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Is drastically restricting the amount you eat equivalent to gastric bypass? Or is there something more? Put another way: is gastric bypass a way of solving the
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Is drastically restricting the amount you eat equivalent to gastric bypass? Or is there something more?
Put another way: is gastric bypass a way of solving the psychological problem of eating too much, the lack of will to stop eating?
- stephengillie 8y agoGastric bypass is literally blocking off / cutting out 80% of your stomach. So yes, it is a very extreme solution to the problem - one with a high probability of introducing many other issues into your life.
- tschwimmer 8y agoFrom what I’ve read (https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nyas.13194 https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nya...) it looks like the surgery is associated with dramatic physiological and hormonal changes.
- Pete_D 8y agoThere could be more to it. There's a hypothesis that microbiome changes could be a contributing factor[0]. Restricting food intake is similar in that it reduces stomach capacity[1], though almost certainly not as drastically as surgery. Lots of people have already mentioned fasting in this thread; I'll add an anecdote that for a few days after a fast, I get full much more quickly. [0] https://biodesign.asu.edu/news/dramatic-shift-gut-microbes-and-their-metabolites-seen-after-weight-loss-surgery https://biodesign.asu.edu/news/dramatic-shift-gut-microbes-a... [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8561056?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8561056?itool=EntrezSyst...