is interested in reaching your goals and being a success story. If your surgeon shows interest in your success, it is because he/she really…
10 Simple Ways to Boost Your Metabolism Naturally
Let’s take a look at some natural ways that you can speed up your metabolism without having to resort to anything extreme.
Does Weight loss surgery cure Diabetes caused by Obesity?
Before answering the question of whether weight loss surgery cures diabetes or not we should have a clearer perspective of what is diabetes and the importance of seeking adequate control of this disease. If you think you know enough about diabetes then we invite you to go straight…
18 Tips to prepare for Gastric Sleeve surgery
For any scheduled and elective procedure is always advisable to know the aspects that you as a patient can or should take into consideration to make a positive contribution to the evolution of both, the intraoperative and postoperative…
Fatty Liver, Liver Cirrhosis and Weight Loss Surgery
First, we must define what are the diseases mentioned in this title, and we’ll help you understand the magnitude of their importance when a person suffers from them, their causes as well as their treatment and/or prevention of progression. Throughout this article, we will take you by the hand explaining the terms and the progressive sequence of this disease to help you avoid confusion with…
3 Easy Changes for Effective Weight Loss
It takes determination and some clear-set goals in order to effectively lose weight and keep it off. In order to build a sustainable exercise/diet program for yourself you need to have an idea of exactly what you arecapable of. While this may take time there are some simple things you can do to lose weight. Here are three easy changes you can make to lose…
Fear of weight loss surgery, what you need to know
If this is your case, the first thing we would like to tell you with certainty is that you are not alone, since undergoing a surgical procedure certainly entails risks that are not easy to swallow for anyone. We could actually say that there is no patient that is about to have elective surgery or has undergone surgery that has not had doubts about his/her decision due to fear that something…
¿Puedo hacerme la manga gástrica si soy vegetariano/vegano?
Hemos decidido hablar sobre este tema debido a la fuerte tendencia actual de la sociedad hacia una dieta libre de productos de origen animal, principalmente la carne (dieta vegetariana) y en otros casos incluso huevo, leche y sus derivados (dieta vegana). Como cirujanos no somos expertos en el tema, por lo que aconsejamos a quienes […]
¿Qué es el síndrome metabólico y cómo puede ayudarte la Manga Gástrica con él?
En mi opinión este tema es uno de los tópicos más relevantes que puede tratarse en cualquier blog de cirugía de obesidad ya que engloba una serie de enfermedades que causan un gran número de problemas de salud y muertes cada año a nivel mundial. El síndrome metabólico no es una sola enfermedad sino una […]
¿Qué es la Banda Gástrica y cómo se realiza?
La cirugía de banda gástrica, algunas veces también llamada “cirugía de Lap Band” o “banda Gástrica Ajustable”, consiste en colocar un cinturón o collar inflable de grado médico de 1/2 pulgada con “aspecto de plástico” alrededor de la parte superior del estómago por laparoscopia. Conoce más sobre este procedimiento a continuación. ¿Cómo funciona […]