Gastric Bypass Surgery – Orange County & Los Angeles

Gastric bypass surgery, a weight loss surgery performed at our Orange County and Los Angeles practice, is the most common weight loss procedure done in the U.S. It restricts the amount of food a patient can consume, as well as bypasses part of the digestive system.

Gastric bypass surgery is the most common weight reduction procedure done in this country and it’s basically a combination of a restrictive procedure that means it restricts the amount of food that patient can take in as well as a malabsorptive procedure that some of the calories that the patient takes in are not absorbed. It’s accomplished in two steps really and the first is by dividing the stomach to make a small pouch, so you can see only a small percentage of the stomach is really used to make this pouch, so the patient can’t eat very much and then some of the intestine is bypassed. So, some of the calories that are taken in are not absorbed. So, this gives a good balance of adequate weight loss without leading to a lot of nutritional deficiencies and problems in the future. The benefits to the patient are, well essentially the main reason we are doing this is to alleviate all the medical problems associated with obesity. At this time, the only known cure for a type II diabetes is sustained weight loss and the most successful sustained weight loss is surgical weight loss. All of our patients tell us they have lost 100s of pounds but they are not able to keep it up, and the only way you can cure diabetes and high blood pressure and a lot of these medical problems is to keep the weight off, and the sustained weight loss that you get and long-term weight loss that you get with bariatric surgery is the best way to solve all of these medical issues. Secondly, by losing the excess weight and getting to a normal or close to normal body mass index typically prolongs the patient's life by about 10 years.